Aside from those pink sponge rollers, did you ever roll & tie the your hair with?

Question

torn pieces of cloth to curl your ends? You slept better with this rather than rollers in your hair.

Yes Granny, I have those too as well as the foam stick curlers

Answer 1

RAGS!!!!

When I was very small, my hair was very long - to the waist - and very unruly.

My mother used to wrap it in rags overnight. The next morning was the agony of standing on a stool in the bathroom while she removed all of the rags and carefully and lovingly comb my hair into long curls..... It seemed to me like it took forever.

By noon, it would be poker straight again and flying all over the place.

As an teen, it was pincurls (remember those? Bobby pins, yet.), then came "Clippy's". As an adult it was plastic rollers. Can't believe I ever slept in those darned things. Then, about 1964, when my second child was about 2, I cut my hair into a Vidal Sasoon short cut. Cut around the ears, boy-short in the back. That was perfect..... Of course, "teasing" was very much the in thing in order to achieve the "football helmet" hair.

Finally, around 1976 or so, I let it grow and got and "Afro" perm. I permed it until about 5 years ago. My hair grew out and I let it get long again. With a perm, I never had to worry about it. Wash and wear, let it dry and use a hair pick. It was the easiest I ever had.

Now, it is shoulder length, has developed a slight wave and I can manage this salt-and-pepper grey hair with a dryer and a brush.

Figures.....I'd finally figure it out just in time to be losing it.....HA!!

Answer 2

The pink sponge rollers are really old school. I used them when I was growing up. They are not the best choice for rollers these days. They create extremely tight curls and because they are sponge rollers, the sponge absorbs the moisture from your hair. I would suggest using a different type of roller.

Answer 3

Never did the rags or torn cloth. I have very thick hair. As a teen it was shoulder length. I slept on huge rollers that had the little brushes inside. And remember, those roller had to be held on by inserting Picks! It's the only roller I could use. The ones without the brushes wouldn't grip my hair and stay in. I actually had "dents" in my scalp where the rollers sat!

Answer 4

No, I never used cloth to curl the ends of my hair. I used the brush rollers. They came with the pink sticks to secure the roller. I don't know how I ever slept on those things, but I got used to it. When I wore my hair in a flip, at night, I used to take a long strip of bathroom tissue, folded in half, & put it around my flip & clipped it in place with Lady Ellen clippies. The next morning, I removed the tissue & touched my flip up a little with a comb. Oh, the things we did to look nice. :)

Answer 5

What memories this brings to mind! From the time I was a toddler until junior high age, my mother shampooed my long hair for me on Saturday night and then wrapped it in "rags and papers" - strips of old bedsheets and newspapers. Sunday morning she took them out and brushed out my beautiful curls. Since I always put up quite a fuss during the process, she was pretty smug when she got me ready for church and showed me how pretty my hair was! And yes, it was so much easier to sleep on than the hard plastic rollers I used later on.

Answer 6

Yep, used the following:

leather type kid roller strips;

small orange juice cans! ;

two fingers to roll the hair into hollow rolls then a big bobby pin to secure the curl;

sponge rollers and plastic ones;

socks! LOL

Answer 7

Rag curls...My Mom used to do this from the time I was little, little. I have naturally curly hair, but NOT in the type of curls that my Mom wanted it to have...so I was tortured like this every bath day...can you imagine a four year old standing still long enough to have a full head of waist length hair rag curled?

Anyway, I taught my daughter how to do this way back when she was a teenager...but of course she didn't listen completely all the way through. Let us just say that she didn't lose TOO MUCH hair when she had to CUT the rags out of her hair because she had KNOTTED them in place!!

But they ARE still one of the easiest ways of curling your hair if you have the time to leave them in place until they dry. And you don't have to worry about your hair getting heat damaged!!

(Whatever happened to people using that final VINEGAR rinse to get shiney hair instead of all those flammable shine serums that use chemicals?)

Answer 8

I never used those, my mom used a curling iron on our hair, but mine was so straight it fell right out. I've used those hard plactic ones, but hated sleeping in them. I still use the pink and green sponge rollers when I want to go somewhere, they give my hair a little body.

Answer 9

In the late 60's and early 70's you wanted to get your hair straight. We'd pull our hair up on top of our head put a hairband wrapped around few times and then roll the hair in a beer can or orange juice can and secure with a bobbi pin.

Answer 10

No daisy mae, I couldn't get the hang of those cloths.

The foam ones made my hair frizzy so I used brush rollers. Very hard to sleep in!