What are you doing to celebrate?
Friday, April 30, 2010
Hairstylist Appreciation Day
April 30th is Hairstylist Appreciation Day!
What are you doing to celebrate?
What are you doing to celebrate?
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Overheard by Lucy Lickerpenis
Wherever did you get that cut and blowjob? It looks so easy to care for!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Miss Tammy Wynette
Tammy was a one time hairdresser and did her own hair for years. I met her back in 1995 when she performed at the Banquet at the Annual Meeting for the company that I used to work for. She was a tiny, tiny woman, really no bigger than a minute, but she sand for two solid hours, backup up by a huge band. She was a true professional - one of my favorites.
Scatter Perm
Cheryl Tiegs, Erin Grey, Some-Model-Who-We-Don't-Know and Ali McGraw being beautified by Scatter Perm. Now watch, rinse and repeat. Watch, rinse and repeat
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Hair - The Minimalist Approach
In the middle of the 1920's while American college Sheiks and Shebas were swallowing goldfish, cramming into telephone booths and guzzling hooch in speakeasys, France capitalized on an opportunity that the US (due to the restrictive and ignorant attitudes of race) had missed out on:
There are limitless reasons to celebrate La Baker, but since we're here to talk hair, her extremely short, pasted flat to the skull, and shiny as a mirror hairdressing was a revelation for it's time. And it was a sensation (what about Josephine wasn't?). No one had seen anything like it and many thought she had actually shaved herself bald and painted it on!
Exploiting the rage to the fullest, a brilliantine pomade came on the market called Bakerfix. By the thousands, men and women, black and white, snatched it up.
This retail counter top display unit recently came up for auction:
Two more notes of interest. Firstly, simultaneous to the birth of The Josephine Baker Experience in Paris was the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels, aka The Art Deco movement. The two will always symbolize one another in my mind.
I would take another fifty years for a "lack of hair sensation" to occur again. Ironically, it was another black American (though born in Jamaica) girl who had to depend on Paris for her initial discovery:
And as newer generations seek to outdo their predecessors, Baker had a leopard:
while Jones enacted Jones-As-Baker-As-Leopard:
MISS JOSEPHINE BAKER!
Exploiting the rage to the fullest, a brilliantine pomade came on the market called Bakerfix. By the thousands, men and women, black and white, snatched it up.
This retail counter top display unit recently came up for auction:
Only a ridiculous lack of expendable funds kept it from residing with me!
Two more notes of interest. Firstly, simultaneous to the birth of The Josephine Baker Experience in Paris was the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels, aka The Art Deco movement. The two will always symbolize one another in my mind.
I would take another fifty years for a "lack of hair sensation" to occur again. Ironically, it was another black American (though born in Jamaica) girl who had to depend on Paris for her initial discovery:
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MISS GRACE JONES!
And as newer generations seek to outdo their predecessors, Baker had a leopard:
while Jones enacted Jones-As-Baker-As-Leopard:
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Alright, Since Everyone Else Is....
Many moons ago, on Felix In Hollywood, I posted this photo of myself and the lovely Kabuki Zero from our youth:
Felix and Kabuki Zero, 1980
Now at great
From 1984:
From 1991:
It is with a sense of tremendous pride (particularly considering the nature of this blog) that I mention that in every photograph you are seeing my own hair.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Hair Hall of Shame
Its just so sad...even Dippity Do and a trip to Wal-Mart couldn't help these women
I'm not saying who, Halloween 1995
I blame Normadesmond for this.
For Halloween, Jacob Neil did the hair and JCPenney Catalog Returns the Dusty Rose Mother of the Brides Dress. But the goatee, that said class. So did the hairy legs through the hose. But damn it, Jacob would have charged anyone off the street $200 for this. And it was boucin' and behavin' hair!
Towards the end of the night, all bets were off. But the wig looked fabulous!
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Putting The "G" In Gel
Just stumbled on a brilliant blog called Found @ Bookmans. It's dedicated to showing things found in books at an Arizona used book shop. Below are some taste tempting examples:
And finally, couple number one:
It's a great blog, do pay a visit.
And finally, couple number one:
It's a great blog, do pay a visit.
Priscilla Presley – The Elvis Years
Single-handedly keeping the cosmetics industry afloat during the 1960s …
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