Curling hair with a hair straightener?

Can someone explain to me how you do it? I have long hair extensions and love the way my hair stylist curls them with a hair straightener, but when I try to do it at home it just never works! I have a CHI flat iron and use Bed Head or Catwalk styling products. Thanks any help is appreciated!Curling hair with a hair straightener?
There are video out there show you how to do that:





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k57daS_c_鈥?/a>





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfoihBOzP鈥?/a>





http://www.folica.com/info/curl-hair-fla鈥?/a>





http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-curl鈥?/a>





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?鈥?/a>Curling hair with a hair straightener?
You turn the flat iron so that the hair is ';bent';, and then keeping it in that position, run the flat iron to the end of the hair.
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First, you have a great ceramic iron. CHI is among the best. It's also good that you are moisturizing as you attempt this because it is damaging to your anytime you apply heat (although ceramic is supposedly better)





The best way to start is to part a small portion of your hair. If you try too large a size it won't turn out right. The main thing is to keep the same amount of pressure on the iron through the length of your hair or you'll end up with crimps (lines) on the portion that you pressed harder on. This part is the hardest part of curling with a flat iron. You naturally tend to press harder as you move down the hair shaft.





So anyway...after you have the hair parted into a small section, start at the base of the hair shaft (near your scalp) with the flat iron closed and slide downward to the ends of the hair. Depending on how tight you want your curls, you start bending the iron (just like with a curling iron) inward or outward (again, depending on which direction you want your curls to go). The more your bend or curl the iron will determine how tight the curls are. It will take a little practice keeping the iron at the same pressure through the shaft and while curling but the thing is...practicing will get you used to doing it. If you mess it up, you can always just run the iron through your hair again without trying to curl to straighten it out again...and start over.





Best of luck, I'm sure you'll do fine.
I do my hair like this ALL the time. I've got pin straight hair and this method works amazingly. However, you must take into account that I don't have extensions. I've never had them before so I'm really not sure what you can and can't do with them that you can do with your own hair. Still, you can take a look at what I usually do and adapt accordingly to make it work for your extensions.





Start out by washing your hair with some sort of curl enhancing shampoo and/or conditioner. This will encourage it to curl and give it a little bit of texture.





Spray your hair all over with some sort of heat protecting spray (Tresemme Heat Tamer Spray is my favorite- inexpensive and works well). Although it's not your own hair, you still want to take good care of it!!





Blow dry your entire head with a diffuser, scrunching to encourage curls and waves.





Once your hair is at least 90% dry, section it off. Separate the hair of the bottom two inches of your scalp at the nape of your neck from the rest of your hair.





Take the top part of your hair and clip it up with a butterfly clip (if you have thick hair you might need more than one).





Take your heat spray one more time and spray this lower section (about 6-8 inches from your head, so you don't dampen it).





Using a 1 inch flat iron (my preference is the 1 inch CHI styling iron- which incidentally is yours, too!), take a strand from this section and clamp it at a 45 degree angle about 2 inches away from your scalp.





As you go down the length of the strand, you want your hair to be sort of bending against the iron; twist the iron so that your hair is kind of wrapping around it. Think: curling ribbon with scissors. (Visit this link for a quick visual demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLMpNT0wI鈥?/a> ).





Continue to do this until you have completed the lower section.





Take down another 2 inch horizontal section just above this bottom one from the butterfly clip.





Spray this section with the heat spray and proceed just as you did with the other section.





Continue this entire process until you have completed your whole head.





When your head is done, gently separate the curls a bit and then finish off with some moderate hold aerosol hair spray.





This is just a basic verbal instruction, if you need more a more visual lesson, be sure to check out YouTube for some tutorials. Once you get the hang of it, it's really easy, just be sure that you are protecting your hair from the heat!! Good luck!