I tend to stay away from any styling products, especially anything that uses heat, and I gave my blow dryer away last October. Yesterday, my little cousins wanted their hair curled. One has slightly wavy hair and one has hair that's curly (only she wanted it curled into ringlets rather than loose curls). Anyway, once before I tried small rollers (unheated) in the wavy hair and the mousse in the curly hair, and the mousse turned out fine but the wavy hair would not curl!! I was very annoyed... I had even tried rag curls but they didn't work either.

So I asked my mother, whose hair is stick straight, and who used to long for curls when she was young. She said she used to use hot rollers. I asked her if it would be bad to use it on their hair, and she said no, if it was just a once-in-a-lifetime thing. So I tried it, and it turned out WONDERFUL!! I didn't know how magical these rollers were  !

Now here's my question. I'd like to try using these rollers in my hair, because when I took them out, the girls' hair wasn't dry and didn't have any split ends. In fact it was just as soft as before I put the rollers in. So are these rollers extremely bad for the hair? Or are they only bad if you repeatedly use them? I think I'll have to ask my Mum to put my hair in rag curls again... the curls that you get from hot rollers are so tempting... want... curls...  

I used the rollers in the exact way that you described them. I think I might try using them - my hair is in excellent condition, the rollers don't heat up that much, and I use pins to hold them in place - but only for special occasions. Maybe on my birthday  ! I'm not sure whether the surface of my rollers are bad, they are kind of velvety... my mother used these every day of her life when her hair was shoulder length and experienced no damage at all.

I don't think anything is more beautiful than a head full of long, beautiful, unfrizzy curls!!