Same result, but I spent my childhood in 'pincurls.' I remember there were a couple of kids in my grade school classes that used to put their fingers in my curls. (I'm 53)
I was a good kid, if Mom did it, I thought it was the right thing to do, so I had no problem with it. But I do have proof - my first grade school photo!

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No but i can remember rolling my hair on cut up Prince Albert Can .I am only 48 also.My Great Aunt used to smoke and she would save the cans for mom and mamaw.Thats been a while ago.

Yes, I remember my mother using rags in my hair. Hated them! She just placed the rag in a straight line then wrapped my hair around it, really really tight. ouch. I think that she started at the bottom.

I am glad this subject came up. Went to Xmas mass out of town and I saw quite a few little girls in Shirley
temple curls,they looked so cute and brought back memories to me. I was wondering if that fad is coming back. I am 80

funny I was just thinking about this a week or so ago, my foster mother used to set my hair every night in rags for the curls, I do not know or rember how she did it, but sure did love those curls. :-)

That's exactly the way my mom did it.

I am 62 and remember my mother being a hairdresser for about 4 years before she had me. She used to give me Tony home permanents and I would stand in front of the mirror and cry my eyes out. It always made my hair curl up above my eyebrows. I HATED them and will not get a permanent even today. I must have had an eternal surprised look!!! LOL

Now I am showing my age!!!!! My mother put rags in my hair. They were so tight. My sibs called me carrots. My head hurt so bad by morning I cried. I had long black/ brown curls. Not a very happy memory. I would use a curling iron on my grands, very carefully. I would never submit anyone to the painful old fashioned curls.

I posted previously about my mother using strips of rags to make long curls for me when I was a child. On Christmas when the GKs were here for the day one of them had received a curling iron that makes the long curls. It is shaped like a cone, narrow at the end and bigger around as it nears the handle. Simply amazing.

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You and me, too! But the bad part, for me, is that I really got cheated. My mother had naturally curly beautiful black hair. In her high school graduation picture, she had the Shirley Temple curls. But did I get her beautiful black curly hair? Oh nooooooooo ... I got my daddy's straight, fine, blonde hair. But you know, at this stage of my life, when I think of those undergoing chemo, etc., and have no hair ... I don't complain, just thankful to have hair! LOL But, I have always felt cheated when it comes to hair!