Curling element for styling hair and fixing element for a curling element

DETAILED DESCRIPTION According to the present invention, a curling element has at least one ring-shaped notch formed in a cylindrical basic form, the bottom of the at least one ring-shaped notch and the transitions of the ring-shaped notch into a cylindrical lateral surface being rounded off.
The rounding off has the advantage that there are no edges in the curling element where the hair may break when placed around the curling elements while the elements are being rolled up.
Furthermore, such a rounding off can effect a smooth transition.
The hair that is wound into the notch is afterwards curled with a smaller diameter.
It is e.
g.
possible to wind a hair strand around the curling element starting from the hairline in that the hair is first placed around that portion of the curling element that has no notch.
Towards the end of the hair strand the hair is placed into the notch.
This results in curls having a smaller diameter in the area of the hair tip.
Accordingly, a handling in the reverse order is also conceivable, i.
e.
the curls terminate downwards in a hair strand when, starting at the hairline, the hair is placed into the notch.
When the curling element comprises several notches, it is possible to change the diameter of the curls in a hair strand several times by either putting or not putting the hair of the hair strand along the hair strand into a notch.
In the curling element, the cylindrical lateral surface is provided with a taper at its ends.
The curling element can thereby be used for rolling up the hair up to its end.
Advantageously, the hair that is wound up at the end of the curling element can then be wound again with a smaller diameter.
In the design of the curling element, the transitions of the at least one ring-shaped notch into the cylindrical lateral surface are designed such that at least essentially an ellipsoid is obtained between two ring-shaped notches or between one ring-shaped notch and an end of the curling element.
This yields a particularly homogeneous transition in the curling element from portions having a larger diameter to portions having a smaller diameter