This is absolutely lovely, but the way you explained how we need to brush the hair into submission just cracked me up for some reason😄 I really like this video
My mother leaned to be a hair dresser in the late 1940's and I can't tell you how many times she pin-curled my hair and then sent me out to sit in the sun with a book on a small stool while my hair dried and she did the same to my sister. Then she would set her own and rush us all through getting ready to leave, drying her own hair in the open window of the car. Removal of the pins near the destination and a quick brush and she had beautiful hair. Years later, for my college graduation a friend wanted a curly style for her hair and I suggested pin curls....and set her hair. A scarf kept the pins in place overnight and she had riotous curls under her cap. Thanks for bringing up that lovely memory.
Women spend much more time today. Back then they often did overnight curls and just a tad of lipstick, if any. Maybe a dab of powder. It's a misconception that they wore a lot of makeup and spent a lot of time on the hair. Nowadays... well.. Foundation, blush, lipliner, eyebrows, baking, highlighting etc etc etc..
@@Amoroussparkle not to mention extremely complex skincare routines, hair care routines, hair styling and upkeep if you dye your hair, etc also we now shave a LOT more than we used to, especially pubic hair, which wasnt a trend until the late 90s. our beauty standards are even more unrealistic, esp. with the trend of "slim thick" which usually requires fat transfer surgery and lipsuction for the average woman to achieve... on the bright side, women get to do all of the housework/childrearing AND juggle a job on top of that. woohoo?
it’s a LOT of work not just effort and a bit of trying. If I had someone who basically owned me, through marriage, finances all the beauty stuff, gives me a huge allowance and my job was the house, kids and looking pretty. Then it’s certainly achievable. Still I’d rather spend my time being my own rich man and doing hours of doing hair like this for a wedding or a birthday.
I never even realized there was such an art to pin curling. Whenever my mom would pin curl my hair she would do them all tight to my scalp in random directions evenly across my head and when they came out I'd look a bit like a poodle (an adorable poodle, and my hair could never keep a curl very long anyway, haha) and I would wonder how on earth these ladies back in the 40s or whenever got their hair to look so elegant and put together. Now I know.
You are an artist! I used to watch my grandmother doing her hair and was fascinated at how she did a beehive so perfectly. I would also watch her as a little boy applying her makeup early in the morning, putting on her fragrances, and picking which stilettos to wear. This is so fascinating and beautiful and this should be an art forever preserved. Thank you for posting!
I have just learned that all the times I failed and then gave up on curling my hair with a wet set is because I didn't brush it enough.... 'brush your hair into submission' is such a powerful line.
Retired after doing hair for 47 years (4 yrs ago); got my license in 1969. Beauty school was all older ladies and all pin curls, very few roller sets even then. I continued doing pin curls on people until I retired. I had several older women that NEVER changed their style! I remember doing my grandma's hair in pin curls....forward / reverse waves all over. One day we went over to my aunts and she was there and my aunt was putting rollers in her hair!! I said what the heck grandma....she said I needed the practice...lol By the way, the only way to make those styles stay is to use a styling lotion that was the consistency of 'snot'...and that's what we called it...
I learned Cosmetology in the 90s. We first learned finger waves, pin curls and roller sets. Setting all the hair with that "snot" we called lacquer spent hrs practicing as the practical part of our state test depended on it. Pin curls were my favorite. A good set could last a week.
I wore my hair like this to my 1998 prom. I wore a long strapless black velvet dress with feather boa and long black satin gloves. This was my favorite prom look. I’m lucky enough to have wavy hair , so I could get this look with hot curlers and hairspray only.
I just noticed those pin-curl clips have a large gap for the curl to rest in! So cool! If you use regular clips, you're only supposed to pin the end of the hair on the inside of the curl, if you pin across the whole curl then you get a funny crimp that sets into the hair. Around 9:15 you can see on the top right where the pins left their mark. That curl was pinned with the pin upside down at 8:38 so the notch in the pin wasn't able to do it's job. The finished style was done beautifully though, you can't tell. Great job!
I pincurled my hair overnight, every night, when I was in junior high. I used my finger to wrap around, not a device. In high school rollers were the thing. One avante guard girl actually had a blow dried blunt cut.
this is still a gorgeous way to style hair. I do a pin curl set on all my curly hair clients who wear their hair curly. I don’t brush them out and it creates beautiful defined curls. It’s also a nice break when I have a busy day and can take a break from blow drying. I have never seen a pin curler like that though! I always do it with my fingers.
I had to look this up because I LOVE the styles back then. So feminine e and beautiful. We try to out our own spin on it each century, but the original is my favorite. Oh, and, my maiden name is primrose!!
Best and most clear wet set instructions I have come across! I love how this tutorial really illustrates the written instructions on the vintage hairstyling blog. Seriously, great job!
We learned these techniques in cosmetology school back in the 90s and it was fun. I did finger waves on my nieces for my wedding as they were my little flower girls. It was all everyone talked about. So romantic and feminine. I chucked my flat iron years ago and go with the flow of my hair now.
I came here for a Heather Chandler hair reference and was not disappointed. I love the detailed explanations! The visuals are super helpful. Thank you for this!
This is a wonderful tutorial which I have watched several times now. I don’t always do pin curls, but when I do do them I try very hard to do them exactly like this video, the thing I struggle the most with is the skip wave at the back of my head (it’s just so difficult to be neat back there) and the second thing I struggle with is getting that beautiful wave coming together when I do the brush out. However, I shall keep at it.💪🏻
As with everything, keep at it! I've also found it's good practice to style someone else's hair to help get the muscle memory to then do the style on yourself blindly at the back.
What you did was perfect. I thank you. What I have read over the years about old Hollywood was that after the set and it was bone dry the hair dresser would take a curling iron to smooth out any imperfections. This also resulted in calming the set down making it look smooth .
OMG. That style is is fantastically fabulous! That pomade adds a shine, and those curls so deep set! And the hold is remarkable! Wow!!! Thank you for sharing!! So beautiful!!!
@@Beteljess probably because she was “distracting the boys from their work...” I mean; if that’s not a teenage girls job idk what is? Someone’s gotta prepare them for college girls 🤣 Plus: people love blaming pretty girls and women for petty crap.
I remember setting my hair in pin curls using just my fingers and sleeping with them overnight. That was before brush rollers. Then I’d set my hair in them and sleep with them overnight. Took a little getting used to that.
You did an amazing job explaining these steps while educating us what things are called. Great pace and everything. Thank you for your video and your time, my favorite tutorial video on these hairstyles by far. Have a great day!!! Chau 💕
@Lauren Rennells Thank you and Beautiful detail! I feel the hardest part of any curl set is the division of hair at the base which I see no one ever elaborating on.
I LOVE this tutorial! It looks like I've been doing everything right until it gets to the brushing. I didn't brush and control it enough. So it never turned out the way I wanted. Thank you so much!!!
Oh gosh! This takes so much time and patience! I cannot imagine doing this myself, trying to get those pin curls just right. Another person would have to be doing it for me.
I love pin curls. My mother said she wore them and when we all were born she gave us pin curls. I love the ones around my face because they added depth and volume
It’s great to see how you use this tool. Yet I prefer seeing hair done by yourself on yourself then on a model it’s much more realistic to what I would see working on myself.
This is the best tutorial I've seen! the explanations are clear and the visual is extra! the only problem is that I have the hair that reaches my chin and I can not find a good vintage tutorial! So if one day it tempts you to make one You would make me very happy!
So informative and I really want to do this style now! :) But this also shows how lazy I am when I do pin-curls and why they only last about 2 days. I do it dry and overnight, with just bobbypins, a silk kerchief and nothing else. Lesson learned haha
Extremely lovely, thank you for sharing your expertise. Your model is stunning and I love her vintage look make up. I especially love your red hair. ♥️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I am just getting into Pin Curls on myself. I love them! I learned really a lot from this and I am looking forward to try it out. I will try to get the book too, it looks awesome :) thank you!
2:38 WARNING: don't buy any hair dryer made before 1979, as it is HIGHLY likely to contain asbestos (used as a heat-resistant material). I was about to buy a vintage hair dryer recently when I came across another vintage RUclipsr who mentioned this. I'm so glad I found out in time, or I could have been blowing asbestos fibers into the air around me every week!
@@LaurenRennells You're welcome! Yes, it was Miss Victory Violet. She mentioned she'd heard that some vintage hooded dryers had this danger. I then searched online for more info and found a number of articles about it. I was also surprised to learn that asbestos was apparently used in many vintage electronics (ovens, radios, etc...). Disappointing for me since I love true vintage, but of course not worth the risk. Yay for repro!
I can not thank you enough for this tutorial!!! Everythimg is so clear and now I know exactly how to do that!!! YAY!!! Thank You SO much!!!( I LOVE the 40s/50s!!). 😃💙
Thank you for explaining the pomade situation! Most instruction just say “just use a small amount of pomade” but don’t say how or when! So frustrating!!
BEST, most beautiful hair tutorial I've ever seen. I want to wear my hair like this as my signature hair and this will absolutely help me achieve great practice💗💗💗 THANK YOU, gorgeous woman 😘❣
Need more videos like this...enjoyed it! Bought the newest edition of Vintage Hairstyling a month or two ago but have yet to set my hair...like seeing it in video form. Thank you!
This is absolutely lovely, but the way you explained how we need to brush the hair into submission just cracked me up for some reason😄
I really like this video
My mother leaned to be a hair dresser in the late 1940's and I can't tell you how many times she pin-curled my hair and then sent me out to sit in the sun with a book on a small stool while my hair dried and she did the same to my sister. Then she would set her own and rush us all through getting ready to leave, drying her own hair in the open window of the car. Removal of the pins near the destination and a quick brush and she had beautiful hair. Years later, for my college graduation a friend wanted a curly style for her hair and I suggested pin curls....and set her hair. A scarf kept the pins in place overnight and she had riotous curls under her cap. Thanks for bringing up that lovely memory.
sspinnr- lovely story thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing! This made me so happy
sspinnr Thank you for sharing this wonderful memory from your childhood, how very special!
Aw, that’s really admirable
I loved reading this. Takes me back to the days of drying my hair over the register. Things used to be more simple.
I admire women’s effort back then
Women spend much more time today. Back then they often did overnight curls and just a tad of lipstick, if any. Maybe a dab of powder. It's a misconception that they wore a lot of makeup and spent a lot of time on the hair. Nowadays... well.. Foundation, blush, lipliner, eyebrows, baking, highlighting etc etc etc..
@@Amoroussparkle not to mention extremely complex skincare routines, hair care routines, hair styling and upkeep if you dye your hair, etc also we now shave a LOT more than we used to, especially pubic hair, which wasnt a trend until the late 90s. our beauty standards are even more unrealistic, esp. with the trend of "slim thick" which usually requires fat transfer surgery and lipsuction for the average woman to achieve... on the bright side, women get to do all of the housework/childrearing AND juggle a job on top of that. woohoo?
it’s a LOT of work not just effort and a bit of trying. If I had someone who basically owned me, through marriage, finances all the beauty stuff, gives me a huge allowance and my job was the house, kids and looking pretty. Then it’s certainly achievable. Still I’d rather spend my time being my own rich man and doing hours of doing hair like this for a wedding or a birthday.
Amoroussparkle EXACTLY
How do you maintain a hairstyle like this without having to re-do it every night? Like two or three day hair?
This is probably the absolute best vintage hair styling tutorial I have ever watched. Makes it all crystal clear ! Amazing job.
Lisa Antonelli
I'm totally agree
Her book is just as detailed!
I fully agree!
Simply brilliant. Step by step.
I'm such a visual person, these charts and illustrations are INSANELY helpful. It saves me from having to sketch it myself.
Wouldn’t the tutorial without the diagrams still be visual
Me too , very helpful
When women said they were staying in to wash their hair- they really meant it!
I never even realized there was such an art to pin curling. Whenever my mom would pin curl my hair she would do them all tight to my scalp in random directions evenly across my head and when they came out I'd look a bit like a poodle (an adorable poodle, and my hair could never keep a curl very long anyway, haha) and I would wonder how on earth these ladies back in the 40s or whenever got their hair to look so elegant and put together. Now I know.
You are an artist! I used to watch my grandmother doing her hair and was fascinated at how she did a beehive so perfectly. I would also watch her as a little boy applying her makeup early in the morning, putting on her fragrances, and picking which stilettos to wear. This is so fascinating and beautiful and this should be an art forever preserved. Thank you for posting!
I have just learned that all the times I failed and then gave up on curling my hair with a wet set is because I didn't brush it enough.... 'brush your hair into submission' is such a powerful line.
Retired after doing hair for 47 years (4 yrs ago); got my license in 1969. Beauty school was all older ladies and all pin curls, very few roller sets even then. I continued doing pin curls on people until I retired. I had several older women that NEVER changed their style! I remember doing my grandma's hair in pin curls....forward / reverse waves all over. One day we went over to my aunts and she was there and my aunt was putting rollers in her hair!! I said what the heck grandma....she said I needed the practice...lol By the way, the only way to make those styles stay is to use a styling lotion that was the consistency of 'snot'...and that's what we called it...
DIPPITY DOO.
@@aw3271 Thanks.
@@aw3271 ,
REEEALLY?!! THANKS! 💖🙌🙌🙌😺
I learned Cosmetology in the 90s. We first learned finger waves, pin curls and roller sets. Setting all the hair with that "snot" we called lacquer spent hrs practicing as the practical part of our state test depended on it. Pin curls were my favorite. A good set could last a week.
@@bobcharlie2337 do you know if this particular hairstyle with the pin curl method is achievable for very long hair (around 30”)?
I recently did this and posted my results on Instagram. I’m trying it again tonight, don’t give up if pincurls are hard at first
I remember this well I'm 68 and my mom always pin curled our hair those were the days and I truly miss them especially now days
I wore my hair like this to my 1998 prom. I wore a long strapless black velvet dress with feather boa and long black satin gloves. This was my favorite prom look. I’m lucky enough to have wavy hair , so I could get this look with hot curlers and hairspray only.
I just noticed those pin-curl clips have a large gap for the curl to rest in! So cool! If you use regular clips, you're only supposed to pin the end of the hair on the inside of the curl, if you pin across the whole curl then you get a funny crimp that sets into the hair. Around 9:15 you can see on the top right where the pins left their mark. That curl was pinned with the pin upside down at 8:38 so the notch in the pin wasn't able to do it's job. The finished style was done beautifully though, you can't tell. Great job!
This takes me back to beauty school. I got my license in 1970. We still did a lot of pin curl styles then. Thank you for sharing.
I pincurled my hair overnight, every night, when I was in junior high.
I used my finger to wrap around, not a device.
In high school rollers were the thing.
One avante guard girl actually had a blow dried blunt cut.
this is still a gorgeous way to style hair. I do a pin curl set on all my curly hair clients who wear their hair curly. I don’t brush them out and it creates beautiful defined curls. It’s also a nice break when I have a busy day and can take a break from blow drying. I have never seen a pin curler like that though! I always do it with my fingers.
This is an ART! Beautiful work, great explanation. Thank you!
This is the hairstyle I want when I get married 😍
Oh my, if you like retro hairdos look at more old pictures. There are even better dos.
First vintage stylist I've seen that is good wet set really is the way to go no setting lotion and the hair just falls out amazing job
I had to look this up because I LOVE the styles back then. So feminine e and beautiful. We try to out our own spin on it each century, but the original is my favorite. Oh, and, my maiden name is primrose!!
Oh my lawd I want that pin curl device so bad!!
Witty Vixen it is very useful ‘it’s true
I've got 3, I never knew How to use it. Now I know.
Best and most clear wet set instructions I have come across! I love how this tutorial really illustrates the written instructions on the vintage hairstyling blog. Seriously, great job!
Brillant!
Wow.... that pin curl brush would have been a LIFESAVER in beauty school!! I am buying one ASAP!
THIS IS THE BEST TUTORIAL IVE EVER WATCHED, yet it took me 4 hours...
We learned these techniques in cosmetology school back in the 90s and it was fun. I did finger waves on my nieces for my wedding as they were my little flower girls. It was all everyone talked about. So romantic and feminine. I chucked my flat iron years ago and go with the flow of my hair now.
This hairstyle was always a mistery for me.Untill today!!!!😀👏👏👏
I came here for a Heather Chandler hair reference and was not disappointed. I love the detailed explanations! The visuals are super helpful. Thank you for this!
This is a wonderful tutorial which I have watched several times now. I don’t always do pin curls, but when I do do them I try very hard to do them exactly like this video, the thing I struggle the most with is the skip wave at the back of my head (it’s just so difficult to be neat back there) and the second thing I struggle with is getting that beautiful wave coming together when I do the brush out. However, I shall keep at it.💪🏻
As with everything, keep at it! I've also found it's good practice to style someone else's hair to help get the muscle memory to then do the style on yourself blindly at the back.
I still remember my mother doing this all the time, beautiful Auburn hair.
What you did was perfect. I thank you. What I have read over the years about old Hollywood was that after the set and it was bone dry the hair dresser would take a curling iron to smooth out any imperfections. This also resulted in calming the set down making it look smooth .
This looks like the style Grace Kelly wore ❤ absolutely gorgeous.
Love that rolling tool! I can see how that would make it much easier to achieve a perfect curl every time.
OMG. That style is is fantastically fabulous! That pomade adds a shine, and those curls so deep set! And the hold is remarkable! Wow!!! Thank you for sharing!! So beautiful!!!
This is by far the most clear and precise pincurl tutorial I have seen on RUclips. I hit subscribe so fast.
In high school I did my hair just like this and wore a vintage stewardess uniform. The teachers hated it but the boys loved it.
What why did the teachers hate it
@@Beteljess probably because she was “distracting the boys from their work...” I mean; if that’s not a teenage girls job idk what is? Someone’s gotta prepare them for college girls 🤣
Plus: people love blaming pretty girls and women for petty crap.
It used to amaze me how fast my mom could set her hair in pin curls. She used nothing but a comb and bobby pins.
My mother put her hair in pin curls every night of her life and she was terribly glamorous. I remember all the diagrams for setting in her magazines .
This was so informative and soothing at the same time :)
Absolutely love your tutorials. I'm dying for more 1940 inspired styles!
I remember setting my hair in pin curls using just my fingers and sleeping with them overnight. That was before brush rollers. Then I’d set my hair in them and sleep with them overnight. Took a little getting used to that.
You did an amazing job explaining these steps while educating us what things are called. Great pace and everything. Thank you for your video and your time, my favorite tutorial video on these hairstyles by far. Have a great day!!! Chau 💕
@Lauren Rennells Thank you and Beautiful detail! I feel the hardest part of any curl set is the division of hair at the base which I see no one ever elaborating on.
Thank you!
This is exactly the type of content i was looking for. Love It. Inmediate fan.
Possibly the most satisfying video on RUclips. 😍
Wow, thanks! I'll have to make more like it. 🙂
I LOVE this tutorial! It looks like I've been doing everything right until it gets to the brushing. I didn't brush and control it enough. So it never turned out the way I wanted. Thank you so much!!!
Oh gosh! This takes so much time and patience! I cannot imagine doing this myself, trying to get those pin curls just right. Another person would have to be doing it for me.
I love pin curls. My mother said she wore them and when we all were born she gave us pin curls. I love the ones around my face because they added depth and volume
Thank you so much for doing this video. I have been look for an instructional video on this hairstyle for weeks. 😁
The best tutorial about vintage hairstyle I've seen but thats a lot of work!
I just got my Roll & Go in the mail today as a late Christmas gift I’m SO excited to use it 😍😩
The result of this was absolutely lovely! I will certainly be trying this.
This was the most helpful and clear tutorial I've ever watched, I'm so happy I've found your channel!
This is good the first good vintage set I've seen and I've watched lots this is how my great gran used to do it for me great job
It’s great to see how you use this tool. Yet I prefer seeing hair done by yourself on yourself then on a model it’s much more realistic to what I would see working on myself.
I wish I could. My hair is currently short. :/
Amazing video! Thank you can’t wait to rock this for my musical !
This is the best tutorial I've seen! the explanations are clear and the visual is extra! the only problem is that I have the hair that reaches my chin and I can not find a good vintage tutorial! So if one day it tempts you to make one You would make me very happy!
I will use this as my go to curl set
So informative and I really want to do this style now! :) But this also shows how lazy I am when I do pin-curls and why they only last about 2 days. I do it dry and overnight, with just bobbypins, a silk kerchief and nothing else. Lesson learned haha
You are a master! This is lovely, thank you.
Extremely lovely, thank you for sharing your expertise. Your model is stunning and I love her vintage look make up. I especially love your red hair. ♥️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I would like to thank you so much for showing and teaching ❤️❤️❤️
That model is drop dead gorgeous!
I am just getting into Pin Curls on myself. I love them! I learned really a lot from this and I am looking forward to try it out. I will try to get the book too, it looks awesome :)
thank you!
Simply …. beautiful! Thank you for posting! ❤
This is an amazing tutorial keep up these kind of videos!
2:38 WARNING: don't buy any hair dryer made before 1979, as it is HIGHLY likely to contain asbestos (used as a heat-resistant material).
I was about to buy a vintage hair dryer recently when I came across another vintage RUclipsr who mentioned this. I'm so glad I found out in time, or I could have been blowing asbestos fibers into the air around me every week!
That is a good piece of information to know. Thank you! Do you remember who the RUclipsr was that mentioned this?
@@LaurenRennells You're welcome! Yes, it was Miss Victory Violet. She mentioned she'd heard that some vintage hooded dryers had this danger. I then searched online for more info and found a number of articles about it.
I was also surprised to learn that asbestos was apparently used in many vintage electronics (ovens, radios, etc...). Disappointing for me since I love true vintage, but of course not worth the risk. Yay for repro!
I can not thank you enough for this tutorial!!! Everythimg is so clear and now I know exactly how to do that!!! YAY!!! Thank You SO much!!!( I LOVE the 40s/50s!!). 😃💙
Wow!
Excellent tutorial!
Beautiful finished hairstyle!
You made it simple and very clear. Thank you!
I love vintage hair it's so gerogous the way they do it you did a good job
Wonderful to see you you bring this back.
Thank you for explaining the pomade situation! Most instruction just say “just use a small amount of pomade” but don’t say how or when! So frustrating!!
I absolutely love how detailed this is!
Best vintage hairstyle video I’ve seen.
This is so comforting to watch
Amazing job Lauren!
Thank you!!
The model looks pretty 😍😍😍
when i was young and long hair I would pin curl it and wear it up was so pretty, pin curling is so easy
Amazing! The best vintage hairstyle tutorial ever, everything is perfectly explained and makes it super easy to achieve.
Great job!
This is gorgeous. I wish I had the patience to let my hair grow.
BEST, most beautiful hair tutorial I've ever seen. I want to wear my hair like this as my signature hair and this will absolutely help me achieve great practice💗💗💗 THANK YOU, gorgeous woman 😘❣
@Anastasia Chase,
I love the 'original' Barbies, too! 💖🙌🙌🙌😺
@@debracisneroshhp2827 Aren't they to-die for!!?😍😍😍😍🙈
Amazing! What an excellent tutorial! Thank you!,!
The model is so beautiful !
Need more videos like this...enjoyed it! Bought the newest edition of Vintage Hairstyling a month or two ago but have yet to set my hair...like seeing it in video form. Thank you!
Only thing, doing it for oneself is going to be very hard. X
I must have missed the explanation about the setting lotion, at which point of the process is it used? Wonderful video, thank you!
So glad I found your videos. You are amazing!❤️
Thank you so much!
Great thorough tutorial!
LOVED this, Lauren!!!
Hi Lauren. Where can I get the roll and go pin curl setter.
Wow, amazing tutorial. I just looked at your channel. I hope you keep putting out more vintage videos.
I'm so gonna try this on my hair.
Great tutorial and wonderful work, I'm doing a pinup wedding and this just got me through it. Thanks.
THIS IS SO GOOD! You people did an amazing job!
Thank you for taking the time to explain these lovely hairstyles!
Wow, a piece of art!
It looks so soft and fluffy. Like a pillow. Omg
I can't wait to try this! You made it so easy to understand.
I like that roller she was using in beauty school we had to roll the hair by hand only.
Amazing tutorial!!!! Love love love and subscribed
Please please please do a poodle or poodle beehive!!!!
such a gorgeous hairstyle