“ Natural ” knockout has become a lot less clip - consuming ( and painful ) thanks to technology . Women can well shampoo , dry , and style their hair’s-breadth ; those with straight pilus can achieve curls in a matter of minutes . That ’s not how it used to be — some of us remember when slumber party were spent arrange our hair in roller or immobilize curls while simultaneously playing Truth or Dare . If you ’re a Baby Boomer or a bit beyond , these merchandise may wreak back some not - so - fond memories .
1. DIPPITY-DO
Dippity - do was something of a prehistorical styling gel : It was n’t as lightweight as the current products , and it did n’t contain today ’s trendy ingredients like aloe and pale yellow protein . The original variety had the consistency of Jell - O and was designed to bind a solidifying longer ( when used with haircloth crimper ) or to plaster bang and wing - away hairs in place . ( As a adolescent , osculate drummer Eric Carrslathered his hairwith the clobber every night and slept with a nylon stocking over his scalp in an travail to domesticate his born Robert F. Curl into a Beatle - esque mop top . ) Dippity - do could even be used on ironical hair to specify it in between shampoos — for some reason , beauty advice columns of the sixties vehemently admonished ladies against washing their hair more than once per week .
2. CRÈME RINSE
Some sr. folk music use the terms “ conditioner ” and “ crème rinse ” interchangeably , just like gran used to do with “ ice box ” and “ icebox , ” but there is a difference between the two product . Crème rinsing is much thinner in consistency because it does n’t contain the emollients and sunscreens typically chance in conditioner . The principal purpose of crème rinsing is to detangle hair and reduce static electricity . In the 1950s and ' 60s , crème rinse was one of those voluptuous “ supernumerary ” that was mostly used by aged women , not tiddler or teens . That ’s why so many of us have painful store of mom tug a cockscomb through our tangled wet hair after every shampoo , and murmur “ stunner must abide ” whenever we dare to plain .
3. ELECTRIC ROLLERS
child are little sponges , absorbing an awe-inspiring amount of information at a untested age . Sometimes that ’s a sound affair , give them a definite branch up once their stately school set about . Other clip it can be an plethora for the hapless parent — like when her child sings out in clarion tones , “ Curlers in your hair , shame on you ! ” to a stranger in the check-out procedure line at the supermarket . Even though it was considered gauche to go out in public with rollers in your pilus , many in use housewives simply tie a scarf around their mind in an attempt to traverse their rollers and went about their everyday errands hoping that their hair would be dry in time for the evening . In the late sixties Clairol involve a step forwards in protecting the American world ’s eyes from unsightly head hardware by introducing Kindness , a rotatory set of galvanic rollers that gave you a top dog full of curls in about 20 minutes or so . The rollers took 10 minutes to heat up , and they were n’t as insulated as today ’s models are , so midget froth wedges were furnish to place between your scalp and the red-hot curler ( burned fingers were just a hazard of instant , or semi - instant , beauty ) .
4. BRUSH ROLLERS
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We ’ve all heard history about the virginal brides of the forties and ' 50s who , despite the stilted “ talking ” Mother yield them prior to walk down the aisle , were floor and/or horrified at what in reality occurred on their marriage ceremony nighttime . Much less has been recorded from the husband ’s point of view : the shameful tableau presented the first time his newfangled married woman emerged from the bathroom sans composition and with her principal case in what looked like bristled wire . Hair dryers were mainly found only in beauty shops , so to get that course curly look that would last in between shampoo , women routinely injure their hair in light touch tumbler before retiring for the night . Finding a comfy sleeping position while wearing them was something of an art shape .
5. ORANGE JUICE CAN ROLLERS
Lady Gaga may have seem to be a trendsetter when she set her haircloth with pop cans ( or sal soda nates if you choose ) , but cleaning lady were actually using can technology 50 - some years ago . Back when beehive or bouffant hair style with a utmost of pouffe were all the rage , girls anathemize with neat hair used rinsed - out cans of frozen orangeness juice concentrate ( with both ends cut out ) as makeshift jumbo hairsbreadth roller . On the other end of the hair spectrum , girls bless with naturally curly hair set their hair’s-breadth with cans to flatten their tresses into that straight California surfer - lady friend look . Keep in judgement that blow dryers were not yet threadbare , so — like their thicket tumbler sister — woman often had to catch some Z’s with their haircloth rolled so .
6. BONNET HAIR DRYERS
Part of the reason women subjected themselves to nightly catch some Z’s - with - rollers - in - their - hair torment was that prior to the mid-1970s there really was n’t a more fourth dimension - effective path to dry out one ’s hair . There were a few rude paw - have blow dryers available get in the 1920s , but they weighed an average of two pounds , were insulated with asbestos , and only produced a paltry 100 watts of heat . In 1951 General Electric introduce a portable gentle - bonnet hair dryer , which was a habitation version ( sort of ) of the hard - shell blast furnace dryers that sweetheart parlors then used . The moldable jacket was flexible enough to fit over a head full of rollers , and the “ work ” part ( the motor , etc . ) was supposedly unclouded enough to carry around ( via a commodious shoulder shoulder strap ) as the busy housewife attended to her unconstipated day-after-day chores . It was quite the foundation when bonnet dryers with the power to dry out pilus in just 22 bit eventually hit the market .
7. HOME PERMANENTS
Toni introduce the home lasting in the late 1940s , and the product wing off the supermarket shelf into the abode of women who want to make unnecessary the cost of a beauty parlour wave . Other sword like Lilt and Rave succeed , but thanks to an aggressive , long - run advertizement campaign(“Which Twin Falls has the Toni ? ” ) “ Toni ” became as synonymous with a home Molotov as “ Kleenex ” did with facial tissue paper . short every ma became a kitchen table styler , completely push aside the fact that there ’s a good reason it hire many months of study for a stylist to become licensed . As a result , many young girl of the 1950s dreaded those especial times of year — back to school , Easter — when Mom decided that it was “ time to give you a Toni . ”
8. AEROSOL HAIRSPRAY
That hole in the ozone layer we see so much about ? I ’m loathe to point finger , but I have a feeling the detailed bouffants and flips of the 1960s had something to do with it . Mary Tyler Moore hold that herDick Van Dyke Showon - set stylistsprayed her pass so solidlythat “ you could cling clothes on it , ” and Barry Williams ( ofBrady Bunchfame ) reminisced in his autobiography about a invitee spot onThat Girlin which Marlo Thomas drop every off - camera bit having her pilus fluff and sprayed until it could deflect bullets . As mentioned to begin with , shampooing more than once per workweek was out of the dubiousness , so when a ma’am ’s hairdo set about to go wilted , it was hairspray to the deliverance . Women moistened their hair with Aquanet , White Rain , or VO5 before re - setting it with roller or giant clip . Those tin can were replete with fluorocarbon as well as the other ingredients that lacquered hair into compliance , and people spritzed that stuff with abandon until the FDA stepped in and hair styles gradually deepen to a more “ natural ” facial expression .
