Abstract: A hair curling spool holder includes two mating arcuate half sections pivotally joined and with spring biased finger grips biasing the half sections closed along a longitudinal line. Each of the sections has an elongated narrow portion with a tranverse groove at each end thereof to receive and cage the flanges of a heatable cylindrical spool and a centrally located narrow tranverse portion joining the elongated portion to respective finger grips. Pairs of internally projecting opposing prongs are spaced along the longitudinal line and the opposed pairs are adapted to provide frictional locking engagement with the wrapped hair and with each other to maintain the holder around the spool.