By popular request, and because no-heat hairstyle ideas are very popular right now… we decided to share one of the curling techniques my grandma used on me when I was little.
This hairstyle curling tip uses a little bit of water and socks! Yes, mens socks {clean ones, of course} to curl hair!
Now, like we did in the Headband Curls, you want to start with dry hair. Then gently spritz the hair with a water spray bottle. You will want the hair to be slightly damp, but not wet.
{If you do this directly out of the shower, your curls will likely not hold when you take out the socks. It is important that you start out with dry hair.}
I also decided to try a little bit of curl enhancer {my first time using it} that I rubbed into the ends of the hair, to see how it works.
I then grabbed a section of hair from the top of the head and rolled the hair around the sock until I reached close to the scalp and then tied the sock. I did the same for the back-lower hair, as well as one each on the sides of the head. That makes a total of 4 tied socks.
If you are worried about the socks becoming loose or untying, you can sleep with a silk scarf over the hair.
After a good night’s sleep, you are ready to take out the socks. You will be amazed at how easy this hairstyle is, and how wonderful your curls will look after using only socks!
I guarantee you will get compliments on your curls, and when you tell everyone you used “socks” to get them… just watch their faces!
Enjoy!
Items Needed: Brush, rat-tail comb, water bottle, curl enhancer, 4 mens socks, hairspray and accessory {as desired}
Time Requirement: 5 minutes
Happy Hairdoing!
This looks like a great new heatless ‘do for my daughter. I would love to know how you did those braids over the curls. Is there already a video or pictures about this style? Or could you let me know how you did it. It brings the curls to the next level!
Seriously what a WONDERFUL EASY style. I can’t wait to try on my 2 yr old. I actually want to wake her up but will try I hope tomorrow night! Thanks!!!!
This is too funny! I too had no heat curls as a girl only my g’ma used panty hose for my curls. I have been wanting to try it with my daughter but could not remember how to do it. Thanks for this idea seems much easier than when I tried with my daughter and nylons! I too used a silk scarf at sleep time!
love your site and the wonderful and fun ideas
thank you
I’m LOVING the no heat curls! I too, am wondering about the cute braided part on the pic for this post. So fun!
Do these work as well on shorter hair, too?
Cute! Heat doesn’t seem to have much affect on my hair, so no heat styles are nessacary for curls. How did you do the braids?
These look impressive! Do you think they’ll work on shorter hair, because when I tried headband curls on my hair, it just turned out wavy
Oh yeah also when does your daughter get her braces off? I get mine off in February. Hang in there, it’s all worthwhile!
Cara- You might need to use thinner socks, and smaller sections for it to turn out curly on shorter hair. It would probably be a good idea to use some kind of product like mousse or curl enhancer too. Good luck!
WOW LOVE the curls! Have to try this! Next sunday I’ll have a ladies only day out, hope the’ll work on me as good as they work on your dd hair!
Soooo cute! I tried that on my hair today and it worked beautifully! I also loved the barids over top the curls though- could you PLEASE do a tutorial for that? It’s adorable!
I mean “braids”
Please do a tutorial for those braids on top of this hairstyle! Way cute!
Christeen- I’m hoping that sometime this week I’ll be able to try this, so I’ll use your idea, and use thin socks and some product. If I get to it, I’ll try to come back and say if it worked or not. Thanks for your suggestion!
Also I think that Mindy’s daughters should each post a little something about themselves. Also how old are they?
Love this! Super easy with only 4 socks! I never would have guessed that. I’m not savvy enough to figure out the braids on my own, so I agree with everyone else requesting a video how to do that part of it too!!
Ooo so cute i love it, but can you tell me what to replace instead of socks because i don’t have long socks and ya pleas do a video on how to do the braid that is above the curls.
<3 U
I love this idea and I love the braid even more, if you could please show a video on how to do the braid that would make me do this
I love this! I’m a teen with blah hair that’s not curly but not straight either, just puffy. My hair is weird and I find that if I wash my hair at night, towel it, and do this style, It looks amazing! Being the noncomformist rebel, I love curls and I HATE using heat so thank you so much for this! <3
Hi, I’m a ten year old girl who loves LOVES doing hair! Since I’ve been watching your videos I’ve been getting better and better! I luv all your videos too! I was going to ask if you can show us how to do a braid bun. I’ve heard if you sleep in it it will make your hair curly but how do I make my hair not be frizzy?
I LOVE THIS!!!! I showed this to my mom and afterwords she told me she wanted to know how to do the braid at the top. I so want to try this and see what people say. I sort of have naturally wavy hair. Which, can be pretty but sometimes, it gets really boring. I LOVE all the hair styles that you do and I pretty much want to try all of them. I CAN’T WAIT TO TRY THIS!!!!!
Hi, I am just trying this and I hope it works!!!!!
Beautiful! I’m wondering if it would work to make spiral curls if it is wrapped vertically?
I just want to say that your hairstyles are beeeaaauuutiful. My daughter is 3 (not so much hair) but I always use the hairstyles that I see here that I can apply to her hair length. I can’t wait until her hair is long enough for me to experiment with all these styles. I would also LOVE to try this curling method to my OWN hair! lol Anyway, I found your website by chance one day by googling around, & I am so thankful that I did. Thank you so much for taking the time to film the hairstyles and post them up.
I love this hairstyle i am going to try this tonight so glad i found this on google
I tried this the other day and it worked amazingly!! It stayed curly almost all day and I got many compliments on it. THANK YOU 4 this hairstyle!!!
awesome! the only probelem is i have EXTREAMLY thick hair!but creativee!
we are so thankful you know these hair styles.WE the three girls love the hair styles keep posting more viedos .