Vintage hair: pin up curls

Last week I had the idea to make some pin curls. But because my hair normally never holds any curl, I bought some setting spray to see if it would make any difference.

First my idea to make the curls was to use a method described in my book about 1940's hairstyles and it uses cotton rags to wind your hair around. But for some reason my hair woudn't wind around it and it kept slipping down. Really annoying! But I decided to use another method, a little more time consuming, but much more period accurate.

What you need is this:

Not a lot ;-) But you need time and a steady arm. Because you have to roll little sections of hair into pin curl rolls and secure them with bobby pins on your head. So that the end result will look something like this:

After this I tied a scarf around my head and went to bed, hoping that my curls would survive. And they did, because when I took all the pins out, this was the result:

It was the first time I tried the pin curls and I realised only afterwards that my rolls were going up in all directions, instead of one. So therefore the result looks a bit messy. More luck next time, because the setting spray did a good job. Instead of my curls being gone within two hours, they lasted the whole day. So I definitely am going to give it another try.

But I would not go out the door with my hair looking like this, so I had to adjust and vintify it (I know, not a word, but it means to make more vintage in my dictionary, haha)

So this was my final end result (and I was quite happy with the way it turned out!!) (oh, and don't mind the weird clothes. I did this in the morning and I had to work that afternoon, wearing that t-shirt, but I was afraid to damage my lovely hairstyle by putting the shirt on afterwards.