Hair In Curls? Give These Methods A Twirl!
Curled locks have been a desired style for 100s of years now and luckily for us today, many electronic tools and specific hair beauty treatments designed specially to aid the formation and/or control of curls exist to make the whole look easier to achieve. But back in the 1920s and 30s, there were no such luxuries and as such, women had to use other methods to get a spring into their barnet!
Pin Curls: This way of curling hair was popular into the 60s but is still practised on the red carpet by A Listers who love retro style such as Kelly Osborne. The method basically involves wrapping sections of hair around your finger to spiral before affixing with a hair pin through the centre of said curl. Corkscrew curls are created with slimmer lengths of hair and wider lengths lead to a more loose and wavy style.
This method can be quite time consuming however and it can be difficult to get all curls to be uniform in shape and size.
The Rag method: Using old strips of rag (for example, made from an old cotton sheet) was one of the original methods for achieving curly hair. The strips are then wrapped around a length of hair (usually an inch in width) before being folded back onto themselves, with the both ends of the rag tied together in a bow.
This can be effective but can make the ends of curls look cow-licked or ragged.This isn’t the most attractive of ways for curling hair either (even though the great wide world is not going to see you wearing them at night time).
Despite their problems, both of these methods are more comfortable for overnight curl formation when compared to the plastic rollers of contemporary times. But for an even gentler, pain-free method there is now a wonder product by the name of Curl Formers. These are made of patented flexible tubes, are extremely easy to use and are so easy to apply that curly hair styles are never too far away!
