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Hair How To: Perfect the Bouncy Waves

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Nicole Cremer
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Madeline Hunt
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at UCLA chapter.

The nice thing about this hairstyle is that it’s not full on curls but soft voluminous layers mixed with a blowout look.  So, it’s the perfect spring hairstyle for anytime of the day!  You don’t have to be Amanda Seyfried to pull it off because HerCampus has your step-by-step guide to mastering this look.
 
How To:

  1. Start with your hair damp and loosely dry it
  2. Starting at the top of your hair, work with 3-inch sections by pulling them outward with a round brush.  As you do this, sweep the hair dryer nozzle over the full length.
  3. Next, in order to boost volume, wrap sections around velcro rollers, applying a quick blast of heat to each roller.
  4. Wait about 5-10 minutes until hair has cooled and remove the rollers.  Brush through the waves and tease if necessary by the crown to add height. 

 
What You Will Need:

  1. Round velcro rollers which are very inexpensive and can be found at RiteAid
  2. Bodifying/Volumizing mouse to use when your hair is wet before you put in the rollers
  3. Hair dryer
  4. Teasing comb to touch up the pieces at the end

 
Sources: http://www.instyle.com/instyle/package/general/photos/0,,20560617_20579723_21135329,00.html

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Nicole Cremer is currently a sophomore at UCLA majoring in Neuroscience. She has a passion for journalism and loves being involved in a variety of extra-curricular activities, including doing research at the UCLA Brain Tumor institute, volunteering with Global Medical Brigades where she traveled to Ghana this past winter to provide health care to over 1,200 people, contributing to the Daily Bruin newspaper as a Video Reporter, and being a part of Gamma Phi Beta Sorority. Before becoming the Her Campus Campus Correspond for UCLA, she was a founding member of Her Campus UCLA and wrote a weekly health blog. In her spare time, Nicole enjoys exploring new restaurants and sites around Los Angeles, listening to country music, running (and training for half marathons…maybe a full one someday!), hiking, and spending as much time as she can at the beach!
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Madeline Hunt is a senior at UCLA majoring in Communication Studies with a minor in Spanish. Originally from the laidback beach-town of Santa Barbara, the California native finds the fast-paced nature and eccentricity of LA extremely exciting. Once more, she decided to expand her horizons when she studied abroad this past fall in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Madeline wants to pursue a career in the entertainment industry and is considering broadcast journalism and public relations as potential options. On campus, she is currently the Public Relations & Marketing Director for the student- run organization Fashion and Student Trends and an intern at E! News. She served as an entertainment reporter on UCLA’s accredited student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, under the video division and is a current member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. During her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, exercising, going to the beach, shopping (online shopping will be the death of her!), reading Glamour and Cosmo, eating Mexican food and sushi, spending time with her friends, practicing her Spanish, and satisfying her weakness for caffeine with Starbuck’s lattes.