Hair styling device and method of use

A method for forming curls or waves of hair with a hair styling device:

• providing a hair styling device having two articulated, adjustable arms for receiving a strand of hair being styled, each arm comprising an inner surface and an opposing outer surface wherein the inner surfaces of the arms face one another and the outer surfaces, the inner surfaces of each arm comprise a shaping plate with a heated shaping surface and one of the arms provides several shaping bodies attached to the outer surface thereof in a spaced apart manner such that a free space exists between the outer surface of the arm and a surface of each shaping body facing the arm, wherein the shaping bodies extend longitudinally along a length of the arm and are arranged spaced apart relative to each other to form a curved trajectory;
• inserting a strand of hair between the two arms and pressing the arms toward each other to bring the strand of hair into contact with the heated shaping surfaces and
• heating the strand of hair to a temperature at which the sulfur bonds contained in the keratin chains of the hair are broken up;
• pulling the hair styling device in a direction away from the scalp whereby the heated portion of the strand of hair exiting the hair styling device is pulled over the several spaced apart shaping bodies thereby bring the strand of hair in its desired form;
• upon the heated portion of the strand of hair exiting the hair styling device and contacting a first of the shaping bodies, the heated portion of the strand of hair is at a temperature at which the broken up sulfur bonds have not joined together;
• the trajectory of movement of the heated portion of the strand of hair being pulled past the shaping bodies corresponds to the curved trajectory and before leaving the last hair shaping body the hair has cooled down to a temperature at which the broken sulfur bonds have joined back together.