Pin Curls

[shockinglength]

Does anyone do pin curls? Will it work with my hair length? How many curls doyou make?

[sarah061]

I used to do them when I was younger! It should work with your length, it'll just take longer to roll up.
My grandma showed me how - she would use very small sections of hair so their would be probably 20 pin curls, each held with 2 bobby pins in an 'X' shape.
If your hair is longer, I think I'd do pretty small sections so that they can still all be held down easily and make nice tight curls!

[eternallyverdan]

I don't know if you've tried other methods, but I find that rag curls are much easier than pin curls if you have longish hair. I do 8-12 of those with a little aloe vera gel as a setter and the curls will stay for days.

[Roseate]

I use a combination of rag and pin curls to get a vintage look. Pincurls alone just take too much time to do a whole headful on my thick hair, so I just do one row of them around the face and then the rest in rags; works well! It comes out looking like this. (http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/album.php?albumid=2719&pictureid=53324)

[Thinthondiel]

When my hair was about your length I cut it back, partially because it was so hard to create pin curls. At least flat ones - standing curls were easier because I could use larger sections, but I couldn't sleep with those.

If you can manage to do rag curls, I think that will be easier. I don't have any experience with them, though - I tried doing rag curls once, but I didn't get it right, so I just decided to stick with pin curls.

[misstwist]

There are several threads on this, some including instructions for standing pin curls on longer hair.

Search using the term pin curls and you should find them.

[bluesnowflake]

I love these! They give me better results than rags ( rags tend to frizz) My hair is fairly thick and waist-length, and I wait until my hair is just damp to curl it. I do ~25 curls if I want ringlety curls and somewhere between 12 and 18 if I want bigger, looser curls. You can experiment to see how many your hair needs. I sleep on them ( covered in a scarf) and take them out in the morning. Don't brush or they frizz terribly- you can just leave them or use a wide-tooth comb.