I'm hoping someone can explain to me how to get this effect for hair?

http://fashionvibe-blog.blogspot.com/20 … t_460.html  (first two images especially, the image was too large to post).

Even if you can just name the technique so I can look it up for myself, that would be immensely helpful.

Thank you!

It's done using hair pins, you wind very small sections of hair around the tines of the pin in a figure of eight, and press with a straightener. You could bypass the straightener and use a setting lotion or dampened hair and sit under a hood. There is a name for the technique but my brain has stalled at coming up with it.

I learned this technique under the name "crepe-ing" or "creole-ing" (Creping? creoling? Totally not sure about the spelling of either of those.  Also--"creole-ing" is a rather politically incorrect term.)

I have done it with wig hair by weaving it on strings in a figure 8 pattern, or on a person by weaving it onto 3 inch hairpins in a figure 8 pattern and then clamping it with a flat iron.

Hope that helps!

Thank you both, in that case, how do I secure the hair to the bobby pin once it's woven? Will the pin hold it in place securely?

Don't use bobby pins.  Use LARGE hair pins.  Take a small section, start at the root, weave the hair back and forth btwn and around the tines in a figure 8.  When you reach the end and still have more hair, push the hair towards the beginning until it's all on the hair pin.  Cross the ends of the hair pin over, toward each other and back towards the beginning to secure.  Do to the entire head, put under a hair dryer or straight iron each pin.  Remove pins by undoing the ends and pulling out the pin (should slide out).  Pull on individual strands.  Spreading/brushing the hairs will create more volume.

Once the hair is set and dry, take out the pins. (that will probably be a very time consuming job for one person if your model has lots of hair!)
If you want the hair to be bigger, use a soft bristle brush and gently back brush it.
I've used these techniques, and the hair just keeps getting bigger and bigger!
Great fun!

I've experienced this effect before by doing something more simple. When my hair was wet, I braided into tiny braids and slept with them overnight. Then I brushed out my dry hair the next day and teased it. A blow dryer helps too!

I used this technique in my avatar picture. I used hair pins (not bobby pins) and sprayed each section liberally with a heat protectant that also as hold (mine is by Kenra), did the figure eight technique mentioned above with a straightener. Leave the pins in the hair until you are done with all sections so they cool and set properly. The more you spread out the sections after you remove the pins, the more fro-like it will look and the less crimping texture you will see. I went for more fro-like, but you can see one section in the upper right corner of the frame which is mostly still in tact.

(In my picture, I alternated sections with another technique which produces larger crimping patterns for variation in texture)

Its called rik-rak (rick-rack? no idea how to spell)!! SO pleased my brain finally spat that one out - its been chewing away since you first posted. Score 1 for my brain!

google search even rewarded with this:
http://www.lovekevinmurphy.com/2011/09/ … a-pin-set/

Note to the poster above, while braiding hair does crimp it, the texture is different and to my mind, not nearly as exciting. You don't get the wonderful wide s bends all throughout.