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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 defects [...]

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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.
It is difficult [...]

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1920’s Finger Waving

DEFINITION OF FINGER WAVING
FINGER WAVING is the art of shaping or moulding hair while wet into “s”-shaped curved undulations with the fingers and comb. These waves when dried without being disturbed will fall into beautiful deep waves. Finger waves differ from marcel waves in that there are no irons used on the hair. Not only [...]

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