Overnight hair curlers?

[BuffaloCauliflower]

Can anyone recommend some curlers you wear in your hair overnight? My hair is very straight and a nightmare to curl or get body into, but if I sleep in a damp French plait is does get some wave, thought there must be a way to curl by a similar method?

Thanks in advance!

Hopeful bump?

Using rags is the best way overnight I've found. You just cut up an old t-shirt or something similar and roll your hair up and tie the ends together.

I pin curl my hair as I can never sleep in rollers, though I've tried many, but might try rags.

Sleep rollers work well, but give more movement & bounce than curl.

Or try the Aurora

www.amazon.co.uk/Aurora-Night-Roller-Original-Dragons/dp/B00NIP8U8S?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

I have very thin, fine dead straight hair. The want, straighteners, curly blow dry, curlers, everything like that falls out of my hair within a couple of hours, no matter who does it. If you google hairband curls, this may be what works for you. I swear the curls in my hair when I wake up are amazing. I wash my hair the night before, when it's still a little damp I brush and put into my parting, split it down the back into two and then put a normal hairband over the top of your hair and take a section of you hair and pull round the hairband, gather another bit of hair and pull around again. Do this on each side until there is no hair remaining to gather. Go to sleep, sleep well without any curlers sticking into you and wake up the next morning with amazing curls. Let them drop to what you desire and spray. The above instructions probably don't make sense so definitely YouTube it.

When I was at school, my hair was long, very fine but lots of it and very straight, just wouldn’t hold a curl. My mum would not let me get a perm like all my mates, in case it ruined my hair.

So I used something similar to these.

I’d wash my hair, blow dry til nearly dry, then section hair. I’d comb some mousse through a section, then pop it in a roller, and repeat for the whole head. The trick was to pull/twist the sections at the back of the head slightly to one side so there was a flat space to sleep on.

Quick blast on the rollers with a hairdryer before bed and then another upon waking. Ringlets day one, beach curls day two, soft waves day three. Then wash and repeat.

It was a commitment, but it did work.

Thanks so much for all these ideas!

For rag curls how exactly do you wrap your hair around the wraps and tie it?

Aurora band looks like the headband curls mentioned?

@SkinnywannabeKBH - intriguing! Just watched a video and seems too good to be true. I’d worry about the hair bands pinging off my head while I’m asleep, I can never keep those things in during the day, my head seems to be the wrong shape!

@ZazieTheCat I think that’s what I was sort of picturing, thank you! My hair sounds like yours. Lucky to some to never have to straighten in maybe, but it’s so flat and boring.

For rag curling you wrap your hair around the middle of the rag then tie the ends. There's lots of tutorials on you tube.

If your hair doesn't hold a curl, try setting lotion.

Here is a You Tube about doing rag curls

No need to buy an Aurora band, a normal band works perfectly well. Honestly I do This quite often, the girls in work are always amazed when I come in and it takes very little effort. Hairband ping off my head normally, but somehow stay on during the night and even if it doesn't stay at the top, it's just slides down the back of your hair and stays down their, but your hair stays wrapped around it so you have lovely waves at the bottom instead. Honestly, try it. My hairbands were 99p for 2 out of one of the pound shops.

I use these....

www.curlformers.com/

They come in different sizes so you can get looser or tighter curls and I find them fine to sleep in. I found a tutorial on YouTube to help me get the knack to putting them in. It's much easier than I first thought.