Natural Hair #8: Spiral Rod Curls using Hot Curlers

Well, it's that time of year when I feel the need to see how my hair holds up in a blown out and curled state. I know many naturals refrain from using a lot of heat on their hair to reduce heat damage, but I've been doing this for years and never experience heat damage with the right types of products for my hair type.  For this hair styling escapade, I decided to apply Liquid Lanolin on wet hair as my heat protectant and blow dried my hair with my hand held drier on high heat...yes I said HIGH heat, but no worries or heat damage.

My hair gets really straight and can easily be worn without further heat manipulation, but I wanted some curls so I whipped out my SUPER OLD 1" barrel Gold-n-Hot hair curlers; and YES, the curlers work like new.  Before starting the curling process, I applied ULI pressing wax to each section of hair as an additional heat protectant.

Day 1: Curls are soft and bouncy.  No product build up. No greasy feeling.

During the time frame of this curl experience, the weather in Alabama was cooler and rainy due to Tropical Storm Karen.  This also provided an excellent test to see how my hair would hold up in high humidity.  Although I wasn't outside while it was raining nor even got wet while sporting my curls, the moisture from the air can sometimes add frizz.  However, the weather didn't significantly impact or distort my curls. Even my high impact exercising had relatively minimal impact.  My theory is that after I worked out at the gym, I would apply a nickel size amount of Liquid Lanolin around the perimeter of my head, then brush from root to the beginning of the curl.  This helped smooth out my roots.  Then I tied a satin scarf around my head to hold my roots in a straight position while the scarf absorbed any moisture. I  removed the scarf before bed and used the pineapple method.  I did NOT use any rollers at night to maintain my curls.  I wanted to see how my curls would fall and flow during the duration of this style.

Day 6: This is how my hair looked after applying Liquid Lanolin and scarf to reset roots.

Take a look at my video demonstration below.