The soft, spongy body protects your head from the outer clips that hold the roller in place while you toss and turn. If you have thick hair, these will only cover the top layers — but for lift and bounce, that's more than enough. After trying them out in The Lab, our Manhattan testing facility, we asked our team to be brutally honest. When testing, we confirm the number and sizes of rollers included in the box and any additional accessories provided. Once the rollers have cooled (give them 15 to 20 minutes), gently unravel and brush through your hair.

Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites.He explains that this prevents kinks, creases, and indentations you'd often get with the kits of decades past. Others say they are easy to use and versatile: they give body and a curve to straight, fine hair while making course, curly hair softer with looser curls.

Read on for our guide to using heated rollers, and then scroll further down for our picks of the best rollers currently on the market. To speed up the process, you can use a heat protectant spray and blow-dry upside down, which creates more volume, says Dickey. If you want all-over body and movement, set the rollers in the same pattern described in the previous slide," he says. Rollers come in tons of different varieties — you can opt for hot rollers that work kind of like a curling iron, foam rollers that you can sleep on, velcro rollers that you can use while you blow dry, and even steam rollers that gently curl the hair.The exterior of the barrel is usually made from a velvet flocking, ribbed material or classic velcro, which grips the hair and secures the roller in place during styling. When using hot rollers, she recommends using something to moisturize the hair, like a leave-in conditioner. There’s a carry handle for the heating unit, too, so it’s easy to move, and a storage pouch for the pods when not in use.

The rollers hold securely in place with the included claw clips, and when you pull them out, you can expect a classic hot-roller look: not too glam, not too tight, just bouncy and full of body.Heated rollers can be used to add curls to straight hair, or even to smooth out naturally curly hair into softer, vintage-style waves. Dickey notes the small diameter of many cold-wave perm rods, like the kind found in the Diane 12-pack, makes them ideal for creating defined spirals on short and medium-length hair, particularly if you have kinkier curly textures. To secure the ends of your hair and keep it smooth, he suggests tucking each section into a folded sheet of wrapping paper before rolling it around the rod from the ends to roots. Reviewers with fine/thin hair say they sometimes need to use clips to make these rollers stay in place, while most others say they stick all by themselves.

Modern heated rollers are made with materials that protect the hair, so you can achieve a soft and glossy finish that will have you looking like you’ve just stepped out of a salon. Reviewers say these heat up in 15 minutes and that just a few minutes of use can result in straighter, more relaxed curls and voluminous straight hair with a glam bend at the end. Kits that contain a variety of sizes create a curly, voluminous look — so think big, buoyant, glamorous hair. While we loved everything about this set, from how compact it is and how pretty (and frizz-free) the results were, we noticed a bit of a learning curve as it pertains to the fasteners.Whether you've seen them on TikTok or just admired someone's bouncy, voluminous curls, hair rollers are suddenly everywhere. This set also clocked fives across the board for curling ability and comfort during removal, as it didn't cause noticeable damage or change the hair's texture.