A vintage hair funk

Hello everyone! Is it feeling like Spring near you? We went through a crazy hot spell in March that felt like early summer, and now it's finally starting to feel like April. It's been quite a shock to wear lots of wool after being in short sleeves a month ago! Thanks for all the great and helpful comments about decorating in our den! I now know for sure we're going to go with 1950s Southwestern as our inspiration. I'm thinking up lots of fun ideas for the room which I'll talk about in future posts.

This weekend I had the pleasure of getting to meet my fellow vintage blogger Bex of Subversive Femme and her partner, here traveling around the U.S. (including Viva Las Vegas) all the way from Australia! We carried on like we'd know each other for eons, and now I'm so sad Bex lives oceans away. :(

Anyway, ladies, I'm in a hair funk. Do you ever go through that? I feel like we all do at some point or another. I just can't figure out what I want to do with my hair, and it doesn't help that it seems to not want to cooperate nor look very good no matter what I do.

That fact that my curls always look windswept is annoying me more than usual lately, I apparently no longer could tie a scarf if my life depended on it, and any hair against the side of my head on the heavy side of my part is bugging me. To top it off my bangs have essentially grown completely out and are now so long that it makes doing a front roll (you know, like I often do) almost impossible because there's too much hair. My hair is fine, slippery and prone to frizz and tangles, so everything has to be Just So for it to perform correctly (and even then it's usually fairly fleeting). So now I put it in a front roll and it starts falling out the side within half an hour. Or I pull it back and secure with a barrette and only feel "meh" about the result. Or I fiddle with a gorgeous silky scarf, then 5 minutes later curse like a sailor and throw it on the floor when I can't get it to work.

I need to get my bangs trimmed (I guess they no longer qualify as bangs, more like the shortest layer of my hair). But I'm unsure what I want to do with the rest of my hair. Let it grow a little longer, or chop off a bit? It's been a lot of braids for this indecisive gal lately!

I've been inspired all over by different vintage hairdos, so let's look at some eye candy, shall we? These are some images I've been filing on my Pinterest board for vintage hair.

Some days, I want a short style, but then I remember I would be locked into not being lazy, as I would hate the way it looked when I didn't set it. So that's just not a good plan, much as I like the idea of it. I guess I like my lazy days better! Though isn't this lady chic? She actually reminds me of my maternal grandmother.

{Source: Jezebel.com, The Way We Were: Life Magazine Photos Of Women In The 1950s}

Aren't these bespectacled gals and their short 'dos grand? And of course, who doesn't want each pair of eyeglasses shown?! I'm partial to the baby blue ones, something I've always wanted! Oh right, we're supposed to be talking about hair. I really like the style shown in the very middle. I just don't think I can see myself pulling that off (and being able to successfully style it with my finicky hair).

{Source: TeenAngster, Glamor Glasses}

I do love this 1940s knitter's hair, with the softer short waves and fun little whipped topping on her head. She looks a bit like Ingrid Bergman. Wonder what she's knitting?

{Source link not working, pulled from my Pinterest}

But back to a length of hair that doesn't make me hyperventilate at the thought of how awful it would look unstyled, with no braids or updos to hide behind...

I love the style on the factory worker on the right in the below photo. (And of course, I want every single Bakelite telephone pictured!) I'm sensing a trend of liking that shorter, voluminous wavy bit at the top, though not sure how I'd successfully do that. It's not something I've really seen in any vintage hair tutorials. I definitely feel like my face either needs some height at the top or on my forehead, which is why I often like to do a small front roll (and why I used to have Bettie Page bangs/fringe).

{Source: My Pretty Baby Cried She Was A Bird, Western Electric Color Telephones (1954)}

Speaking of which, I do admit there are days when I wish I had bangs again. Look how fabulous Kondalicious looks with her loosely curled long locks and bangs. I dare not do this again though... do you know how long it took to grow out my bangs?! (I had them for years, but it was pre-blog.) Plus my hair never looked this good loose with bangs! No amount of daydreaming will change that.

{Source: Vintage Musings of a Modern Pinup}

So alas, I'll return to my little funk, and hopefully something will snap me out of it soon! What chases the style blues away for you? Do share!