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Heated bendy rollers, or flexi-stylers are quite daunting I think. The idea of bending rollers to hold them in always put me off getting some rollers like this, so I was really excited to be sent them for review last week as I am a huge fan of rollers.
I received the Nicky Clarke Professional Flexi-Stylers, which you can get from Argos for £19.99 which isn’t bad for rollers. This is what they looked like:
There are 18 rollers which come in a heated bag-type holder. The bag has a light to show you when they are heated and little slots to put all the rollers in.
And the rollers? They are rubbery textured, heated sticks! There are no clips,lisseur ghd fers plats, you just bend them and they (hopefully) stay. Sounds confusing and hard right? Yeah I thought so too… so I got my boyfriend to test them out for me. The basis of this theory – if he can do my hair with them, anyone can do it!
Here goes…
Firstly here’s my normal, natural, not styled hair:
 
As you can see, I have very long,lisseur Styler GHD, quite thick, naturally straight hair. Swisshh!
 
So my boyfriend read the instructions, we switched on the rollers (there are 3 heating cycles, you turn them off after the one which suits your hair. I had to leave them on for 30 minutes to pre-heat for very long or thick hair. As we waited, we decided on the look we wanted to try.
 
We chose to try the “soft tumbling curls” look so my boyfriend tried his very best to put the rollers in. Please remember he has no formal training in hair, or even much hair to play with in the first place.
As you can see, he found them really easy to put in. He took a section of hair, wound it parallel to the lock and up to the roots. Then bent the rollers round (this bit hurt a bit,ghd stylers, though this could have been his rough man handling). They stayed in easily, no unwinding or falling out. He was very impressed with himself. I then left them in for half an hour until they cooled down, unwound them and ta da…!
The result: “Princess hair” as he called it. I had lots of natural looking ringlets which were bouncy and glossy. (the black thing on my bed – the cat. She follows me around!). So there you go – stick rollers are so easy, even a boy who doesn’t know anything about hair can make them work and get great effects!
The curls didn’t last very long (maybe from lunch until bed time) but I did have freshly washed hair and didn’t use any products. Argos reviews are mixed (as they normally are for rollers) with some saying they don’t hold, and others saying they are fantastic. I think practice and some setting spray will really help, and 2nd day hair would make it work better too.
The verdict: I’d rate these as 8/10. They are really simple to use, I’d prefer a quicker heat up time, but other than that I couldn’t think of any changes I’d make to the product.
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