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 here in the USA), has just delivered the new book! I am so excited about
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 them at a focal point of the hairstyle. Or the accessory framed elements of the
Red Lipstick is a bold makeup statement, so of course suffragist women of the early 1900s wore it as a symbol of their intelligence and independence in the fight for all women of the United States to have the right to vote. Women’s suffrage was
For a great study of hair design elements that make a beautiful vintage 1940s hairstyle, let’s analyze the movie The Big Sleep from 1946. It is full of so many inspiring hairstyles. The looks of the women that are both leads and extras in movies
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 published in 1954, was the premier black beauty publication of the mid 20th century. (1)
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, a vintage blue eyeshadow cream stick, and a powder pink floor sweeper are all tied
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 brought my home town some snow showers… and I am hoping the snow did not
Whether you are learning to do hair on someone else or yourself, a mannequin head is very helpful. I am not making any money off of clicks in this post by the way. Makers of mannequin hair heads that are the most reliable in consistent
Drug store longwear lipsticks are so important to the wearer of red lipstick. The sad day came when I ran out of my favorite stay-all-day red lipstick color and of course it is now discontinued. So I tried out some new red longwear lipsticks from
Short with smartly styled pin curls was the common hairstyle formula of the 1950s and the wedding veils brides wore went well with these pretty vintage hairstyles. The veils coordinated well with the popular cinched-waste dress fashions and mimicked the evening hat styles of the
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