The Diamonds and Dames series, for those of you who haven't been visiting my Youtube channel lately, is a series devoted entirely to your requests. The hairstyles will be based on movie characters from the past or from current retro-styled movies...and Mary Haines was the first challenge.
My hair is currently a little past shoulder length, so this very short style (a style using the 'shingle' haircut ) was difficult to mimic. However, I think we've come up w/ a somewhat successful alternative. The style was achieved using sponge rollers that will significantly draw up the length of hair. I alternated the sponge rollers (small to medium sized rollers) so that the curls would have more of a 'stacked' and natural appearance. Bobby Pins were used to additionally shorten the hair.
I hope you all enjoy it...and following is a synopsis of the film Mary Haines appears in...The Women.
The Women-1939
Directed by George Cukor
Starring Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.
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The Women is an all-female account of marital infidelity, told in a sometimes comical, sometimes heartbreaking manner. Mary Haines is one of the social elite but unlike most of her peers, she happens to be in a very healthy and happy marriage as well. She and her husband Stephen have a daughter, little Mary, as well as material prosperity, social status, and love. Mary's 'paradise' begins to crumble however, when her conniving girlfriend Sylvia (scenery chewing Rosalind Russell), hears from a manicurist that Stephen Haines is 'stepping out on Mary'. Syliva and her friends spread the gossip mercilessly, which inevitably results in heartbreak. After a hurried divorce, Stephen resignedly marries the spiteful cat who led him astray, Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford). But Mary soon realizes that her love for her ex-husband is still strong enough to surmount any obstacle, including the world's disdain and her own pride. Along with her loyal friends and supportive mother, she goes on a mission to regain the relationship she cast aside and bring her family back together.
4 comments:
LOVE the movie The Women. Caught it randomly on cable when I was a teenager. This is the one where there are only women in the movie, the men aren't seen, right?
The hair is beautiful, btw.
You nailed it Lisa! Great hairdo! I love The Women too. I had an all ladies party one year for all my girlfriends and we watched the film. A must have to go with the hairdo? JUNGLE RED NAILPOLISH!
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Helo Lisa. My name is Silvana and i am a portuguese girl of 27. I cut my hair short this summer and it got to a point i dind´t know what to do with it anymore. Now i have to thank you because of your middy hair style tutorials! I´m going to get the right middy hair cut! I´m so happy! Thanck you so much! You saved my hair ;) I would like to send you some picks...
So I got a shinglesque cut about 2 weeks ago and have been curling my hair. I haven't really done the pincurls or sponge rollers yet as a real hairstyle (I'm still getting the hang of it) but have done successful curls with the curling iron.
Thanks again for showing how to do this hair! I'm doing a semi-modern play on it, I wish it were more like hers, but my hair is meh, lol.
But I am in love with my hair right now. Thanks again!
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