As promised, I am posting some pages from my 1931 American Hairdresser Magazine that I picked up at the Vintage Fashion Expo in Santa Monica back in May. Hairstyles in the early part of the 1930s were a crossover from what was popular in the 1920s. Fashionable women still wore finger waves
I was spending way too much time on Ebay, as I often do, and I came across these vintage hair clips for teens up for auction. I love that they are shaped like vintage pennants and would be so cute for a pep rally.
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
New Year’s Day Vintage Beauty Survival Kit Fast, fabulous beauty even with the biggest champagne hangover… Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard was my inspiration for this blog post. In the movie she is constantly swaddled in some sort of leopard print. It is either her
My last installment for Christmas Hair Accessories can be used as both a hair flower accessory or a flower clip to wear on your clothes. Here are some simple directions for taking a pretty, plaid ribbon and turning it into an oh so cute plaid hair flower.
I was wandering my local craft store when I found this easy vintage holiday hair accessory. It was amongst all the Christmas ribbons. It is basically just a laser cut felt designed to be used as a Christmas decoration. I thought it would make a
The character of Jayne Sterling on Mad Men, played by Peyton List, always looked amazing. She has great clothes and great hair, but of course when your only job is to look good for your husband Roger Sterling and you have full access to his bank account, you
I never seem to leave myself enough time to get ready these days. I have a lot of holiday shindigs to go to this month, from lunches to cocktails, and working 10 to 12 hours a day does not leave a lot of time for
When I wrote this post, I started worrying that I had written it already. I searched thru my history and found that I had in fact written about turbans or some aspect of the turban 4 other times since I started writing this blog 5
Online resale marketplaces like Ebay and Etsy are the best places to find vintage hair and makeup tools. I have found some lovely items in antique stores as well. The hunt is always the fun part. I keep hoping Etsy will create a system, like
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