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Does anyone know how to tie rags in hair for ringlets?
I just did plaits in Kayla's hair last night to see if her hair would frizz.. and it did LOL. It's a daggy 80's frizz look LOL. And it made me wonder how it would look tied in rags for the night. But I've no idea how to do it.
Anyone know?
Yep! You need rags about twice as long as her hair, i used to use old pantyhose cut up.
* Take a section of hair(not too thick- about finger think)
* tie the rag at the top of the section so it has equal material length side
* wrap the piece of hair around one of the lenghts of rag - like a corkscrew
* wrap the other side of the rag around the wrapped hair
* either tie the two rags at the bottom or loop up and tie at the top - depends on the length of the hair
I found damp hair worked well but it does take ages to dry. Experiment with the section of hair size as well as tightness of wrapping etc. Seperate the curls gently when you take out to avoid a bushy frizz
Hope this makes sense it's been about 15 years since I've done it, I used to do it for dancing :)
Mum used to do this with me. She used old towels and nappies. (When I found out it was old terry nappies, age about 8, I stopped letting her do this to me! In the 1980s when this was fashionable too.)
ControlFreak - I think that's how Mum did it. Only we'd have about 15-20 rags in the head and then have to go to sleep on that: it was not comfortable. I'd recommend (now!) a T-shirt over the top just to soften the rags.
Another way you can do it (which is very hard to sleep in, but worth a try if you're willing as it's much less fiddly than rag-tying), is to section off the hair into as many sections as you like (and obviously, the smaller the section, the curlier the result - approx 3-6 sections on each side of the head gives nice waves, lots and lots of little ones gives tight ringlets), twist it as tight as you can go, then starting at the scalp, wind the hair into a knot/ball type shape on top of the head. You can secure it with normal hair elastics, rags or (my personal favourite) lengths of knitting wool/twine - just wrap it around the base of the knot where the end of the hair is sitting, a few times to make sure it's secure, then leave it as long as you want. (It will look something like this, depending on the size of the sections and the thickness and length of the hair.) You can 'roll' the knot out when you're ready (as trying to find the end of the string is tricky, and it's usually wrapped over itself at least once), slide the hair tie/twine out and separate with your fingers.
HTH :)