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"Last week, I got pep talks from you all about how to use hot rollers. Want to see how my first attempt went? Here&amp;#x27;s the play-by-play, plus a few things I learned along the way.Here&amp;#x27;s the &amp;quot;before&amp;quot; shot of my hair, which I had washed the night before and let air dry before bed. I followed this YouTube tutorial (I linked to the wrong one last time, sorry!). In it, the stylist warns against using those U-shaped pins that come with many hot rollers. Unfortch, I didn&amp;#x27;t have any of the plastic clips she recommends using instead, so U-shaped pins it was. They worked OK on the top rollers ... ... but barely held the rollers on the sides of my head, which would not stay vertical and in some cases slipped out entirely. Between the loose-pin situation and the fact that I had more hair overall than could fit onto the rollers, things ended up looking like one big frickin&amp;#x27; mess. I remained optimistic, though, and went about trying to distract myself with reorganizing some baby clothing until the curlers were fully cool, which I hear is key to getting waves to not fall out right away. When I began unwinding them after about 20 minutes, it was encouraging to see bouncy spirals appear. Here&amp;#x27;s what my hair looked like right after all the hot rollers were out. There were problematic straight/frizzy sections in the underneath portion of the back of my head because I&amp;#x27;d been unable to get all that hair properly onto rollers. I went back and re-rolled those sections for about 5 minutes, which did the trick in taming them. Here&amp;#x27;s what my waves looked like after about 20 minutes and being raked-through with my fingers several times. Cute, right? Really not bad at all for a very sloppy first attempt. The biggest problem, though, is that within an hour of when these pics were snapped, the waves all fell out and my hair was left flat and frizzy. I suspect what happened is that I managed to over-spray my hair--which is thick but very fine, and thus weighed down easily--with hairspray. I&amp;#x27;d heard that it is good to mist each section before rolling it and then mist the rollers as they cool and then mist AGAIN afterward, but perhaps a bit less is more in my case. I will also try mousse on my damp hair next time I wash before using the rollers, to add more oomph and staying power. I also think maybe I rolled hair too thickly onto some of the rollers so it didn&amp;#x27;t truly cool all the way through. So much to think about for next time! I obviously need more practice, but I think if I can get the roller routine down, it could be kind of life-changing. P.S.: Thanks to piedpiperofcool for the tip about using cotton balls to protect the tops of my ears from the hot rollers--you saved me from some potentially serious burns, I think! So there you have it: My first attempt at hot rollers. Do any of you have advice to share before my next trial (hopefully later this week)? Any tips are much appreciated! What&amp;#x27;s With All the Spam in the Comments Section? Sick of all those annoying ads in the comments section lately? So are we! We police the site regularly and delete spam as soon as we can, but recently, the volume of spam has increased dramatically. We&amp;#x27;re working on a way to block them permanently, so please bear with us, and know that we&amp;#x27;re as eager as you are to get rid of these pests. Meanwhile, please continue to use the Report Abuse button to flag spam--it really does help!-- and continue to leave your brilliant feedback below. If you have any urgent questions about the spam, please contact us. More Ways to Get Glamour: Hey Glamour fans, we need your advice. We want to know what&amp;amp;#8217;s important to you when it comes to Glamour and all things digital&amp;amp;#8212;what do you like most? What do you want to see more of? How and where do you want to read all that fun stuff? Please TAKE OUR SURVEY. As a special thank-you for sharing, you will be entered to win one of 45 iTunes gift cards for taking the survey! See RULES for details. Download Glamour on your iPad! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). One more PS: Did you know you can now read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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