Visit a 1930's Beauty Salon | AI Enhanced Film 1938 [4k, 60 fps]

[@dylanhubbard2162]

My bisnonna was a hairdresser, graduated from beauty school in 1933, we still have her old clippers from her salon. What a treat this is!

[@judemelroses9920]

Awesome. 1933 was a fabulous year. Especially since my father was born that year✨

[@denia1594]

Do they still work?

[@Timetraveler1111MN]

Aww fantastic! I’d like have tea and hear the stories. I’d love to be living it up in 1930s 1:31 look at that hair style so amazing!’

[@Timetraveler1111MN]

I need someone from this era to do my hair now! I’m in Minneapolis it impossible to find a wet roller set!

[@aelievense]

My Nana was a hairdresser in NY. Born in 1922, she still had her business cards at the end of her life. What’s really crazy is that the address on her business card for the salon is a Manhattan address which no longer exists due to building developers knocking down multiple city blocks and combining them to build huge sky rise buildings.

[@AndrewMacLaine]

To anyone wondering about the "signature" 30's hairstyle as opposed to the 20's: The stylist would sculpt finger waves into wet hair, cover it with a net, and set the lady under a dryer. When dry, they would let the hair cool, and in the 20's, would leave the hair still flat and close to the head. In the 30's, they combed or brushed the hair out after the set, making it a bit more fluffy but still neatly sculpted. So to tell the difference, 20's will be flatter and have a wet look, and 30's will look dryer and be slightly puffy!

[@alexandragisellechavez3564]

Tks a Lot!! I did not know how they did those curls...

[@taffykins2745]

Good info! How do you know all these things?

[@uzomaedith9627]

Ur a genius

[@ahippy8972]

The ladies slept withb’hairnets’ on to keep the finger waves too!

[@ahippy8972]

@@taffykins2745 probably my age, my mum and Granma’ had these styles 😎

[@glamourdaze]

A little bit of vintage asmr to help us forget about 2020, if only for a few minutes

[@doreensika837]

Thanks

[@crist67mustang]

😛😝😪 sleeping zzzzz.

[@debbienuke]

Thanks, we need some beauty in this year!

[@JackMehoffFoundation]

What song is in the background and what version?

[@glendaanderson4969]

I was thinking the same!

[@cap12206]

My grandmother once told me that those perm machines would burn your scalp, she wasn’t a fan of them. She also referred to her stylist as her “Beauty operator“ lol

[@patriciagordon2]

My mother said only one size curl from that perm tight and frizzy.

[@lisavanderpump7475]

Lmaoooo that one looked like something from outer space with tentacles

[@Pauldjreadman]

I've heard about them as well from my gran when she was alive.

[@helending7809]

My mother was 9 years old in 1938. She passed away in 2017 at the age of 87, yet this video seems timeless.

[@h0rriphic]

Wow, she saw so many things in her life time. I’m sure she shared some interesting things with you. I’m so sorry, losing your mom rough. I hope you’re doing ok.

[@cherylbooth5649]

❤️🌷for your mum

[@jamesmcinnis208]

Non Sequitur Award

[@hockeygirl8401]

So sorry about your mother I know the pain

[@debbienuke]

I am a hairdresser and absolutely love watching these vintage salon videos! Thank you so much for posting them❤❤❤

[@ln14517]

Creepy to think people can watch you on a tiny screen 90 years later. Imagine 100 years from today what people would think about the videos we post today...

[@pogmothoin1342]

The smallest tv screen in 1938 was about 12 inches almost the same size as today's tablets, cost $448 about $8,000 in today's money, the more things change the more they remain the same😊

[@lettyguerra371]

They're not going to want to go back in time that's for sure!😄

[@dabdella1460]

Now that ya mention it

[@LadyPotions]

There's something very comforting about these old videos

[@yahya4370]

I just came to see how the other side was doing while my great grandparents were under Jim Crow laws.

[@latsnojokelee6434]

Yakima--fair enough. But there were many salons in the black community and it would be very interesting to see footage of those salons. The fact this is even filmed is unusual because movie cameras would've been incredibly expensive back then for any personal use.

[@cocochanel9285]

I’m a hairstylist and I LOVE that era .. I would have loved to be a stylist back then more than today

[@eshore389]

I've been a stylist for 17 years and this is absolutely delightful!!!

[@alondraargueta1017]

It's not a movie. It's real people in real life situations. I love it ❤️

[@TheBibleSkeptic]

My grandmother was a stylist in the 30s (40s, 50s). I remember visiting her home and in the basement/cellar she had those curlers and massive hair dryers like at the beginning of the clip. Used to scare me to go down there because those things looked like they belonged in a Frankenstein movie!

[@taffykins2745]

Lol! 😄😄😄 fun story!!! 👍👍

[@angelahagood7143]

Loving those finger waves! I’m in cosmetology school and believe me those are so challenging! These gals make it look easy! What a treasured video to have! Thanks for sharing! 💇🏻‍♀️🥰👍🏻

[@pdelmercado]

Wow, that was so interesting. It makes you feel like you've gone back in time.

[@davieleerio]

I remember my grandmother talking of the perms back in the day along with the marcel wave nice video 😍👍

[@chezamoonangelaiemma497]

This is lovely to see a glimpse of what a beauty parlor was like back then, lovely song so calming.

[@riptiderobin1676]

I love the finger wave hairstyle. I have tried so many methods but I just can't get it down. Wish I could visit this 1930's hair salon. I'm sure it would be done to perfection.

[@novel-teadee3410]

Most beauty schools teach how to finger wave. At least in California, it's still a style you have to do at the state board test to get a cosmetology license. Try getting your hair done at a beauty school. I had practiced on my doll head a lot, but at state board you had to have a human model for the test, and the results on an actual person are different. We also had that old perm contraction, but never got to use it.

[@ameliar6374]

Novel-Tea Dee is it free to hAve your hair played with by a student at a beauty school?

[@novel-teadee3410]

@@ameliar6374 it can be if they need you as a model just to practice. At my school, once a student hit a certain amount of hours they were placed "on the floor" which means they were getting paying customers (not paid though). Prices at a beauty school are way cheaper than a regular salon btw. So before a student is "in the floor" they did not take paying customers and we could bring in "models"/friends to practice on for free or like $1. Check out your local beauty schools (if they are open) and see if they need live models for finger waving. That always seemed to be the scariest style to most students. I loved doing it. But I've always been into vintage styles so the look made sense to me.

[@novel-teadee3410]

@@ameliar6374 also a key to finger waves is curly hair. Curly perming doll heads and the paying elderly clients was a major step before we could finger wave or roller set. Of course the perm lasts for quite a few months.

[@andycalimara]

Black hair salons still finger-wave.

[@fgt2078]

Whoever uploaded this THANK YOU!

[@OldiesReads]

The swaying slow melodies put all the ladies to sleep! 0:27 lady is yawning 🥱 looks so relaxing! 😀💕

[@janelynjohnson5147]

My mother owned her own beauty salon in the 30's and she often told me she loved doing the finger waves

[@sherlytle1057]

This is art! Amazing and beautiful! Feels like your really there! Bravo & thank you!

[@lako2582]

I’d love to see some of these older hair styles come back.

[@deed2157]

They do, but in modern form like the bob an fingerwaves

[@cherrytreeblossom8475]

When I was little in the fifties there was a permanent wave machine on my grandmother's verandah, along with lots of other old stuff. My aunt had been a hairdresser in the thirties and it always fascinated me to look at. Bet my Dad took it to the tip when they were doing up the house. It would probably be worth a bit now.

[@melissamcqueen582]

"aww super cute!" she says, looking at her reflection in the bathroom mirror, as she trims her bangs with kitchen shears in 2020 🤷‍♀️

[@SirenaSpades]

And continuing onto 2021... I haven't been to a salon in 11 months and counting.. thanks to my state's stay at home order.. still in effect. Yay.

[@dabdella1460]

I hear ya Do yer own Nobody to be mad at Life story.

[@glendaanderson4969]

The background music is fantastic. Wish I knew who that was...

[@lettyguerra371]

The song is September In The Rain. Its been sung by everyone from Billie Holiday, and Dinah Shore to Dinah Washington, Julie London, Sarah Vaughn and Frank Sinatra. I also like the instrumental only versions, especially by Guy Lombardo. Its the closest recording to this year. He recorded it in 1937.

[@dougandlina]

@@lettyguerra371 Where did they find this song, I tried to Shazam it and nothing happened?

[@dougandlina]

Who recorded the version played in this video?

[@ToddClemmer]

@@dougandlina Try the Guy Lombardo version from 1937

[@lulubundra5549]

Just a note with lots of love. Thank you so much for this treat to the heart, mind and soul. We all need peaceful feelings. Even i don't was in that so elegant era, I feel nostalgic about it but with a great pleasure to see. Thank you so much again. Sending positive energy all around. Be all safe and keeping healthy muuuah

[@judemelroses9920]

Love that color was added into film.💗🎞️📽️

[@traherne6726]

Loved the audio, gave us a real “feel” of the salon at that time.

[@joycealdrich]

My grandmother took a marcelling hairdressing course in the late twenties, and in the 1960's, she used to do my hair, for school, with her hot iron marcelling tongs, that she heated up on the stove element.

[@criticalcatalyst]

Wouldn't it be something if they actually had a salon in modern times that was outfitted with all those pieces from that era, and could still put them to use? Because I'd love to observe that in real time...

[@StellaWaldvogel]

I'd love that Marcel at 1:32! It would be awesome to go to an authentic place and get that done!

[@patriciahopewell5291]

A salon that was open would be nice!

[@rocket7697]

Ive been watching ' Tabatha Takes Over'....oh boy..the women in this clip look like real professionals. the cesspits Tabatha tries to clean up are unreal.

[@queenbunnyfoofoo6112]

I go to a barber who worked in a shop that was like stepping into a turn of the century shop (but obviously with today's sterilization procedures). Now he owns his own shop that is very 50's. I absolutely love it! I wear my hair REAL short, so I prefer barbers.

[@dabdella1460]

What. And not take a chair.

[@footballmaster4086]

Ugh.....I love the finger waves!!!! I want them!

[@mattfisher694]

Marvellous insight into the past. Love the music in the background.

[@shantelfox5742]

why am i nostalgic to an era before my time

[@mysticalmargaret6105]

I love this, thank you for sharing! How my great-grandma must've gotten her hair done back in the 30's! No doubt those curler contraptions were state of the art for the age!

[@pattymerrill2838]

Very fun and relaxing! More please.

[@c.mckenzie2155]

Great film! I wish I had a video of my mom in her shop in NJ. She had the same curling machine and had 3 other beauticians working for her. This stupid virus changed everything for the worse....

[@lydiahubbell6278]

My great-grandmother called them "beauty parlors" and she had a standing appointment every week.

[@maryr130]

I'm 60 and grew up calling them that too.

[@paulmercogliano5816]

I am a new subscriber. Thanks for the amazing videos!

[@buffalochic1974]

OMG as an old soul l absolutely love this.

[@babygracie68]

Love it... It’s wonderful to time travel 😊

[@msgigirogers1559]

Let's bring back the 20s fashion and music!!! *edit: wow! Turns out LOTS of people are 👇 Who's with me 🤩

[@claraclara2061]

l am

[@msgigirogers1559]

@@claraclara2061 🤪👏😆

[@claraclara2061]

@@msgigirogers1559 just subscribed to your channel x

[@msgigirogers1559]

@@claraclara2061 thx!!!!

[@claraclara2061]

@@msgigirogers1559 you are most welcome dear

[@jillylloyd3527]

I have just discovered your channel and adore vintage! Thank you so much x

[@christianrogers4980]

It stuns me to think that my grandfather was already 4 years old when this video came out. I'm so happy that he's still here

[@spiegel3935]

Weirdly somehow I can smell this film.

[@italomix2611]

Fantastic video, great restoration, amazing.

[@MaryJanuary0107]

Nice, I was wondering how did they do those hair styles when watching those old movies. Thanks for sharing!

[@markmulac954]

And somewhere along came BOUFFANT!!!

[@saritaw4739]

with the sounds and color, it humanizes the image so well! amazing!

[@quietmadness1768]

When women were still ladies, children behaved well, and ‘class’ meant more than the money in your bank. It meant carrying oneself with dignity. Thankfully, these films have been saved. Memories of the best days are all we have now.

[@susyshepard320]

OMG ! It's a miracle they had any hair left after all that treatment.

[@alinadamen3815]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@AlexYorim]

I find it interesting that some women still opt for finger waves while others are going for updos and what we would see as 1940s hairstyles.

[@h0rriphic]

2:07 It’s odd to think that little girl, if she’s ever still living, could easily be pushing 100. Even stranger to think about how all of the other ladies we’re seeing in this video are long gone by now...

[@KimSearch865]

I love this enhanced film ... it brings the past back to life! You can see the customer service was top notch back then! Something we don’t always receive these days. My dad (now 89), was 6 & my mom (now 86), was 3 when this was filmed.

[@thepearlswirl]

I’m trying to figure out why I’m getting addicted to these videos lol this is a salon I could never walk in at this time😭

[@KAMALAISHERNAME]

Exactly. One of US would probably be killed for even walking past a salon in that neighborhood

[@princearthurlouispagan9901]

Amazing footage! Excellent work!

[@hollyvondross9635]

Like the uniforms on the workers. Dress codes are respectful.

[@photadyta]

I remember my nan would get her hair done and it would stay in place for months.

[@preciousthing101]

HOW HOW HOW. Mine wont stay curled for an hour.

[@mojojeinxs9960]

When I was in beauty school I remember finger waving . It is still taught today. A true art I never got the talent for.

[@racegirlbriar]

Nearly 100 years later and salons haven’t really changed all that much. It’s comforting.

[@marlene2677]

This happened so lang ago, incredible. But all the more interesting is it to watch.

[@alison2649]

The added sounds are truly appreciated.

[@fishin9157]

What is the background song called?

[@MLaker221]

You asked only 3 mins ago so I should be patient for an answer lol

[@brvndxxxn]

I’d love to know too! It’s hauntingly beautiful

[@lolalina_]

September in the rain

[@chezamoonangelaiemma497]

@@lolalina_ Do you know the singer? Please and thank you.

[@lettyguerra371]

September in the rain.

[@patriciagordon2]

That was my Great Aunts salon in Laconia NH. My mother was born in 1934 and that was the type of perm she would get. Thanks for the visual memory.

[@gaylejones1545]

I wonder what year hair salons actually came into existence?

[@vonkluge9352]

Name the song ?

[@NostalgicNell]

That film glaze is gone.. it’s like it’s real.. like I’m there. I’m crying.

[@christya2488]

I'm watching this and I just realizing that until the 60s all hairstyles were completely without movement. In the 1920s before women started cutting their hair shorter they wore very elaborate updos. Once they started cutting their hair, it was all very constructed, very stiff and molded into a shape. Hair didn't gain movement until the sixties when girls started wearing it long and straight and flowing. In the '80s they reverted back to stiff, sprayed big hair, but it never went back to being so restricted and molded as it was before the sixties.

[@myfavoritedream2149]

I love these films. They are so tender for some reason.

[@debramage739]

I just love these. Thank you. Those curling wands have me in. 😆

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

Let's be honest. This man (or woman, I don't know) has a time machine, travel back in time and make this documentaries

[@antipodeanvagabond]

I love that the staff all wear matching uniforms that look so neat and pressed.

[@intheredcold9216]

Actually, those full head dryers are pretty neat. They still had them in the 70s.

[@s.a.5948]

The song in the background??

[@cUser691]

@@gauloise6442 Thx for source of bkgr music

[@dougandlina]

@@gauloise6442 Who sang the version being played?

[@timsummers870]

Nice historic footage!! I don't know if this particular salon catered to older ladies only or if young women overall just wouldn't go as much. The demographics certainly have changed nowadays. Another interesting fact is that this is a pre-WW2 film. Nobody had any idea what awaited them the next year.

[@bluemonday7054]

2020 mindset: “omg, no masks and no social distancing”...

[@cocochanel9285]

Refreshing isn’t it

[@misst.e.a.187]

🙄

[@maryt2196]

Remember the flu pandemic happened just 20 years earlier things were closed.....so gives you hope in knowing this too shall pass

[@RivkahSong]

@@misst.e.a.187 Why the rolled eyes? My first thought upon seeing them sitting so close to one another without masks was how strange that is to see after a year of lockdown and the pandemic.

[@novossadt]

I thought the same thing

[@264aub]

The music is so relaxing!!

[@MonicaM444]

I wonder how often they had to go and get their hair done? My Mother in law was from that time era. She did not know how to do her own hair. She didn’t wash her own hair either. She went to the salon once a week for her hair until she passed away. Lovely video. ❤️

[@preciousthing101]

What I love is that even the older ladies took some pride in their appearance and went to get their hair done. They didn't just give up on life like today.

[@rebeccahoffman2430]

This is so refreshing.

[@PL..Powstaniec]

Wszystko lepiej niż dzisiaj: Jakość i chęć do pracy jest na 1 miejscu, nastrój, uśmiech, obsługa i zaangażowanie, cena, czystość, pomysłowość Everything better than today: Quality and willingness to work is first, the mood, smile, service and commitment, price, cleanliness, creativity

[@Cliff6965]

As a hairstylist, I am fascinated in the Theory and Practicality of Cosmetology. I’ve collected many relics throughout my 35 year career. And I’m still going strong! I love Carroll’s Beauty Salon. I wonder where this vintage salon is or was located?........🥸

[@Tony-yg9mc]

@ Cliff Tompkins. Those vintage / retro shops were very interesting.. my apartment building was next to a tiny beauty shop.. the owner never updated her equipment or decor for the 80s90s was in pristine condition decor from 60s.. I’d pass by it every day and one day impulsively went in and asked for a haircut. Better job than the barber!! Was very weird and awkward at first and a little embarrassed but I continued going to her. Right next door full service and cheaper than the barber .

[@reneezancewoman]

2:00 did she tell her permanents are 75? As in 75 cents? Wow

[@andiebrit65]

I remember practicing finger waves in beauty culture in high school. I took so long.

[@amschrek]

It's fantastic to get such videos ..

[@anniejones5204]

All sat there reading, now they all sit there on their mobiles😂

[@milkandspice1074]

Both reading...just one with paper and the other a device.

[@ViaOjo]

I just love this channel!!!

[@mansing]

I'm no hairdresser, I'm assuming their hair is severely damaged to achieve this perfection? I'm in love with 20s-40s looks but my greatest frustration is achieving the hairstyles as my hair is incredibly sensitive to heat and chemicals 😢 I wish I knew how to get this perfect style without damaging my hair!

[@taffykins2745]

I can't see your pix but maybe bobby pins and some setting gel or cream? Just don't use a comb or brush on it. Just guessing from my life experience, I'm not a hairdresser. 🤗

[@mansing]

@@taffykins2745 In fact, that's also what I do! But it never comes close to the perfection of the use of heat, but it's better than damaged hair hehe. Probably because it's constantly humid where I live, I suppose. Thanks! ♥️

[@leelastoma5809]

Those finger wave days 💕💕💕

[@dzspdref]

Just imagining the forethought the person had to even take out a camera and record this, so we could enjoy this a century later.

[@my2centstoo]

Now I want somebody to play with my hair! Such a relaxing video...

[@jsc1222]

Loved this! Thank you ❤️

[@wednesdayschild3627]

I miss the glamour. I would love to see people fixed up and not looking like a mess. Heck 2021 sucks

[@erinw8787]

Just think - a lot of these women would have been born in the 1800s. That’s pretty cool .

[@itsme-rt7nz]

What was that first machine where the stylist is unplugging all the cords from those things in the woman's hair? It reminds me of the brain transference in Young Frankenstein.

[@gloriaortiz1227]

These are the ordinary women that we dont know about from those days. The only people we are familiar with from those days are the Hollywood super stars that we see in old films.

[@mariazahedi7444]

It's so long ago, but still somehow feels like today. I could live in a salon or spa.

[@cxg37]

Can anyone name the song playing in the background? So pretty and I want to download!

[@misst.e.a.187]

Must get those Marcel waves just right

[@petitelapin60]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing!!

[@sabrinasjourney]

Thanks for getting the music right