The first (and easiest) one I came across is the Rosie the riveter look. Simply pop all the hair into a headscarf leaving the fringe poking out. Here's a great video from Susie Brown of the JaneDear Girls:
Short hair also lends itself very well to finger waving.
Here's a great tutorial for quick and easy finger waves:
Pin-curling is also great for short hair that may be too short to put rollers in properly. Here's a fantastic tutorial from Super Kawaii Mama:
Once curls have been achieved you can style your hair in a number of styles from victory rolls (which I find easier with short hair)
I also checked out old starlets for short hair inspiration and came across these fabulous styles:
Casey from Casey's Elegant Musings
or the pompadour (with the help of a hair fringe insert if you have a short fringe like me)I also checked out old starlets for short hair inspiration and came across these fabulous styles:
Audrey Hepburn
Elizabeth Taylor
Ava Gardner
And finally I searched for inspiration from fellow bloggers:
Bex from Subversive Lesbian Anarchic Femme
Totally printing out that Audrey pic as inspiration for when I next go to the hairdressers! Do you know what movie/era that was from so I can look up pictures of the hair in a less styled way to get an idea of how it should be cut and layered?
ReplyDeleteFunny, now that I think about it many of her films use the transition from long to short hair as a marker of growing up and becoming sophisticated (Sabrina, Roman Holiday) - this is a new argument I can use when people say short hair isn't sexy!
Ah, perfect! I sent this to somebody who asked about short vintage hair recently.
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ReplyDeleteI think it might be from Sabrina but i'm not sure if it is cut short or just put up at the back. There are a lot of pictures of Audrey with short hair on google images though. x
Hi Michelle
Glad that people want to read what i'm writing. Thanks for passing this along! x
Love the pictures of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ava Gardner. Such stunning vintage photographs!
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