Tips & Suggestions

No pencil? No problem! Other wooden items can be used to get these tight spiral curls. Try chopsticks for skinny curls, or wooden paintbrush handles for a variety of thicknesses. It's always a good idea to treat your strands with a heat protectant before starting your pencil curls style, especially if you've got dry or damaged ends. If you're especially wary of the flat iron, heat-free pencil curls are definitely do-able. You'll need enough pencils to wrap your full head of hair all at once, and elastics to secure them in place. Wait several hours (this heat-free style isn't comfortable to sleep on), then unravel your no-heat pencil curls.