1920s women revelled in their new found power, they became rebellious - by wearing shorter, tighter dresses, heavy makeup and cutting their hair short. The Eton Crop.If you were daring enough to go even shorter you could opt for the Eton Crop, which was made popular by jazz singer Josephine Baker. The Eton crop was the shortest of the 1920s hairstyles. It was named after the famous English school, because the boys there wore their hair longer than the usual style at the time. The sleek style was achieved with Brilliantine, which was a type of early hair gel. The style was short lived. Spit curls or kiss curls were popular with this look as well as the other styles. They were called kiss curls because it was thought that the number of kiss curls was to symbolise the number of men a girl had been kissed by. Billie Dove was famous for her spit curls, which she decorated her forehead with, she would make the ends extra pointy with green gel (similar to petroleum jelly). Josephine Baker Billie Dove
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AuthorThis blog is to follow on from my university final project, which was a historical reference book on ‘Female Hair and Makeup Throughout History’. Each week I will release a post featuring an era and an aspect of hair, makeup and fashion from the time. I will also have my makeup muse of the week, who could be a makeup or fashion trendsetter of their time or a makeup artist who has innovated the industry. Archives
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