How to use hot rollers for beginners

As a beauty editor, I've tried many hairstyling tools during my career. From my trusty $43 hairstyling wand that I can't live without through to the blow-the-budget Dyson Airwrap and other all-singing, all-dancing hair multi-stylers that have been doing the rounds of late.

There aren't many that I've not tried.

One conclusion that I've drawn is that some hairstyling tools are easier to use than others, and hair rollers are a category I've found particularly tricky to master.

How to use hot rollers for long hair

I'm talking about Velcro hair rollers specifically, which hairstylists are able to use to achieve seemingly impossible volume and bounce. But when I've tried them, I've found all the hard work I put in drops out within 30 minutes.

So I got to wondering, How do you use hair rollers and get the kind of volume you see celebrities achieve?

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It turns out there are some key mistakes some of us might be making when it comes to using hair rollers, which might be why we're seeing our hair fall flat.

To find out how to use Velcro hair rollers as well as heated hair rollers, I go

how to put hot rollers in short hair

how to put hot rollers in hair for volume