I intended on putting together a all-inclusive fingerwaves tutorial that shows all three methods of fingerwaving. But no matter how many times I tried I just cannot remember my setting pattern for pin curled fingerwaves. They just aren't turning out the way I want! Grrr. So no pin curl tut for now. But I did make one for actual finger sculpted waves, and a marcel wave tut will be done by the weekend hopefully because I really think the old one sucks.




Want waves like this? ( right this way!  )

i need inspiration. i am going to a christmas party on the weekend and i would like to do a victory roll on one side of my head and wear a bow on the other. The bow i have is Huge and the tail will come down to my shoulders.

My question is does any of you wonderfull people have a picture of a victory roll hairstyle with a hat, just for inspriation

thanks a bunch
xxx

My fiance and I are planning a vegas elvis wedding, and being as unconventional and fun as I am I'm wearing a 50's style gold halter dress with a black swiss dot lace overlay (and black petticoat of course!). I'm planning on making my own veil/fascinator with a netting to match the overlay on my dress. I've tried finding pictures of hair with a veil/fascinator but they're all stuffy hair pictures. No vintage hair. Since we're kind of eloping I'm doing my hair myself and don't really have the funds for even trial hair with a hairdresser in town. I know there's a lot of girls here who make and/or wear fascinators so any help, pictures or advice would be greatly appreciated. My hair is shoulder length if that helps any. Thanks :)

this is my first post - i have followed this community for a couple of years now :-)


just wanted to post my new-old headband (fake fur and vintage) and my 50's look hairstyle. i love it, very varm and it does not mess up the hair :-)


also, the blue wool dress is vintage. i have a vintage blog if anyone is interested: www.vintageportalen.se.

Are there any 'vintage' styles that anyone could inform me of that would NOT include my hair being longer? It seems the most common style includes slicked back hair, but i like mine high and tight, I find it most comfortable that way.

The only thing I've concluded so far is that I can have the back squared off on each side rather than rounded, so I'll go for that, but is there any other ideas I'm not aware of?

Clearly, without having much hair, there doesn't seem to be much else I can really do with it, but that's okay I guess.

1. When I do attempt pincurls, the curl is too thick to pin down without leaving a mark. Any suggestions? Am I doing something wrong?

2. I bought some Solo clips, thinking they're what you use for fingerwaves. Am I totally wrong, or can these be used? How and where do you pin the curl, then, without messing it up?

Thanks for the help!

alrighty... so ive uploaded the practice runs for my wedding hair...



( this way )

hey ladies :)


i've posted a long time ago because I did a hughe asininity...
i was trying a perm by myself..lol.
it was really really awful and i had to cut my hair :/

i was really sad about my hair, so I bought some clip-extensions and i love them!
okay its not very vintage but maybe you wanna see the accord :)

i hope you enjoy it :)

greetings
lisa

HALP!
I really don't know much about setting lotion, or how to roll a set with said product.
Tips?
Advice?
Stories?
Something?
What do I buy? Do I use foam rollers? Can I just use pincurls?
Any direction would be highly appreciated :)

So I am supposed to get my haircut on Thursday.. and I am thinking of getting a cut similar to these photos of Sophia Loren.

Do you think this is a good cut for me/easy to style? I am a little worried about going so short, my hair is like a security blanket!

( Three examples here...! )

I was bored last night and so decided to pin curl my hair while I was waiting for it to dry. This was my first attempt at pin curls.

Here are some pics of my first successful roller set. I have done three sets now and this was the best one by far.

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Hello !
I've been lurking for several months, while experimenting with my hair, and this community has been really helpful.
Now, I'm really able to style my hair so it doesn't get frizzy and out of control (it's quite thick and layered), but I'm still stuck on the haircut part.
My current haircut allows me to get a Clara Bow look which is a huge improvement in my everyday life. But since I tend to dress less 1930's and more 1950', I'm aiming for ( this )

I decided to become a redhead! I'm starting out slow and planning on going to a Kate Walsh type red.

Here's before:

I turned to this community because y'all seem to have a lot of experience with curlers and I need help.

I have thick almost waist-length hair. It's permed but barely curly anymore, due to the fact that the perm was 9 months ago. My mother seems to think chunking product in it will make it curly again, but as I say, no amount of sauce is going to turn spaghetti into fusilli. Product enhances what curl you do have, and if you don't have any...well, it ain't gonna do much. Maybe for your hair but not mine.

Anyway, until I can afford to perm it again, I'm rockin' the sponge rollers.

What I'm looking for are sleeping tips. How do you ladies sleep with these things in?

Also, how many rollers do you generally put in? I'm using the Goody brand small rollers, the yellow ones that come in a 12 pack (I also have the green that come in a 10 pack and the big pink ones that come in an 8 pack), so I have 24 curlers in.

Hi ladies! So this week I made my first foray into wet sets with foam rollers. Today's set came out great IMHO and I'll post pictures later, but on to my question: how to make it last?

Specific questions:

Do you find that how much you condition your hair before a set affects how well the curl holds (i.e. does heavier conditioner make the curl fall faster)?

Any tips or tricks for wrapping hair to preserve the set overnight? I put on a hair net and a silky kerchief over that, so far the style is salvageable the next morning but definitely not as good as on Day 1 (maybe 60% as awesome).

How many days do you usually get out of a set? Right now I can get 2 but I would really prefer 3. Any idea how women made sets last a week back in the day?

Any product recommendations for sprucing up a set on day 2 or 3? I use a smoothing serum and medium strength volumizing hairspray on Day 1, and then more hairspray Day 2, but hate that my hair develops a sort of helmet like texture from all the spray. Are there good curl spray alternatives to regular hair spray?

Thanks in advance for all your input!

Hello All!

I wanted to let you all know about a magazine I just started publishing...its called Zelda : The Magazine of the Vintage Nouveau, and we specialize in features/interests from 1900-1940! There are pieces on historical topics of the era as well as highlights of what's going on in vintage style culture today!

We have a great finger waving how-to in our premiere issue that you might really like...and a lot of our advertisers make great vintage-inspired/vintage remade hair accessories!!

Find out more and order Zelda at http://www.zeldamag.com !

Alrighty.. So I FINALLY sat down and uploaded my wedding pics....

This is a BIG post..

sorry.. i just couldnt decide which pics to post! =)




( August 30, 2009! )

I recently bought Vintage Hairstyling by Lauren Rennells and played with it a bit this weekend.



I put up my hair in wet pincurls that I slept on and after cobing it out I pinned it in and up, and the nape of my neck. It gave a reather good impression of short hair, especially as my hair reach halfway down my back and is quite thick. However, in my eyes it looked more Twenties rather than the Thirties updo that the book described.

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Hello ladies, I'm new to this community but thought i would share one of my vintage hair looks and some inspiration and aspirations (hairwise)



That is me, with my lovely red lippy on and a vintage head scarf.

This is a woman who always looks knock out to me



Also the beautiful Jean Hagen



And of course the idol that is Marilyn Monroe



Now i currently have black hair but am hoping to go full on platinum blonde Marilyn style! My hairdresser says it will take a couple of months of stripping and colouring but that we will get there! fingers crossed!

Any advice for styling bangs? I have a 70's shag hair cut with full bangs at just above eye level yet no matter what I do it seems my bangs end up looking kind of wispy and unfilled. Any great tricks for making bangs look full?

Amd no, I don't think it's the haircuts fault. If anything it's because my hair is very fine, but I see girls with similar hair pull off the choppy full fringe thing so there must be a workaround. Any help would be appreciated!

Hey ladies and gentlemen! I've posted here a loooong time ago. My name is Melissa, and I LOVE everything vintage inspired. I recently did a photoshoot as the original 1959 Barbie. I'm only posting 1 picture since my journal is being difficult and not allowing me to put it under a cut with my photbucket account :( So, anyways.. enjoy! I'll post more later!!

So, I finally got to use Lottabody setting lotion, which was sent to me by 0miss_jayne0. Unfortunately, my hair didn't set long enough and didn't dry (it was only damp when I rolled it and I let it set for at least 5 hours - that's how much my hair doesn't like to dry. It was on a fairly hot day, too!) and I've not had the time to set it overnight, yet. Anyway, I was still pretty happy because it seems to keep the curls in a lot better than anything else I've had.


Oh, and both styles were from different Halloween events. I was an Angelique Houtkamp painting for this one.

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