Bringing the TikTok sensation home.

Okay, so: I have a lot of hair, but it is very fine. Heat mostly does not work on it without an absolute shed load of some class of aerosol fixative.

When I get a blow dry without any spray, it falls out within the hour, unless I get home, spray it, and twist it into a pineapple, and then get a good second-day hairdo.

When I saw a few videos of Penneys Bun Heatless Curlers on the clock app, I reckoned, why the heck not?

I bought two two-packs due to the amount and length of my hair.

Most people I saw using them, or those of their ilk, only used two but that didn’t seem like enough.

Naturally, I only needed three, insert eyeroll emoji here.*

Immediately upon lying down, waves of PTSD from childhood crashed through me, thanks to this sort of curler.

It took forever to fall asleep and I expected to wake surrounded by the detritus of good curly hair intentions.

I woke.

The buns were intact! The unveiling excitement was real.

Now, I’d gotten a lovely layered haircut a week or so ago, and did expect better than this.

It was absolutely not worth the effort, not so much from winding the hair around the soft curlers and then tucking them away in their lil sleeping bags, but from trying to find a comfortable way to lay my head down.

I am impressed they stayed in, I guess.

This is, I fear, a resounding ‘nah’.

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If you have thicker hair than I, these may work for you. €3.50 for two at Penneys, while they last.

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*🙄 Okay, one can in fact insert actual emojis. The more you know.

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