Twelve medium-sized rollers come complete with easy-to-use metal clips in a neat little zip-up storage case.ĮASE OF USE: Unfortunately you can heat up only six of the rollers - on vertical bars in the bottom of the case - at a time. These are the lightest and most portable.
My hair had a nice bounce but nobody's going to invite me to join Girls Aloud any time soon.īEST FOR: Clumsy fingers 3/5 Nicky Clarke Frizz Control Rollers, £29.99
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RESULT: Produces long waves rather than full curls - but since the rollers are quite large the overall look is quite soft. Like the Enrapture brand, the rollers line up on horizontal heated bars within the case, so they are easy to store.ĮASE OF USE: They take about three minutes to heat - a dot on top of each roller turns from red to white when they are ready - and they fasten into hair with easy-to-handle butterly clips. The set has 12 large, soft-to-the-touch, thermo-ceramic rollers that, so it's claimed, give a smooth, shiny finish. RESULT: They give a tightly flicked curl rather than a cascading wave, but a reasonable price.īEST FOR: Budget buyers 2/5 Babyliss Boutique Salon rollers, £45.99 Even then, they still didn't feel too hot and it was fiddly getting the hair clips in place, resulting in some minor temper issues.
There's no indicator light so I had to guess. Each roller fits on a vertical bar so they heat simultaneously.ĮASE OF USE: Velvety and bristle-free, these rollers took nearly 15 minutes to heat. Only eight medium sized and four larger rollers, pictured right, each with a wax core that, according to the blurb, helps retain a high heat, setting curls faster. But how would Mum's rollers compete against the latest, 2013 versions? I put them to the test.Īh Remington, the brand beloved of my mum. With the Duchess of Cambridge and Cheryl Cole sporting big, bouncy, curly styles that would make Krystle - and Mum - proud, heated rollers are essential again. In fact, it was that trusty box of rollers that elicited the biggest pang of nostalgia when I cleared out her things following her death, at the age of 81, in August. She stayed loyal to her trusty Remingtons over the next 30 years, even as big hair fell out of fashion. The heated rollers were Mum's weapons in her life-long battle to tease a little Krystle Carrington va-va-voom into her naturally straight tresses.
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Memories of my Eighties childhood are speckled with images of my mother, wafting around the house before a night out, her head laden with heated rollers and pins, like a perfumed porcupine.ĭynasty and Dallas were the TV shows of the day and hair was big.
Both Scotts and Junk Deluxe sell their wares online so if you can’t make it down south all is not lost… 7.Before: Angela with her normal straight hair From the tinniest hinges to the most massive of armoires it’d be hard to leave without buying something.
Having spent a nice hour drying off downstairs we spent another poking through the multitude of knick-knackery that Scotts three floors had to offer. Andrew was also super patient and helpful when I bombarded him with questions about restoring my own skip and charity shop finds. We were met by Andrew and had a pretty much private tour of the shop and warehouse. They’re open Thursday, Friday and Saturday but the super friendly staff will open by appointment if you phone ahead which we did. It is a treasure trove of 1930’s-1980’s furniture, lighting, ornaments, plastic hands, wire baskets, old museum signs, and many more things of brilliance. Junk Deluxe was our main goal for the day, situated in the basement of R.G.Scotts (9 Bath Place).
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