What did you use to fix you hair before all the electrical gadgets came out. I had very long hair and used bobby pins to

[debm55]

make pin curls Then I would brush them with a pick. How about you?

[Srkdqltr]

1. Mother would roll my long hair in strips of cloth . did the pin curl thing too. Slept on rollers too.

Now I brush and go.

[hlthe2b]

2. I had acquired two realy pretty Japanese handrafted painted sticks for a bun...

Lost 'em over the years--damn...

Otherwise pretty much just barrettes...

[debm55]

4. Those painted sticks sound beautiful. Thank you very much hlthe2b.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Brush, comb, soft rollers, ponytail wrappers, and Bobby pins

Depending on what hairstyle I was going for.

[debm55]

5. Thank you very much mwmisses4289. Those are the essentials I used too.

[gab13by13]

6. Brylcream A little dab will do ya.

[debm55]

8. I remember that. Thank you very much gab13by13.

[2naSalit]

7. A hairbrush...

And to hold up my long hair I used fabric coated elastics and long tine combs like my grandmother used. I still use them, never used a hair dryer either.

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much 2naSalit. I remember them.

[The Blue Flower]

9. I used empty orange juice concentrate cans as rollers

My hair was naturally curly and frizzy. Gel + cans helped straighten it.

[debm55]

11. Thank you The Blue Flower. I remember the cans and those large pink foam curlers.

[ProfessorGAC]

12. I Have Long Hair Now

Still only use a comb. Same as ever.
I always tie my hair back with a Scunci, but that's it.

[debm55]

13. That"s neat. ProfessorGAC. Thank you for sharing.

[Diamond_Dog]

14. I used electric rollers back when the Farrah Fawcett look was in!

My hair is naturally curly and I spent so much time with rollers, irons, etc. trying to to straighten it.

Now I just wash and air-dry and my hair looks like Robert Plant’s. Lol

[debm55]

15. Thank you Diamond_Dog. You have beautiful hair.

[True Dough]

16. How's your voice?

Also comparable to Robert Plant's? If so, you could have a profitable gig as a cover performer!

[Diamond_Dog]

17. True Dough, I cannot carry a tune in a bucket, sorry!

[True Dough]

18. As long as

your bucket is full, DD! That's what matters!

[Diamond_Dog]

19. Haha full of *something* anyway! Lol

[KitFox]

20. When I was in high school, I wanted my hair to look like Cher's.

I have naturally curly hair, so I used scotch tape to tape down my bangs and then set my hair with these huge pink rollers held to each other with long bobby pins. It’s a wonder I ever got any sleep. It didn’t go exactly straight, but enough to have a flip only on the ends. Sealed the deal with a ton of Aqua Net hair spray. 😁. Fun to look back and laugh at myself!😁

[Dorothy V]

21. Dippity-doo and the largest rollers I could find.

No matter what I did, my hair never came out straight.
Nowadays my hair is still long. I wind it into a coil and use about eight bobby pins to attach it to the back of my head - it's heavy. For dress up I tie the hair off about an inch or a bit more from my scalp and when I pin it down I have a pompadour. It's still wavy, but I stopped caring if straight or wavy or curly hair was stylish some few decades ago.
If I cut it short, it would look like I'd stuck my finger into a light socket. Mom found that out the hard way when I was a kid.
I found out the hard way that my hair hates chemicals. No perms or dyes for me. Just as well, I save money wrestling the stuff into submission myself.

[eShirl]

22. long hair - braid it while it was still slightly damp

then a few hours later or the next morning, unbraid and gently finger-fluff