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How to cut curl and care for your hair

Bad Hair Day

August 31, 2015 Holly Looking Good 13 comments

How to Cut, Curl, and Care for Your Hair Booth 1985 Submitter: One of our student workers [in a university library] found this gem while shelf reading and brought it to us to enjoy. It’s horribly out of date and it

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Cristina Ferrare Style cover

The 80s Style in a Nutshell

July 29, 2014 Mary Kelly Home and Garden, Looking Good 12 comments

Cristina Ferrare Style How Have It In Every Part of Your Life DeLorean and Cohen 1984 If you were alive and paying attention in the 1980s, you might recognize Cristina as the 3rd wife of John DeLorean, designer of the Back

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How to cut hair cover

Hair Today Gone Tomorrow

August 13, 2013 Holly Looking Good 11 comments

How to cut your own or anybody else’s hair Bent 1975 Submitter: I submit to you this truly awful library book I found in our small public library here in New Hampshire.  As we were shifting the books on our

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Great Looking Hair cover

A Hair Raising Book

January 9, 2013 Mary Kelly Looking Good 6 comments

Everything You Need to Know To Have Great Looking Hair Gignac 1981 This is basically an extended promotion for hair products, and the content is pretty light. I think this is a good example of a bad book regardless of

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Glamour Guide to Hair cover

You can have GORGEOUS Hair!

June 12, 2012 Mary Kelly Looking Good 6 comments

Glamour Guide To Hair Conde Nast Publications 1986 The Eighties live again in 2012 in this lovely selection from a medium sized public library.  I am sure teen girls in 2012 are lining up to check this book out so

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Set and style your wig - cover

Bad Hair Day

April 19, 2012 Holly Be Pretty, Looking Good 10 comments

How to Set and Style Your Own Wig Stevens 1971 Submitter: Found on the shelf of a big, urban, central public library while weeding the 600s.  I don’t really know what to say about this one. It speaks for itself.

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For Men Only

Just for Men

October 9, 2009 Mary Kelly Guy Stuff, Looking Good

Milady’s For Men Only Styling and Techniques Cotter 1994 I honestly couldn’t post this one fast enough!  Just when you think no one can top any of the fashion and hair things, in comes an unamed library in Ohio with

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