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How to create Marcel Wave hairstyles

How to create Marcel Waves – a 1920s hairstyle book that has been republished in electronic format for downloading.

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Bobbed Hairstyles – 1920s Cutting and Styling

Create Beautiful Bobbed Haircuts Learn how to create the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920′s and 1930′s – the beautiful bobs of the modern era. Learn how to cut and mould to the contours of the head and neck…the natural hair lines…and the facial features. Learn how to emphasize good features and minimize [...]

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How to do Finger Waves

Finger Waves from the 1920′s and 1930′s We have republished a rare 1920′s book on Finger Waving, in electronic form. It teaches how to do finger waves in the way that added style and variation to the short, intermediate, and long bobs of the 1920′s and 1930′s – the beautiful bobs of the modern era. [...]

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End of the Flapper Era

1928′s STYLE IN YOUNG GIRLS Gone is the flapper. In her place has come the young woman with poise, of soft-toned and correct speech, soberly dressed, and without closely cropped hair. Such, at all events, are the specifications of Miss 1928 as portrayed in the current number, of the “Junior League Magazine,” which is the [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 4

Titian and Auburn Hair Types continued… Part 4 (final part) of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality RED : Never becoming to any of these four types in any of its shades up to and including pink. The only possible exception would be the auburn brunette, [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 3

Titian and Auburn Hair Types Part 3 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality THERE are four distinct groups in this class. First, the Titian blonde. The true Titian blonde has flaming red hair that is vivid enough not to be called blond and light enough [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 2

Eyes are an Important Color Index Part 2 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality THERE is nothing as expressive as the eyes. Nothing so portrays a person’s mentality, a person’s soul, a person’s aliveness. The very plainest woman in the world cannot be plain if [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 1

Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality COLOR is at your disposal. The correct use of it can have an inestimable value in your life. If you do not pay any attention to its possibilities you are overlooking one of the means for acquiring [...]

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