Here's your step-by-step instructions on how to do bathrobe curls.
Watch the video above for a visual reference, or read on for the step-by-step:
Step 1: Rough dry your hair to about 80-90 per cent dry. Focus on drying your roots. (Want heatless curls? Skip this step and air dry.)
Step 2: Spray a sea salt spray through your hair for grit and texture, and run a hair smoothing serum through your lengths and ends to avoid frizz.
Step 3: Part your hair as you'd like it and split your lengths into two sections. Grab your heatless curler (or bathrobe tie). Pop it over your head so it's sitting like a headband. Secure one side of your hair and the tie into a ponytail to keep it in place.
Step 4: Starting at the front of your hair on the other side, take a section of hair and wrap it around the tie, away from your face.
Step 5: Pick up a second section of hair and wrap both around the bathrobe tie - the technique is similar to braiding. Continue until all your hair is wrapped around the bathrobe tie with two inches left out at the end.
Step 6: Secure your hair to the bathrobe tie with a coiled hair tie or a silk scrunchie to avoid hair tie marks. Repeat on the other side, always wrapping the hair away from the face.
Step 7: Go about your day/evening as you are, or secure your two sections into Princess Leia-style buns.
Step 8: After five to six hours, or overnight, gently unwrap your hair and remove the bathrobe tie. Brush the curls out with your fingers or a wide tooth comb, and add any styling products as you wish. Fin.
Bathrobe Curls Before & After.
Hold on, because my TikTok curls before and after journey is WILD.
After hanging out and sleeping in my bathrobe curls for well over 15 hours, the initial results were very defined, coiled curls.
My mum reckoned they looked like the natural curls I used to have before I dried all the life out of my hair with heat styling.
A few hours later, the curls started to soften and drop, and by the end of the day, I had EXACTLY the kind of waves I'd get if I used my straightener or curling wand.
The waves were big, loose and relaxed - just how I like 'em.
These waves lasted me another day or two, so in total, I got three days out of my bathrobe curls, and that's without using any styling products to hold the waves post-bathrobe.
My clever colleague Maddy gave this heatless curling trend a try using the Kitsch The Satin Heatless Curling 3 Set and guys, she says it's a game-changer.
"I was sceptical as to whether this would work on my long, fine hair, but I was a convert the first morning I woke up with gorgeous, heatless curls."
"The volume lasted for a few days, it's honestly so good."
"Pro tip: If you have bangs or long layers around the face, wind them up into a velcro hair roller, and then pop the headband thing through and wrap your hair normally."
Here's Maddy's results. STUNNING.
Our Verdict on This Heatless Curls Hack...
It's a yes from me. If you can be effed.
It's also a BIG yes from Megan in our Social and Content team, who as you would've seen in our TikTok beauty hacks YouTube video above (seriously, go back and watch it), was vibing her Farrah Fawcett hair.
Maddy highly rates the satin heatless curls set, too.
If I was going to do this style again, I would grab the kit and leave the bathrobe tie.
So, if you have absolutely nothing to do, might as well get on this TikTok beauty trend.
It's a good time.
