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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 23, 2024 21:50:52 GMT
In fairness to your mother, BunnyWhit, she presumably didn't have an entire aesthetic crew behind her in the chair. It makes me wonder what her daughter was stylin' at that time...
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Post by intrepid37 on Jan 24, 2024 0:55:04 GMT
Annie Lennox has fabulous eyes.
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Post by kims on Jan 24, 2024 20:23:21 GMT
I have a question about make-up in film. I thought hair salon viewers might have an answer. Actors apply white to their nose from the eyebrow to the tip of their nose. Why? does it have something to do with the lighting casting a shadow?
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Post by NoShear on Jan 25, 2024 17:08:47 GMT
Jennifer Aniston's red carpet 'do for yesterday's GOLDEN GLOBES is being described as an updated version of The Rachel, but I think it looked a bit blown out to draw much similarity: 
The made-by-TV craze of The Rachel brought to mind a couple other dos made popular by television actresses:
and Loni Anderson with her feathered helmet.
How about this heavy-looking 'helmet' atop Norma Shearer, BunnyWhit:  Though scant stills seem to exist from "TRAIL OF THE LAW" (1924), which is said to have been released 100 years ago on this day, the movie itself survived the combustible nitrate era. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 28, 2024 5:07:51 GMT
How about this heavy-looking 'helmet' atop Norma Shearer, BunnyWhit:
There may be a few ratts made from receiver hair hidden in that hairdo Norma is sporting.
Wait, what - Though they are often associated with the Victorians, hair receivers were used as late as the 1950s.
Maybe backcombing alone wasn't to blame for all the To Sir With Love and other associated mid-century helmet doos.
After trying the Farrah and the Dorothy Hamill wedge, I did this one - yikes!
The Babs perm.
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Post by Andrea Doria on Jan 28, 2024 12:22:21 GMT
In that picture of Norma Shearer she's wearing the Gibson Girl do. I have a picture of my grandmother with her hair just like that, I think galacticgirrrl's right and she had something underneath it to make that big pouf.
I was the first person in my town to cut my hair from it's 1960's long straight parted in the middle do (Joan Baez), to Farrah Fawcett's shag. I read how to do it in my Glamour magazine. Brush all your hair to make a ponytail sticking straight up from center forehead. Slice off. (Samari Hairdresser.) This causes graduated layers from shortest on top to longest at the nape. Set on rollers and brush out. It turned heads and was slightly shocking at first after all the long flat stringy hair we had.
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It was the opposite of helmet head which was cut blunt on the ends, all one length, or plastered down with hairspray to look like one length.
Like this. 
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 28, 2024 13:19:18 GMT
Andrea is spot on. I was in middle school when the girls started to switch from the long straight look to the Farrah layered-shag look and it was head turning. Girls would appear one morning sporting their new dos and they practically looked like another person.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jan 28, 2024 13:41:54 GMT
Does anyone remember the first time they came across a hair receiver?
There may be a few ratts made from receiver hair hidden in that hairdo Norma is sporting.
Wait, what - Though they are often associated with the Victorians, hair receivers were used as late as the 1950s.
Maybe backcombing alone wasn't to blame for all the To Sir With Love and other associated mid-century helmet doos.
Not just until the 1950's; you're right that there's more than backcombing going on with these iconic gals, who brought back big hair in a big way, if it ever even really went away.  The "victory roll" was popular during World War II and The Andrews Sisters sure caught the fever, at least at one point.  |
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Post by NoShear on Jan 28, 2024 16:15:03 GMT
How about this heavy-looking 'helmet' atop Norma Shearer, BunnyWhit:
There may be a few ratts made from receiver hair hidden in that hairdo Norma is sporting.
Wait, what - Though they are often associated with the Victorians, hair receivers were used as late as the 1950s.
Maybe backcombing alone wasn't to blame for all the To Sir With Love and other associated mid-century helmet doos.
After trying the Farrah and the Dorothy Hamill wedge, I did this one - yikes!
The Babs perm.
You checked 'em all off, galacticgirrrl!! Dorothy Hamill's didn't get pictured so...  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Jan 28, 2024 17:01:34 GMT
How about this heavy-looking 'helmet' atop Norma Shearer, BunnyWhit:
There may be a few ratts made from receiver hair hidden in that hairdo Norma is sporting.
Wait, what - Though they are often associated with the Victorians, hair receivers were used as late as the 1950s.
Maybe backcombing alone wasn't to blame for all the To Sir With Love and other associated mid-century helmet doos.
After trying the Farrah and the Dorothy Hamill wedge, I did this one - yikes!
The Babs perm.
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jan 30, 2024 13:37:23 GMT
galacticgirrrl mentioning backcombing made me think of the severely blown-out look favored by Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins and others as their answer to 80's big hair. It looked good under controlled circumstances like Elizabeth's White Diamond ads, but out in public with any kind of serious backlighting it wasn't nearly as flattering, looking like a forest of spikey tendrils. I'm not making fun because I loved the dear woman and what she did for AmFar, but I always wished one of her squad had talked her into something a little less challenging. The face, the eyes, the jewels...Yes. The hair...Not so sure. But R.I.P., Elizabeth.  |
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Post by NoShear on Jan 30, 2024 21:13:47 GMT
Thanks for putting a name to Norma Shearer's 'do, Andrea Doria. Too bad anonymity is understandably preferred: It would be cool to look at you gals' 'dos from the past. |
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Post by sagebrush on Feb 1, 2024 12:05:32 GMT
Andrea is spot on. I was in middle school when the girls started to switch from the long straight look to the Farrah layered-shag look and it was head turning. Girls would appear one morning sporting their new dos and they practically looked like another person. For sure it was an eye-catching Do, but you had to keep a can of Aqua Net aerosol hair spray in your purse to keep your hair from moving.  |
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Post by NoShear on Feb 17, 2024 20:10:21 GMT
Andrea Doria, thought of you while watching Jane Fonda in the China Syndrome earlier this week - her sexist boss actually offers his opinion on the fiery yield in this scene:  |
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Post by NoShear on Jun 24, 2024 22:52:05 GMT
Andrea Doria, have been meaning to sit Solveig Dommartin down in the Hair Salon - wild and endless locks - for a while now:  |
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