Having stick-straight hair all my life has always made me want to have long, luscious curls like the ones in celebrity photos and commercials.
The grass must be greener on the side, as it goes. I finally got to grow my hair long (resisted several urges to have it cut! hehe) because I wanted to get a digital perm, which I have actually tentatively schedule in my mind for early December.
Like a diligent student, I read up on personal accounts of their digital perm experience and researched on rates offered by different salons. What made me hesitate is the maintenance of the curls and the possibility of damage to the hair. But at that point,
keri pa din ako and I still wanted to push through.
Call it fate when I came across a video of beauty blogger
Judy of ItsJudyTime on how she does heatless curls. Her tool of choice? Foam rollers! You can check out
her video here.
My first problem was I had no idea where to get foam rollers (hehe) and second, I wasn't sure if it will work on my straight hair.
I chanced upon Goody foam rollers in a supermarket last Saturday and was
excited to see its affordable price but I walked away. WHAT, YOU WALKED
AWAY?! Yup, I didn't put it in the cart BUT I researched (again like a
diligent student) on foam rollers and looked up bloggers' accounts on
it. I was sold after seeing several entries. I checked out the mall
department store the next day and found neon Goody foam rollers. Funky.
:D And here starts my curly-for-a-day experience... :)
THE TOOL
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| Anatomy of a foam roller, lol. |
See the "ear" (the
protruding part) of the roller? That's the key to opening the roller.
Would you believe that I couldn't even open the roller the first time,
hahaha, I was afraid to put force and break the whole thing. I
discovered that I just need to press with my thumb and with a little
pressure to open.
The plastic does not seem very sturdy to me so I would advise the use of minimum pressure on it, hehehe. It's very easy to open naman. :)
The
foam is inserted into a plastic rod which is clipped to the rectangular
base. Be careful as the foam can slide out of the rod. It is super soft
and dense (unlike the foam of Joy Fashion rollers which is also soft
but less denser). As to the effect of density to the curls, I really
don't know. :P
How well did the foam rollers do its job? Read after the jump!
