The Last Time I Got Scotch Tape In MY Hair, I Was Wrapping Christmas Presents, And Ken Had To Cut The Strip Out With Scissors And It Hurt Like Hell

Doing your 'do...compliments of 3M!

From 1968: More Chicks With Roller Sets!

Ingenue
December 1968

I had never heard of Ingenue until today; apparently it was a very popular magazine for teenaged girls in the '50s and '60s.

Is Twiggy the model in the first photo?

More Bonnet Beauty

1960s

More From Schick: Gorgeous Suzy Parker

Here, Suzy shows the world that having your hair in curlers and drying it with your hairdryer is no excuse to forgo the glamour. By all means, have a full face of makeup, a perfect manicure, and lounge in an all-white ensemble! Talk on your super space-age silver phone!

From 1965: Setting Your Curls Using Space-Age Technology!

Just for The Gals Of The Space Era: a portable hair dryer from Schick that is portable enough to bring along on the next rocket headed to the moon! Lunar landings are no excuse for a girl to have less-than-perfect curls, and we hear that astronauts prefer girls who wear their hair in a flip!

And hey, you double-clickers: be sure to catch the comment about The Beverly Hillbillies.

Continuing Our Weeklong Tribute To Girls In Curlers: Madge!

No exact dates given for these; they are all from "the 60s."

I long for the days when a weekly trip to the beauty parlor for your bouffant and your manicure was the norm. There is something so ladylike about it, so inherently feminine. Like a right that was taken away from us, somehow.

From 1976: You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman...Through The Magic Of A Lower pH Perm

Modern Beauty Shop

May 1976

It is now officially my goal in life to own that bonnet in time for Halloween, so I can go as "that woman in the La Maur, Inc., ad in Modern Beauty Shop back in May of 1976. You know, with the scientific thermal processing system."

Doing Her 'Do And A Facial Masque, Too!

1960s

I imagine that this image was snapped as she was having a day of beauty at Elizabeth Arden. Her husband was taking her to dinner at Maxwell's Plum that night, and then afterward, The Fantasticks, and she wanted to look her absolute best.

From 1964: Tip Top Hair Toppers

Pay special attention to the Coiffure Cap in the center. After all, a girl shouldn't forget to be glamourous just because she's setting her hair in curlers! Why, that Coiffure Cap is elegant enough for evening wear. An Oleg Cassini gown and a Coiffure Cap!

Announcing A Touch Of Tuesday Weld's Weeklong Tribute To Girls In Curlers!

Ladies' Home Journal

December 1963

About a month ago, I got a new haircut. Eschewing my locks that I had grown to look just like Grace Slick's at Monterey Pop, I now have a layered cut that, I must admit, looks much much better and has a great deal more bounce and movement. And it is fun to have bouncy hair again; so much fun, in fact, that I am blonder again. My head feels lighter, my mood feels the same.

I've also taken a renewed interest in styling my bouncier, blonder tresses. Instead of letting it just hang loose or throwing it up in a clip, I have been straightening my hair, waving it...and setting it on hot rollers.

I'm in love with my hot rollers, actually. And I've gotten quite adept at doing a roller set on my hair, and I am thrilled with the results. It's a pain in the butt to roll my hair every day after I shampoo, but I am getting better at it each time, and it goes a little faster each time.

There's also something so lovely, so feminine, so retro about a roller set. For me, it harkens back to the days where housewives would spend hours at the beauty salon being worked upon by a "beauty operator" named Roz in a light pink smock at Monsieur George's House Of Coiffures. As I roll up my hair, I feel very Jackie Kennedy, very Laura Petrie. It makes me want to grab Ken and do the Twizzle.

McCalls
June 1963
(for gals who want to wear their curlers on the beach!)

September 1963
(You, too, can go a whole week without shampooing!)

By the way, I'm implementing my new policy at ATOTW: if it isn't an OUTSTANDING double-clicker with tons of readable detail, it ain't on the blog!