The INSIDER Summary:
- Popular beauty blogger gilmakup proved curly haired girls can dry their hair with a pasta strainer.
- The strainer allows air to better circulate around the curls for an «air-dried» effect.
- Sharafani’s hair looks stunning in the end with curls that look natural yet defined.
Curly girls, I’ll go ahead and assume that many of you probably haven’t attempted to dry your hair using a strainer before. Yes, I’m talking about the tool you use to drain your pasta. Lo and behold, it can be done — and the results are pretty damn mind-blowing.
Beauty mogul Huda Kattan first brought this unique hair drying technique to our attention, taking to her Instagram to spotlight popular beauty blogger @gilmakeup, who is the genius behind what we’ll call «The Strainer Method.»
So how does it work? By mimicking what a diffuser aims to do: allow air to better circulate around the curls for an «air-dried» effect. In the clip, blogger Sharafani uses a classic metal strainer and a blow-dryer on her mostly wet strands, depositing sections of her hair into the kitchen tool as she blasts them with air. The end result will make your jaw drop (or at least it made mine fall to the floor) as her hair looks seriously stunning. And all from using a tool that’s sitting in most of our kitchen cabinets. Her curls look natural yet defined, subtly beachy, and voluminous AF — total #hairgoals
If you’ve got curls, this is clearly a hack you need to try, stat.
