Adventures in Hair Styling: Sponge Rollers!

Goody 3.5" sponge roller.

Hello lovelies! Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are ready to embark on an exciting New Year.  I had two Christmases. My mom flew in from Ontario in early December for a few days so we exchanged gifts with her and then my sister, nephew, and brother-in-law did our gifts to each other on Christmas day. It was a nice and quiet Christmas.

Lately I have been experimenting with some rollers. It began with a set of Velcro rollers and progressed to some 3.5" diameter sponge rollers. I picked up two packs of 8 Goody sponge rollers at Dollarama and they didn't have anymore so I supplemented with two four packs of similar rollers. I have a lot of hair so I wasn't sure how many roller I would need.

What brought this on? I wear my hair down 98% of the time because it is wavy and frizzy and I can't be bothered to try and tame it. It also drives me nuts to have my hair in my face when I am trying to do things. I just felt like I wanted to wear my hair down more and feel more pretty and I wanted different options. wanted to work with the natural texture of my hair. Blow drying and straightening my hair is a pain. Even with good product it is still frizzy and I HATE frizz. I wanted something I could just wash my hair and put in overnight.

I have documented the whole process for you with some pictures from my phone. Beware that they will not be great quality but you will get the general idea.

I started with clean and damp hair and applied Alberto brand mousse. I combed it in to make sure all of my hair was covered with product. Then I sectioned my hair into a bottom and a top section and rolled the rollers under section by section. Following that I went to sleep and had a fitful sleep (but definitely a less fitful sleep than when I attempted to sleep in my Velcro rollers).

Me with the sponge rollers in.

Super fashion shot with sponge rollers. Work it girl!

As much of a head on shot as I could get taking pics of myself.

And here is where I take them out!Are you ready to see something scary?

Big hair!

Here is the end result:

Voila! Still crazy big hair but a little more tamed! All in all I think I am sold on these. Now I just need to learn better rolling technique as well as how to style properly. What do you think?