Posted by Giovanna – Beauty Contributor
I don’t know if this happened to you too, but when I was a little girl, I loved the way my hair looked after I had slept with it in a damp braid. Waking up, undoing the braids and seeing that I looked like a mermaid with beautiful wavy hair; it was almost like a dream! Recently I learned a few tricks to get the beautiful mermaid look without having to play sleeping beauty first. Here’s my 20 minutes to wavy beach hair routine. Enjoy!
The nice look of those tousled waves, in an organized mess, can be done easily with very few products and tools. The first thing that I do is to dampen the hair and separate it into four sections, spray a little bit of a liquid gel with a good hold level (I usually use Aussie anti-humidity spray) and do as I used to do as a child: braid each one of the sections.
Then I twist each braid and use a flat iron on each twisted braid. Instead of sliding down as we do to straighten the hair, I do it very slowly, part by part, waiting until the hair is dry before moving down. When the twisted braid is still hot, I twist it into a bun and secure it with bobby pins. Now apply a little bit of hair spray, wait few minutes then we have to undo all these braids, I use my fingers to separate and incorporate each strand to the other, and it works pretty well.
After you’ve unbraided it, you can see how it looks… ta-daaa! Here it is, you have a nice beach waves hair look, that you can either use simply down or use it as a starting point for a more elaborated up do.
