I’ve been asked many times where to find the vintage style hair tape. The bad news…nowhere. The good news…there are substitutes available. But first, what is hair tape for? A Google search for hair tape these days will bring up a lot more about extensions
Having an extreme side part is so important to achieving a specific vintage hairstyle look. Imagine the hair rising high above the forehead, sweeping over to the side with a cascade of curls and waves right by the eye. That look is most easily achieved
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.
If you haven’t already signed up to receive the VintageHairstyling.com email newsletter, I am here to entice you with another reason to do so. I just finished this new tutorial that I have named the Nora after Lauren Bacall’s character in the film noir classic
This Mother of the Bride came to see me yesterday at the studio because she wanted to do a practice run on her hairstyle for her daughter’s upcoming wedding. Her hair is short and has natural wave to it and the wedding is vintage-inspired. She
A lot of the requests I get from brides for vintage wedding hair are not specific to any particular decade. This weekend, I had a bride come in for a practice run with the same type of request. She had some pictures of hairstyles she really
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
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
Coming across vintage salon capes isn’t easy. We hairstylists put these capes through a lot of stress and staining. Ones from the 1950s were actually often pink or blue, so they got dirty. And time wasn’t good to them either. The old vinyl plastic ones
1940s Easy Rope Braid Hair Tutorial …Always learning I have been a little absent lately from posts. The summer was super busy, so not much time for other blog posts. But I have a whole new mess of stuff to share with everyone after my
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