History Of Hair Care. In honour of Womens Month on todays blog post we take a look at history defying hairstyles from 1910 to date. Gibson Girl 1910s Marjorie Magazine Gibson Girl was the hairstyle of the 20th century amongst women of the middle and upper classes.
Wigs were powdered with starch or Cyprus powder. In the 1950s hair fashions for men and women became more sculpted leading to the development of setting sprays hair oils and hair creams. An aesthetic preference for long thick luxurious hair on women was dominant in America up until the 1920s.
An aesthetic preference for long thick luxurious hair on women was dominant in America up until the 1920s.
Life was good and Africans were able to manage and maintain their hair using natural hair products made from herbs found in their environment. Due to the history of slavery in America and a strict enforcement of white supremacy after its abolition the natural hair movement we know and love today was not always so accepted. Hair washing like bathing was not an important part of Americans hygiene practices before the turn of the century. Walker is one of the pioneers in.
