I styled my hair like I was in the '50s for a week and I was surprised by how many looks I liked

Talia LakritzApr 25, 2020, 00:14 IST

I styled my hair like I was from the 1950s.Talia Lakritz/Insider, Frances McLaughlin-Gill/Condé Nast via Getty Images

I tried five different popular hairstyles from the 1950s: a high ponytail, a fake bob, pin curls, a poodle, and a bouffant.
Most of the styles were easy to create, requiring just a few bobby pins and my natural curls.
I couldn't get the pin curls or the bouffant to stay put.
I might wear some of these styles again if I were feeling whimsical.
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Like most of the world, I am currently spending most of my time self-isolating indoors. It can be difficult to maintain any sense of the passage of time when every day looks the same.

I decided to liven things up by trying a new 1950s hairstyle each day. I'm actually no stranger to the decade — I've already tried vintage recipes from a 1950s cookbook, and while I wasn't a fan of the Golden Glow Jell-O fruit salad, I did have a lot of fun.

I chose five vintage styles to try by consulting "Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History" by Victoria Sherrow, as well as magazine spreads and celebrity photos from the '50s.

By the end of the experiment, I was surprised by how many of the looks I actually liked.

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The only way I could maintain the perfect bouffant was if I held everything in place. No one would notice if I walked around like that all day, right?

Holding my bouffant in place. Talia Lakritz/Insider

I tried teasing it instead. That was a disaster.

Nope. Talia Lakritz/Insider

I had trouble getting my bouffant to stay up.

My failed bouffant. Talia Lakritz/Insider

Then came the bouffant. This one made me a bit nervous.

Elizabeth Taylor sporting a bouffant. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images

My hairstyle received rave reviews on a Google Hangout with my colleagues.

Me in the lower right corner. Talia Lakritz/Insider

I think I nailed it.

My poodle hair. Talia Lakritz/Insider

Next came a style I'd been apprehensive about trying — the poodle.

Lucille Ball wearing her hair in a poodle style. Getty Images/Mondadori Portfolio

Shaping pin curls and making them stay in place turned out to be more difficult than I'd anticipated.

My failed attempt at pin curls. Talia Lakritz/Insider

To copy Grable's pin curl style, I tied my hair back into a ponytail and left out a few strands so I could curl them up onto one side of my head.

My first pin curl. Talia Lakritz/Insider

Pin curls rose to prominence in the 1940s and remained popular into the following decade.

Actress Betty Grable in "The Farmer Takes a Wife." Hulton Archive/Getty Images

I recreated the Glamour photo shoot with the help of a pink headband, a few bobby pins, and a tree.

My version of the '50s look. Talia Lakritz/Insider

For day two, I took inspiration from a 1957 issue of Glamour magazine featuring headbands.

Gretchen Harris wearing a headband by Emily Wetherby in a 1957 Glamour photo spread. Frances McLaughlin-Gill/Condé Nast via Getty Images

I liked how the colorful addition of a scarf made the ponytail feel more polished.

Do I look like I'm from the '50s yet? Talia Lakritz/Insider

I grabbed a scrunchie and a thin scarf, pulled my hair back, and secured it with both items. Piece of cake.

My ponytail. Talia Lakritz/Insider

I decided to ease into my week of 1950s hairstyles with a classic look that I already wear often — a ponytail.

The original 1959 Barbie. Barbie Media

This is what my hair normally looks like.

My go-to headshot. Coren Feldman

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