My mother and I have forever been at logger heads about curling hair. I've kept my style more or less the same uncurled 1960/70s long that can be scraped back into a ponytail or twisted into a topnot should I feel like it but mum has always had this 40s notion that I ought to put a curl into it or sleep with the curlers in overnight. My ex-husband did too and bought Carmen heated curlers which were pretty good at the time apart from the grips to fasten them in as they tended to stab the scalp.   

On the whole I think laughter is the best beauty product going.