Lucille ball hairstyle for long hair

Lucille ball hairstyle for long hair!

Lucille Ball is one of my favorite red heads and Lucy, being the vintage icon that she is, was a perfect fit for me this Halloween. In order to channel her, I purchase a vintage how-to hair book dedicated to the 1940's.

I love lucy hairstyle with bandana

Lucy's famous hairstyle is called "The Poodle." I can only assume that it earned its name because it looks very similar to puff of curls that sits atop a French Poodle's head. French Poodle's were very popular at the time. I think it has something to do with idea of sophistication, everyone wanted to be like the French Vogue model with her cigarette and her fancy dog.

This book is very helpful because it shows the different hair cuts and pin curl settings to achieve certain looks.

It even has a section on hairstyle for women with glasses which I thought was very funny. The poodle bang starts with a rectangular part on the top/front of your head, followed by three rows of four pin curls.

Left: Pin curl setting for poodle bangs. Right: My attempt at th