Friday, July 3, 2009

The evolution of my hair

Since my dear husband's "vintage" picture was splashed all over the web world, I thought it would only be fair to even things up a bit.
I had received many comments on my 6th grade hair-do, so I thought I would do the evolution of my hair. After you read this and look at the pictures I am sure you will all agree - he now owes me. :-)


Mom discovers Toni home perms.



Is that hair on top of my head - or is it part of the wallpaper? And did we not own a comb??? (glasses are blue plastic)

Mom gives up on Toni and takes us to a professional - Irene's Beauty Shop, just one mile down the road. (They were never called salons then like they are now.) It was in the basement of her farm home and it always smelled squeaky clean.



Irene's Beauty Shop pixie cut. Every little girl in the neighborhood had this same hair cut.

Mom cut our bangs between Irene's haircuts.


Mom is good at a lot of things - cutting bangs is not one of them. (And this is after they had grown out!) The glasses are blue metallic metal with rhinestones.


I used these ….


to achieve this stylish look.




I seem pretty happy with the results. :-) (I'm the one in the middle) I couldn't wear my glasses with the headband… hurt too bad.




Foam rollers and something new at Irene's Beauty Shop called a "body" perm...



to get this fabulous ? flip.



Then along came this groovy product.
I would lather this on my hair.


Then set only the back with these



Then each side of my hair was put in a huge pin curl held in place by this innovative product. If we did not have hair tape we used plain old scotch tape. Ouch - stuck to the hair and made red tape marks on your face - but your hair was cool.???


End result was this do. Luckily we must have had hair tape that day. No marks on the face.


I would use the biggest rollers that would work in my hair. My friend could used juice cans - sadly my hair was never long enough for juice cans. :-(


I either slept (not well) with the rollers in my hair or I sat under one of these to dry my hair. You put the plastic bonnet over your wet hair that was set in rollers and the dryer blew hot air into the plastic bonnet causing nothing but humidity.
After FOREVER your neck was red from the hot hose and your hair was dry.



The end result was this do.


Then along came the shag...


simply wash and go.

This all the farther down hair memory lane that I am going to go. It just gets too painfully close to real time.

Irene Eggimann's other claim to fame was her delicious oatmeal bars, known only as Irene Eggimann bars - which she always brought to all the neighborhood potlucks.
Whenever she attended a bridal shower she would give the bride a baking pan, a spatula , potholders and the recipe for "Irene Eggimann Bars" as a gift. I was the lucky recipient of one of those gifts. I must admit, my bars are never as good as hers.



Irene Eggimann Bars

2/3 cup margarine
1 Cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white syrup

Melt together in a pan.
Add 4 Cups Quick Oats
Spoon and press into a 9" X 9" pan.
Bake 10 minutes at 350°

Frosting

2/3 cup chunky peanut butter
6 oz. chocolate chips.
Melt in microwave
Frost Bars
Enjoy the bars.
Have a good hair day
Sandy

44 comments :

  1. Love the hairstyles! Some of those things look frighteningly familiar! And thanks for the recipe too! :0)

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  2. Awesome! Great pictures to chronicle your journey :) Dippity-Do! I was usually very low tech in the hair department, but on special occasions my mother slathered on the Dippity-Do and put me under that very same hair dryer. The curlers were some sort of medieval torture device that I have thankfully purged from my memory.

    Laurie

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  3. Those pictures really do bring back memories. My mom jokes she and my grandmother gave me a 'Tonette' (child's Toni) perm when I was six that was so good, my hair was never straight again. Gee, thanks, Mom.

    I really enjoyed your trip down memory lane.

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  4. What a great read - the evolution of hair products for sure - Love your take on everything - fun!!!

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  5. Oh, what memories! This was so much fun to read. I never used those little blue, brown and pink things, but I can almost smell that Dippity-do right now.

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  6. Oh what I wouldn't give for some of these dresses and pairs of glasses!

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  7. What a great trip down memory lane. Spoolies...ya gotta love spoolies. And dippity doo! LOL

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  8. very nice. I always wondered what those curlers produced. I have to admit I love the little pixie cut--the bangs were a bit short though :)

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  9. Oh the memories! I had forgotten about the dippity doo!! What fun days they were.

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  10. OMGosh! I SO remember the hairdryer with the hose! I used to sit on the coffee table and watch TV while my hair dried. Thanks for a really fun memory.

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  11. I WON one of those hairdryers at one point, it was pink. WHAT was with mothers and cutting bangs?? Did they not want to have to do it too often? My mom did the same thing, cut em up to the arctic circle ;) I will have to do a post like this someday, yours CRACKED me up! I never saw that one type of 'rollers' they look rubbery. Huh.

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  12. I remember those hairdryer bonnets. And the foam rollers! Oh wow, what we did for style.

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  13. What a wonderful, brave post! I used every one of those products and had every hairdo but the shag. Hubby definitely owes you!!

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  14. You brought back so many memories - not all of them happy! There were the failed perms, the terrible haircuts, the permanent ridges in my skull from sleeping on all those rollers, etc. Ah, memories!!

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  15. Sandy...it definitely seemed like a deja vu for me with the hair stuff! I am going to try your recipe! Thanks and have a great 4th!

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  16. What great pictures...the bonnet hair dryer...what we all went through, all those years. Thanks so much for your wonderful blogs...
    Sandy

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  17. Terrific story; I don't know which I liked better - the hair or the glasses!

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  18. OK, Where did you get all the curlers, dippity do, hair dryer - please don't tell me you kept them all!! What memories, and sadly I remember it all, and my hair was and is always a mess - so guess we were not a good match.
    Thanks for the memories
    Polly

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  19. Were we separated at birth?? Every step of that walk down memory lane was one I had taken. Dippity-do?! There's a blast from the past I was not prepared to meet up with today. The rollers with the pink "picks" ... been there, done that. Pixies, foam rollers ... all part of my history. Thank you so much for giving me the chance to look back fondly ... and then go in and kiss my blow-dryer.

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  20. Oh! that hair dryer--you got it exactly right! It didn't work and made your neck burn. Too funny with the bangs. My mom will never live down the time she cut my bangs with pinking shears as an attempt at "fringe". I had a pixie cut when I was 6 but never a shag...In high school Farrah's cut was all the rage but I found it too much work. I emulated Dorothy Hamill!

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  21. What a "hair hoot." Thanks for the memories!

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  22. oh my--you are a brave woman! but in retrospect, we were all pretty cute when we were young :-) i had the toni perms and the hairdryer--i'll have to show my little girl (when she's a little older) a picture so she'll know how good she has it now!

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  23. Oh my Goodness -- I'd forgotten all about "Spoolies"! I used to use three of them for my bangs -- every night!! The young girls of today don't know what they're missing -- sleeping on those brush rollers every night, no matter what! I remember going to a bridal rehearsal where the bride was wearing rollers in her hair -- she had to be ready for the big day! Thanks for that trip down memory lane!

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  24. I can so totally relate. Did you ever have "rag curls"? The foam rollers were a huge improvement over the wire bristles that poked your head all night.

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  25. BAHAHAH!!! Wow mom your hair was total far out and groovy! Wait…are you blogging from France? Don’t forget to bring me back some shoes!!!

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  26. Yeah, I so remember that! Gosh, what we women have done through the years to look beautiful! It's so funny, I'll have to post a picture of me with my hair attempts thru the years!
    DaisyGirl

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  27. Oh my goodness! I'm speechless! And oh my gosh I love this post.

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  28. Love it! I was right there along side you. My Toni produced Little Orphan Annie Look alike. My pixie was in 5th grade. I loved my spoolies, wish I still had them. I had enough hair for tomato sauce cans and my hair dryer was blue, in a hatbox. Great post.

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  29. What memories! I was not allowed to get my hair cut until I was in HS. But I do remember the tape for trimming bangs and sponge rollers. Mom used VO-5 on my hair to help get the tangles out. Prell and Tame...shampoo and conditioner. I had variations of bad school pics with long hair pulled back. Oh the shame!

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  30. Hi Sandy
    M.S. just told me about the blog. It is great. If I looked real hard, I could probably find my pictures with each of those hairstyles. Thanks for the laugh today.

    Sharon

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  31. Where did you get all of those pictures. Not the ones of you, but of the foam rollers and Dippity Do? What absolute fun? And the dresses! My mom couldn't cut hair either but she could sew and she could knit. We all had poufy dresses with lots of crinolines for Easter (and gloves) and sweaters with reindeer and snowflakes at Christmas. What a nice jaunt down memory lane.

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  32. What? No VO5? Even as a little girl, I could never understand it's purpose. First my hair was washed, then my mom would set it all in pin curls close to my head. Next the bonnet dryer treatment - I think my ears still have burn marks. Once dry, remove the pincurls, brush into a cotton candy fluff, then weigh the whole thing down with VO5. Just felt slick and greasy to me *s*

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  33. Ewwwww....V05. I had repressed it totally! It was so icky....made my hair stay wet forever....

    I'm thinking Sandy got married in 1972. The brown suit is too awful for words. I have a friend who graduated in a powder blue thing...but it was cotton because his mom knew he didn't like polyester! ....tanks for the memories....arden

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  34. OMG!!!! This post is hilarious! I remember all of the things you brought up and they bring back so many good memories...I laughed until I had tears!

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  35. Boy, was that my life flashing before my head. It's Saturday night and I feel the foam curlers and hear the sound of the hair dryer trying to dry the hair as much as possible before I went to bed. Nothing worse than waking up Sunday morning, hair still wet when you unwind the curlers and trying to look good for church!

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  36. I have to tell you that I am familiar with all of those "beauty" products. My mother was a "beautician". I had naturally curly hair and my mom gave me permanents with a foil pouch thing. My sister and I were laughing about it the other day!

    Thanks, Sandy

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  37. What a great and entertaining post.
    I was from the age of girls either had a flip or duck tails.

    Katie-primitivewoolens.blogspot.com

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  38. I remember all of those! So glad I found your blog. I'm working on a Tranquility wall hanging right now and it's hanging on my design wall. (Picture on my blog) I'll be checking in on you from time to time.

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  39. Dippity Doo? Is that one of your fabric lines? Oh Zippity Doo Dah maybe?

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  40. Sandy,
    I hadn't thought about all that in years, it was like living my childhood all over again. We used to do our hair on Saturday night and watch Andy Williams! What a great post.

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  41. What a fun post! I remember all those "lovely" hair care products. I had forgotten all about those red tape marks on the face. Thanks. . . I think. And my mom cut my bangs that short too. I remember when she cut my girlfriend's bangs like that. GF had a widow's peak and her bangs looked so terrible. Her mom didn't speak to my mom for quite a while! Ah, the memories this post evokes. . . what a hoot!

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  42. As I was reading your blog, I couldn't help but burst out laughing......been there, done that! I felt like I was the product of trial and error! My mom loved (making us beautiful) with out the cost of a beauty parlor! I so enjoyed the memory. And yes, it's a memory now thank goodness!

    Keep up the good work, and I always enjoy your lines and your panels.

    Thanks for sharing, gloria g. in Clinton, MS

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  43. I think you should start an epidemic in blog land. Everyone post the evolution of their hair do's! Itsa wonder I have any hair left after all I've done to mine! I remember ALL of your hair adventures :) I'm sporting a curly perm now cuz its so darn easy! Had the hardest time finding someone to give a perm these days.

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  44. Loved reading the evolution, I think you called it, of your hair styles. Goodness, my mother used some of those things on my poor hair and she SURE used those Toni home perms. I have a picture of my sister and I just like yours. I was just laughing. Can't believe you still had all those different curlers though!! THAT was so funny. Though I have to say, I still have some of the BIG plastic rollers. And we used ORANGE JUICE cans (washed out of course) for really STRAIGHT long hair!!
    Thanks for the walk down memory lane. What fun.
    I'll have to check your blog out more often, you do a great job!!
    Jackie in San Antonio

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