The unusual way an ex-Amish woman used to curl her hair without electricity

From plaits and silk scrunchies to velcro rollers and bobby pinned barnets - it's clear we're all pretty obsessed with finding heatless ways to curl our hair.

Not only is to better for your locks to give them a break from the heat, but it's also better for your wallet - and the planet - to not use so much electricity too.

So, to help provide a little more insight into the whole zero-electricity curls phenomenon, one former Amish woman has shared all the interesting ways she used to curl her hair without electricity.

Carol, who goes by the handle @carolyoder_78 online, took to TikTok to reveal her secrets - first sharing how her brother and sister-in-law's house runs without electricty.

She began: "I'm here at my sister-in-law's house. And I just kind of want to show you their lighting and what they use for power."

Carol explained a little more about the set-up in the house, saying that everything was powered by gas, batteries and solar panels rather than electricity.

She then explained how things had become more 'modernised' since she was a child, admitting: "So this is way modernised than it was when I was growing up.

"When I grew up, we didn't have any of these luxuries."

Carol carried on: "As far as for doing my hair [...] I would take my curling iron and an oil lamp that had like a chimney on it.

"And I would set my curler on top of the lamp so that it would heat up and then I would curl my hair that way and then put it back on the lamp to keep the iron hot.

"Then I would just keep doing that until my hair was done."

And hundreds have since rushed in to share their reactions to the video. with one TikTok user writing: "Thank you for showing us this. I’ve always wanted to see inside one of the houses."

"It just seems like a really hard way to basically still have power in your room and the gas lines sound so dangerous," wondered a second.

A third said: "That would give me so much anxiety."

"Seems unnecessarily complicated to me," a fourth piped up, while a fifth echoed: "The gas line sounds so scary."

"Beautiful, but isn't it dangerous?" asked a another before Carol assured: "Thanks for asking instead of quickly judging. Even Amish housing has to pass state and federal coding laws. So no it’s not actually."

And a final TikToker praised: "How did you blow dry your hair growing up? Curling it! Genius!!!"