Easy, Authentic, Everyday 1940s Hair Part 2: the Style

  Welcome, welcome, welcome to my little corner of the woods... er, prairie.  (it is Kansas after all)  I dont know what it's like in your part of the country but in mine, its strange!  Its really humid and windy, sometimes its cloudy and then the sun bursts out and then disappears behind fast moving, dark cotton. I heard on the radio this morning that the storm chasers are coming to the area and some have already made it.  Everyone is talking about the severe storms that are supposed to make there way through here tonight and then we're supposed to get a nastier round of them (with some tornadoes) on Saturday.  The news puts an erie expectation on things and kind of dampens my excitement for the weekend.  Pleas remember the folks here in Kansas and in Oklahoma this weekend.  My family down there was saying that the weather guy expected the storms to be even worse than up here.
  Anyway, on to today's business where we will be finishing the wonderful, beautiful, authentic 40s style.
 
 After taking your rollers out very gently, unless you used larger rollers like Ashley in the LisaFreemontStreet video, you'll have very small ringlets or (if you used setting lotion) some small, funny looking little curls kind of like the picture below.
  The next step is VERY important.  If you have lots of larger ringlets DO NOT do this, just skip to the next step because brushing these out will basically ruin the curls.  If you want your style to be more relaxed then that's fine, brush them, but authenticity and getting the hair to pile correctly on your head is due to having actual curls and not waves.
  As pictured below, take a very large wide toothed comb or pick and comb the lowest curls up, so what you're doing is separating the curl into a million pieces.   Do not panic, its gonna be super wow.  Comb GENTLY until the most of the frizz  is gone.  If it flops into a puffy mess while you move on to other curls, that's just fine, don't pay any attention to it. 
Then comb the other curls out in the same manner, starting with the curls closest to the middle part and then after combing, laying them onto your head.  NOTE: do not comb any of these curls against your hand or head, be gentle and dint comb out the very top curls as much.
  Use your comb to carefully fluff up the bangs in an up/back direction.

  Then take each side, hold straight out from your head and lightly twist back, very carefully and just a very few times.  this is illustrated in the hilarious picture below.  (and no this is not an insult to brown haired greens, because i am one)

The next step is kind of hard to explain and i don't even really know how exactly to do this.  It just comes from  trial and error and so it may take you a couple of tries to do this next step.
  I can tell you this much: to just draw each side back/up, and laying the curls down on your head from behind your bangs and arranging then after pinning in the back... of course i don't have to tell you to do one side at a time, the picture above is just showing you that for, you know, purposes.
The drawing below does not have any curls so you'll be able to see better what is going on so the part that sticks out on the forehead will be shorter when curled and you don't have to pin or have curl in the exact same places.  Do whats best according to experience and your hair type. 



This gives you a very rough idea of whats going on here. 
Remember to pin each side back far onto the head.  I mean back, I'm talking close to the middle part. the curls will spread onto your head.

 Spray this front part thoroughly with hairspray.

  Also remember that there can and needs to be some volume on the sides, which is part of the reason why we twisted it.  We don't want it to be very flat on the sides and then tall on the head, its not flattering to ones face.

  I hope these posts helped.  I did the set last night and then the style this morning just to make sure i hadn't skipped anything or left any important details out so there are a few revisions to Part 1.
 
  I hope you have a wonderful day!
  So long,
  Beth

Easy, Authentic, Everyday 1940s Hair Part 1: The Set

I thought I'd take a moment to share with you just a little more about 1940s everyday hair.   I gave you 2 options on how to do it on my Monday post.  I mentioned that sometime i might show ya'll how i do it most of the time, so here it is. 
I usually have my hair damp after a shower, but if i didnt get a very good set the day before then i will use a little fingertip sprayer to dampen each section of hair  and then work a little setting lotion through it before rolling.  I use Proclaim Super Setting Lotion (i got it from Sally Beauty Supply) Its not a concentrate so i dont have to dilute it which i like. 
For the front of my hair i use size medium foam (or sponge) rollers. (i got them from Dollar General)  In the back, it varies.  Sometimes i do pin curls or other foam rollers, really anything.  on my cleaning days i leave the back straight and put it up in a scarf.  It's so cute!
Anyway, just to give you a heads up, my drawings are really bad (i did them on the camputer) so try not to laugh too hard.  Hopefully you'll be able to get the just of it, which is really all that matters, right?

For the front, i use 12 sponge rollers (medium) which is perfect for my just-brushing-my-shoulder length hair.  Its also not damaged at all (the only heat stuff i own is a curling iron and hot rollers, which i never use) and it also doesnt have any color in it and its very straight.    This makes it really really hard to curl and then maintain that set through the day.  Use however many rollers you need.  After all, you know best about your hair thickness and length, but the main goal is to have tons of tiny curls.
I start with a middle part and section off a part from middle part down to my ear.  Do this on both sides and tie of the back with a hairband or something.
Then i take my eyebrow length bangs, part them in the middle and roll each side towards the middle part.  (If you dont have bangs thats fine, just divide your top hair into two.)  Roll your bangs very very TIGHTLY.   You want these to really curl so that when you brush them they dont turn into a lopsided mess.
Continue in this manner with the rest of the hair, rolling towards the part very tightly and on-base.(make sure the top rollers are close together and the rollers with bangs in them not on your forehead very much at all.)

I think you get the picture...
Ha ha. :/

Like i said, with the back you can do anything you want, i'm just focusing on the importance of the front set.
I always set my hair overnight so this is when i would sit and read a book for a while to let it dry better and then cover it with a scarf and go to bed.
Thats all for now.  Tomorrow we'll go into the actuall style.
Also remember to add more rollers if your hair is SUPER thick and less if its thinner.
(wow.  Its storming and the thunder sounds cool. )
Its rattling the windows and vibrating the floor its so loud and low!
Cool huh?  Doris and Dee Dee (my dogs) are kind of going nuts.
Anyway... I hope this helps!
Until tomorrow,
So long,
Beth

Easy, Authentic, Everyday 1940s Hair

Hello there everyone!  I hope you all had a good Easter.  Now its Monday and after a 3 day weekend its a little harder to go back to work but it helps if you have a not only easy and quick, but authentic vintage hairstyle to brighten up the day. 
Its so easy and it keeps my hair out of my face.  Sometimes i use a snood, sometimes not.  Usually i just leave it plain or use a pretty headband or something.  It's so 40s!
Here i have a video by Ashely from LisaFreemontStreet on YouTube and a link from Solanah at Vixen Vintage  to help you get the basic idea of how to do it.  I have been doing this style for a while now and i will probably , sometime down the road, post a little tutorial on how i do it.
TIP: It helps to hold the side sections straight out from your head, twist a couple times and then pin it. 

~Snoods on the Job 

~ How Solanah Does 1940s Hair