3 Ways to Prep Hair for Bridal Hairstyling

A proper bridal hairstyle can never be built on straight hair that hasn’t been prepared. The pins wouldn’t be able to stick and the style won’t be able to hold. Braids would flop down easily and the crown area would be flat. This is why make-up artists must spend time to prep the hair well before continuing on their style. Here are the top 3 ways to carry out hair preparation for bridal hairstyling.

The goal of prepping the hair is to create a lot of texture and even more volume on the natural hair.

Hot Rollers/Heated Rollers

If you join any traditional make-up artist course, they will likely introduce you to heated rollers. This is a device that looks like case of rollers of different sizes. You plug it in and the rollers get hot. Once they’re hot, you section the head and you begin to wrap sections around the hot rollers and you pin them on top the head. Once the whole head is done up in these rollers, you can carry on to do the make-up. Once you’re done with the make-up, you can release your hot rollers and continue with your styling.

The benefit is that if you can get fast, it’s quite good to set the hair while you do the make-up. But, the case is often very heavy and bulky and you cannot ensure perfect curls all the time – nor can you customise how you want your curls to be like – ie how curled or how loose, and where the curl should be on the section of hair.

In my opinion, because of the. bulkiness, I do feel that heated rollers are more of a traditional method of prepping and setting the hair. I had my fair share doing it but now I prefer the next method which is more fuss free.

Crimp & Curl

Most make-up artists who specialise in more Asian (Korean or Taiwanese styles) are normally trained with the crimp and curl method. A crimper is a heated tool that has waves on its’ plates. Pressing a section between the plates creates a tight and criss cross wave pattern on the place pressed. We normally only crimp near the roots and you’ll realise that once finished, the volume of the head doubles. The wave pattern also creates texture that helps pins and teased hair stay easily.

After crimping the entire head, part of this method also involves curling the hair. To maximise volume from curling the hair, we follow a secret curl grid, alternating directions while we’re at it. Learn how to do this specific time saving method during our Bloom Pro Artist Course and Professional Bridal Hairstyling course.

Curl and Pin up

Last but not least, this particular method is similar to heated rollers but without the heat. After curling the hair, quickly let the curl fall into your hands and use a perm clip to attach it to the head. The curl should remain warm and should last much longer than to have it left down.

According to the hair texture and type, various methods suit different brides. It is always good to be aware of how much oil the hair is producing so as to prep with a few products like dry shampoo beforehand.

We hope you found this useful. No matter how many ways to prep the hair there are, it is extremely important to do so before you style hair.

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Love,
Roseanne