Even though the curling iron’s heat will destroy some chemical bonds in your hair, when the heat comes off the hair, the hope is the hair will come back more curly than it was to begin with.  Styling with heat or chemicals can be 110% destructive to your hair.  Since your hair is already dead, you must be completely careful how much you actually use heat or chemicals while styling.  When you destroy the chemical bonds in the hair protein, all you can do is hope that it comes back to “life” and doesn’t just fall out.

By holding your hair certain ways, while using the flat iron, can create different types of curls or waves.  Soft curls can be created by wrapping 2 inches of hair around the flat iron and slowly pulling it through the iron.  Try  not to squeeze to tightly on the hair to keep the hair in a soft curl.

See videos here & here for more information.

You can also flip the hair in or out.  Simply take 2 inches of hair and gently squeeze the hair with the flat iron all the way to the end.  When you get to the end just flip the hair outward or inward to create the “flip”.

That is just a couple quick ways that you can curl your hair with a flat iron.