The Purple Wedding Dress - Hair Accessories

Next up, a little hair flower magic! #mydailysew #vintagehair

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Instagram Friday

Birthday pincurl set! :-) #vintagehair

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Instagram Friday

New flower hair clips for my booth! They are so happy and colorful and spring-like, in contrast to the cold and rainy outside. :-)

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My Vintage Middy Haircut

 

Have you ever had a haircut where you suddenly feel like, yes! This is the hair I am supposed to have! Well I'm pleased to say I think I finally have that cut.

I've been toying with the idea of getting the actual middy cut for a while now, reading all the blogs of others who have done it, watched youtube videos and more. (Just Google it and you should find quite a bit!) The only thing that kept me back was knowing it isn't a wash and wear style, it needs to be styled and shaped. But, I've been wanting to do vintage styled hair more regularly, and I knew this would push me to have to do pincurls more regularly. So, I decided to go for it!

As I mentioned on my Vintage Hair Pinspiration post, I was lucky enough to have my long time friend as my hair dresser for many years, but she's moving away! So I thought it would be fun, for my last cut with her, to go a little crazy and go for the true middy cut. I sent her an overload of info the week before my cut, lol, with videos and links and diagrams, and explained what I was looking for. She did an excellent job of extrapolating from that what we needed.

I came in with my naturally curly hair brushed out, it tends to do a little flip on the end. The cut I've had for a long while is an inverted bob, longest in front. Here are my before pics!

This is how I'd pretty much always wear it, pulled back.

Because of this cut, it was a bit shorter in the back at the nape of my neck than the traditional middy, which is about 4 inches and longest in the middle, so we just had to work with what was there. What I have is probably closer to the Baby at this point, but I plan on growing it a bit longer. Mostly, I wanted the rounded shape towards the front, and blunt layers for the pin curling.

We had a good laugh during the cut as the super straight across, blunt layers looked a little crazy unstyled, especially in my thick, course hair. But once we were done with the cut, I actually went ahead and did a dry pin curl set (with some spritz of water here and there) and sat under a heater to set it a bit. Then the fun part, we took it out. I LOVED the results, the curls fell just as I had always wanted them to without much effort at all.

I took these pics as soon as I got home!

 

 

You can see the drastically different shape compared to my inverted bob here!

 

 

 

This was the next day

And then that night I did a wet set of pin curls (not completely wet, of course, just damp after having washed my hair.) My hair really loves to hold onto curl, so I knew these curls were going to be pretty tight, and therefore short.

I was not wrong, lol.

It felt SOOOO short, but I love how easy it is to just take out pin curls and voila, curly vintage hair!

Another great thing about this cut, PERFECT hat hair (in a good way, lol.) It's flat on the crown so a hat will sit just right without smashing curls. Yay hats!!!

I'm still playing and learning what else I can do, but overall I'm so so pleased with this cut, and with how it takes the pin curls. I really feel at home with this cut, it feels like me! I love it!

Pinspiration Monday - Hair Accessories

I'm still on a hair kick right now, enjoying the honeymoon with my new cut. I am just beyond thrilled with it, and I can't wait to share more details in an upcoming post!

One of the things I'm getting used to is having shorter hair in the front. For the longest time, I've had an inverted bob type cut, with the longest hair at the front. That allowed me to do a lot of fun things with the longer hair (victory rolls, etc) but I could never really figure out ways to use those small little clips and barrettes that looked good with it. Now, though, with the shorter hair in front, I'm loving small little dainty hair accessories that can just clip right in the front to hold up a curl with no fuss and look adorable. Here are some fun hair accessory ideas I've been eyeing!

 

 

 

 

Of course, I still love my flowers too, they look just as good as the little dainty clips in my new 'do. :-)

 

 

 

 

 

Pinspiration Monday - Vintage Hair

I'm getting my hair cut later this week, so hair is on my mind! I've been so lucky to have my long time friend (we've known each other since middle school!) cut my hair for several years now. It's been great to have someone I know I can trust to deal with my naturally curly hair, to go with me (and has the training for curls!) when I want to go natural, and to go with me when I'm feeling like doing more vintage styles and adapting accordingly. This week is my last cut with her, though, because she's moving across the country! I'm going to miss both her talent and having a regular excuse to catch up.

I'll probably do a more detailed post about my cut after it's done, but basically I am going to be asking for a cut specifically meant for pin curls and vintage styles, so in the meantime here are some of the lovely styles that inspire me. :-)

I have to start, of course, with Marilyn!

 

 

Jayne Mansfield

 

Ava Gardner

Betty Grable and June Haver

Some modern gals with vintage style!

 

 

 

 

 And finally, here's a diagram with different style icons from back in the day, and what cuts and pin curl sets to do to get their look, isn't this cool?

 

 

 

Looking forward to my cut this week, I'm sure there will be a blog with before and after shots coming up. :-)