I need to boast but then I need some advice

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I had the most astonishing shopping trip this lunchtime. I had 30 minutes in the local shopping centre and I've been looking for a 50s style outfit for a do at the weekend. After wasting 10 minutes in one shop, I drifted into somewhere with a closing down sale on and found a 50s-ish black halter neck with net poking out of the bottom and scarlet flowers around the hem. So I embraced my inner-Rizzo (Grease reference for you young things) and got that for £20, found a leather-ish cropped bikery jacket in another shop for £14 (it's a pretty low-rent shopping centre) and got matching nail varnish (slut red) and hair flower in Boots. Even tried on shoes which would have been perfect (red satin slingbacks) but couldn't find the right size.

All in 25 minutes. How amazed was I.

But now - how do I wear the hair flower thingy? It's on a slide, but where in my hair should it go? Hair is sort of in a long bob at the moment - side parting, not much of a fringe, reaches the bottom of my neckish. It's too thick to hold a curl and straighteners makes it look dead.

I am very bad at hair - help?

I'd put a hair grip in the side of your hair that the parting is on and then put the flower hair slide just above the grip - that will stop it constantly sliding down your hair.

Here are a few ideas...

Is your hair really too thick to hold a curl or is it that you are too impatient to curl it in really small sections? It's quite time consuming but the best way to get a vintage style curl in it is to either use bendy rollers, small heated rollers or tongs (about 16-19mm barrel). Either putting setting lotion/mousse/gel into damp hair and then rough drying it, or just using hairspray on clean dry hair before parting the hair off into 1 inch deep rows in a horseshoe shape and curling the hair under and pinning it into tubes (if you're going for the tongs route). Each section you curl should be no more than 1.5 inches wide. Keep going in the same pattern until you reach your parting and leave it in to set whilst you do your make up. If you're using heated rollers only take them out once cold otherwise the curl will drop. Then when you take them out brush through gently and shape the curls with your fingers and set with hairspray.

Failing that, backcomb the front and put it in a quiff. Tie the rest of your hair or the top half if the bottom is too short into a ponytail and stick flower slide in the hair just above your ponytail.

Or, quiff like above but tied hair up in a scarf a la "Rosie the Rivetter" and stick the flower on the side of the scarf or at your crown if the scarf is just around your head but open at the top.

Scarf reference...

miss-drea.deviantart.com/art/Rosie-The-Riveter-81075621

www.diablojos.com/#/rockabilly-head-scarves/4545274755

My hair really is too thick... I had it pinned under a wig in tiny sections for about 3 hours once (love fancy dress me). Properly pinned up by a friend who used to do stage wardrobe. Took off the wig and took out the many pins- within 20 minutes the crimps had disappeared...

Backcombing I can do though - thanks :-)

Probably a good thing re the curls though. I have a (ahem) strong jaw, and would look like a pig in a wig