Transcript
Today we are going to learn how to use your TYME Iron, We are going to start with the basic on/off switch. Here it is, it’s on the inside. Click on and you will see the blue light come on. Then you know it's working. I want you to start out by reflecting exactly what I do. Start by placing your thumb behind the blue light. Then close the iron and hold it like a bike handle. When you hold it this way you can see the gold plates. Then when you flip it over you will see the brown lines. These brown lines are the guidelines. That’s what you use to curl, the gold plates are what you use to straighten. So make sure you know the difference, take time and actually look at this and reflect what I’m doing.
Then we are going to hold our hand out again. I want you to pretend like you are “vrooming” a motorcycle. When you pretend this I want you to make sure your knuckles come back towards you. If you do it the other way it's not correct. Make sure this is the motion you are doing every time I say vroom a motorcycle. It’s a cheesy line but it works! Now pretend to come up and curl, so place the guideline up towards the head. I can look at them, make sure they are there, and then vroom my motorcycle gliding forward towards the mirror. Make sure you are going forward, some direction toward the mirror. Do not go towards the ceiling or towards a wall to the side, make sure you are going forward, or at a diagonal forward. Not up or to the side.
Now I am going to show you the motion all over your head. We are going to place the guidelines towards your head, vroom your motorcycle and go forward. Watch how the motion does not chance as I go across my head. Everything is the same all around my head. The only thing that is going to change is when you want difference curls. Then you tilt your iron in different ways, or “vroom” your motorcycle more or less. You have to find your own pace for you own hair. For my hair I come in, brown lines towards your head, then towards the mirror. Glide the iron forward towards the mirror. I prefer a beach wave so that’s what I usually do. I usually go down towards the lower corner of my mirror, leaving out the ends to achieve this look. You can vary that by checking other videos to see different looks and different curls.
To go on the left side, I want you to come in, watching the guidelines as they come up over your head, place them into the hair from the top, and “vroom” your motorcycle and glide down towards the mirror. I’m dropping right before I get to the end. The one was pretty curly because I went pretty slow. If I want it to loosen up, I can just tug on it or wiggle it. The other thing you can do is run your hands through it to loosen curls. So make sure that if you’re someone with fine hair, when you are first learning this, make sure you are not combing through after a curl forms. Simply wind the curl back and let it form in place while it cools.
I’m going to show you a couple of things I have seen people doing that you want to avoid doing. I will teach you the right way from the beginning. You have to know the rules to break the rules. I have seen people grab a piece of hair and they go out to the side and too fast and they wonder why it's not curling. The key is you need proper heating and cooling time. You need to make sure that these little plates have time to glide over each little section long enough to get it heated so that it can cool on the back side. This is what creates the curl! Instead of coming in and doing this (going too fast) I’m coming in, gliding slowly and then letting go. You can see how the curl forms. We want it to form by giving it proper heating and cooling time. That will sustain the curl longer because I have properly heated and cooled it in place, and it will give it more shine as opposed to a frizzy look. If you go to fast it will come out frizzy and messy look. Make sure to go slow and give it proper heating and cooling time.
Another thing people are doing is squeezing really tight! When you squeeze really tight it kind of jerks so we don’t want to squeeze really tight. This is not based off of tension, its based off of heating and then cooling! Make sure if your iron is what I always refer to as “putting on the break” if it feels like you’re putting the brakes on then I just want you to loosen your tension. To keep your hair in the iron without using tension is with this technique. When you’re “vrooming” flip you hair over the back and it will drop into this little triangle and you can hold it and guide it with your left hand. If you want to do it on the left side, without using too much tension you want to use this technique. On the left side I am going to come in over the top, place the iron in and watch as my hand just wraps around the back as the guidelines are going toward the front, towards the mirror. That creates curl on that side. When you learn that simple technique of flipping the hair over the back, dropping it, and there is always this triangle here. When you drop it into that triangle you can pick it up by coming in front of your face. I have seen people try and grab it here or over the top, and you don’t want that. I want you to be able to see what you’re doing, by putting your hair in flipping over the back, picking it up in this triangle and going forward.
Another things I would like to talk about is when people are asking me about kinks. When you get kinks at the top or when you get kinks throughout the hair. All of the kinks come from tension, so if you squeeze too tight initially you will cause kinks. It’s hard for me to cause them on my hair because I have coarse hair. On fine hair you see it much more so make sure you very gently gliding into the hair. You barely have to feel it as it glides down. People are always pleasantly surprised at how light they have to squeeze. Be sure not to squeeze too tight, and to learn the flipping of the hair technique. Flip the hair over and just guide.
When people have fine hair, if you take a big section and you try to put it all in and squeeze it you can really cause what almost looks like a crimped look. So make sure you section your hair vertically, so that the iron can go in and it is very natural how the iron comes into this. If you take a big chunk it’s like you have to come in at this angle and try and fit it all in and that’s what can cause those kinks. That’s how you detail better. Once you learn the concept, then you can learn the details about kinks, crimps and too much squeezing that can cause those brake lines. Those lines that show up as you come down the hair from using too much tension.
That’s how you use your TYME Iron! Once you learn the technique of “vrooming” your motorcycle and the technique of going over your head, I pretend it’s like a rainbow, then you can learn all the other techniques like varying curls and varying looks. At first I just want you to learn the technique of guideline towards your head, vroom your motorcycle, and go forward. Then you can very by turning guidelines up then turning towards the mirror. There are all different kinds of techniques you can learn once you have the basics. Know the basics first which are guidelines and right thumb behind blue light.
One tip I want to give moms, stylists or people styling their friends hair: instead of placing your thumb behind the blue light, place your thumb below the T in TYME . when you do that you keep your motion the same but you just adjust it to using it on someone else. When using it on someone else you can pull towards yourself, or out away, all kinds of different directions! As long as the hair runs over the back, the side that doesn’t have the TYME on it! That will have you curling in no time! Don’t forget to shut your light (Power Button) off.
Another thing to be aware of is going too fast that you only heat up the outer cuticle. The outer cuticle is like shingles on a roof, if you only go slow enough just to start heating those up but not slow enough to form a curl, that’s like lifting the shingles on a roof . That creates a frizzy look! So if you go too fast you’ll create that because you’ll only heat the outer cuticle layer. What we need to do is heat and then cool the outer cuticle layer at a nice, steady, even pace. That will create shine and help the curl last longer! Make sure if you’re going to fast because you are afraid of burning, because you created a kink in the beginning then you’re going to lead down all these other paths. All we need to do is go a nice slow steady pace. Think of it this way. These are small plates! The time it takes for them to heat each little section. That requires a nice steady pace, not speeding through it. Even though we need to vroom the motorcycle, we don’t need to vroom through the hair! Make sure when you are curling your hair that you don’t squeeze too hard! I have seen people squeeze to the point where they pull peoples heads! Make sure you barely feel it going through your hair! Go nice and smooth as well as slow! Too much tensions can cause it to not even curl because you forced it straight instead of just letting it do its work which is heating then cooling, heating then cooling all the way through. If you allow it to do its job and head and cool the hair. You don’t need to squeeze, that can actually cause the reverse effect! It should be nice, smooth and fluid all the way through.
Hope that helps and let us know if you have more questions! Be sure to comment below, that will give us the answers you need besides what we have given you today!
