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Dreamy Beach Wave How-To

July 23, 2018 By Kari 3 Comments

How you can create a beautiful beach wave using either a curling iron or straightener. This tutorial is simple and gives you enough curl to last the day!

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Don’t you wish you could bring your hairstylist home with you to do your hair every day?  I can never quite duplicate my ‘do the way it looks when I first leave the salon.  As often as I can leave it to a professional, I do!

I’ve been seeing my hair stylist Nina Simons for seven years now. Not only is she my stylist, but she’s become a dear friend. We were pregnant with our boys at the same time (her son Bennett is three months older than Wyatt). We share stories of travel and fashion, and always swap parenting tips. I always enjoy my visits with her and knew she would obviously be the perfect person to teach you how to do the most-perfect dreamy beach wave!

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Nina’s Dreamy Beach Wave How-To

 

You’ll Need:

  • Strong flexible hairspray (try Bumble and Bumble’s Spray de Mode)
  • Professional curling iron with a clamp size 1″-1.5″ or hair straightener (try Hot Tools)
  • Root volumizer, Osis Dust It Powder (optional)
  • Shine/Polish (for fine hair: Bumble and Bumble’s Brilliantine, for coarse hair: Semi Sumo 
  • Hair powder (to keep the look for several days). I like this one
  • Wide tooth comb or pick

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Step One:

  • Divide hair starting from bottom nape into 2”-3” horizontal sections. Clip away the rest. Using a strong flexible hairspray, spray each section. Start wrapping at root area into a full turn. Your strand size should mimic the size of your curling iron. Your iron should sit on this area the longest about of time. (It generally has the most amount of hair to heat).

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Step two

  • Leave for a few seconds and then untwist without letting go of your strand but avoiding opening the clamp on the iron, twist and repeat the same motion travelling down the strand. Iron should rest on the ends the least about of time (Seriously only 1 second). When curling the front bang area of your hair, curl away from your face.
    To avoid a Farrah Fawcett wave, curl sides towards your face.

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With a curling iron

beach wave-6With a straightener

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Step three

  • Pull each strand down to maintain as much of your length as possible as it cools. Allow the curl to set.
    Remember to alternate the direction of curl with each section and continue alternating each section up your head. Avoid running hands through your hair once it’s been curled until the very end. Each strand should take less than 10 seconds.
  • If you love your volume, tap a root volumizing powder before curling the top. Remember to curl bangs away from your face.

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Step 4

  • When you’re all done curling, tip your head upside down and comb through with a wide tooth comb or pick.
    Spray with hairspray. Flip upright and finish your look with a shine spray and you’re done!

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Nina’s Additional Tips:

  1. Add hair powder to your hair at night to allow your oils to be absorbed while you sleep.
  2. Silk pillowcases also elongate your hairstyle and allow for less breakage! Get one on Amazon.ca
  3. Invest in a good quality flat iron (doesn’t pull or get stuck) for the best results.

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beach wave-15Photos: Des Isles Photography

Pin this to your Hairstyles and Beauty boards and don’t forget to follow me on Pinterest! 

 

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Other posts you’ll like:

Me Time + The Pandora Shine Collection

Road Trip Workout

xx

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Comments

  1. Rhonda Abbott says

    August 29, 2018 at 8:36 am

    Hi Kari. Do you curl your own hair? Can you post tips on this as well? Your hair looks gorgeous in this segment! I would like to recreate this myself at home but, not sure how to get at the back of my head.

    Reply
    • Kari says

      August 29, 2018 at 12:31 pm

      I struggle with the back too! I use a medium barrel iron and curl away from my face and never right to the end of the strand. I should do a tutorial soon!

      Reply
  2. Rhonda Abbott says

    September 1, 2018 at 7:20 am

    Yes, please!

    Reply

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It's truly amazing what our bodies can do. 💛

#31weeks #sunsoutbumpsout #beachball
Life update. ❤ I’ll be keeping this piece of Life update. ❤

I’ll be keeping this piece of art forever. Wyatt painted this for me back in January, when I was isolated with Covid. I taped it up on the wall beside the bed during my stay in our guest room. If you zoom in, you’ll see me in the front with the big baby belly. (Wyatt calls me ‘big belly’ these days!)

Rainbows represent promise, hope, and new beginnings. 

It's been a rough past few weeks for our family, hence my absence online. Thank you so much for your messages of love, concern, and support. They mean so much to us. I know I share a lot with you on here, but I’m not going to get into details this time. Just know we're doing alright. Junebug is great (and kicking and rolling around non-stop!), Wyatt is awesome per usual, and Ryan and I are rock solid.

I had to take a break from work. My main focus has always been (and will
always be) protecting the peace, health, and well-being of our family unit. 

Social media can be a beautiful place where connection and inspiration happens. Unfortunately, it can also foster hurtful and harmful attacks. I’ve learned so much over these past few weeks, and have deeply reflected on my presence and future plans online. I’ll share more soon, but for now, I just wanted to check in, say a sincere thanks, and let you know we’re all good. ❤️
The moment I found out. September 22, 2021. I’ll The moment I found out. September 22, 2021. I’ll be honest - the first trimester wasn’t great. There were moments of joy (like this one) but it was filled with anxiety, scary moments, and a few hurdles. 

🤰I’m playing catchup on some pregnancy blog posts but I wanted to make sure this was up, especially for those who have been following our journey. 

👉 Head on over to KariSkelton.com for ‘Pregnancy Q&A: The First Trimester’ where I get into all of it. Link is in my bio.

❔️Please ask any questions. That’s the whole reason why I share about this. I believe sharing our experiences and personal stories helps all of us feel less alone and often validates what we’re going through. 

(If you can believe it, I took a video of the exact moment I found out but it disappeared from my files. Poof! Gone.💨 Of all the videos to lose…. 🙈 But very happy to have this photo).

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You’re invited to pop down to the party between 11-5 to celebrate with us! 🎉There’s birthday torte, a whole bunch of perks, specialty tastings, and additional in-store giveaways, including a beautiful Camp Chef XT Wood Pellet Grill! 🙆‍♀️

To enter our $250 GC Giveaway:

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