25 Days of Nutcracker- Day 4

Nutcracker Ringlets

(Part 2)

The Curling Process

The more common way of getting ringlets is by using curlers. The blog "Fluff-n-Stuff" has a great artical from a few years ago (http://fluff-n-stuff.blogspot.com/2007/11/public-service-announcement-how-to-do.html). I'm going to pick out some highlights.

Eco-friendly method: Use an old lint-free rag torn into strips. Condition hair with a teaspoon or two of warm olive oil. Wet hair lightly with water.Twine a bunch of wet hair strands around each strip. Knot the strip ends together in an easily removable bow/ simple knot. Wear a shower cap around all the twined strands and sleep in it. This generates beautiful curls, but takes several hours to set.

(http://london.ucdavis.edu/ballet/cloth.jpg)

Foam rollers method: Similar to above, but uses a foam wrap lotion and foam rollers( again, easily found in most dollar and drugstores). This requires overnight setting and sleeping in rollers. I used a product by (available in most beauty supply shops) called an Extra Firm Hold Foam wrapping lotion to prep the hair by applying it to each lock before rolling it around the rollers

Dos and Don'ts

Do use a product to such as gel to help the curls hold

Don't put curlers in wet hair

Do use as many curlers as possible

Don't put curlers in clean hair

Do try out the style several times before the actual show

Don't brush out the curls after you take them out of the rollers

Do hair spray each curl as you take it out of the roller

Don't put to much hair on one roller

This is what will happen if you Do follow these steps;

If you Don't;

What do party girls have to say about ringlets?

What’s so important about the hair of a Party Girl?
We have to have ringlets — lots and lots of springy, bouncy curls. So before every show, the night before, I have to put my hair in curlers. They never cancel a show, so the last big storm I was on the Orange Line with a shower cap over my curls, because, like I said, the curls have to come in safe.

Lia Kaynor, a 12-year-old Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School student
Thu Dec 20, 2007 (www.wickedlocal.com/melrose/archive/x360513062)