Getting your curly hair just right can require a lot of practice, as well as some specialist equipment.
However, a woman on TikTok who posts under the username @foxcraftcustom has revealed a household item that might help with diffusing your hair. The TikToker showed herself using a sieve when drying her hair in the now-viral clip, leaving other viewers rushing to try the trick out themselves.
Despite seeming like an odd method, an expert has said there may be some truth to sieves working like diffusers in a pinch.
Hairdresser Kelly Vowles, a specialist in curly hair, told Mirror Online this is a "really old hack" she herself has used before.
Kelly said: "When I started working with curly hair, I actually used to keep a sieve in the hair salon and use it to diffuse hair with. But I do find that using an actual diffuser gets much better results because of the way that the diffuser is formed."
According to the expert, the sieve works in the same way that a diffuser would, by breaking up the air flow so it distributes evenly through your curls.
Kelly, from Pixal-Rose Hair Design, added: "If you are new on your hair journey and you are wanting to experiment and you don't know if you want to start buying lots of different equipment, it is a good thing to try."
"In my experience, the sieve method would work better with finer, type 2 waves because the hair can dry quicker and it's easier to cup the hair into the bowl," she said. "As you move up into thicker hair, which takes longer to dry, it might be harder to control the hair with a sieve."
Explaining her top tip for diffusing hair Kelly said : "As long as you're keeping the heat low so that you don't heat the metal up too much it shouldn't, in my experience, cause issues but it's one of these things where if you can professional equipment is always the best route to go."
Another limitation of the sieve method is that the air may not reach your roots to dry them properly, while diffusers have prongs to help break up the hair so your roots are dried evenly with the ends.
With this in mind, Kelly advice for anyone starting out is to speak to a curly hair specialist and purchase recommended products that works for your hair.
She added: "In my experience, a lot of the time getting the curls right can also be about getting the product right not just about the styling or the diffusing."
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