Vintage Hairstyling Retro style using step techniques

VINTAGE HAIRSTYLING BOOK

2ND EDITION

This wonderful book by Lauren Rennell's is the best instruction book on using modern techniques to create vintage or retro hair styles.

Suggested retail is $36.95. 

New 2nd additon with more styles and more tips. Now 200 pages! Available now.  There was something very special and beautiful about women in the mid-20th century. The way they dressed was elegant and the way they wore their hair was feminine. Vintage Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Modern Techniques 2nd Edition is a perfect guide for showing how to create so many of those vintage hairstyles. Lauren Rennells has taken hairstyles from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s and broken them down into simple, easy-to-follow instructions. It uses over 700 brand new photographs and illustrations and detailed directions in a 200-page full-color book. ~ The book begins with the basic elements and works its way back to advanced techniques. Chapter one describes the tools and products used throughout. Chapter two offers detailed instructions on creating different curls, including the pin curl, the basis for many vintage hairstyles. Chapter three breaks down the proper way to comb the curls for the effect including creating fingerwaves, victory rolls, pompadours, and waves from pin curls. The fourth chapter of the book provides step-by-step start-to-finish detailed instructions for 25 different hairstyles created with different hair lengths and textures. The final 2 chapters provide ideas for hair accessories, makeup and nails to finish the look. ~ Not only a manual, it is also fun to read. The Finished Styles chapter of the book contains coffee table book quality images of models with their finished hairstyles. Sprinkled in introductions and throughout the book are interesting facts about the history of hairstyling, origins of styles, and information about the starlets and performers from the golden age of Hollywood who made the hairstyles popular. Classic Hollywood stars like Jean Harlow, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Marilyn Monroe, and Elizabeth Taylor all sparked very powerful hairstyle trends. ~ No matter your skill level or hair type, Vintage Hairstyling: Retro Styles with Modern Techniques has something for everyone. If you are just looking for a hairstyle for a special occasion like a period wedding or a style to go with a vintage prom dress, Vintage Hairstyling has both up-do options and options for a longer hair look. And swing dancers looking for a style for dancing will find many options with staying power. ~ Hundreds of women have already found relief from their vintage hairstyle dilemmas with this book. (Lauren Rennel's)

Shipping:   Rates went up January 22, 2013.  Shipping can take up to 5 days.

USA Media Mail manilla envelope shipping $4.00.  Media mail does not come with insurance and time delivery varies.  Media is only for books you may not add a snood to media.  Priority flat rate envelope, up to two books can fit 2-3 day delivery is $5.50, Priority Flat Rate Bubble Envelope is $5.90 and you can fit up to 6 snoods at no additional shipping cost, so buy the book and snoods and request a new invoice with combined shipping.

Canada First Class envelope $18.00 no insurance, no guarantee.  Priority Flat rate envelope (Two books can fit in one flat rate envelope or a book and 6 snoods) 6-10 business days for delivery no insurance $20.00.  Express Flat Rate envelope can fit 2 books, 3 to 5 day delivery from shipping date, with insurance and tracking is only $35.00. 

Internationally Priority Flat Rate Envelope (Two books can fit in one envelope or one book and 6 snoods) $24.00 NO Insurance or tracking on method of shipping.  Express Flat Rate Envelope can fit 2 books and 6 snoods, takes 3 to 5 days from shipping date, with insurance and tracking, for only $45.00.  One Book weights 1 lb. 5 oz along.  

UK & Germany has had slow delivery with Priority Flat Rate and First Class.  Complaints have prompted BFR to require UK customers to purchase Express Flat Rate envelope with tracking and insurance at $45.00 with 5 day delivery and insurance + tracking and 2 books can fit.

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