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I am 28 and I know of all the gfs I have had (including my current one) none have ever used hair rollers. As for hairspray I can only really think of two that used it, and even then it was rarely used and when it was it was quick squirts of it (not sure if that is the right term). I do remember growing up my mother would use hair rollers and when she would use hair spray you'd hear it going for like 10-20 seconds lol.
But when it comes to women my age at least they don't seem very prominent at all.
I occasionally use hot rollers. They are much faster and easier to use than a curling iron if you want masses of curls or just volume. (Also less damaging) Super large curlers just add volume. Then I use a curling iron or flat iron for a few specific face framing curls. The younger girls (22-26) I work with always ask me how I did my hair, and a few have borrowed them to try it out.
Because they've never used them before. A couple have borrowed them
I only use hairspray when I do my daughter's hair for dance to slick back any flyaways.
I don't know of anyone who uses hot rollers any more... we all transitioned over to curling irons of various widths.
Some of my friends use product in their hair for control, but only the ones in their 80s and 90s use hair spray.
I am in my 60s.
Rollers haven't become completely extinct, mostly because straight hair has been the trend. Flat irons are much more popular. That's probably why there's less need for hairspray as well ... if your hair is ironed straight, there's no style to hold.
I'm ready for the straight hair trend to die out ... I recently saw a picture of my niece's sorority, and of 100+ girls, more then 95% of them had the exact same stick straight hairstyle in various colors (mostly, but not exclusively blonde)
Rollers are primarily used to provide volume, and given that we're coming off a number of years where flattening/straightening irons, straight weaves, etc. have been prominent, any heated tool was used mostly to curve ends under v. create an actual curl, and "big hair" was not the desired look, not surprising they're not v so common.
I've never been a big hairspray user, but, again, it's been mainly used to maintain high-volume styles, which have not been the trend for a number of years.
If you're 28, most of your life had been spent in the era of straightening irons, not one of big, voluminous hair. It'll come back, though. These things always cycle.
all of this reminds me of my grandmas back porch on Saturday morning and the smell of perm solutions and hairspray and curlers . Pepsi cola bottles with peanuts in them . Some of my grands older friends came with wigs too . Good memories and good times .
I have a couple of curling irons and a curling wand, but I don't use them anymore. I found a set of hot rollers on sale and bought them, and that's all I use when I curl my hair now. I don't curl my hair daily, but I do use my hot rollers probably once or twice a week.
I use hairspray when I curl my hair or when I straighten it and do a "bump."
In the past twenty years, I've probably used hairspray a half dozen times. Every time, it was for a formal occasion requiring an updo (my wedding, Navy Ball), or part of a stage production (my chorale did a concert, for instance, where we did some 80s tunes and we had Big Hair).
I don't put any product in my hair whatsoever on a daily basis, with the exception of a touch of some type of light anti-frizz serum, which is usually some type of plant oil/dimethicone blend, on high-humidity days. On the above occasion where I've had to put some type of fixative in my hair, the sensation/feel is SO gross to me. Even the lightest mist of hairspray, dab of mousse, whatever feels just "ick" in my hair, because I'm so used to it natural, without gluey junk coating the strands. It makes me feel like I got some sticky foodstuff or something in my hair, and grosses me out. Just a sensory thing.
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