
Shampoo Commercials from the Golden Age of Television
I love commercials from the 1950s, especially haircare product commercials, as you can imagine. These vintage shampoo commercials from the Golden Age of Television will add a little brightness to

I love commercials from the 1950s, especially haircare product commercials, as you can imagine. These vintage shampoo commercials from the Golden Age of Television will add a little brightness to

‘Tis the season to be glamorous and to fancy ourselves up a little. So here’s a tip for taking your vintage hairstyle a step further from your pretty vintage curls

Hair shaping techniques for forming vintage hairstyles use basic techniques that anyone can do. In the 1940s, the curve and curls of a hairstyle started with design and planning. The

Your TL;DR (Too Long Didn’t Read) I’ve had my patent design, my intellectual property, stolen and sold back to my community at an impossibly low rate and it really sucks.

I originally wrote this post about the best heat protection setting spray to use with your curling iron a couple years ago. And as is common in the beauty industry,

Imagine trying 7 different vintage hairstyles on yourself in one sitting just to see which one is most flattering. It sounds daunting doesn’t it? It doesn’t need to be. There

Hats, like these Easter hats in this vintage 1960 Seventeen magazine, were a major part of fashion in history. I get asked a lot about hairstyles to wear with vintage

What do you know about tying a vintage scarf? I know it sounds easy. And it is! But here is a tutorial that combines 2 colors of scarves creating this

I wish I knew when or where the word “bobbed” hair was first used to describe this famous 1920s hairstyle. Credit for the first appearance of the bob goes to

There are so many weird and wonderful vintage hair tools that have been invented for the sake of beautification. Here are 3 items that I’ve only recently discovered thanks to

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