curling tongs BrE
curling iron AmE
styling tongs AmE

Yes, they've certainly got similar hair-dos - both have been at the curling tongs I see.

Curling tongs are an asset when it comes to home styling but they're particularly vital for creating the glamorous styles of the 40's.

I mean they don't use curling tongs, anaesthetics on the eyelids, needles in the urethra, that sort of thing.

Curling irons, also known as curling tongs, create waves or curls in hair using a variety of different methods.

Marcelling is a hair styling technique in which hot curling tongs are used to induce a curl into the hair.

"Curling tongs," he said.

Any tool you use on your hair, be it hairdryer, curling tongs, brush or comb, can damage and tear, so choose carefully and use gently.

Our verdict: A travel brush or curling tongs powered by a gas cylinder are a good investment - they can be used every day, not only for holidays.

I cleared away the pots of oil, imported from the elves of Elmas, and replaced the curling tongs carefully in their stand by the grate.

Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling tongs.

There are two standard types of wand stylers: hot-brushes with bristles, and curling tongs without bristles for a smoother, tighter curl.

Battersby, the lady's maid, brought up the rear guard with a huge trunk packed with lotions and unguents and various sizes of curling tongs.

Club suppers had occurred in the bedrooms, and a dressed tongue had been carved with a pair of scissors, and handed round with the curling tongs.

There are a couple of videos which may come from the same source and show people - men, women, children - being tortured with irons, hair-driers, curling tongs and so on.

They won't hesitate to make the acquaintance of 'curling tongs'-that is what they will call me-if I revisit the walls of Tabatinga!

Curling tongs (sometimes called hair tongs or hair curlers or just curlers, or less often curling irons), which make hair curly.

She reeked of a mixture of old sweat, old perfume and new perfume, and burning hair where her maid had been overzealous in heating the curling tongs.

Later, in 2005, Phelan launched an electrical range with Babyliss, called Adee&Paul, including thermo-ceramic pro straighterners and curling tongs.

He was sitting in a low armchair waiting for his valet, Robinson, to attend to his hair, which was rather light and thin and needed to be waved with the curling tongs.

There are three general kinds: curling tongs, used to make the hair curly, straighteners, used to straighten the hair, and crimpers, used to create small crimps in the hair.

No one would have guessed that the curl had been produced by being put into rags the previous night; rather Victoria Holt uncomfortable and grotesque, but Aunt Clarissa was against the curling tongs.

She had two burns on her hands from the curling tongs already, and there had been one accident that had caused Carolyn to slap the hapless maid, and which had left the bedroom reeking of scorched hair.

A goodly gaggle of snooty gentlemen's gentlemen in the kitchens as I passed--and from the looks of some of the lady's maids I reckon there'll be fights over the curling tongs before nightfall.

When Julia had washed and dried her hair, she borrowed a pair of old-fashioned curling tongs from Annunziata and curled the tips of her thick hair under so that it lay sleekly against her shoulders.

Ten cans of hairspray, 20 tins of neon paint, five red lipsticks, 75 sandwiches, 80 packets of crisps, 100 cups of tea, 40 bacon sandwiches, 45 cans of Coke and two pairs of curling tongs were needed for the shoot.

But you're curling iron is made to stay at the same temperature, whether high or low.

What I could have done with a curling iron and an ice pick.

So it actually works as a little mini curling iron.

When he was very small, his mother liked to burn him with her curling iron.

She even muttered about the lack of a way to heat the curling iron!

"Or use a curling iron to add a little wave to the layers around the face."

"I enjoyed the story about the curling iron," he added.

She ran back to the camp and grabbed the curling iron out of the bag.

After all, like he said, the girls couldn't be without their curling irons.

Then she stepped over to the dresser and picked up the curling iron.

Though cutting back on hours, he's still got the best photographers wrapped around his curling iron.

Items purchased under the program range from computers to curling irons.

He felt as though a curling iron had been rammed into his gut and left at low heat.

After about half an hour of blow drying my hair and using a curling iron, I was pleased with the look.

"For more polish, just touch up the top layer with a curling iron," he says.

His beard and long hair had been frizzed with curling irons.

The security gate was an artful symphony of curling iron.

She picked up the hot curling iron and began working at stray tendrils of hair.

Her curling iron was the first to go since the cord had obviously become unwound.

She plugged something that looked like a curling iron into an electric outlet.

The curling iron had been taken apart; the two halves of it lay in the sand.

After every show, the wardrobe mistress would touch up the petals with her curling iron.

The box contained a blow dryer and an old metal curling iron.

Using curling irons or dyes continually can also result in hair loss.

For example, the use of curling irons and other heat treatments may cause split ends.