Layers and Curls for Black Hair

Gabrielle Union wearing her hair long with curls
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Gabrielle Union used to be a model before she set her sights on acting, and she has a good reason for that luscious smile, as her career has truly blossomed. Here, on February 7th, 2007, she wears her long layered hair parted in the center, rolling in waves and large curls that flow around her shoulders.
 
The best way to achieve this type of look is to apply a good moisturizing gel to your clean hair and wind your hair with zigzags on plastic rollers, allowing them to dry. This is the easiest and fastest method, and when you wind those rollers on small sections, your style should last all day long without a problem.
 
Another method, though more harmful to your hair, involves hot rollers and hot iron. With hot rollers, larger sections are usually rolled, leaving an opened cuticle to deal with. With a hot iron, you have the painstaking process of rolling each small section to melt the cuticle to conform with the shape of the iron, and you still have the open cuticle to deal with. Rolling wet and allowing it to dry is your best method, as stated above.
 
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