Just coming on here very quickly (well, not really, because I spent two hours putting filters on these iPhone pics, emailing them to myself, saving them, renaming them, uploading them … while “multi-tasking” and watching Duck Dynasty! LOL!) to share how I got these pretty curls, with no additional heat, on my 2 week old flat-ironed hair (straight hair maintenance post coming soon!). Wow … run-on sentence much?

Anyyyyyyyyywho … after debating between using flexi-rod or pin-curls to get some bouncy, heatless curls … I decided on the pin curls, because they wouldn’t disturb my sleep!! I remembered that Chime (aka HairCrush) had done a pin-curl video that I watched a couple of years ago. So, I pulled it up to refresh my memory on her technique.  

via HairCrush

Now, obviously, my process had to be a bit different as my hair  was straightened and I would be doing a “dry” set. Also, that “scrubbing” of product into her ends that Chime does? Yeah, her hair is obviously of the GANGSTA variety as my ends would come off in my hands and curse me out if I did that. So, I skipped that part.

HEATLESS PIN-CURLS 

Products/Tools:

• DevaCurl Set It Free
• MetaGrip Premium Roller Pins (check out this post to learn why this brand of hair pins is AWESOMETASTIC!)
• Carol’s Daughter Healthy Hair Butter
• Shea Moisture (SM) Raw Shea Butter Reconstructive Finishing Elixir
• 2 satin scarves (1 square; 1 oblong)

Set Process:

• Applied a little Carol’s Daughter Healthy Hair Butter to my edges and tied down with the small square silk scarf.
• Separated about 1″ wide sections of hair.
• Pumped 2-3 spritzes of Set It Free into palm of hand and smoothed down section of hair. (I decided on Set It Free because I knew that it would make my hair damp enough to set the curls a little. But, because it has a creamy consistency, it wouldn’t make my hair so wet that it would revert. I often use it on my ends before rolling them for braid or twist and curls.) 
• Rolled the 1″ section of hair around TWO fingers (my forefinger and middle finger), twisting the section about a 1/2 a turn at the same time I made each revolution around my fingers.
• Secured pin-curl flat against my head with a MetaGrip Roller Pin.
• Repeated process over my entire head (I worked from the front to the back on each side of my head).
• Tied pin-curls down with my favorite EboniCurls satin scarf and hit the sack for a comfortable night’s sleep ;).

From this …

To this …

Take Down:

The next morning:

• Removed the roller pins.
• Applied a little SM Raw She Elixir to my hands and unraveled the dry pin-curls.
• Separated the curls and used a wide-tooth comb to lift the roots to add some fullness.

To this …

(Check out my IG post here if you want to see video of how the curls dropped to waves by the end of the day.)

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What is your favorite heatless curls technique?