to curl hair
2
2.8
- phrasal verb
:
rizar el cabello
- OK, so now I'm going to show you how I curl my hair with my curling iron.
You know, girls who have to like willpower to curl their hair every single day.
- You know, girls who have to like willpower to curl their hair every single day.
- So this is going to be easier to curl your hair, not so much strain on your wrist.
- Then I start blow drying and styling and curling and my hair will stay like this for a week.
- I've always found it easier to curl my hair with straighteners than I have with curlers.
- So I haven't curled my hair like this though with a iron like this in so long.
- So that's really all I use when I don't straighten or curl my hair.
- I will share with you guys something that I really love doing with my air wrap, aside from just curling my hair.
- And then finally this little piece of hair here, wow, I'd really forgotten how much curling your hair makes your arms ache.
- So I'm just going to use a little bit of this and then a little bit of lipstick and then I'm going to curl my hair as well.
Examples
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How do you curl your hair?
Blog text (29) -
I won't go around with the hot rollers and all the clips in front of a guy that I'm dating, so I know how to curl my hair with a curling iron and use duckbill clips so it looks nice when I'm doing it.
Blog text (7) -
I actually curled my hair, which I hate doing today.
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Did she curl her hair?
Fiction book (1999) -
What do you use to curl your hair?
Blog text (29) -
My ear is so red because I was curling my hair earlier and it was getting really hot.
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I slept in a little, took an extra 15 minutes to curl my hair, and threw on something cute.
Blog text (17) -
It also helps to curl your hair away from your face rather than towards your face.
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I've always found it easier to curl my hair with straighteners than I have with curlers.
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She took her time to curl her hair with a curling iron before the party.
How Curly
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to style someone's hair into curls' is directly and compositionally derived from 'curl' (to bend or coil) applied to 'hair' (the noun), so the overall sense is predictable from the parts. This verb + object pattern is a common, cross-linguistically transparent construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would very likely understand the MWE.
Etymology
Curl hair comes from the simple picture of winding hair around a small rod or using a hot iron to make it curl. So, it means 'to style someone's hair into curls'.