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  ROCKABILLY CLOTHING NEEDS A MATCHING FEMALE ROCKABILLY HAIRSTYLE

 

    A female rockabilly hairstyle using pincurls Hair rolls for that female rockabilly hairstyle

    
  Step #3 - Curl Your Hair

  

 

Every female rockabilly hairstyle in the 40s had curly hair.  If you didn't have curly hair to begin with, you made it curly, either with a perm or by curling it yourself.  To make your hairstyle match your rockabilly clothing, there are basically two types of curls:
Part your hair

Roll your hair

Roll curls (big curls) - Most common female rockabilly hairstyle

Option 1 (authentic and difficult)

  • Roll hair with damp hair. Let dry.  Take out rollers.
  • Tease the part from the inside of the curls.  You have to tease a lot to get enough volume.
  • Use round hairbrush handle to roll hair into a tube.
  • Tuck the ends into the roll.  Bobby pin it from the front and back.
  • Hairspray.

Option 2 (not authentic, but easy)

  • Buy a hair rat, which is a netting tube.  
  • Wrap hair around the each hair rat.  Bobby pin it from the front and back.  No one will see the hair rat.

Pincurls (tight curls, usually for the back)

  • Grasp the root and smooth a small section of a barely damp hair.  Gel it.
  • Wind it around your finger.  Place it against your scalp, slide off finger.  Hold in place.
  • Flatten the curl slightly
  • Pin the curl (use pin curl pins - not bobby pins, to prevent denting)
  • Dry, up to 24 hours.  

  • If you have shorter hair, use finger curls in rows around your head, alternating directions, to set your hair up for fingerwaves. 

  • Your rockabilly clothing is soon going to match your hair!

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