Patent 7500487 was granted and assigned to Kao Corporation on March, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A hairdressing tool includes a slender hair holder having a hair inlet at one end thereof and made of a flexible material, a hair inserter for inserting hair in or through the hair holder, and a curler for rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder into a prescribed shape. A hairdressing method includes holding a prescribed amount of hair in or through a slender hair holder of a hairdressing tool, the hair holder including a flexible material and being capable of holding hair, and rolling, curving or bending the hair held by the hair holder by a prescribed curler possessed by the hair holder.