Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers! I hope you all have a great dinner planned with friends and family.

I'm thankful for all the free resources you can find on the web.

Signs and Wonder posted some scans from "The Dedman Method of Basic and Advanced Hair Designing" on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/23366371@N08/sets/72157617347576135/

According to the description, it is a 1953 self-published instruction manual on hair styling.

Blog milestones

We've recently met the following milestones:
500 followers on blogger
300+ friends on facebook

We currently have 957 rss feed subscribers. Hopefully we'll hit that 1000 mark soon!

How cool is that? I'm so glad that I can share these things with so many of you.

I have a problem...

I decided to organize my magazines and put them in chronological order. It's a good thing I did because there were some magazines I forgot about.

In case you're curious, the biggest stacks are from the 40's.

A few of my favorite things

Do you have any favorite posts from this blog? Mine is the overlay pomp.

Quick admin notes

You may have noticed that I switched to screened comments. I finally got annoyed with the spam and unrelated blog links. I try to approve comments as soon as possible, usually within a few hours.

I've been also been posted less often. I've been busy with graduate school, but I still have plenty of great articles to share with you. Hopefully they're worth waiting for!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am thankful for all the people reading Beauty is a Thing of the Past and especially thankful for all the people who have been leaving comments. I read and appreciate each and every one of them, even if I don't respond.

Admin post: Visitors

Where do the visitors to this site come from? Apparently, all over the world:

(Stats courtesy of sitemeter.com)

Pretty neat. I hope they keep coming. 

There are still plenty of articles that I haven't scanned in yet, so expect more posts soon.

A few administrative notes

To my five faithful blog readers:

(1) If you haven't already, please think about subscribing to my rss feed. I've been busy scanning in magazines from the 30s and 40s and there should be plenty of new posts in the next couple of weeks.

(2) As far as I know, this is a pretty unique source for free scans from American Hairdresser and Modern Beauty Shop Magazines. Please do not post these scans on your website without giving credit to the original source (this blog) or try to sell them.

(3) If you have any vintage hairstyle or beauty scans or resources that you would like to share with us, please e-mail them to me:
beautyisthingofthepast *at* gmail.com
You can also use that e-mail or comment on this post if you have any questions about this blog, or if you have some magazines I might be interested in, or if you want to thank me for wasting my time on this blog instead of doing something more productive.