A Gardenia and Tight Sculptured Curls

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Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1937

The Shag

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Source: 55 Hair Styles (Dell Purse Book), 1972

How to Shampoo

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Source: A Girl and Her Hair, 1947

Excerpt:
"Hair should be shampooed as often as it becomes dirty--which, in turn, depends upon your own activities and environment. A shampoo may be required weekly, and sometimes even twice a week."

Granny's Beauty Bargains

Here is a nice article on products that have been around for a while. I found it through a post on Modern Retro Woman:

Granny's Beauty Bargains

(And I'm not just posting the link to Modern Retro Woman because it links back here. It's a fun blog.)

Drene's Junior Miss Hair-do of the Month

Smartly neat bang and charming curl cluster tied back with a bow! Pretty smooth and mighty becoming!

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Source: Forecast, May 1944

I'm pretty sure the book is A Girl and Her Hair.

Drene's Junior Miss Hair-do of the Month: Bow Meets Curls!

Source: Unkown

The Story of Cosmetics

This video is interesting, but here's the line that makes it relevant: "They're just caught up in a 1950's mindset of better living through chemistry."



From Wikipedia:
The phrase "Better Living Through Chemistry" is a variant of a DuPont advertising slogan, "Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry." DuPont adopted it in 1935 and was their slogan until 1982 when the "Through Chemistry" part was dropped.



And, while you're subject to my ramblings, here's a flickr group on 1950s Beauty Products I came across looking while looking at vintage DuPont ads.

Eye Make-Up

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Source: Hairset Magazine, May 1964

Have You Met Mechanics' Hands?

(Here's where I tell you that you can click on the images to see or save the larger versions. It's much easier to read the text that way.)
Source: Modern Beauty Shop, January 1943

High Heels

I normally don't link to modern articles, but here's an interesting one on heels from NPR that some of you might be interested in.

Why High Heels Hurt Even After You Take Them Off

High heels may make your legs look longer and sexier, but now we know more about why wearing the fashionable shoes regularly can make standing barefooted painful...

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