Test yourself! Hairdo Quiz!

[mellie]

Here is a fun hairdo quiz!

http://mentalfloss.com/quiz/quiz.php?q=386&p=1

How well do you know your hairdos?

[redtea]

I had no idea that was called the Marcel Wave. I've always loved that style!

[crebbsgirl]

I got the Marcel wave wrong too!

[Isilya]

Another one here who didn't know it was a Marcel. It looks exactly like fingerwaves to me

[heidi w.]

The only one I didn't get was Elvis' quiff. I said ducktail but he actually didn't wear this that I know of.

heidi w.

[heidi w.]

Some were able to do the Marcel with a comb, known as the Marcel comb. You can still buy these combs -- these were used in combination with irons.

http://www.1920-30.com/fashion/hairs...rcel-wave.html
The irons were made by L. Pelleray of Paris and exported world-wide. The original irons were heavy tongs with rounded internal surfaces that had to be handled by an operator trained in knowing how to make a deep natural looking wave, and not a round curl. The tongs were heated over a rectangular shaped gas burner about six or seven inches long and two inches wide. As you can imagine, with such primitive equipment it was hard to maintain the correct temperature for the iron - too cool and the wave did not set, too hot and the hair got burnt. The hairdresser tested the iron on a piece of paper before using it on a clients hair. If the paper burnt, the iron was too hot! However by 1924 electric waving irons were available where the temperature of the iron could be regulated. Marcel irons initially came in four sizes - A, B, C and D and were used according to individual preference, but in 1933 an adjustable iron was developed. The iron was used in conjunction with a comb. Today, gold-plated and ceramic marcel irons are available to hairdressers which remove most of the risk and problems associated with the early irons.

Sometimes ads show up on eBay for Marcel Wave combs.

heidi w.

[Isilya]

Some were able to do the Marcel with a comb, known as the Marcel comb. You can still buy these combs -- these were used in combination with irons.

http://www.1920-30.com/fashion/hairs...rcel-wave.html
The irons were made by L. Pelleray of Paris and exported world-wide. The original irons were heavy tongs with rounded internal surfaces that had to be handled by an operator trained in knowing how to make a deep natural looking wave, and not a round curl. The tongs were heated over a rectangular shaped gas burner about six or seven inches long and two inches wide. As you can imagine, with such primitive equipment it was hard to maintain the correct temperature for the iron - too cool and the wave did not set, too hot and the hair got burnt. The hairdresser tested the iron on a piece of paper before using it on a clients hair. If the paper burnt, the iron was too hot! However by 1924 electric waving irons were available where the temperature of the iron could be regulated. Marcel irons initially came in four sizes - A, B, C and D and were used according to individual preference, but in 1933 an adjustable iron was developed. The iron was used in conjunction with a comb. Today, gold-plated and ceramic marcel irons are available to hairdressers which remove most of the risk and problems associated with the early irons.

Sometimes ads show up on eBay for Marcel Wave combs.

heidi w.

Thank you for that info. You always manage to come up with the most interesting links/texts. I don't know how you do it

[mellie]

I only got a 75%...

[eadwine]

10 out of 12 correct

I am good at gambling, apparently

[WavyGirl]

67% Below average I didn't know the Marcel, Layered back, Bouffant or Pixie (these seem much shorter these days). Now if the questions had been about updos I might have done a bit better