Lately I have been writing a LOT about reading the Bible… especially reading it in 90 days along with me beginning January1, but for now I have to set that aside and share something else with you, dear readers.
I’m all about being real and, well, the Bible may be as real as you can get, but in honor of Works for Me Wednesday, I’ve got something else for you… Hot Rollers.
Yes, hot rollers, as in those massive rolling thingies from the eighties that helped all us Texas girls get our hair about as big as it could go. (Okay, so I wasn’t very good at it back then. But that’s okay now. I’m not going for big, just body.)
Most everyone uses those flat iron thingies now, but I just do not have the patience for that sort of thing. First you have to dry your hair completely and then you have to take it, piece by piece, section by section, and slide it through some blazing hot tool in places you cannot see and hope it all goes through the clamps. That simply does NOT work for me.
Instead I searched high and low last fall for a set of hot rollers… and they have become my friend for the times I want to look extra-special.
I used them Sunday for a friend’s wedding and had to laugh when the bride’s makeup artist saw me rolling my hair and asked about my hair curling “machine.” She thought maybe she should get one for herself after she saw the result.
Yes, last December, on a cold, rainy evening a friend asked me how did I ever get my hair so straight and I had to laugh and say “hot rollers,” but I’ve also had friends ask how did I ever get that much body in my hair and I got to say “hot rollers.” Either way, it looked much better than my typical running around ‘do. And either way, it was super simple to achieve. Just roll, add makeup, finish getting dressed, unroll, fluff with my fingers and voila! My husband doesn’t know what hit him!
I wish I could describe some fantastic can’t miss secret technique but, well… there really isn’t one.
Typically I let my hair air dry (or sometimes don’t wash it all for a day I need to get decked out) and do my best to roll it under in the largest rollers I can, until I run out and put a few chunks in the middle size rollers. If my hair is slightly damp in spots, I’ll still roll it and just run the hair dryer over it while rolled until I’m convinced it is dry.
This just seems much easier to me than those flat iron things and hot rollers always seem to work… without a whole lot of effort.
I hope you don’t mind me reaching a little out of the norm today. But right now, during big party season, hot rollers definitely work for me (and my husband).
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