Beach hair- Technical File

Beach hair- is a trend that we often see in advertisements and editorial photography, especially when summer is near! There are three ways of creating this amazing hairstyle:
  
 Tools:

• Hair dryer with a diffuser
• Mousse
• Sea-salt spray

1. This way of creating the beach hair is in case you washed the model's hair.
2.  Add some mousse to the hair, from the middle length to the ends, just to help with natural curls of the hair. 
3. Spray the hair with sea-salt spray to give more texture to the hair. You're going to use much more that you used for the normal blow drying. you can ask your model to bring her/his head to the back and it will help you when blow drying with a diffuser, but don't make them stay with the head upside down for too long because this way the blood rushes to their head and they might even feel bad. Just be very aware of your model.
4. if you are working on someone with processed hair, remember you cannot use full heat on their hair , because it will damage it more, but still use full power.
5. Place the diffuser under the hair and move it in kind of circles. Move it around to separate the hair and create that nice beach hair. Also get really close to the roots when doing it.
6. The hair is going to be very sticky at a certain point, but this is exactly what we want.
7. Make sure that the hair is fully dry.
8. Once you finished drying start styling it as you want. the styling part is as important as the drying one.
9. Don't spray hairspray directly onto the hair because the hair has already a lot of product in it. Just apply a small amount on your hands and style the hair as wanted.

Tools:

• Curling Tongs

1. You are going to use the tongs as a wand, not as an actual tong.
2. Take a large section of hair. If you are going to work with small sections, you'll have a lot of curls, but in this case we want waves
3. Turn your tongs upside down... this way it will work more as a wand than as a tong 
4. Leave the ends out when creating the wavy hair, about an inch. keep it in between 8 to 10 second, but obviously depending on the heat you are using and on the hair you are working on.
5. Don't touch them until they cooled down
6. Once they cooled down, you are going to tease(pull) them and this is going to give you a nice wave instead of a curl

Tools:

• Hair straighteners

1. Some people like to plait the hair, but in this case we are going to twist the hair.
2. So, take a section of the hair and twist it 
3. Next to it take another section of the hair and twist it too.
4. Then twist these two sections together
5. Leave the ends out
6. Take the straighteners and using its heat,apply it onto that kind of plait. Move the straighteners around so that the heat arrives in every single part of the plait.
7. Let it cool down
8. Once it's cooled down, gently pull the apart and this will create nice spiral kind of curl