Hair Worries

Hair Worries

February 24th, 2012 @ 1:41 pm by Mrs. Castle
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I recently had a nightmare about my wedding hair. In my dream my hair was pulled back, which I hate, and in a messy bun that looked awful. I wanted beautiful, soft curls. So dream Miss Castle tried to redo her own hair, only to end up with what looked like crimped hair. It was not good…

Obviously I woke up thinking about hair…

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OK, not the musical, but my own hair. I know exactly how I want my hair to look for the big day. Half up, half down with curls and my side part. Something like this:

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Seems simple enough, but I fear my hair will fall flat before the ceremony even starts! You see, I have pin-straight hair. Some girls call me lucky, but I think they’re mistaken. My hair won’t do anything. I rarely ever blow dry my hair because it’s going to dry straight either way. When I try to curl my hair…it usually only lasts about 30 minutes…

My pin-straight hair. This is an old headshot. / Photography by Douglas Gorentein

The only thing that has worked for me in the past while performing in shows has been hot rollers and sponge curlers. A good old curling iron doesn’t seem to do the trick for me. Oh, and hairspray—lots of hairspray.

These next pictures are from that production of Baby that Mr. Castle and I did together. They wanted my hair to have a curly ’80s look. The process to get my hair to look like this took almost four hours. It involved spraying hairspray on before putting my hair in sponge rollers. Then I would blow dry my hair while the sponge rollers set in. And finally I would add more hairspray before taking the sponge rollers out.

Personal Photo / This is what my hair normally looked like at the time. This was taken during a rehearsal.

Personal Photo / My hair right after I took out the sponge rollers

Personal Photo / After running my fingers through it to get the “’80s” look

Everyone who saw this show thought I was wearing a wig, even my own father.

So I don’t want my hair to be THAT curly, and I don’t want to have to uses tons and tons of hairspray. I want light, bouncy, flowing curls. But can my hair do that? I’m really not sure. I have done a little experimenting, and sometimes it goes well and other times it does not. My matron of honor’s mom, also known as my second mother, is a hairdresser and will be doing my hair for the wedding. I guess we’ll have to strategize about the best approach for beautiful curls that will last at least through our first dance.

Anyone else have pin-straight hair? How do you curl it—what’s your secret???

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16 Responses to “Hair Worries”

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james79 (message) 23 posts, Newbee

I have very similar hair and for a while I dreamed of a wedding look with soft curls. But then I realized that my hair has always been & always will be pin straight. So having it with curls for my wedding day wouldn’t be me. Why not work with what you have, maybe a nice sleek bun? Or twisted in pieces into a bun?

Just a thought, for me I’d rather have a style that works with my hair instead of worrying about it falling limp during the day.

2/24/12 @ 1:58 pm (reply)

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RobynD99 (message) 123 posts, Blushing bee

I just had my hair trial this weekend for my bridal pictures and changed my mind about having it up. I love having long curls so i’m going to rock it. I love that picture you put from project wedding. Gonna steal it!

2/24/12 @ 2:00 pm (reply)

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missgracekelly (message) 26 posts, Newbee

I have poker straight hair that does nothing. My hair used to stick off my head as a kid, seriously. I’ve had a perm since I was 7 to help my hair curl better, so that helped with my hair the day of the wedding. Also, have your hairstylist try “glamour curls” for a trial run–they might hold better. That’s what I had that day. Also, my mom (my hairstylist!) put some fake hair pieces in to add volume to my hair.

2/24/12 @ 2:15 pm (reply)

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missgracekelly (message) 26 posts, Newbee

@missgracekelly: Here’s a picture of what it looked like

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v712/tinkerbella120/weddingpicture.jpg

2/24/12 @ 2:16 pm (reply)

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mysunshine

I have this curling iron:

http://www.conair.com/images/hc_cd88jcs.jpg

There is something about the spiral that makes my curls last all freakin’ day… I have really long hair, so the weight of my hair pulls the curl out… and my hair is super fine so it’s pretty lame…

Here’s how my hair turned out for our engagement shoot:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0oOtyToByzU/TpeXV1UJz9I/AAAAAAAAASM/c2ufAv_G6pQ/s1600/newson052.jpg

hopefully everything shows up… otherwise shoot me and email or PM

2/24/12 @ 3:02 pm (reply)

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YoungBride1414 (message) 260 posts, Helper bee

My Aunt is a Professional Hair Stylist and she has done my hair for prom and grad and she’ll be doing my wedding hair too. I have hair that is between 2 1/2 and 3 feet long and it is much too heavy to hold curls normally. My hair isn’t pin straight, but it doesn’t take a curl well at all. What we do now is use LOTS of hair spray and BIG (1 to 2 inch) rollers in my hair then tease and brush back the top so it’s not so curly up there. We use the hard plastic kind of rollers. She recently got hot rollers, but we haven’t tested them out in my hair yet. I can’t figure out how to post a picture here…does anyone know how? I want to show what it looks like.

2/24/12 @ 3:28 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Pony (message) 5,386 posts, Bee Keeper

My hair is really straight but luckily it holds curl really well, but I think a good, experienced stylist can make anything happen. I’m looking forward to seeing your trials because I love your inspiration

2/24/12 @ 4:37 pm (reply)

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crcheerio

I’ve heard really good things about curlformers

2/24/12 @ 5:48 pm (reply)

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MsRobyn (message) 28 posts, Newbee

Have you tried sock bun curls?

2/24/12 @ 5:48 pm (reply)

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Miss Castle (message) 479 posts, Helper bee

@mysunshine: Your hair looks great! I’ll have to check out that curling iron…
@missgracekelly: Your hair looks amazing! And I LOVE your dress!
@MsRobyn: I have never heard of sock bun curls I’ll have to look it up.

2/24/12 @ 5:51 pm (reply)

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MsRobyn (message) 28 posts, Newbee

@Miss Castle: Check it It would totally work for me if I didn’t obsessively wash my hair every morning.

2/24/12 @ 5:52 pm (reply)

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Future Army Wife (message) 1,924 posts, Buzzing bee

I have similar hair to you. The only times in recent memory it’s been curly was during sorority recruitment. It took hours and at least half a can of strong hold hair spray. It only lasted a few hours.

2/24/12 @ 6:11 pm (reply)

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totheislnds (message) 6,140 posts, Bee Keeper

My hair is just like yours - stick straight and won’t hold curls worth a damn but a good hair stylist can work wonders. I wore my hair up but it was all curled and pinned back and i had some soft curls in the front and it stayed all day/night no problem! The girl that did my hair used a flat iron to curl it, I had never seen this done before but it worked well and stayed curly. oh and LOTS of hairspray haha.

2/25/12 @ 8:48 am (reply)

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Mrs. Funnel Cake (message) 764 posts, Busy bee

I kind of agree with james79. If you always, always have stick straight hair and you neeever curl it for everyday wear now, it might be a little strange and “not you” to have curls on the wedding day. Or stressful because you don’t know what curls will do with your hair.

I also have problems curling my hair, but I found a pretty good curling method for my hair that I posted about here: http://www.weddingbee.com/2011/09/22/diy-hair-i-curls/

I ended up not doing a long curly do on the wedding day because I didn’t want to worry about what happened to the hair during the day. If you go the curly route, I would definitely suggest practicing curls often before the wedding and wearing them all day to see how they are so you can get used to them.

IMO, the sock bun method (even with hairspray) was not enough to give my long hair more than a gentle wave. It didn’t really curl my hair any of the times I tried it.

2/26/12 @ 1:38 am (reply)

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silvergal

My hair will not hold curls from curlers or curling irons (or straighteners which some girls use)… but a year or so ago I discovered the CURLING WAND. It looks tricky but is way easier to use than a curling iron (which i have never been able to figure out) or curlers. And the curls last until my next wash (instead of 30 minutes like with every other method). I highly recommend it!

2/27/12 @ 12:27 pm (reply)

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Miss_Manda (message) 301 posts, Helper bee

What about getting a soft perm a couple weeks before the event to give the day-of curls a ‘head start’? My mom has hair like yours and she’s only been able to hold curl with a perm. Good luck!

2/27/12 @ 1:03 pm (reply)