Yesterday I played around with some vintage hair waving clips I picked up at Sacramento Antiques last month. Remember these?…
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| 1930s aluminum hair waving clips, and dog hair. |
I used them on one side of my part, and did finger waves on the other, to see how each side would compare. Here is the side with the clips:
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| The side with the vintage wave clips – made pretty tight waves, but if they were placed further apart, it would be a softer wave. This took all four clips to wave on this side. |
Here is the side with the finger waves:
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| The side with the finger waves. I was proud of m finger waves when they were wet and clipped in place, but as soon as I combed them out my hard work mostly went. :- |
I was really pleased with how the clipped side came out, and how well the waves stayed in the hair. The finger waves mostly combed out.
I haven’t done any vintage style photos lately, so I thought I’d revive that interest, and make a slightly more interesting blogpost than just snapshots. I hope you like 🙂
25 Comments
Anonymous
March 9, 2012 at 11:04 PMGorgeous– would you do a post on how you used the clips?
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 10:58 PMYes, I will do a quick little tutorial soon
Eileen
March 9, 2012 at 11:39 PMWell done! I have a collection of Deco hair waving items, but only *one* of those clips. And that's a pity, because I too find that they do a good job of waving.
Beautiful photos, too. Really lovely.
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 10:59 PMThey really are pretty effective. Four isn't nearly enough, let alone just one
Jenni
March 10, 2012 at 12:01 AMBefore I read the post, when I first just glanced at the pictures, I seriously thought these were antique photos of someone! I would say you nailed it! 🙂
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 10:59 PMThank you!
ZipZip
March 10, 2012 at 2:27 AMThe waves are wonderful, as are the photos. Any chance they have such things now?
Very best,
Natalie
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 11:00 PMI haven't found anything like the spring-loaded wave clips made today, but they do have these available at beauty supply stores: http://www.jinnysmall.com/product_images/v/725/pg-32-Weave4__68102_zoom.gif
Not quite the same thing, they're used for holding the ridges in finger waves, and do a pretty good job of it, but they don't create the wave itself.
Cynthia Griffith
March 10, 2012 at 3:05 AMBeautiful photos!
Solanah
March 10, 2012 at 5:00 AMFabulous! They look so much simpler than fingerwaves and marcel wavers. I've got to keep my eye out for those treasures. Also, I scrolled down the entire post looking for your result photos, and then realized those pictures I thought were of a deco starlet was you!
xoxo
Solanah
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 11:01 PMSolanah, you will loooove these, and I'm sure you'll find some in your vintage travels. They are a lot easier than the other methods, and so much better than heat styling, for your hair.
The Laced Angel
March 10, 2012 at 8:24 AMYou should bring one of those down to Gaskells next month so I can take a closer look at it. I'd like to see if it would be possible for me to make reproductions at work.
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 11:02 PMRemind me and I'll pop one into my bag. I'd check patents for them, before reproducing them, though. You already know that 🙂
Kleidung um 1800
March 10, 2012 at 1:02 PMThe photos are absolutely AMAZING!!! You truly captured the look and style of the bygone photographie!!!
Sabine
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 11:02 PMThank you so much <3
Anonymous
March 10, 2012 at 2:38 PMLovely! Was that your camera or your computer that made those awesome photos? Must…get…hands…on…that…program….! The wavers really did work well didn't they!
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 11:05 PMNo, not the camera, but what was done in post, in Photoshop. I use Lightroom, then Photoshop, and Silver FX within Photoshop, and then a combination of various hand-done effects, like creating the soft focus, the scratches and knicks, the dirt splatters, subtle fading and color changing. It takes a little while to do each one, and lots of studying of original old photos, and really looking to see all the ways they've been damaged over the years.
Anonymous
March 10, 2012 at 5:34 PMwould you do a post on how you used the clips?
+10000! It's thery intresting!!!
Lauren R
March 10, 2012 at 11:05 PMYes, I will do a post soon on how to use the clips
Lauren
March 11, 2012 at 12:38 AMYou look amazing!!!!
Lucy
March 11, 2012 at 8:50 PMSuch a beautiful hairstyle (: Looks really good !
M'lady
March 15, 2012 at 11:08 AMI wish they still made them as it is I tend to resort to lots of product and 'short hair' (thin) straighteners and bobby pins to create waves…and they ever look authentic like yours do.
Skye
March 17, 2012 at 2:42 PMThese seem amazing… I think I'm going to hunt second hand shops and markets hoping to find them…
Lucia
May 10, 2012 at 5:51 PMI cant believe the waves!… but mostly, I cant believe the photos, "vintage" styled photos usually come across as corny and overdone, but yours are so delicate and beautiful.
Amanda Pandora
August 5, 2012 at 1:15 AMThe photos you took were taken with old cameras or they were edited in photoshop?
if you used photoshop, you could teach us how to do effects in a tutorial?
thanks.