Hair From Beyond #5: Do the Clara Bow

It dawned on me the other day that I'd never styled short hair. I mean, sure, I've styled long hair into faux-bobs plenty of times, but actual, real short hair? Never. Conveniently, my flatmate happens to wear her hair cropped very short and very straight. Always up for a challenge, I marched straight into her room and declared I was turning her into Clara Bow for the evening. She never knew what hit her.

Clara Bow was one of the very first silver screen icons, THE 'it' girl of the 20s. As Anne Helen Petersen writes in this fabulous post for The Hairpin, "Girls wanted to be her, boys wanted to date her, and old people thought she was a sign of the apocalypse, which obviously meant she was star material".

And so I set to work curling, teasing and spraying, until I was moderately satisfied with the results. Now, you can't have a Clara Bow without the Clara Bow eyebrows. This posed a bit of a problem, as you can't really get Clara Bow eyebrows without plucking it all away, and my flatmate/beautiful model was (understandably) really not that keen. Thus I was forced to compromise and draw them in on top of her (partly concealed) natural eyebrow, but oh well.

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Here I'm looking for Clara Bow, but all I see is Theda Bara...

Theda Bara

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Model: Betty. Hair, make-up and photography by moi.

Hair From Beyond #4: Downton Abbey's Lavinia

Now, I don't want to spoil it for any latecomers, but as much as I always disliked this Downton Abbey character, I have to admit she always had awesome hair. I just HAD to try and replicate it. So, here goes, Lavinia's curly updo from Downton season 2:

Thanks to Emily for being my guinea pig!

Hair from Beyond #3: the Katniss Braid

Here's my spin on the popular Katniss Braid, which is rapidly becoming a classic.

Modelled by my beautiful friend Chloe.

Hair from Beyond #2: Once Upon a Time's Ruby

Today, in Hair from Beyond... Storybrooke's favourite rebellious granddaughter.

"You dress like a drag queen at Fleet Week". 

Yes, Granny, I also feel like a drag queen at Fleet Week. So much makeup!

This one was actually a lot of fun. The makeup is a little heavy for me, but the 60s-style pigtails I suspect I'll be wearing again. Sorry for the low quality images, I didn't have my camera at hand!

Again, if you want a tutorial, feel free to let me know in the comments. Have a great day!

I'm looking for Ruby, all I see is Kat Dennings... what?!

Hair from Beyond #1: Sansa's Wedding Hair

Hello hello people! Lately I've started a new project, in which I've set myself the challenge of recreating my favourite hairstyles from the big (and small) screen. I'll be sharing them all here in a new series of posts: Hair from Beyond....

I absolutely love the hairstyles in Game of Thrones. They go such a long way characterizing and highlighting the changes that these characters go through, it's incredibly efficient. For a while now I've been meaning to recreate Sansa's wedding updo, but my hair is too thin to really come anywhere close to the desired effect.
Finally last night a friend gave in and agreed to let me use her head as a canvas...

My friend has incredibly thick, smooth hair with zero grip whatsoever, which normally can't even hold a single braid... This took an entire can of hairspray, but taming the beast was oh-so satisfactory.

In a way, it's very Amidala-esque...
Unfortunately I had no beads on me.

If you'd like me to make a tutorial on how to recreate this, let me know in the comments!

Fifties Friday: More bumper bangs, or what really goes down at slumber parties

 

What can I say, I'm obsessed! 

Nightgown - H&M

I did my friend's hair too

 

The stuff that fuels sleepovers... for real

The Vintage Family Album

An amazing photo album resurfaced at a family reunion last weekend...

My grandmother, age 20 (1946). This is seriously amazing, for at least 3 reasons.
1) She hasn't changed a bit.
2) I look a lot like her.
3)HAIR!

My great-aunt in the late 30s and 40s. The bathing suit shot on the right is so cool!

Fur and victory rolls...

1941

1958. Travelling in style!

Amazingly 80s... *cough*hats*cough*... The hottie on the far left is my mother.

So adorably 60s <3 I absolutely adore the short flower dress on the right.

A very 50s wedding...

This I find just incredible. It's my great uncle in his Tunisian army uniform,
presumably - judging by the photo style - in the late 30s.

Winter 1961.

Hilariously 70s... This is like a caricature of all the fashion faux-pas that characterised the era.
I promise I will never let the concerned parties live it down.

A 60s wedding...

...and more 60s partying goodness

French cafe terrace... I would love one of those bags in white. Or pale green.