Sixties Hair Styles For Women

Pin Curls were in vogue from 40's through the 60's. They were especially popular for short hair. With this styling method, you can look either fun and whimiscal or classy and sexy. Leaving pin curls in overnight will create a tighter curl. Styling them in the morning is quick and easy so they are low maintenance.

In recent years, pin curls have made a comeback. You see them in glamorous hair styles at the Academy Awards.

The bouffant could be worn for every day wear or put into a more elegant upsweep style for a night out.
According to Widipedia the bouffant is a type of hairstyle characterized by hair piled high on the head and hanging down on the sides. It was a mainstream hairstyle in the mid-to-late 17th century in western Europe. In modern times, the bouffant was popular in Western culture in the 1960s, when it was created with the help of back-combing and large amounts of hair spray.

The Flip was originally worn by younger women. It was brushed back from the forehead and the ends where flipped up. It was normally worn shoulder length.

There have been many variations since such as a bouffant added to give the head more height. Also, today it is used with a short hair style with an added tousled look.

Dippity Do was my product of choice for setting hair with those wonderful metal rollers. Remember those?? Ouch, I used to sleep on my stomach with a head full of large metal rollers that were my mom's from the 50's!

The Beatles were extremely influential in the 60's with everything from music to fashion to hair. The Beatle's hairuct was also known as the mop-top or moptop because of the similarity to a mop.

The Beatle's hairstyle is collar length in the back with ears covered and fringe or bangs in the front. This hairstyle was immensely popular between 1964-66 and got so crazy that young people in Russia were even arrested and forced to cut their hair.