Giving Myself a 60's/70's Makeover (using an old dryer i found at an antique store lol)

[@diannenixon621]

As a child of the 60's and 70's, you did pretty good. You needed slightly smaller rollers (I used juice cans) and more, three across the top, the ones on either side rolled back, then divide the remaining into 3 sections with 3 curlers each (rolled under). When I used my hair dryer I put folded tissues behind my ears so they wouldn't burn. When dry you finger comb and then flip your head, sometimes I would finger comb while upsidedown. Your Twiggy eyes were pretty good. I had fun watching and reliving my youth. 😎

[@sallycormier1383]

I remember the Orange juice cans as rollers! Also remember my friend ironing her hair as her hair was curly and straight was more popular.

[@damogranheart5521]

The one with her head on the ironing board was ME!

[@jayneterry8701]

Good description Dianne. 👌 I forgot about the juice cans 😅

[@sallycormier1383]

@@damogranheart5521 I was the one with super straight won’t hold a curl hair, helping my bestie Eileen iron her curly locks. I always wanted curly hair.

[@ladyeeyore7]

Yep, graduated high school in 1972 so '60s/'70s were my teen years. I had relatively straight hair but ironed it anyway because it became the thing to do my sophomore year! I was a hip hugger bell bottom jeans and halter girl my junior and senior years. I was married in 1977 and we were still using that kind of dryer. We lost electricity my wedding day and I was in a panic. We went to my matron of honors house and stood over the heater vents to try to dry my hair. It was a disaster and I had straight, wet hair in my wedding pics. I went to beauty school in 1975 and we had just started using blow dryers as they were pretty expensive and kind of heavy.

[@emmajp1342]

This look makes Rachel look like the saucy older sister in a 70s film who would like, get out of a bright red car in slow motion. (This is 100% a complement)

[@jillparks]

I am digging this comment so hard. Awesome.

[@abbeyv4148]

Agree!!!

[@Betsyschugar]

Rachel is the cool older sister who goes to parties and has a punk boyfriend when the protagonist is the nerdy younger sister who wants to go to Stanford. There is also definitely a makeover montage where Rachel’s character helps the little sister dress up to impress a guy or get ready for a dance.

[@emmajp1342]

@@Betsyschugar omg you literally just said exactly what I was thinking!

[@bitchtoastx1793]

Rachel needs to do this immediately

[@sirenpsalms]

I just want to say I love all the women who wore these looks in the 60s and 70s commenting tips and fun stories in the comments rather than belittling our generation for trying out this style. You all are extremely wholesome and please tell us more 💛

[@kahvikamu]

imagine looking this good in every era of fashion. THE POWER

[@rachelmaksy]

NAAAWWWW you're too kind

[@JuhRgs]

I love how Rachel can look like an absolute bombshell in one moment and a complete goofball in the next 😂

[@rachelmaksy]

😂😂😂😂 tis an ILLUSIONNN

[@k_a_y_l_e_e]

she's a babe for sure

[@marqueewilson]

So a goofshell or a bombball 🤣🤣

[@phirah79]

My grandma had a thing like this that she used all the time. She had the typical old lady short hair, and this thing got it nice and curly. This might sound weird, but I wish I could smell the way that hair dryer smelled again because the memory of it just hit me, and it felt really nostalgic.

[@recitationtohear]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqe1g6muoZWIkKc Yes...

[@RestingBitchface7]

Yes, there’s nothing like the scent of toasted vinyl to bring us back to 1975….

[@emericcson123]

My obaachan had her hair done and set every week. Shellacked to death so she didn't have to do it again during the week ofc lol (but she did sleep in curlers sometimes, so that always reminds me of her). I used to think she just never went gray for the longest time and then learned she dyed it constantly so she didn't have roots hahaha it was all a lie.

[@kme]

my mum had one too. I remember it well. She tried to use it on me in like... grade 6 or something but lol... (my hair has always been "I do what I want" which is the opposite of what it's supposed to do. *sighs*)

[@lorenven]

My nonna's was portable like with an extension cord or something so she would be cooking around the kitchen with it on. I'm a 90s baby so she was using this thing for decades lol

[@caitly]

Is no one gonna talk about how Rachel is out here giving us 70s April O'Neil vibes today because that's the only thing I could think about in the last moments of the video✨

[@xiola]

Thank you, April O'neil was literally the only thing i could think of too XD

[@sandyclaws5247]

Same

[@azazelreficulmefistofelicu7158]

April O'Neil from TMNT? That was a bit mid 80's. I thought about Xanadu that was late 70's early 80's..... OMG, That from memory, I'm old, nearly ancient.

[@toysvilltvstudios7576]

We were thinking of the same thing! :D

[@crystanubis]

First thing I thought of in the reveal.

[@CollaborativeDog]

You look fantastic! As a child of the 70s, the "Farrah Fawcett Flip" was created with new home versions of curling irons and blow driers. The bonnet drier was great for sets that were teased (Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda in Barbarella). The zipper in the front of the drier bonnet was for checking if your curls were dry without having to rmove the set up. 😀

[@liadanducky]

Oh that zipper, so clever!

[@McCeighty]

I am living for all the 70's ladies commenting on this video! My mom graduated high school in 1974, and I love hearing about her style!

[@applepie4462]

Thanks for the memories and the nostalgia trip, Rachel. Here I sit 70 years old, and you made me feel 20 again!

[@azrani2023]

This is so wholesome... all the very best to you

[@tashapolis]

RACHEL CAN SINGGGGG

[@galaxyskeleton]

I know right! Nobody's talking about that?!😃

[@sirenxtina9200]

Yes!

[@beyondallmeasure]

I've thought this before too!

[@Betsyschugar]

She may not have floors but she got them PIPES

[@rachelmaksy]

@@Betsyschugar LOOOOOL

[@phdprincess]

This era and makeup look made me think you'd rock the heck out of a Queen's Gambit look!

[@silliepixie]

I agree!

[@Tori_lmr]

Me too! I was looking for this comment!

[@rachelmaksy]

YESS hahaha

[@nettytrom6992]

That was great! You looked like the girls out of a 70's Seventeen magazine. When we were younger , to make our bell bottoms more "bell" we would sew bandanas in the outside seam of our jeans.It was great when the bottom of our jeans hid our feet. We would also make haulter tops out of bandanas. The wide side going around the middle and turn over the point then we would thread through a thick piece of yarn and tie it at the back of the neck. We thought we were so hip!! Hope this will give you some groovy ideas. I would love to see what you come up with. Have fun!

[@coepeach]

this was so fun to read, i hope she tries some of these classic techniques!!

[@mcwjes]

You were hip! That sounds amazing!

[@DangerHob]

I grew up loving everything my mom had from the 70s and started sewing my own bell bottoms in high school. My mom was so tickled and loved giving me tips or helping me find new cool cloth scraps to use instead of bandanas. Now I'm feeling like I need to do that again. 😂

[@caitlynstarrparrish]

We did that in the 90s too! The 60s style was very in as I was growing up. I remember having a conversation with my parents once abt how bellbottoms where in style at the time but that tighter jeans would eventually make a come back. I don't think I quite believed them as a kid. Now in my 30s I wear nothing but leggings.

[@kimberly2310]

I enjoyed this one! I was in high school from 1974 to 1978, and I have to say, the only Gunne Sax I ever saw were prom dresses. I don't remember anyone wearing a Gunne Sax for everyday wear. We wore blue denim or white canvas bib overalls, white and/or dark blue denim painters' pants, plaid gauze shirts, Dr. Scholl's exercise sandals, Earth Shoes, high-waisted polyester pants with 'picture' polyester shirts, cowl neck sweaters, guy's straight leg Levi's with a back buckle because no one made or sold women's Levi's back then, and the most popular hair style after Farrah's 'do was the Dorothy Hamill 'Wedge.' I had one and I loved it. Oh, and if you were cutting edge you had a pair of Frye Boots. I wanted a pair so much that I got a size too big because my size was sold out and then just wore a couple pairs of heavy socks.

[@jeanlinder1310]

I love that when you decide to try something new, it's a huge adventure and we get to come along. Your channel makes me so happy!

[@rachelmaksy]

:') yay!

[@Rachel_-_-_22004]

The final look is giving me very strong Velma+Daphne vibes and I'm here for it :)

[@QueenBee_93]

My mum was a teenager in the 70s and she said one of her favourite memories is buying a pair of huge platform boots she couldn't walk in, and teetering about the kitchen, holding onto the worktops while my grandparents (her parents) stood there smirking and shaking their heads at her desperately trying to walk in these shoes 😂 We also have all of her clothes still, her flares are still wearable and her Afghan coat is amongst her prized possessions

[@makulumac8394]

Your mom sounds great

[@KimberlyInSoCal310]

OMG I was waiting for that dryer to go up in sparks! Story time: my mom had an old hand-me-down 1950s-era blow dryer from her sister who was 20 years older than she was, and it spent many decades in the back of our linen closet. One day teen me was bored and thought it would be a great idea to unearth the relic and try it out, and it worked fine a couple times though who knows how much asbestos I inhaled using it. Round about the third or fourth time I used it, I was home alone and that thing blew up, smoking and shooting literal FLAMES out the front of it like a blow-torch! It was pure luck that I pulled it away from my head when I first smelled smoke, so I managed to avert a disaster and not burn up my entire head of hair. How I was able to stay calm and get it unplugged and wrapped in an old towel to dispose of it is beyond me. It could've burned the house down and me in it! Anyhow, your hair turned out great, and the makeup and outfit looked fantastic!

[@Pysslis]

@@junoantaresofficial I do not get people that store things in the oven!

[@rachelmaksy]

oh NOOOO 😂😂😂😂

[@angrytrees7519]

Aaaand all I can think is how old dryers were made with asbestos and not super safe by today's standards. Godspeed!

[@iheartmusic41]

I used to do twiggy style makeup in high school and I have a vague memory of putting white liner on my waterline to really make my eyes look huge like twiggy's. the good ol' days!

[@mwilliamson3989]

I was a teenager in the 60's in California an white was in the corner of our eyes and between bottom lashes and on upper lid also very pale pink lips! Good job! !

[@karenwright9123]

I was in High School in the 70's, we would definitely have been friends if we had both lived in that era...but we are now and that's fun ,too. You looked groovy! Loved the boots...I loved boots ,too.

[@Esther-1914]

"Groovy" .. a word I haven't heard in ... decades! @Karen 😂 And those clunky heels!🤣

[@italiana626sc]

Honestly, as someone who grew up in the 70s, your look at the end was WAY more on point with the time. Most of us had the curtain bangs but not so much the super feathery, super voluminous look you see in ads or TV shows from then. And that outfit is amazing!!!

[@jillbravo5252]

The average “commercial” makeup look for the 70’s was, indeed, boring. But those disco queens with their Biba makeup- chefs kiss. So beautiful and imaginative.

[@kaybee1567]

Rachel: Posts a video. Her thousands of fans: SHE'S BACK!!!!!

[@recitationtohear]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqe1g6muoZWIkKc Yes...

[@Greywolfgrafix]

❤❤❤❤

[@ghoulgrrl95]

Rachel, can we talk about how GORGEOUS you look in that play suit?!?!

[@This1sS0Stup1d]

They make attachments that go to a modern hair dryer and does the same thing, asbestos-free, fire hazard-free. Fun video! I feel like you have a preference for the colors popular in the 70’s, could be fun for you to dig in more!

[@rasgal1912]

My mom helped me make my first bell bottoms when I was a kid. She was from the era and said that before they had the style easy accessible they would just cut up their own jeans and insert the fabric of their choice. Some would add embroidery around the bell and along the pockets.

[@marikotrue3488]

You know what, starting as a 1960's hair style/cosplay that evolves into a Shania Twain reveal while in an unburned house is definitely what I would categorize as a win!

[@rachelmaksy]

hahahaha YES

[@elisabethr.1739]

Hey, Rachel so I recently found a pattern drafting system called the "Haslam system of dress cutting" it started In the mid-20s and ended in the 1960s. It seems right up your alley!!

[@recitationtohear]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqe1g6muoZWIkKc Yes...

[@thegreennectarine]

This looks super interesting! I’m gonna have a go at it I think.

[@moonshinemadame8699]

I have to say, the look suits you, but my first thought was 'Amy Pond' 😂 which isn't a bad thing, and it definitely looks good on you! Trying different aras with different aesthetics is so much fun, so I really enjoyed this video, thank you!

[@diannenixon621]

Funny I thought the same thing 😂

[@charischannah]

I thought that too!

[@marinavilela6303]

hahahaha omg, I just commented the same thing! glad I'm not the only one

[@crow-jane]

And same.

[@kimheater9754]

I totally thought that, too!

[@NatalieCrafts]

AH YES. The joys of being an old house owner. We bought a 1926 Tudor a year ago and the past year has been an exciting game of "What will break next?" (So far we've had the roof leak for two different reasons, bats in the basement, water in the basement, and plumbing leak. SO FUN.)

[@JadeStrawberry]

You looked beautiful and great job on the Twiggy eye makeup. I used to own a pink dryer that had a side grate warm air vented out and ladies used this to dry their freshly painted nails. The dryer was also good for earaches and to warm you up in the winter.

[@sarahannekerley8681]

I love how your reveals are a perfect blend of looking more stunning than anyone has the right to and then you making yourself look totally silly to compensate.

[@tennisprinzessin84]

Funny how you must have thought exactly the same thing as me ^^. Almost didn’t like this comment because it had 69 likes and I’m such a child -.-

[@rachelmaksy]

hahahaha AW JEEEEZE ♥

[@wisecanadianwoman]

It's a scary thought when the fashions I wore as a young woman in the 60's and 70's are now thought of as vintage! Still you do a good job in your attemps Rachel🙂

[@sweater_ghost]

If it makes you feel any better, those of us who are Rachel's age are getting our own taste of it watching Gen Z get really into 90s/2000s fashion! 😬

[@JYYB]

@@sweater_ghost girl i was going to write this too lol

[@amandabaker4678]

@@sweater_ghost A few years ago a friend of mine who was about 22 excitedly sent me a picture with the message "look at these cool boots I bought at the 90s vintage store!" I thought I was going to have my first heart attack at age 40! It didn't help that I had owned a pair just like them as a 90s teenager 😏

[@kimberly2310]

Yes, it is kinda freaky! I somehow saved about a dozen sewing patterns I used back in the 70's and I've begun remaking some of those lately. My husband was bemused when I started, but after seeing a couple finished garments he agrees they still look good. I plan to redo one of my favorite gauze smocks from high school (store bought, but I found a 70's pattern I can modify to replicate it).

[@angrytrees7519]

Ahhem, they are antiques. You're welcome. 😱

[@PumpkinSpikey]

I love Binx. She's so cute and I completely relate to her need to hide all the time. 70's hair is definitely a lot tougher then it looks to recreate. Bell bottoms are my favorite!

[@rachelmaksy]

hahahaha a true introvert :')

[@FLPhotochick11]

Great job! As far as bell bottoms, you can split the outside seam of the jeans about 12"-14" up each leg and add a triangle of flowery material to make the bottom super wide.

[@NostaIgiaJunkie]

My mom was a teen in the 70s and she said "Screw the rollers, go for the curling iron!" lol, your hair actually looks just like hers used to except my mom had intense feathered bangs lol

[@maggieslifeisawildride512]

I'm here to tell you at the 15:23 mark you totally looked like a 70's model! Congrats! Your expression in the pose, your hair and the make up checked all the boxes! Groovy...Lol!

[@aesthetickatpaws1661]

Rachel: anyone else make a turtle face when they do eyeliner? Me out loud alone in my living room: YES

[@overworkedkitten4399]

Me making the same face alone in my bed cuz I'm sick and just want to breathe but also am really tired but can't sleep.

[@rachelmaksy]

I'm glad 😂😂😂

[@monoymono9]

I must edit your comment. I think you meant to say, "Me and everyone else out loud alone in their living room: YES"

[@margarethall1625]

Had a bit of a flashback to my childhood. Raised in the 70's but my Mom made my clothes using patterns from the 60's. I can say you look amazing. Hope your flooring issues get taken care of soon. Love your videos in said area.

[@kme]

Same, tho I have trauma from it and prefer to pretend that the 70s didn't exist fashion wise. I still can't stand velvet pants or flares. (guess who got mocked for wearing them bc my mum made me, even tho that was the fashion at the time? yep... 🤷)

[@madisonbremer7723]

That eye makeup was super flattering. I'm so impressed by your ability to put the liner on straight.

[@icebow2005]

Thanks Rachel for this video for my snowy Saturday. I'd love to see more 60/70's era. How about outfits for a music festival, protest march, or prom. I had this sweet peach shade dress for prom. Floor length, cinched just under the girls, and cap sleeves. I can hear Peter Frampton in my head and clogs clacking down the hall of my middle school lol.

[@Joyful_StaR]

Honestly the final look is like a mix between April O'Neil and Daphne from Scooby Doo, and it's amazing!

[@sallycormier1383]

I literally busted out laughing when you put the dryer hood on! My grandmother had one and I remember the feeling of total relaxation with it on. Hard to stay awake when drying your hair with one of those. I remember just using a round brush to blow dry my bangs into a Farrah do. I graduated HS in 1976 so this video was a blast( from the past). 😁😆

[@sharonsmith583]

Graduated in 77. I had the 2nd best Farrah do in my high school. My best friends younger sister had the best!

[@maya-gur695]

Yesss the 60's and 70's are my favorite style decades! I've been waiting for you to do a 60's-70's inspired look for so long!

[@robinw7193]

My high school cousin used bushy rollers and that hair dryer in 1969. She also flipped her hair over her head to fluff out the style - I thought she was so sophisticated!! I also recognize the little yellow jumpsuit you modeled at the end of the video - if it were green, it would look exactly like my middle school gym uniform. Undeniably you look MUCH better in your jumpsuit than I ever did in my gym uniform! Thank you for your funny and fascinating videos, you always brighten my day!

[@subliminalphish]

This old grandma knows how to rock 🤘. I was a young person of the 1970s and we were kind of natural with our hair long and free . It was a time of some ironing there hair to make it as straight as possible. That would have been me if my hair had not already been straight enough. Good job btw you really looked early 70s just after your hair started to go kind of flat!

[@littlelistmaker]

Just wanna get in early to encourage people to check and make sure if they're tempted to pick up vintage hair dryers that they don't have asbestos insulation! 👍👍 The one I used for my whole childhood in the 90s and early 2000s had it and gosh golly gee I hope that doesn't matter down the line.

[@littlelistmaker]

Just got to Rachel mentioning this so I guess she had that covered. I just often think of the fact that I used my mom's dryer that literally had a warning on it and I thought nothing of it for like 15+ years and now it haunts me

[@MajaBiana]

Isn't asbestos 'only' dangerous when broken/crushed/damaged? This is what I've heard at least, but it creates a lot of problems when it *does* break, of course, or you have to get rid of it.

[@littlelistmaker]

@@MajaBiana I looked into this out of curiosity and they were all recalled around 1980 because they gave off dangerous levels of carcinogens (obviously worse for long term use than just doing it once for fun). Seems to be more so for hand-held ones like mine was: “The study noted that the flow rate of hand-held blow dryers was …ample to force asbestos fibers into the environment and providing opportunity for fiber inhalation. Additionally, the degradation of hair-dryer asbestos linings with age was another source of airborne exposure.”

[@shopgirlmer]

I had totally forgotten about the tiny clothes dryer my mom used to have until you showed that box. She would always use it to dry her panty hose after washing them in the morning and in the winter I would hover over it like a space heater.

[@divergentone7491]

Your look is perfect for mid to late 60's for women that were in their 20's. I was a teenager in the late 70's and most just wore our hair layered but straight. Clothing wise was jeans (and painters pants, and overalls) and cute tops, usually some kind of crop top or t-shirt with a short phrase. The real big hair started in the 80's. Perms became popular and lots of layers and highlights.

[@kimberly2310]

You also wore the painters' pants! I had three pairs; one in white canvas, another in blue denim, and a third in sky blue denim. EVERYONE wore them, guys and girls. And of course the bibs. You could wear any kind of shirt under them.

[@calicoquilter4472]

My dryer folded up into a domed two-tone green case - spent a lot of time with that dryer in the 1960's. Saturday nights watching Jackie Gleason on TV while doing my hair for church on Sunday morning.....

[@Ms70swildchild]

This video really took me back to my high school days. I didn't use the juice cans instead, I used Clairol Hot Rollers. In fact, I still have mine and use them on my 90 year old mother. Another look to try would be surfer bangs and barrel rolls a la That 70's Show. I had a big curling iron that did amazing rolls. I got curious about the hot rollers and found some on etsy for almost $50. I'm just glad mine still work. Great videos Rachel!

[@jenneli314]

My 90 year old grandma still uses something like that when she sets her hair, it's brilliant for people with limited arm strength!

[@annsmith9508]

I was a teenager in thec70s and you did well. We didn't really have curly hair, yours was perfect. I didn't have the wings, but a lot of people did. I think the hairdryer is really cute . By the late 60s we used blow dryers, but when I was lpretty little we had that type of hair dryer-- the weird thing is I remember always having a pixie? But I was looking for a hair dryer and few years back because you could do something else while drying your hair with your hands free, plus your arm doesn't get tired. That's a cute one. DID YOU SAY IT HAD OTHER FUNTIONS? YOU WILL HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE THEM.

[@jaybee4118]

I'm a 70s baby and I still remember a lot of people using curlers for the Farrah flip thing. I think it depended if you could afford a hair dryer in 70s...in the UK at least!

[@jodivandyk3649]

I was also a teenager in the 70's and she basically recreated my hair, but I did it with a curling iron. Though my mom used to put a hair dryer on me when i was a kid in the 60's.

[@kayakat1869]

I've been doing the drawn on lashes under the eye for like 6 months, and I love every second of it. It makes my eyes look huge and so cute. Looks much better than the whole fox eye thing people are trying to do rn.

[@pipistrelle8927]

I guess it depends on the natural shape of your eyes. But i'm definitely gonna give this a try, since my eyes are quite the opposite from "foxy". A cute Twiggy makeup style may be all we needed, us droopy-eyes-persons.

[@aksez2u]

Love the idea of this look coming back!

[@JessGeary-j6c]

I'm getting serious "solving a mystery on the way to my girl-band gig" vibes. Love it!

[@Robin-of2jt]

This comments section is so wonderful! I love all the women who wore this look in the 70s giving advice and anecdotes

[@katiehettinger7857]

Having been a teen in the late 60's and early 70's you looked just like you walked out of a time machine.✌💜😀

[@ryleemorrow6811]

Yesssss! We love Rachel trying to figure out technology

[@meganstedman4728]

Story time: when I was in middle school, I took my mom's small round brush, took my mid-back length hair, and rolled a chunk in the front allllll the way up the way up to my scalp. We ended up undoing some of it, but yeah. Had to cut it out

[@Hair8Metal8Karen]

I had a friend in school whose sister bought one of those "automatic braiding" things that braided string and beads and stuff into your hair. Well one day my friend's sister comes in with a really cute layered bob because she had pressed the button and the thing went "brrrrt!" right up to her scalp and it was so stuck in there that there was an emergency trip to the salon involved. I think about that every time I see those things being advertised.

[@rachelmaksy]

oh NOOOOO

[@lesley-annmaggs15]

I too was a teenager in the early 70's. I went to secondary school ( UK) in that time period. My 6year older than me brother used to wear jeans and one of the many fashions was to cut open the seams from the hem to knee and stitch in with wide fabric, any type,colour you wanted to see how wide a flare you could get. Also, it was fashionable to have holes (usually self inflicted) hand sewn patches of different coloured denim or flowered material, whatever you wanted really. We also had "Loon" jeans wear below the knee was a different, co-ordinated colour to the main part, they were flared too. My mum made me a pair of purple hot-pants with a removable bib and braces which I wore with a gold big puffed sleeved top that laced up with pointed collar. She also knitted me an off white high neck jumper that looked like a roll neck jumper ( sweater) with a zip in the back of the neck with a long purple, button up the front waistcoat. It came to the hem of the hot pants, so that I could ring the changes with a black leather, thigh length, fringed waistcoat. I had white pull on sort of vinyl knee length boots which were replaced with white leather ones when I finally put my fingers through them!! I wasn't allowed blue jeans but had a white Lee Cooper Jean suit, which was acceptable. I still have 1 or 2 things from "my youth". One in particular was a tshirt. It has a sports back, is white with a blue piped trim and an advertisement from the 70's for Pepsi, it went something like this... Lipsmakingthirstquechingacetastingmotivatincoolbuzzingfasttalkinghigh walkingcoolfizzing PEPSI! I may have got some bits in the wrong place but I was doing it from memory, the whole thing was a continuous wrap around like above! I have a 15year old soon to be 16year old (in April) granddaughter who is into Vintage big time. She loves the 1920's through to some of today's fashions but always classics. She likes pulling looks together with what she has. Occasionally I've had to say "too much or not enough " but generally she has a good eye!! She likes to "shop" in my wardrobe, eventually I get things back! She has her eye on a LBD in crushed velvet that's an original Mary Quant but I think she has too bigger bust!! There's also a white fringed Charlston dress and many more designer clothes she'd like to "borrow". I have some coats from the 70's, shoes 70's and 80's that she loves!! I also have a beautiful grey silk dress with small lemon flowers on it with a navy edge to edge coat from the 1940's. She follows you too. I love what you do in all your videos. I thought you looked fabulous in your final look!! The colour was great, boots perfect... stunning, you do yourself a disservice young lady!! The " romper" as you called it was fabulous, the fit perfect! Anyways, take care, keep safe. Love n hugs Lesley-Ann xX

[@PerfectPride]

I think 60’s and 70’s fashion is really fun. I’d love to see more!

[@barbaraleaweaver-mercado1820]

Thanks for visiting my teenage reality. I had a dryer like that and still have the jumbo rollers. My hair was still long until a month ago when I had to cut it short because it was falling out. Now I have gone silver and gray. Change is the constant and you get old unless you die first.

[@sheleavitt06]

My mom still has this kind of hair dryer. She would use it to ”try” to straighten her naturally Sherily Temple curly hair when she was a teenager and in her 20s because in her words you needed “cardboard straight hair” to be in style. She would wake up in the middle of the night to turn it off and after a few hours during the school day her hair would start to poof out much to her annoyance. She finally gave up in her late 20s just in time for curly permed hair to be all the rage in the 80s. To this day when I tell people she doesn’t curl her hair they are shocked because it totally looks like she goes to bed with curlers every night. But nope that’s her rocking her natural hair because she is so over trying to keep up with hair trends. She did use this dryer on me a couple of times to curl my hair for a play I was in when I was 12 but it hasn’t seen much use other than that and just sits in a cupboard in her bathroom unused for perpetuity.

[@TheGlamourGhoul]

Rachel: "I wanna do more 60s/70s videos." Me: YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!

[@Melissa_Tucci]

Agreed, plz more 60-70s also plz do a sewing bell bottoms, I refuse to buy the cute expensive Free People ones, I must make my own pair.... Teach me!!!!❤️

[@oliviarosearts4792]

Rachel darling, I make a turtle face whenever I put any makeup on that isn’t powdery. You definitely ain’t the only one. 😂

[@4leafclover133]

I love the 70s style. I always have. Love the music and fashion. I have been making myself bell bottoms since high school. Cough...1998.....cough. I have a friend who is begging me to start an etsy store. I have made her at least 15 pairs of bells out of bluejeans mostly but occasionally out of corduroy or polyester blend. You looked beautiful today Rachel. Keep up the great work.

[@manicmuffin]

What a loooook!! Imagine having the insane power to stylize any decade. I remember making my own bell-bottoms back when they were briefly A Thing in the 90's. I cut the outside seam of a pair of jeans up to the mid-calf then put a triangle of some cute boho fabric from a skirt or something (I can't remember). I'm sure in reality they looked terrible but in my proud, naive child's eyes I believed I had made something glorious, and I wore them constantly, haha.

[@arctealgames]

This is definitely your Karen Gillan doppelganger look! I'm here for it!

[@robbinova]

Hahaha AGREED! I was just about to say the same.

[@Hair8Metal8Karen]

YES!

[@beyondallmeasure]

I soooo want her to do a Amy Pond look. 🥰

[@dizzyjessd]

Maybe go and have a chat at a care home ask the ladies an outfit they remember from there younger years and try to recreate then go see them again wearing it and chat some more about their story :)

[@curleen4952]

Awesome idea!

[@RachelTeeKae]

People in a care home would be too old to have been on the 70s trends. It needs to be people in their 50s and 60s.

[@dizzyjessd]

@@RachelTeeKae I’m not talking just people in their 70’s I’m talking all sorts of decades

[@abominablyawsm]

That makeup looks so cute on you! So does the fluffy, flippy 70s hair. Also giving April O'Neal vibes

[@glitterstarlet]

You look gorgeous!! The late 60s/early 70s was such a fun time for fashion and beauty 🌼

[@amandahubbard6899]

Just looking at your plywood floors reminds me of a house my family had in Maine when I first started college. It was previously a family's summer home and the entire upstairs had hand painted plywood floors. It was actually really cool. Each room upstairs had a different color scheme that was incorporated in the floor and wall paint. The main level had the kitchen that had painted linoleum and the local plants and animals painted on the insides of the cabinets. It also had two sets of painted stairs that I didn't like so much (the shower was on top level and my bedroom was in the basement and I slipped down the painted stairs with nothing but wet feet and a towel multiple times. They did look cool tho.)

[@SeymourDisapproves]

That sounds like such a charming house! Sorry about the injuries though 😬

[@dawnliphard9591]

Kind of reminds me of Charlie’s Angels look right down to the book and romper. Love it!

[@SalindaNichols]

Gorgeous no matter the style or era! This kind of look really suits you ❤️

[@rachelmaksy]

you're so sweet thank you bb 😭😭

[@jayyates1676]

As a teen from the 70s, your finale product made my heart go pitter-pat!

[@therealhellkitty5388]

I was 10 years old in 1970 and by the time I hit middle school we were using curling irons for most hair styling. I don’t recall any of my friends flipping their heads around like that unless just out of the pool or ocean (So. California). If you decide to do this again, section your hair into smaller partings and use a slightly smaller roller. I will say, you’ve got the Cheryl Tiegs look going on and it’s a whole mood.

[@humansarehilarious9239]

can we talk abt how beautiful Rachel is , even without make up? 🥺🤍

[@recitationtohear]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqe1g6muoZWIkKc You Missed This.. ㅤ

[@Plethorality]

most assuredly, yes, she is.

[@dianacherry1411]

Yes! Beautiful inside and out; she's a gem for sure.

[@IanJudge]

I like this! I think you would absolutely rock the “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” late 60’s look.

[@dianacherry1411]

I've done this eyemakeup before and my husband asked if I was going to finish it or if I was going for a clown look. 😭 I thought it looked good lol. Love this content and I hope you have a good weekend! 🥰

[@Steph_here]

😭

[@curleen4952]

Typical husband appreciation phrase 😂

[@dianacherry1411]

@@curleen4952 😂 So true. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@Lisa-nm8ij]

Look at old Harlekin clown pictures. The makeup has that vibe. But who says you shouldn't want that vibe?! I like it!

[@rachelmaksy]

RUDE hahahhaha

[@blessingscritters]

I'm getting Mario Toad vibes with that hair dryer hat. 😂❤️ Love the reveal look! 🎆🌼✌️❤️

[@britstix90]

Enya being there for our girl Rachel, singing the song that encapsulated the moment so brilliantly :D Thank you for your content, I needed the laughs and stuffs for a very busy Monday.

[@brittanynichols4791]

I have had a round brush stuck in my hair before, too!!! What a lovely group of people to be a part of 😂

[@khills]

Me three. I was terrified of them for years. 😂

[@anna_freya]

yup, although mine was my dad's fault... remember using a lot of leave-in conditioner, and I think the scissors might've come out in the end

[@MazzyMadness]

Saaaame. Never going near one of those bad boys again!!

[@kitchenmom]

I'm old enough to remember mom using the German version of this hair dryer. Loved that you reminded me of mom. As always, a lovely video. Thank you.

[@hannahreed7339]

Thank goodness I needed some Friday content! Super adorable as always 😍

[@PassionForOldFashion]

THIS IS COOOOL! I am 33 now, and i was very strickt on only dressing 40s and 50s, but lately I have been thinking, dang, life is too short! I need some 60s and 70s in my life, after all, that is where all the music I listen to is from!

[@pamackenzie]

Far out man! I am also a child of the 60's and 70's. We used to make bell bottoms from Levis 501s. Split the seam from hem to knee and add your favorite fabric. My choice would be chambray, but something psychedelic would also work. My preference was an Indian print bedspread. We also made halter tops. Sew two rectangles or squares together with three inches or so open at the top. Make casings front and back and make drawstring from the same fabric or leather or whatever you want. I would again make mine out of Indian print bedspread fabric. I live in SoCal and personally never wore anything like what you are wearing, my people were more hippy style. But I saw a lot of people that dressed like that on TV. :) I never curled my hair, just wore it long and straight. In the later 70's I Farrah'd it!

[@pay1370]

you're literally so gorgeous! that eye make-up really makes your eyes look so big you could be an understudy for bambi!

[@StarOpal]

That brush story brought back a memory: When I was in elementary school I had a babysitter who would use me to experiment hair and makeup techniques (pre YT tutorials, friends). What she didn't realize was that fine, straight, shoulder length teen hair is not equivalent to thick, coarse, curly, waist length little kid hair. Long story short, the more we tried to get the brush out the worse the situation got, to the point she called my mom. My mom told her to just cut it out, that I had enough hair no one would be able to tell, and hair grows back. (that same babysitter got mad at me cause my hair wouldn't hold crimping so she couldn't practice)

[@AngharadMac]

Mine wouldn't crimp either. And I detested those round brushes they sucked for curly hair.

[@SewlockHolmes]

I would looove to see you eventually make your own bellbottoms xD I like that you're my portal to other eras. Also, the 70's layered, feathering has always been my dream hairstyle but I'm too chicken to layer my hair and too lazy to curl it every day xD

[@savedbythewind]

this whole look is so flattering on you!!!! i would love to see you do this hair and makeup again!!!

[@sockgoblin2942]

My grandmother had an old fashioned hair dryer, one that you had to sit under and was blue and made of hard plastic. It was so fun to play with as a kid- because she did that, she let us play with it- and it was practical for post-shower hair as well as just being weirdly fun to cook my head in the middle of the afternoon.

[@a.bubbles7869]

Absolutely awesome! But now I'm craving a full on Daphne Blake look. 😂

[@sugarsenshi9352]

PSA: Random fun fact about old hair dryers! They were often made with asbestos. Do be careful with some of these antiques. 💖

[@LisEibh]

This is true! And Rachel used to use an asbestos one that belonged to her grandma...until she was gifted a much fancier one by some PR team (I wanna say a Dyson Airwrap or maybe a Panasonic one) 🙈

[@lindatyler4794]

I was a teenager in the 60's and it's killing me that you bought the dryer at an antique store! Ack!

[@linellcorban4194]

Yes! Then of course hearing the 60's referred to as 'vintage' is a little unnerving too!

[@kateg7298]

I second that ACKK. I've never thought of myself as antique before.

[@alisondro-clinchandro7154]

If it makes you feel any better, antiques are actually over one hundred years old, something from the 60s would be considered vintage (vintage is 20-100). So even though it was in an antique store, it’s technically not an antique 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kateg7298]

@@alisondro-clinchandro7154 Thank you for that ego rescue. Vintage is a term I can work with 💜💙🧡

[@juliannehunter495]

High school class of '77 here. Love it that you're giving this era a try! If it makes you feel any better I never got the hang of using the big rollers. And the juice cans? Forget it. A curling iron was my weapon of choice for achieving "the flip". A lot of gals did the straight hair parted down the middle thing paired with a fairly preppy wardrobe throughout the decade. I could see that working for you. Check out Ali MacGraw's classic look in "Love Story". (1970) (caution, sad movie)

[@maryeckel9682]

According to a stylist friend, te secrets to the Farrah flip are several smaller rollers going back on the sides and top of the head and very thick hair with a dry finish. Modern soft hair won't take the curl or stay put. Texturizing sprays are supposed to help. There's actually a diagram of the curler pattern, with styling tips, from a 70s hairstyle magazine that's floating around the interwebs.

[@Inna-sa]

It doesn't matter what you film, I always enjoy your videos 😁 andI'm glad you've spread your schedule out a bit so you're less stressed x

[@treeflamingo]

I absolutely adore how Rachel oscillates wildly between ⭐stunningly gorgeous⭐ and ludicrously silly

[@michellecornum5856]

Having lived through the 70s, and having had one of those hair dryers that both made you deaf and took forever to dry your hair -- you nailed it.

[@ruthshere9468]

it's amazing how you can transform yourself from character to character. i have 1 character. love it. we used curling irons in the late 70's.

[@Cs-ry3fx]

That was really good.I was a teen in the 70s..I remember If you have big rollers like that , we called them hot rollers and they came in a box you heat them in. for that kind hair dryer I would use the pink sponge rollers or plastic smaller rollers on my grandma every Saturday. I also never wore polyester. I had hip hugger jeans , halter tops and mini ( I mean Mini) skirts 😄thank you for the memories Rachel...Keep rocking ✌