Hairstyles for hats in the 1950s
October 14, 2019
I get a lot of questions about how to wear your hair with vintage hats. This great little article has some great tips—especially on how to style the hair that
Exotic Eyebrow Makeup Trend of the 1950s
September 4, 2019
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
Men’s Vintage 1950s Haircuts – Ducktail Tutorial and More!
July 7, 2019
The vintage hairstyles and haircuts men wore in the 1950s were as varied as the women’s. Ducktail, flattop, pompadour, crew cut, the forward combed boogie and flattop boogie hairstyles, and
Ode to the Vintage Women’s Magazine
June 18, 2019
I’m in the middle of several new content projects right now and my shelves of vintage women’s magazines, as usual, are here to inspire me. Flipping through and reading these
Post WWII Hairstyles – Beauty After the War
March 29, 2019
Beauty after WWII After the end of WWII, style didn’t really go through major changes for the first couple of years. Women continued to sport about the same style of
Your Vintage Fall Hair and Make-up Guide
September 26, 2018
Fall! It’s here! The leaves are starting to change here in the Northern Hemisphere. That means Halloween is right around the corner. Then we get to eat gobs of Thanksgiving
A Message from your WWII era bobby pin supplier…Rationing metal and the salon
March 7, 2018
Rationing made its way into every aspect of citizens lives in WWII. Metal rationing was one of the biggest. In the beauty industry it affected a woman’s access to many
Creative vintage wig hair color in the 1950s and 1960s included blue, purple, and aqua!
May 25, 2017
Daring bright alternative hair colors were more common than you thought in the 1950s and 1960s. We forget that sometimes. Blue hair, pink hair, lavender hair, aqua hair…They were all
Beauty Ten Commandments – 1923 Beauty Secrets for Every Woman Magazine
May 17, 2017
I am a collector. There, I said it. What is a collector? Someone who is so obsessed with items from a certain genre that they are incapable of passing by an
The Cobra Hairstyle circa 1957…bangs with a bite
October 7, 2016
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
