Unextreme Make-Over: Setting Your Hair–Rollers

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Let's flash back to life before Vidal Sassoon. Why do I mention Vidal? Vidal is the man who taught American women how to do their own hair with minimal maintenance. Enter the blow dryer and the curling iron. Life before Vidal included interesting things like bobby pins and rollers.

Today's entry is about rollers. Because I know you all want to know where you can get rollers! Especially if you want to play with vintage hair styles.

Rollers are super cheap, unless you go with gadgety hot rollers. Lynn Chapman has an article on the various types of rollers.

Target has recently gotten on board with the retro scene, and have begun stocking traditional hairstyling equipment in their Blowout section. There you can get all kinds of rollers, shower caps, clips, fixtures, and bobby pins. Almost everything the vintage stylist might need.

Other places to buy rollers? Almost any drugstore will have them. So does Sally Beauty Supply.

I've been playing with two kinds of rollers recently: small velcro and soft. I recommend the small velcro rollers for women whose hair is still relatively short. The soft rollers are good for sleeping on.

How do you work with rollers? Another article from Bella.online shows the importance of rolling on base and off base.

Here's what I usually do.

1. Wash and towel dry hair.
2. Use strong gel (I use Aveda's Flax Seed and Aloe Sculpting Gel)
3. Use rollers on base.
4. Sleep on it!
5. Get up and style hair.

Of course, you can use a blow dryer to speed things along.

Right now I'm trying a variety of different kinds of rollers. I'll let you know which kinds are really working for me. I expect this will change as my hair lengthens.

Catherine

Mirrored from Writer Tamago.