The new 3rd Edition of Vintage Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Step-by-Step Techniques is now available! After a long year, and a lot of starts and stops, the printer (printed right
An important element to emulating hair accessories from the 1940s is copying how they were worn. Vintage hair accessories were designed to enhance the form of the hairstyle. Women placed
Today I am sharing a beautiful black vintage hair tutorial published in the November 1961 issue of Beauty Trade. Copies of Beauty Trade are a rare find. The magazine, first
I know the title of this blogpost doesn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason, but in a couple minutes you will see how a midcentury tiki intimate party plan,
I have a lot of vintage beauty and women’s magazines. It is a bit of an obsession of mine. The photographs are lovely and they are full of inspiration. April
The Bang Dilemma I’ve heard it so many times, so many different ways from women…”I am tired of my bangs.”…”I regret my bangs and I’m thinking of growing them out.”…”I
I get a lot of questions about how to wear your hair with vintage hats. This great little article has some great tips—especially on how to style the hair that
The vintage hairstyles and haircuts men wore in the 1950s were as varied as the women’s. Ducktail, flattop, pompadour, crew cut, the forward combed boogie and flattop boogie hairstyles, and
I’m in the middle of several new content projects right now and my shelves of vintage women’s magazines, as usual, are here to inspire me. Flipping through and reading these
Beauty after WWII After the end of WWII, style didn’t really go through major changes for the first couple of years. Women continued to sport about the same style of
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