So yesterday, in the guess-my-age thread, I was inspired by **Miss Purl Knittington ** to try pincurls. It’s something I’ve always been meaning to try but never got around to … I always think of doing it when it’s most inconvenient (like in the middle of teaching class, or something) and then I forget about it later. Anyway. So last night, since I had absolutely nothing more important to do than watch Gossip Girl (bite me) and re-runs of CSI, I sat on my sofa and laboriously put my hair up in pin curls, with the result ofmy head looking like a … I dunno, but nothing human.
Crap, pressed submit too soon. Continued in next post.
Good Lord. It doesn’t even look like a bad hair day - it looks like a caricature of a bad hair day. My dreams of looking like Betty Grable were uncerimoniously shattered.
I’ve managed to tame the beast somewhat with a hairclip. Fortunately I am also awaiting the delivery of my new curling iron today, which I firmly believe will save me from the chaos that is planning to eat my face sometime in the course of the day.
It looks pretty good in parts! You’re probably going to hate me for saying this, but it looks like you need to do smaller sections. I do strips that are about a half-inch wide when I put mine up, and my hair’s a lot shorter than yours. When I had long hair, I did sections that were a little less than a half-inch – maybe 3/8? It also helps to cover them up with a scarf while you sleep. It keeps the little hairs from wiggling out.
Remember: It’s only hair. Wash it and it’s undone. Next time will be better.
What you need is a good old fashioned “hair dressing” such as Alberto VO5. How do you think Betts got hers to behave? Fear not, though, I think they have new age products (I use one called Sleek One.) that can tame those wild hairs for you.
It looks pretty good when it’s down! I’m sorry about earlier, I thought that was the final look. What do I know about pin curls? I’ve got short curly hair.
For setting lotion, I like a little leave-in conditioner. Some people recommend soft-hold spray gel, but I think that makes the curls unpleasantly crunchy. You can buy actual setting lotion at places like Sally Beauty Supply, but I’ve never done so. Le lazy.
You look nice in the third picture of your second post but the others not so much. Of course, I have both bedhead and bedbeard at the moment so I’m really in no place to be talking about someone else’s hair.
Yeah, I was thinking that might be the problem. That would take foreeeeeeeeever with my hair. :smack: I’ll give it a shot sometime in the future though.
Rebo, no worries - I think it’s hilarious you thought that was the finished product!
Thanks for the compliments/sympathies, everyone. I might fiddle around with it to see if I can get to look more presentable/less like something exploded. (I’m also unused to big poofy curls - I think that’s part of it.)
I really don’t know why I’m doing this, especially since I took half a dozen pictures and this is the very best I could come up with but this is me as of a couple minutes ago. You can’t really see the sideburns sticking out quite as much in the picture but it’s really obvious looking in the mirror. They have to be sticking out a good quarter of an inch.
Especially if you sleep mostly on one side, the beard ends up looking…lopsided, because one side will be sticking out and the other will be matted down
I would kill for a head full of thick curls!!! I used to sleep in curlers, my hair saturated in gel, and the best I could get was like this, and in no time at all, it’d be straight strings again. Even when I broke down and paid a pro for a perm, it started relaxing in just a few weeks.
Man, Haze, if you were near me right now, I’d have to smack you, just on principle!
