Hair and Hairstyling
Follies of the Madmen #230
From Look magazine for September 13, 1962.
Compare to Follies #227.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Sep 22, 2014 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Surrealism, 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
Taking Manscaping To The Next Level
Daniel Johnson, a famous British hair stylist is taking manscaping to the next level with the intricate chest hair designs like the one pictured above. More interesting examples after the jump.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 12, 2014 -
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Category: Art, Hair and Hairstyling
Flower Power
Back from the '70s, its...flower beards!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 22, 2014 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Facial Hair, Hair and Hairstyling
Authentic Indian Makeup Kit
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 15, 2014 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Stereotypes and Cliches, 1950s, Face and Facial Expressions, Hair and Hairstyling, Native Americans
The Bald-Headed Men of America
Apparently there have been several instances of the formation of clubs to serve as fraternal organizations for bald men.The New York Times has this 1896 report.
Then comes this account in 1920, also from The New York Times.
Then comes this report from 1954.
But sometime after that, the original group must have gone under, because in 1972, John T. Capps, III founded the Bald Headed Men of America. They were profiled in a PBS documentary from 1989, as partially shown below.
Apparently, they are still going strong.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 01, 2014 -
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Hair and Hairstyling
The Wave Hairdo
It was all the rage in 1962.
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jan 08, 2014 -
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Category: 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
Strongest Hair Ever
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 28, 2013 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Air Travel and Airlines, 1930s, Hair and Hairstyling
Beard Generators
Advertised in the Illustrated Police News - 4 April 1885
Advertised in the 1870s. I think it's also making his eyelashes grow.
via The Quack Doctor
Posted By: Alex - Mon Nov 25, 2013 -
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Category: Hair and Hairstyling
Balayage au Cotton
The things people do for fashion.
When he was three-quarters through, he had used 1000 feet of cotton stripping and Miss Weston looked as though she were wearing an enormous white wig. [NY Times - Apr 1, 1974]
Via The Lively Morgue
Posted By: Alex - Fri Nov 15, 2013 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, 1970s, Hair and Hairstyling
Underwater Barber Shop, 1966
From Weeki Wachee, Florida, which describes itself as "the only city of live mermaids."
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 18, 2013 -
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Category: 1960s, Hair and Hairstyling
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