Wave clamps for perfect finger waves

I found a bag of 90 year old rollers and finger wave clips in an antique mall called Grandpa’s in the tiny town of Kingston Arkansas. I took them home and tried my finger wave set using the new old clips, and it made a huge difference!

instead of just holding the waves in place, they clip the ridge of the wave, which really defines the waves and makes them pretty.

You can find wave clamps like these here!



The key to successful DIY hair is sectioning. It is what keeps things organized and manageable. With hair, it is easy to get overwhelmed and lost because there is a lot of it and it can become a mess easily. If you pay attention and make a point to work section by section through a DIY haircut, hairstyle, or color, you will have much better luck getting it just right. Sectioning is the framework. Live it. Learn it. Love it. Here are some examples of sectioning, as well as a map of the skull for reference.




Some basic styling tools you will need in the near future.

Long bobby pins and duckbill clips will come in handy this holiday season if you want to keep up with HTHG’s on-going explosion of vintage waves, pin-curled styles, and up-dos. It’s gonna get really fun, guys. My inspirations? 1960’s country legends, Alphons Mucha and art nouveau inspired hairstyles, and the 1940’s. Pin-up girl hair, rockabilly hair, it’s all coming soon! XOXO

The Hair Rat. A spooky yet awesome vintage hairstyling trick

How do you think women used to get their hair to do this??

Because in the 1940’s, I can tell you for sure that not every woman had enough hair on her head to do this sort of hairstyle, without a little reinforcement.

Ladies, let’s talk about the Hair Rat.

Not that kind! gross!



A hair rat is a form made of a woman’s own hair that is used to beef up bigger hairstyles.

Historically, a woman would collect her own hair out of her brush over time and either put it in a hairnet or roll it into a sausage like shape and use it inside those fabulous victory rolls that we see in old photos and wonder ” how did they do that??”

The hair rat blends right into the hairstyle, adding serious structure and OOOMPH. If teasing is the high-heels of hair (love that quote Reagan of HDOFblog!) Then the hair rat is the highest platform boot you can find.

There are faux-hair rats on the market these days, but nothing quite blends like the real thing. That is a promise.

How delightfully creepy and wonderful. Let’s start our hair rats today because I’m quite sure that we will be using them in HTHG tutorials in the near future.

Go get your brush, and use a comb to get all the loose hair out of it. Roll it up and stash it somewhere where no one will see it and get creeped out;)

Keep adding hair to it until it is the size of a softball. I don’t roll mine too tight, because I like it to be able to conform to whichever shape I need it too.

I had to share this post because the other day, I was styling hair for a photo shoot and found myself desperate for a hair rat. So, I collected the hair that I had trimmed off the model, rolled it into a big ball, and stuck it inside the base of a braid to poof it up and it worked perfectly.






Here is an article that will tell you a bit more about the hair rat.

Here is another way to make your own.

Will you use this awesome, practical, historically proven stands-the-test-of-time vintage hair trick?

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