How to Curl Hair

**wipes away tears of laughter** Oh man, that was funny and I hadn't had my first cup of coffee yet... so thanks for that. I wonder what setting she had on that curling iron? Like Tori, I have lots of fine textured hair. My iron goes up to 25; I have it set on 5. When I last bought a curling iron, I asked the women in the beauty supply place why the irons had such high settings; they said the higher settings were for women with more coarse hair; they needed the heat to penetrate. I have burned my face and scalp many times on just a 5 setting and I'm slow to heal. Why do women continue to do these things to themselves?

I admired her composure... I think she may have a future in comedy.

Wow... it just breaks away so easily. o_O

Last weekend was the first time I curled all my daughter's hair. She is Asian, with very thick dense hair, so we turned it to the highest level and kept each curl in 45 seconds. She kept telling me to use smaller locks of hair! It took an hour to curl, and only stayed that way due to hair spray. I had no idea that curling irons were so much hotter than they were when I used them decades ago.

I knew immediately, even if I had had no idea what was going to happen, that she was going to burn that hair right off. Those irons go up to over 400 degrees! She took way too tiny of a section of hair, and left it WAY too long. I think, maybe, she should have watched a tutorial first ;) I wonder what she did to cover that up? Think she just went for a cute pixie cut?

Women: why do you do this to yourselves?

but if you look good,you do feel good....lol..ask any woman....i guess it can go both ways. we are both right.

I believe burning a strand of hair off with a curling iron is a rite of passage almost every young woman goes through at some point in her life. It's one of those "live and learn things." Poor girl left her fine blonde hair on there way too long and I'll also say likely too hot. At least it's somewhere that's easily covered by her other hair. Good for her for putting that out for others to see they're not the only ones!

As for the heat settings, yes, some of us need them. Even some of us "Super pasty/I've got so much Irish and Northern European in me the sun mocks me" dirty blondes. Personally, I have some type of what's referred to in common parlance to as "beaded hair." The strands grow with slightly thicker segments randomly, and though it's blonde (though it's almost never it's natural color ;), it takes a lot of heat to curl or straighten. Hair is weird and seems to sometimes follow its own rules rather than what popular ancestral heritage assumptions would dictate.

My curling iron goes to 11.