Every Hollywood star knows one important beauty secret: she enhances her loveliness with a hair style designed to flatter her face, her features, even her figure. Some stars change coiffures frequently: others have found one style so suited to their beauty that they wear it constantly. You will discover, too, that nothing adds to your beauty as much, or as quickly, as finding a becoming coiffure.
These hair styles here created by Hollywood experts for every type of face—oval, round, square, rectangular and heart shaped. Choose the one most suited to your own facial structure, follow the simple directions for achieving it yourself and enjoy a glamorous, new kind of beauty immediately.
Because these hair styles were created expressly for the stars who wear them by Hollywood experts, they are tailored not only to each star’s facial structure, but also to her particular kind of hair— thin or thick, straight or curly, heavy or fine textured. To achieve precisely the same coiffure, you may have to adapt it to your own individual hair type.
For example, if your hair is thinner, straighter or finer than the star’s described, you may need to make your pin curls smaller and more numerous to get the same result. If the star’s hair is naturally curly, you may need a permanent to wear the same style successfully. If her hair is thick and taper-cut for a certain coiffure, your hair, if it is thin, may need to be blunt-cut to give it body.
Your own hair stylist can advise you on these questions when he cuts your hair for the coiffure you choose.
1. Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner has the oval face considered classic by beauty experts. This relatively short-cut coiffure is designed to make a flattering frame for her oval facial structure. Her hair is thick, naturally curly and of medium texture.
How Ava’s hair is cut: The hair is parted on the right. It is taper-cut three inches long on top and on the sides and about one and one-half inches long at the neck in back.
How Ava’s hair is set: The top front hair is set in two rows of three stand-up curls. The curls are rolled loosely around two fingers to make them unusually large. Large pin curls are used irregularly all over the head to set the rest of the hair. The curls should be as large as possible for the length of the hair.
When the hair is combed out, a dressing should be applied for grooming purposes. The hair should then be brushed, not combed, into place to give it a soft appearance.
2. Hedy Lamarr
The perfect oval of Hedy Lamarr’s face is set off by the simplicity of the center-part coiffure she habitually wears. Her hair is thick, naturally curly and of medium texture.
How Hedy’s hair is cut: The front-center strands of hair on each side of the part are about three inches long. The hair is then tapered down the sides to a length just missing the shoulder. Across the back, the hair is cut farily straight without much tapering at a just-above-shoulder length.
How Hedy’s hair is set: The waves in front are created by four large, loose stand-up curls that are rolled under. Two are set side by side with the center part between. Rolled-under stand-up curls continued two by two down the sides, slanting slightly backward in a line that goes behind each ear. There are two rows of pin curls across the back.
3. June Allyson
The youthful contours of June Allyson’s round face are accentuated by her short page-boy bob. The wave lift above the fore-head gives her face added height. Her hair is curly, fine textured and of medium thickness.
How June’s hair is cut: The hair is parted on the left and blunt-cut. The top lock in front is about nine inches long, the sides about four inches. In back, the hair is about three inches long at the neckline.
How June’s hair is set: The lift above the forehead is created by setting the top-front hair in two large stand-up curls that are rolled under. The rest of the hair is set in two rows of large pin curls around the sides and back. When combed, the pin curls turn under to form the page-boy bob.
4. Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen’s long bob slims the contours of her round face. A high pompadour gives her face added height while the long page-boy effect in back adds a flattering vertical illusion at her cheekline. Her hair is curly, wispy fine and rather thin.
How Vera-Ellen’s hair is cut: The hair around the face is ten inches long, the back hair well below shoulder length. There is no part in this style.
How Vera-Ellen’s hair is set: On the top of the head, the hair as far back as the crown is set in three rows of five medium-size stand-up curls that are rolled under toward the back of the head. On the sides, the hair is set in three rows of three pin curls each. The back hair is also arranged in three rows of pin curls, curving up at the sides to behind the ears.
When the hair is combed out, the side and top hair is caught at the crown in back with two combs. The ends blend down into the long page-boy sweep in back.
5. Gene Tierney
Soft waves in a side-parted, medium-long bob make a flattering frame for Gene Tierney’s square-shaped face. Her hair is thick, slightly wavy and of a fine texture.
How Gene’s hair is cut: The hair is parted on the left, with the top lock of hair on the thick, or right side cut three inches long. The hair is tapered down the side to slightly below the jaw line on this side. On the part, or left, side and in back, the hair is taper-cut to the same slightly-below-jawline length.
How Gene’s hair is set: The thick side of the hair is set in a double row of three stand-up curls. They are large, loose and rolled under, so that they comb out into half waves. The part side is set with a single, large, loose pin curl just below the part, then with a double row of two stand-up curls rolled under. Across the back go two rows of pin curls.
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