In celebration of spooky season, let’s talk about the horror movie hairstylist. Carmen Dirigo was hairstyling department head at Universal Studios where many of the Universal Monster movies were made.
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 have many vintage beauty magazines. They bring me joy and also make me laugh sometimes. There are some really weird things that advertisers use to try to sell us
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
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
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
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
1940s Makeup rule #1: Wear it. Rule #2: Do not wear too much Welcome to Part 2 of the Vintage Makeup for Darker Skin Tones series exploring makeup during the 1940s, mostly
Imagine being a hairstylist for a traveling circus in the 1930s. Curious? Then keep reading… My September 1932 issue of Modern Beauty Shop has a feature article about Mrs. Eva
The classic Grip-Tuth® Hairtainer combs’ journey began in the 1920s. They rose in popularity significantly during WWII as a replacement for metal bobby pins that were hard to get because
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