I am a collector. There, I said it. What is a collector? Someone who is so obsessed with items from a certain genre that they are incapable of passing by an item available for purchase. My obsession, as you can probably guess, is very specific. It
Just in time for Halloween…I just happen to be leafing through a vintage 1957 American Hairdresser magazine yesterday, looking for something completely unrelated to Halloween. And then I cam across this beauty of an article about M. Louis Advanced Hair Design Institute’s new hair vogue.
1950s Vintage Beauty Magazine…1,000 Hints. We all scour antique malls, thrift stores, and the internet for clothes and such to put together that perfect vintage head-to-toe look. But there is probably something you collect way to much of. For some ladies, novelty print dresses might be
The Fashion Dos and Don’ts series from the 1940s produced this little 48 page booklet – Hats, Hairdo’s, Makeup. Fashion Dos and Dont’s was written as a fashion and beauty advice series in the early 1940s and they produced several booklets. This one, which would obviously
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
As promised, I am posting some pages from my 1931 American Hairdresser Magazine that I picked up at the Vintage Fashion Expo in Santa Monica back in May. Hairstyles in the early part of the 1930s were a crossover from what was popular in the 1920s. Fashionable women still wore finger waves
I promised a few weeks ago that I’d share some of what was in the 1931 and 1946 American Hairdresser magazines I picked up at the Vintage Fashion Expo. I scanned some of the more notable details from the 1946 issue that I thought could
I’m kind of obsessed with this vintage women’s magazine called Charm right now. As it’s tagline states, it is, “for the exciting woman with a job.” I’ll let you digest that statement for a moment. As you may be able to tell from the tagline, this magazine’s
I have been thinking about writing this vintage wedding hairstyle book for many years and I am very excited to say that it is finished and in the hands of my book printer! It is a step-by-step guide to styling classic hairstyles for any special occasion
Article from Paris, France, April 10, 1931 from Modern Beauty Shop Chers amis: Le printemps has come to Paris and with it, glorious sunshine. Sunshine being rare in this fascinating city all the Parisiennes are now sporting new hats.
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