This Rosalia Beauty Uniforms advertisement shows such stunning examples of vintage salon uniform fashions for a hairstylist in the 1920s, but not so much the 1930s. The advertisement came from the 1931 American Hairdresser Magazine that I picked up at the Vintage Fashion Expo in
I wish I had time to go to estate sales. I so wish I did. I know I am missing so many wonderful goodies out there. Luckily for me, some of my friends who do find time for them think about me when they see
This post on tips for healthier fine hair from my own vintage hair nerd perspective use to have a different title. “100 times a day is an extreme, but yes…for hair health brush your hair a lot” was the title before. Hence the image of
I was spending way too much time on Ebay, as I often do, and I came across these vintage hair clips for teens up for auction. I love that they are shaped like vintage pennants and would be so cute for a pep rally.
Coming across vintage salon capes isn’t easy. We hairstylists put these capes through a lot of stress and staining. Ones from the 1950s were actually often pink or blue, so they got dirty. And time wasn’t good to them either. The old vinyl plastic ones
The English Parliament passed an act in 1770 decreeing that any woman who sought to betray one of His Majesty’s subjects into marriage by “scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool (rouge), iron stays, high-heeled shoes, bolstered hips and like misdemeanors shall
A couple months ago I posed a question on the Bobby Pin Blog. It centered around the thoughts of young people and their experimentation with vintage looks. You can see the original post here. Something to Ponder. It centered around the way I thought about vintage
I just wanted to share this picture with you all. A friend of mine and I were drinking at the classic bar Gaetano’s in Denver and she showed me this picture on her phone of her grandma, the lovely lady standing in the background. I
Online resale marketplaces like Ebay and Etsy are the best places to find vintage hair and makeup tools. I have found some lovely items in antique stores as well. The hunt is always the fun part. I keep hoping Etsy will create a system, like
As a teenager in the 1990s, I questioned some of the hairstyles from the 1960s and thought the look of the 1930s was very glamorous. Do you suppose the teenager of the 1950s questioned the look of the 1920s, but coveted the glamour of the
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