Another wonderful and adorable men's haircurling scene circa 1840 by Paul Gavarni, this one in high quality! (Paris Musées). Dated 1839-1841, in the "Students of Paris" series, the dialog goes something like:
How many papillotes are you going to give me, Nini? I'll have read the entire civil code!
Yes but, sweetie, you're going to look so nice!
He has papillotes on his lap, there are curling tongs and more papillotes on the floor. His hair is chin-length, showing how long men's hair is at this time, he's in his shirtsleeves—it's so intimate and cute.
eta: thanks to @daffenger and @sainteverge, who suggested a better translation of the dialog that makes it even more amusing: he's actually saying that they're about to run out of the civil code, which is being used to make his curl papers!
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i wish more people knew they could curl their hair with socks/small pieces of fabric/foam sticks/so on. like you get relativley the same result, it's cheaper, it's better for your hair in the long run, & you are entirley less likely to burn yourself. the only con is that it requires more prep, as it takes much longer.
if you don't know how, basically what you do is this:
seperate a strand of your hair. make sure that it will fit around whatever you're using, let's say a sock in this case, and then wrap the end of the strand around it.
roll the strand/sock up to your scalp while keeping it taut. it should feel a bit tight, but not like it's tearing your hair out.
tie off the sock. (bonus tip: if using a foam stick or the like, you basically wrap both ends, one counter-clockwise & one clockwise, until it is wound tightly enough to stay put on it's own.)
repeat until all of your hair is rolled up, wrapping smaller loose strands as you go. leave for 3-8 hours. if your hair was wet when you started, leave until mostly dry.
i find that rolling it with your object beneath the strand tends to create a more flowy, curtainy curl, where as rolling it with your object above tends to make the curls a bit tighter & look closer to more of a natural curl.
but, please! you do not need to give yourself heat damage which you will then have to spend more money buying products for! diy is your friend sometimes!
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I am ABRUPTLY and UNEXPECTEDLY finding some images of mid-19th century men getting their hair curled and just sighing with exasperation because they're all parodies on some level (not specifically of male beauty routines, but that's definitely part of it); and why are they from the 1840s?
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