Do women still use hair curlers (those strange looking cylinders that they would wear on their heads for hours)? Or have those gone the way of the dodo bird?

I don’t know any who do anymore.

They are still being sold, so a safe guess would be, “yes”. There are still quite a few older women who go to a salon once a week to have their hair washed and set (meaning using rollers).

I remember those when I was a kid. It seems the new trend is using a straightener.

There must still be a pretty big market because I see them in the beauty supply isles everywhere still. I don’t use them, my hair is naturally wavy.

Even beer and soda cans were employed for such purposes. The world was must be one big obstacle course for women. Those with straight hair are desperate to curl it, while those with curly hair struggle to straighten it. I don’t understand why they put up with any of it.

I use them sometimes. The ones I have now are long foam tubes with a wire on the inside. Like these.

When my hair was last short (7 years ago), I used electric rollers. Now if I just want to bend the ends a little, I use a curling iron. As long as people want to style their hair with the shape and body that curling provides, I guess they’re going to want curlers of some sort.

Yes, they’re still used, and pretty frequently. I have these that I use once in a while. All you have to do is search on YouTube for videos on how women curl their hair and you’ll see them all over the place.

They are not that popular. Usually most women use a hair tong, hair wand, electric heated rollers. Something simple. I work for a health and beauty store and its my job to sell these products.

@NerdyKeith Holy mackerel! You know & understand that stuff?

@stanleybmanly I have to research these products. I’ve never used any curling products. I’ve use hair straighteners and hair dryers. But thats about it. The rest is researching the products, as one does with any other gadget.

No, I’m not accusing you of using them. I’m genuinely impressed that you are an authority on the “mysteries” of those things.

I can remember while growing up the sudden appearance of weird stuff & potions in the bathrooms in our house as my sisters hit their teens. Endless bottles, jugs, sprays, and every available surface littered with obvious torture implements to be used on little people and midgets. Worse than the deluge of crap was the fact that they would lay siege to both bathrooms (one in each) and remain in them for hours. Our dad (God bless him) finally sentenced them to a single bathroom, but as with noxious weeds everywher, they crept back into the “boys’” bathroom, and by my senior year in high school were infesting our closets. My little brother & I still refer to those as the “years of the plagues”.

If you have to explain what they are in the question, then I’m guessing that the answer is “Mostly no” to the first question, and “probably” to the second. (It would be a lot easier to answer a question if one answer would suffice for both sub-questions.)

I use a curling iron if I’m looking to make curls. When I was little, my mom used those curlers that were made with black wires. You’d roll your hair when it was wet and then wake up with it dry and curled. She also had hot rollers. They got very hot and took time to heat up and then cool down once they were in your hair. This was the late 60’s and early 70’s.

@stanleybmanly Oh well thank you haha. Yeah its just a matter of doing research on each product.

Yes, these are still used though not that popular