Nori saw the video on 106 and Park and it's Ashanti's Good Good.
LeeAura said this:
Out of curiosity I asked my mom if she heard about this. Apparently it was done back in the day with anything big...soup cans, vegetable cans...to make hair straighter or have bigger, looser curls. You didn't sleep in it, you set it early in the morning or in the afternoon (for the next day). I guess this was a '50's thing.
Thank you ladies... There you have it and here it is...
i havent heard abt em cans....lol...
ReplyDeleteThanks Dee.
ReplyDeleteHm.
ReplyDeleteI always used the big purple magnetic rollers with the holes in em and the pink stick thingies to hold em in place....
UGGGGGGH my mom STILL uses those, along with the big pink ones and the gimungous brown bobby pins.
ReplyDeleteWhile I was in Ohio visiting my mommy, we saw this video an my niece asked her about it.
ReplyDeleteMy mom uses the big pink cotton rollers.....
LOL @ GIMUNGOUS! LOL
ReplyDeleteI doubt don't this was the case, as was using strips of brown paper bag for tighter curls, and pin-curling the hair (small sections twisted and wrapped around like a cinnamon roll and held with bobby-pins). I have used both the brown paper bag and pin-curl methods, as my grandmother showed me how.
ReplyDeleteBTW, look at the video set. It's made up to look like it was back in the 50's (pink flamingos, fancy house dress, hat with his suit, his car, soda-fountain shake, the can opener, small white picket fence, etc.
that's Ashanti with soda cans in her head?
ReplyDeleteNow that you mention, I DO remember mom telling me about her using soup cans (empty of course! LOL).
ReplyDeleteI don't think i've ever heard of the brown paper bag thing, but my aunt does the curls with bobby pins. She does it every night before bed. She doesn't do tight curls or those shirley temple type curls, but nice lose ones.
ReplyDeleteThe curls are really tight-tight, but more wavy. But I guess that would depend on the length of the hair for both methods.
ReplyDeleteYep I used to do the brown paper bag thing. The curls were tight like tw02 said, but they would hold for a few days. I would just pop a little sleep cap on my head and be done. Just fluff my hair the next day and be on my way.
ReplyDeleteMan the things I used to do to my hair back in the day. LOL
THATS WHAT I SAID WHEN I POSTED THE VID YESTERDAY AFTER SUM1 SDAID IT WAS A FIFTIES THING THEN IT ALL MADE SENSE
ReplyDeleteMY MOM DID THA BROWN PAPER BAG THING TA ME AS A KID BUT SHE HAS ALWAYS SAID U CAN GET A CURL FROM N E THING U CAN WRAP UR HAIR AROUND GOD I MISS DEM DAYS WHEN DOIN MA HAIR WAS THAT EASY LOL
ReplyDeleteI know which is my I chopped mine off!!! Easy!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteLOL IM TOO SCARED TA CHOP IT OFF AS LONG AS IT TAKES TA GROW ILL STICK TA MA WEAVES N BRAIDS LOL
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