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just bought some new ceramic crimpers. heat up in 0. 00001 of the time, get right proper hot, and crimp properly with no additional hair product. not bad for £20, innit. and they're still babyliss, so tradition not entirely out of teh window!
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ooo...babyliss! :D
remember my first crimpers i asked my dad for on my tenth birthday present and that's what i got.
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i've still got my original ones! but they're not great, anymore. these ones are the dog's doodahs.
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:eek: ... good lord, my mother regularly tried to force such treatment upon my hair on Sundays ... :urff: ...

Anyway, shaking my head afterwards once or twice usually got things back to where they should be ... :twisted: : ;D : :twisted: ...
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well some of like it that way.
anyway, crimping does not come out with a shake of a head.
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Twenty quid you say? Hmmm. I might be tempted, I think my original pair went West about five years ago.
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boots! fetching black, with purple plates. right up your street, mr fiend.
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oh yes.with different heat settings. *frazzle* used to be fine, iirc...
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emilystrange wrote:well some of like it that way.
anyway, crimping does not come out with a shake of a head.
;D ... be sure of the qualities of my hair at that time ... ;D ...

however, later on she forced a perm upon me .... :urff: ...

which I counteracted with a lot of swimming in a pool with a high dose of chlorine ... took at least the worst off ... :( ...

anyway, I don't mind if other people like to do whatever with their hair ... often enough it does in fact ... look good ...

so congrats to your purchase .... :D ...
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See, I'm using a pair of old ones (with a red plug!) and as long as they still have life in 'em I'm avoiding modernising.

Especially since mine are 5 rows (as opposed the the 3 or 4 on the new BaByliss ones).
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even so, maisey, they're a darn sight quicker! you don't have to press so hard, and they're so hot, it's holding without hairspray
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emilystrange. you are now getting me all excited about babyliss!

my first ones are boxed somewhere in s.a. i hope. but will invest for my chickie with straight hair. when i get my hands on those with my hair, it gets so big. hmmm... back to the days with the punky, siouxsie look in hair!

with purple bits but getting purple on top of black. will need to go blonde first to catch the purple bits. okay another project on the list time for myself.
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I have an old set with gold plated ridges, for real! They are the bees knees and have the 4/5 ridges so are pretty quick to use, used to take about an hour to do the lot (LONG hair). My back up ones are useless, but good for travelling coz they are light. Have crimpers will travel! ;)
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I don't have enough hair to crimp it anymore :(

but I see that as a bonus as I can wash and towel dry and go!
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women and pretty boys reign on this thread.

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I think I've only ever crimped my hair 3 times (none this millennium). On every occasion I just looked like a fraggle.
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I used to get called Red Fraggle - long red crimped hair, occasional piggy-tails when a bit squiffy... ah memories :)
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emilystrange wrote:even so, maisey, they're a darn sight quicker! you don't have to press so hard, and they're so hot, it's holding without hairspray
See now I'm tempted.
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splintered thing wrote:I used to get called Red Fraggle - long red crimped hair, occasional piggy-tails when a bit squiffy... ah memories :)
My other half gets called that from time to time... No idea why.

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Aye - that's the spirit!! Top class! :notworthy:
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;D ... looks cool ...
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indeed it does. i used to get called red fraggle a lot as well. the dj at our local disco used to announce 'fraggle's arrived' when i wandered in. :)
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There was a couple used to hang round on the Leeds "scene" called Vicky and Fraggle, nice people, anyone remember them?
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