I was impressed that Tiffany took the initiative to get a Make-Up-Artist & Hair (MUAH) stylist. This set the scene for an exceptionally awesome shoot. I forget, that while I’m good at directing other women on how to do their makeup period style, I am really bad with hair. I’d rather focus on my photography anyway, so working increasingly with makeup artists is wonderful.
As one elderly lady at the historical society told me a few months ago, “You can really date pictures by someone’s hair. They could be wearing old clothes or making up their own style or just plain poor, but hair styles change frequently and hair is affordable to style, so everyone does it”.
Flawless Curls – Erica had never done 1930s styling before. She’d studied the hair the day before and followed an online makeup guide I showed her. Below are the first pictures we shot in the studio before we went outside….
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- Erica looked at a vintage makeup guide on my iPad, followed it, and did a great job!
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- This is Tiffany’s hair, freshly done, just to document.
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- See the lovely curls? Erica made Tiffany look like she had a pincurls and short hair by pinning her shoulder length hair… or something (whatever she did, it worked and looked great).
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- This is probably not terribly historically accurate for the early 30s – nylon stockings didn’t come on the market until after the 1939 World’s Fair
