So we know we love vintage hair, but which decade are we really emulating? In comparing these 1930s hairstyles with 1940s hairstyles and also with 1950s hairstyles and 1960s hairstyles, I thought I would use a series of my vintage hair magazines all from the
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 your winter day. White Rain Lotion Shampoo White Rain started selling beauty products in 1952
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, a number of new products have entered the market and a number of the thermal
The vintage nail style for women in the 1930s inspired this post today. It was unique in shape and unique in the way nailpolish was tinted or lacquered. Tapered Point Nail Shape In the 1930s, there were women who wore their nails rounded, of course,
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 exhibit Hair Style that is on view right now, at the SFO Museum at
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
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)
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
In my studies of hairstyling, I come across something very common. History repeats itself. If you want to know what women use to do to create their beautiful hairstyles, you often just have to look at what women are doing today. Case in point… the
Here is an interesting makeup style from the 1954 book, Top Secrets of Hair Styling by Victor Vito. Vito also wrote another great book called Be Your Own Hair Stylist in 1950. The Mandarin Eyebrow The Mandarin style eyebrow made its way to America in
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