Miss Mecca, my all time favourite hair style is a full head of curls with my GHD! I have extremely thick shoulder length hair with lots of layers. If I’m doing a rush job, I can do rough/loose curls in 20-30mins. If I’m doing a full head of perfect curls, it probably takes an hour (I find that a glass of wine while doing this is very helpful). It will take a lot of practise, I’ve improved so much in the 2 years since I first got my GHD.
As for the angle, like Elmo says it depends where on your head you are working. If its upper layers, I would be angled perpendicular to the head. On lower layers, I hold the GHD for horizontally. I also find that splitting my hair down the middle and doing one side at a time (starting from bottom layer up, like you would for blow drying) helps. That way, you get used to turning the hair in a certain direction, and arent trying to swap sides and directions which gets very awkward and confusing in the mirror!!! Either way, I always turn towards the mirror, therefore, when I’m doing the left side of my head it’s a clockwise motion, when I’m doing the right side of my head it’s anticlockwise. But you will need to just keep practising until you figure out what works and feels comfortable for you. The back of your head will always be tricky no matter what.
I use the GHD styling spray which is great and not too sticky but has good hold, and then I use whatever hairspray I happen to have at the time. I don’t have a heat protectant specifically because I only do this about once a month, but if you’re using it weekly or daily the GHD head protectant is meant to be very very good, especially for straightening.
On that note, I’ve never ever used my GHD to straighten my hair, lol, I don’t know how to!!
Oh and I always do the tightest curls I can because for me they do drop in the first few hours, it’s almost like I have the wear the curls in if you know what I mean. So for the first hour or two it looks a little ridiculous, but then it settles and looks lovely for the next 12-24hrs!!
