Curly Clipping

Lorraine calls it "Lift and Separate"; you call it confusing. The basics are to use jaw clips parallel to and over the middle of your part to lift hair from either side of your part while your curls dry. Here are a few more tips--and photos--to help you figure out how to clip your curls!

Criss-Cross
The criss-cross method helps to disguise a part and give the top of your curls a boost.
Take small sections of hair from either side of the part, criss-cross, and clip with a claw clip.

The top of your head should look similar to your backbone.

This exaggerated criss-cross makes it easier to see how to do it--but the more crisscrosses the less big curl clumps you'll have.

Lift and Separate
Metal clips tend to slide out of your hair more easily, but if you can master this technique, it works well!

Company-Style
What to do when company's here and you don't want to look like your hair's half done? I rearrange my clips and criss-crosses at random, so they still lift and separate, but it looks like I planned to wear my hair that way. I may take them out when dry and shake my curls, or sometimes I leave them in to keep my hair out of my face.

See? It looks planned!

"it's more than just hair...it's an attitude!" -lorraine massey
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