Styling Curtain Bangs Made Easy With a Flat Iron, Rollers Or Without Heat

French ’60s glamour in the form of curtain bangs are trending.

For good reason.

They’re versatile. Pretty much universally flattering they can show up as a true bang. Or they can go into hiding as just another layer of your cut.

They’re also low maintenance compared to other bangs and flat out fun.

If any of this is news to you then by all means get up to speed by checking out our take on DIY curtain bangs. You’ll find answers to common questions. Get help with cutting them yourself. And of course discover the pros and cons of these sizzling face framers that are currently all the rage.

Here we’re going to explore different tools you can use to style ‘em once you got ‘em. As well as some no heat ways to bang it out. So if you’ve got fringe fever keep reading.

Backing up a step, many start their styling routine with a carefully crafted blow out.

Now if you could use some help with that, and it can be kinda tricky, we found three great video tutorials that show exactly how to blow dry curtain bangs. Not to be missed if you’re unsure what to do when.

Beyond that, need some ideas that show how to style curtain bangs? Here’s three to get you started.

• VIDEO: How To Style Curtain Bangs With Flat Iron
• How To Style Curtain Bangs With Rollers
• How To Style Curtain Bangs Without Heat

How To Style Curtain Bangs With a Flat Iron

To be honest there’s not a lot of mystery to styling your Bardot bangs with a flat iron.

Here’s two quick clips to demonstrate the technique.

As this video shares there’s not a lot to this.

Sure styling curtain bangs with a straightener can seem scary and all. Luckily this quick clip shows you exactly how to do it yourself.

She also shares a good-to-know hack too. That is after running the strands across the heated plates hold on to them for a bit to give them a chance to cool down.

Easy peasy.

For sure this whole flat ironing bangs is an interesting approach alright. It’s just not one that typically works alone or by itself. By that I mean usually a flat iron is used for final touch up in conjunction with a blow dryer.

Now if you want another look at how to wield your flat iron to produce exceptional bangs after blow drying have a look at this one.

Just don’t blink. The actual demo is pretty short. Again suggesting there isn’t a lot to know about doing this.

The goal here is just a light reshaping working with smaller sections.

BONUS: With dry shampoo you get a volume bump and added texture which helps to keep them from being limp and flat. Sometimes she’ll work that in right after washing just for the help dry shampoo gives with styling.

Still the big takeaway from styling your bangs with a straightener is there’s not a lot of technique.

Both vids show it’s basically glide the tool across the bang curling down and you’re done.

How To Style Curtain Bangs With Rollers

Not spending a lot of time on this one. That’s because there doesn’t seem to be much desire to use rollers. I say that based on the near total lack of how-to videos.

If you are a Velcro girl at heart here’s what you want to do.

• Section out the hair belonging to your bangs
• Spritz with heat protectant and brush through to smooth the hair and distribute the product evenly
• Take your Velcro roller and (with your hair over-directed some) place the roller under your hair. Slide it to the end tucking the ends in and roll down
• Use your hair dryer to heat up your hair
• Now you wait for at least 15 minutes – for it to cool down totally
• Before removing the roller mist with a light hold hair spray
• OPTIONAL: back comb the roots slightly
• Split and brush each side of your bang so it blends with the rest of your hair

Viola.

TIP: You can get heat retaining rollers which will hold the heat to better shape your hair.

TIP: The longer you leave the rollers in the more staying power you’ll give your bangs.

An alternative would be to use three larger rollers. One down the front and two more off to the side for the wings.

How To Style Curtain Bangs Without Heat

Okay so you want to rock that natural, nonchalant look without heat.

Honesty this is a tall order. And an expectation that may leave you with little control over the final look not to mention plenty of disappointment to go around.

Best we can suggest is let your natural texture take over and then hope and pray that is enough. Twisting damp bangs away from your face so the final result frames it.

Then maybe clipping them in place until dry.

This should bring a little order to the chaos that often accompanies an air dried fringe. So they don’t dry every which way.

The hope is for them to then fall nicely.

But I gotta warn you. That likely will not happen.

Your better bet for going heatless would sticking in a Velcro roller or three.

Maybe spritz with some texturizing spray. Give it 60 – 90 minutes before removing to temporarily bring some discipline to your bang.

Then spritz the result with sufficient hair spray to insure your bangs make it through the day intact.

So there you go. For sure being handy with a round brush and hair dryer are pretty much musts. Yet the ideas shared here for using a flat iron and rollers can keep this retro hairstyle from falling victim to flatness. While texturizing products can keep them from ending up plastered to your head.

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