Holy Rollers.(hair rollers)

Holy Rollers

The secret behind the sultriest new hairstyles for daytime and ?evening? One very old-school styling tool. By Lindsy Van Gelder

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he long, sexy, loose curls that look so modern on J.Lo and A. Jolie actually have a pedigree dating back to your mother, your grandmother, and the cinema goddesses of their day. But you have it easier than they did. In the era of Julie Christie and Raquel Welch, women got big waves by winding their hair around empty beer cans...and either sleeping on them (very carefully) or drying them under a cumbersome contraption that resembled a shower cap attached to a vacuum cleaner. The twenty-first-century solutionohot rollersomay not feel as festive (someone had to throw back those brewskis), but itis undeniably less of a hassle. And the look that results is hair you want to put your fingers through,I says hairstylist Ken OiRourke.

The key to setting hair the sexy way is picking the right roller. OiRourkeis rule of thumb: The thicker and curlier the hair, the larger the roller should be. To keep curls from springing into big ringlets, he adds, take a section of hair the width of the roller, and start by wrapping the middle of the length around it, rather than the ends. Then wind the ends only after the middle is rolled into place.

Once you have the volume that comes with hot rollers, you can wear your hair up or down, along a continuum from loosely structured to slightly disheveled. This is still a groomed look,I says hairstylist Orlando Pita of the Orlo Salon in New York City. It satisfies the desire to look done and yet undone.I

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