The ‘60

When we talk about the ’60, we all remember The Beatles and the President John Kennedy and wife Jacqueline, who set the trend at that time. Since she was wearing her hair with a medium length, touching her shoulders and she was the adept of a decent look, the ones who weren’t attracted by rebellion in general, followed her example. But these years meant a lot of fashion and hairstyle changes!

The ’60 meant a real mixture of styles and sometimes resulted in pleasant or weird combinations, and as an example, we could take the flips, very popular at that time. The poodle haircut was absolutely deleted, and it was replaced with a hairstyle know as “I love Lucy”. Although its name was quite weird, the haircut itself was pretty nice. Innocence and power were the main concepts that were passing through your mind when you were seeing this look. Actually, it was the most famous hairstyle between the women who militated for the Feminism or for those who wanted to show that they were more than sweet girls.

And as for the boys…Do you know the phrase:”Is it a Boy or a Girl?” Well, it seems that it comes from the ’60, when the boys’ hair was growing up very fast and sometimes it was very long, so the adults had the tendency to confuse some boys with girls. Maybe this is the reason why in the ’70-’80, the hippie appeared!The ladies, especially the rich ones, had a passion for a certain hairstyle, know as the bubble.

It was nothing but a modern version of the bouffant hairstyle, but it won a lot of field in the ’60. If you are wondering why, the answer is quite simple. It was thought that the bigger the bubble it was, the slimmer the woman would look! That’s why the hair salons were full of sophisticated women who wanted to have an elegant look and a thin aspect. And if you had a blonde hair too, you had all the chanced to be considered a very sexy woman!

But the bubble was only one of the most popular hairstyles between women. Another one was the beehive, which is was quite simple to do and it had a long maintenance. That’s why it was adopted by practical but elegant women, who wanted to take care of their businesses, but to look fashionable too. Actually, for two or three years it was a “must have” regarding the hairdos in that time.

The oddity in the ’60 concerning the hairstyle was the sacrifice that most women had to make in order to look good. It might sound stupid, but since they haven’t had the time, neither the money sometimes to go every day to the hair salon, they were sleeping on a chair, if they wanted to have their hair perfect the second day also.

We would call it very weird, but what we don’t know is the fact that in that time, there were no hand-held, and the women had to stay for hours under a very big hairdry and even sleep with rollers in their hair, in order to keep their look perfect. What a peculiar thing!In our days, we can have a look similar as in the’60 only in an half of hour! And you don’t need to go to the hair saloon; you can do it yourself at home. If you are inventive, you can recreate the ’60 hairstyles!

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