/me still doesn't understand why anyone would willingly undergo that torture to get curls - I've got 'em - -they are way overrated...
I never inherited my mothers blonde bone straight hair, I got the milkman's red curly hair instead... As a kid, I remember watching my mother set her hair on curlers every night. She'd have these big plastic and metal things protruding from her head held in place by sharp metal clippy things, and then she would actually sleep like that... With her head encased in metal.. Never quite understood that...
My sister was a big fan of the bleaching the upper lip hair thing..
We also pluck the hairs out of our eyebrows...