Being Beautiful

Before curling irons and flat irons, we used brush rollers, then hot rollers, but my aunts used pin curls and long strips of rags. Rag rolls made ringlets and pin rolls created waves and curls for shorter hair..  They rolled their wet hair around their index finger and then pinned it to their scalp with a bobby pin.  After the hair dried, they had curls.  Water was in short supply, so water was placed in a glass and the comb rested in that water until the roller was ready for the next curl.  The picture is my Aunt Betty pin curling her sister's hair.  No hair spray either.  Sometimes a little sugar was mixed with water and misted on the hair to set it.  Hard to be beautiful!🤣