- Hey, guys, Kayley, your friendly,
neighborhood hair stylist here.
And today we are going over some rollers from Wish.
So I have four kinds of rollers to test from Wish,
and we're gonna see which, if any, of them work.
This is obviously gonna go down over several days
because they have to air dry and that takes a little while,
so it's gonna be fun times.
And I wanna start out with these,
which I am most excited about.
They seem the most promising, so let's start on a high note.
So this is plastic, not rubber.
It really feels like almost a McDonald's toy.
And then, it has these little spikes right here
to grab onto the hair.
Obviously, my hair is currently dry,
so I'm just gonna dampen it,
and then I'm gonna pop in the curlers.
So you want your sections nice and smooth,
and then wrap 'em around the spikey part,
and then you roll it back down.
All right, that's not too bad.
I'm impressed, actually.
You, I am less impressed with.
Okay, next one.
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Oh, my gosh, this is taking me back to beauty school.
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Uh-oh, that broke.
That broke real good.
All right, we're just gonna put that over there.
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All right, it's all in.
It feels so secure.
Oh, my gosh.
Now, I definitely want these to dry a little bit faster
than air drying, so I got something off of Wish for free.
I got a hair dryer hood.
Put my hair dryer into one side
and it acts like the little bonnet hair dryers
that you sit under at the beauty salon.
I feel like I need an extra hand for this.
I think the opening might be too small.
No!
Man!
So, I think this might not work after all that build up.
But, don't worry, I have another one.
Of course, I do.
I'm Kayley Melissa,
I have ridiculous tools all over my house.
I've got my back-up one.
Oh, yeah, she's lookin'.
Fi-yah.
Then we turn it on.
And now, we wait.
I look like Toad.
It's-a me, Toad!
What does Toad do?
I don't know.
I just know Mario and Peach.
All right, it's all done,
so let's see how this looks.
Okay, that is tighter than I thought.
And let's keep goin'.
Uh-oh, we have encountered our first problem.
Oh, no.
No!
Oh, my God, what's happening?
What's happening?
It's tangled in the teeth really badly.
Okay.
Aha!
Ha!
Praise, every day.
It came out.
Oh, another one.
No, no, no.
Man, the teeth do create some problems
when you're taking this back off,
and by some, I mean, you know,
that.
Man, I need those hairs.
Oh, man, come on.
All right, getting these in, a dream,
getting these out, stuff of nightmares.
Oh, yes.
Okay, I think what I'm gonna do is try to kind of pull these
curls apart and go for kind of like a natural curl look.
I'm so annoyed.
This side curled really well and this side, like, what?
My name is no, my number is no, my hair is no.
The ends are all really gnarly, really gnarly.
I think I'm gonna give these rollers a solid maybe.
They could definitely work.
Like, they're not bad,
but I'm also not really tempted to try again.
I just lost so many strands of hair doing it,
I'd prefer not to do it again,
which is why I'm not gonna retry,
even though I think maybe with the second try,
especially on this side, I might be able to make this work.
I just, I don't wanna do that to my hair.
I'm afraid I'm gonna lose more hair.
I don't wanna do that,
so that's it.
That's it for this one.
I think, a medium,
if you're willing to put the time and effort into it,
but those teeth are dangerous.
It's time for Day Two,
and I already have a Wish item on my head.
I think I paid like $2 for this little hair turban towel.
It is better quality than I expected,
though it has absorbed surprisingly little water.
Today's rollers are these little spiral rollers.
These are a very hard plastic.
They are pretty much completely inflexible
and they have a little hook at the top,
which is supposed to hook on to the top of your hair.
And then, within this bag,
they have what looks like plastic shavings.
It's these little, weird, curly Q's,
but these are actually meant to hold your hair
at the end of the roller.
And then, in addition to the rollers,
in a lot of the pictures on the listings,
there were end papers used on the rollers as well.
An end paper is basically
like this little tiny piece of tissue,
and you wrap it around the ends of the hair
before you wrap your hair around the roller,
and it keeps everything nice and flat
so that it doesn't end up doing this.
So I'm at least gonna try and see how that goes.
To be honest, it took me a minute
to figure out how to do these correctly,
'cause I couldn't find pictures online,
but eventually I stumbled upon it.
So, what if I do the hook first and I scoot it up
as close to the top as I can and then start wrapping?
(contemporary music)
Got it.
I think I'm gonna play some hype music and keep going.
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It has been a full hour putting these in.
I have now run out of rollers and I still have hair left.
So I was trying to decide what to do
with the hair that's left over,
and I realized that I have straws
that are about the same width as the rollers,
so I thought I would test out straw curls for the first time
to finish off the hair.
That way it will look kind of the same and we can
compare how straws compare to actual hair curlers.
See, you grab the straw and your piece of hair,
you wrap the piece of hair around the straw,
fold the straw over on the one side,
fold it over on the other side,
and you use an elastic band to hold it in place.
Okay, first impression,
that is way easier than these rollers.
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There you go!
All right, it's only been a couple hours,
but it's already dry
and it's much tighter curl than I expected.
Okay, they're out.
I can tell this is tight, but I haven't seen it, seen it.
Oh!
Oh, girl!
In order to make these curls work,
I went in and meticulously pulled apart each curl
into several curls to create a lot more volume.
That got a lot more volume from pulling them apart,
so guess what we're doing on this side.
Something about this feels like
very old school Taylor Swift.
Wow!
I feel like, a little like a '90s country singer,
a little bit '80s.
What I can tell you is that this is the most defined,
pretty tight curl I've ever gotten, like with a curling iron
or otherwise, so that's really impressive.
But then, for the cons, first of all,
because it is that really sturdy plastic,
I don't think you could sleep on these.
I don't see a world in which that can happen.
Second, you can only take a little bit of hair
at a time 'cause it has to fit between the grooves.
It does create some of the positives,
but that does also mean
that you're gonna have to take smaller sections,
which means it's gonna take longer and more rollers,
depending on how much hair you have.
I also did really find that the straws did
almost the exact same thing and it was significantly easier.
Even though you don't have
the little grooves to keep you straight,
it's just like wrapping hair around a curling iron
and then you kind of squish it all together
and it gets that similar shape.
You're still gonna have that really springy curl.
So while I do recommend the spiral rollers,
my winner of today are straws.
They're even less expensive,
they're even easier to get your hands on,
and they're so easy to use.
Instagram had it on lock for so long and I had no idea.
Straw curls are where it's at.
So that's been today.
It's been a win for Wish and a win for straws,
and I am excited to see what tomorrow brings.
Here we are, Day Three, time for our last set of rollers.
Today we're gonna do two sets of rollers
'cause I didn't buy enough of either to do my entire head,
but at least we can compare them, right?
So first we have these little suction cuppy ones,
and then I have these strawberry foam rollers.
Like, how adorable is that?
That's the entire reason I bought them,
because they look like strawberries.
Anyway, we're gonna try these out over here,
these out over here and see how it goes.
Suction cups first.
What happens is that this top flips up,
you wrap your hair around this, this is your roller,
and the top flips back down and holds it in place.
My hair looks more dry than it feels,
but I am gonna spritz it with water as I go,
just to make sure everything's, you know, good to go.
Okay, so the side that doesn't flip down goes here,
and then we wrap it away, keeping it as flat as possible,
and then we're gonna flip this down.
Oh, that was easier than I thought it would be.
I look like I have this suction cup stuck to my head,
or a very cute barnacle.
I feel like they'd be really, really secure, like,
yeah, really secure.
So, I have a question for you guys.
What kind of videos would you like to see
more on my channel?
I've been playing around with kinds of videos that I make
a lot this year and I'd love to see in the comments
what you guys think, what kind of videos you're liking,
maybe what kind of videos you'd like to see,
and anything is game.
And if you see a comment that somebody left
and you're totally into it, you know, upvote that comment.
The ones that get lots of upvotes,
I will definitely be paying attention to.
Okay, that's it.
There's a '90s toy that I feel like.
What is it?
Oh, it was like a ball and it had these little things on it
and it would shake, and like,
I don't remember anything else about it,
but if you guys know what I'm talking about, let me know.
The point of the story is I look a little funny,
but I'm not mad at it if it gives me good curls.
Now let's try this side with the strawberry rollers.
So we have the adorable little strawberries.
They are very squishy foam,
and then inside you've got the cord
that you're wrapping your hair around.
So I think, hypothetically,
you just wrap your hair around it and that's it.
Let's try it.
Okay.
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All right, so that's our strawberry side.
It's very comfortable.
It does feel like a little nodule of hair,
'cause it's all wrapped around right here,
so you'd feel like this squishes down,
it feels like a little tiny pillow,
and then you feel like this little tiny nodule in there.
It's like a princess-and-the-pea situation.
But getting this in took about 10 minutes,
which has been one of the faster methods so far,
and I do feel like I could do it a little faster
once I know what I'm doing better,
and probably when my hair is a little wetter
so I don't have to keep spraying it down on every section.
This was both easy and very cute to do.
Now I'm just gonna let it sit
and I will come back once they're dry.
So, I might be wearing the same shirt
and my makeup might be similar, but it is now the next day.
I put these in at like 11:00 a.m. yesterday
and I went throughout my day.
I kept checking to see if they were dry.
They weren't, and I got to 11:00 at night
and I was like, I have to go to sleep.
And now I've awakened, and if they're not dry by now,
they're just not gonna be.
After about 24 hours, I am excited to see how these look.
Say, that's actually kind of pretty.
What!
I am shooketh.
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Wow!
There are just a couple of areas that aren't perfect,
and I just wanna touch them up with a little bit of heat,
'cause I'm of the mind that
if you can do a heatless hairstyle
and it's like 90% heatless,
and then you can use like 10% heat to fix it up, why not?
It's a lot less heat than it would be, and faster.
There we go.
So I look now as though I really spent a lot of time
with the curling iron, when really,
I spent 10 minutes with rollers, I let 'em dry,
and then I touched up with the curling iron
in like two minutes, and I am a really big fan.
I feel like I would do this again for sure.
All right, so, so far, so good on this side.
Let's see what's going on over her.
This is really wet still.
Only a couple of these got dry,
which is really, really frustrating.
Curls are really pretty.
It's kind of sad that you can see the ridges
where the little cups were.
That's not cute.
Because they were wet when they came off the roller,
like they're already loosening up so much.
It's almost like a really loose wave now,
so that's a little disappointing.
This did actually turn out better on me
than I've seen it turn out on a lot of people,
so I'm not actually that mad,
but I'm not in love either.
So I actually wanna leave you guys
with some final thoughts on all the rollers,
but first I'm gonna curl this side to match this one.
Okay, now we're matchin'.
I feel a lot better now.
So, starting with Day One,
those rollers really could have given me a similar look
to this, I think, if it hadn't tried to eat my hair.
And that was the biggest problem for me,
'cause I know that I could have done it again
and I could have made them look so much prettier,
but I just couldn't do it to myself
and I couldn't do it to my hair,
'cause I literally lost a handful of hair using those,
and I just couldn't do it again.
And then, day number two,
those were so cool and you guys loved it online.
I posted a picture on my Instastory
and I have never gotten a response like that.
First of all, thank you for the response,
and if you guys want me to do an actual tutorial
where I get more in depth,
talk about how to pick the curls apart
and everything like that, I can do that.
Let me know, I'll put a poll up on the screen.
Just, you know, this video was about trying out rollers
and it was my first time using them,
so I'd rather go back and actually give you guys
good detail, if that's what you'd wanna know.
And then, for Day Three, we had our strawberries
and our suction cups.
The strawberries went surprisingly well.
They were pretty good to sleep on
and they stayed in really well throughout the night,
so I would do it again.
I'm gonna probably buy more
so that I can take smaller sections,
and then they would dry faster.
But, you know, as long as you're willing
to touch it up with a curling iron,
I think the effect is really pretty,
and I love that I used a lot less heat.
The suction cups,
nah.
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
It was just not the greatest experience for me.
So that's my experience trying out Wish rollers.
That was a lot of fun,
and I have learned now from Instagram
that you guys really like the tight, natural curl look,
so if you want more videos based on that kind of look,
let me know in the comments down below.
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Anyway, that's it for today.
I'll be back on Wednesday with my next video,
so please be sure to come back for that,
and I will see you then.
Mwah!
'Bye.
I feel like my southern accent
really comes out when I say roller,
'cause I always just wanna say ro-ler.
It's a ro-ler.
I'm from the South.
I don't know if I've mentioned that,
and my accent slowly faded out over the years,
but with words like roller,
and Jason, actually.
I always wanna say Jay-son.
Ro-ler and Jay-son.
Everything else, totally this,
but those two words get me.
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