The Primrose Pin Curl Set Vintage Hairstyle

Pin curls are a classic technique for curling hair. The act of just rollers hair and using something to pin it in place to allow the hair to set was a technique used by the ancient Egyptians. From the 1930s, all the way into the 1960s, women commonly pin curled their hair for styling.

✦Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:17 About the Pin Curl
01:06 The Hairstyle
01:30 Tools and Product Used
02:47 Top Curl Setting
04:01 Side Curls Setting
05:21 Back Curls Setting
08:34 Brush Out

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✦DISCLAIMER:
Do everything in this video at your own risk. Watchers are encouraged to take all safety precautions in performing any techniques or activities in this video. By following the instructions the watcher or anyone acting on behalf of the watcher willingly assumes all risks of harm in connection with performing these techniques.

[junesdogdays]

This is absolutely lovely, but the way you explained how we need to brush the hair into submission just cracked me up for some reason😄
I really like this video

[sspinnr]

My mother leaned to be a hair dresser in the late 1940's and I can't tell you how many times she pin-curled my hair and then sent me out to sit in the sun with a book on a small stool while my hair dried and she did the same to my sister. Then she would set her own and rush us all through getting ready to leave, drying her own hair in the open window of the car. Removal of the pins near the destination and a quick brush and she had beautiful hair. Years later, for my college graduation a friend wanted a curly style for her hair and I suggested pin curls....and set her hair. A scarf kept the pins in place overnight and she had riotous curls under her cap. Thanks for bringing up that lovely memory.

[SorayaOnTheTube]

This is probably the absolute best vintage hair styling tutorial I have ever watched. Makes it all crystal clear ! Amazing job.

[SerenityNowww]

I'm such a visual person, these charts and illustrations are INSANELY helpful. It saves me from having to sketch it myself.

[evieroberts]

When women said they were staying in to wash their hair- they really meant it!

[andrewjosephdotson]

You are an artist! I used to watch my grandmother doing her hair and was fascinated at how she did a beehive so perfectly. I would also watch her as a little boy applying her makeup early in the morning, putting on her fragrances, and picking which stilettos to wear. This is so fascinating and beautiful and this should be an art forever preserved. Thank you for posting!

[kathleenw]

I never even realized there was such an art to pin curling. Whenever my mom would pin curl my hair she would do them all tight to my scalp in random directions evenly across my head and when they came out I'd look a bit like a poodle (an adorable poodle, and my hair could never keep a curl very long anyway, haha) and I would wonder how on earth these ladies back in the 40s or whenever got their hair to look so elegant and put together. Now I know.

[dianestacey]

I remember this well I'm 68 and my mom always pin curled our hair those were the days and I truly miss them especially now days

[wandaandrew]

This takes me back to beauty school. I got my license in 1970. We still did a lot of pin curl styles then. Thank you for sharing.

[cecilian]

I have just learned that all the times I failed and then gave up on curling my hair with a wet set is because I didn't brush it enough.... 'brush your hair into submission' is such a powerful line.

[gwydion]

I just noticed those pin-curl clips have a large gap for the curl to rest in! So cool! If you use regular clips, you're only supposed to pin the end of the hair on the inside of the curl, if you pin across the whole curl then you get a funny crimp that sets into the hair. Around 9:15 you can see on the top right where the pins left their mark. That curl was pinned with the pin upside down at 8:38 so the notch in the pin wasn't able to do it's job. The finished style was done beautifully though, you can't tell. Great job!

[retroreceptionist]

I recently did this and posted my results on Instagram. I’m trying it again tonight, don’t give up if pincurls are hard at first

[donnamaciver]

First vintage stylist I've seen that is good wet set really is the way to go no setting lotion and the hair just falls out amazing job

[colleencharles]

Retired after doing hair for 47 years (4 yrs ago); got my license in 1969. Beauty school was all older ladies and all pin curls, very few roller sets even then. I continued doing pin curls on people until I retired. I had several older women that NEVER changed their style! I remember doing my grandma's hair in pin curls....forward / reverse waves all over. One day we went over to my aunts and she was there and my aunt was putting rollers in her hair!! I said what the heck grandma....she said I needed the practice...lol By the way, the only way to make those styles stay is to use a styling lotion that was the consistency of 'snot'...and that's what we called it...

[Hugginsince]

I wore my hair like this to my 1998 prom. I wore a long strapless black velvet dress with feather boa and long black satin gloves. This was my favorite prom look. I’m lucky enough to have wavy hair, so I could get this look with hot curlers and hairspray only.

[Fancylooks]

This is an ART! Beautiful work, great explanation. Thank you!

[CS-yrjr]

this is still a gorgeous way to style hair. I do a pin curl set on all my curly hair clients who wear their hair curly. I don’t brush them out and it creates beautiful defined curls. It’s also a nice break when I have a busy day and can take a break from blow drying. I have never seen a pin curler like that though! I always do it with my fingers.

[tamelasprigg]

I had to look this up because I LOVE the styles back then. So feminine e and beautiful. We try to out our own spin on it each century, but the original is my favorite. Oh, and, my maiden name is primrose!!

[chickennugget]

Wow.... that pin curl brush would have been a LIFESAVER in beauty school!! I am buying one ASAP!

[annaorbanes]

I pincurled my hair overnight, every night, when I was in junior high.
I used my finger to wrap around, not a device.
In high school rollers were the thing.
One avante guard girl actually had a blow dried blunt cut.