How Does One Comb Their Hair Like This?

[Retro Spectator]

Also, how you comb matters. To create a bit of volume, use the technique folks use for pomps - repeatedly comb the first quarter inch of your hair up in front, while pushing the whole volume of your hair forward into the comb. It'll create that round shape in the ads. I have to do this because my hair is thinning a bit on the part side, and in order to avoid a lopsided look in the front, I have to whip the part-side up a bit.

Thanks! That was pretty helpful!

 

[LuvMyMan]

If anyone was interested, here is what my hair looks like when I have no product in it (my hair is only ever product free when I am going to the barber.)

Buy a larger sized brush that is circular, a "roller" brush. Wash your hair and lightly condtion, then use a hair blower and a roller brush. You have to twist/roll the brush in your hair moving the brush forward BUT rolling it with the handle to make your hair go backwards in the roll of the brush. It lifts up you hair and will add volume to it. It will also straighten some of the wave in your hair, but not all of it. If you do this and then brush your hair (no comb) the way you want it to look, a slight spray (hair spray made for men) will hold it. I could style your hair just like what you want it to be if I was there to do it using this technique. You can do it. A large roller brush is maybe 8 or 10 dollars? Any questions, just PM me I will help you all I can. You have some great hair already to work with.

 

[EstherWeis]

Mr E gets a good cut ( old school barber who does authentic vintage style cuts) every 6 weeks and then he puts in this :

When wet and combs it into shape.
He hates products that stick or become hard when they dry.
This holds well without the yuck as he calls it.

The cut is everything though, the moment the top gets too long it will start to move around.

 

[Retro Spectator]

I just got my hair cut on Thursday. Here I am at the golf course. I got the top cut short and the sides very short. I usually get the top cut long, but I find it's easier to comb with the top short.

 

[LuvMyMan]

You look super in that picture, I'd leave your hair like it is in this picture. You are looking like an Angel!

 

[Retro Spectator]

You look super in that picture, I'd leave your hair like it is in this picture. You are looking like an Angel!

Thank you!

 

[Talbot]

Looking good! Why change?

 

[BlueTrain]

The barber shop I patronize has a big poster of various haircut styles. Mind you, all the hair styles are basically short but a few feature fairly long hair on top. That was generally the style in the 30s and 40s and into the 1950s. Earlier than that, I think shorter hair seemed to be more common for men. I don't know when flattop haircuts appeared but they were fairly popular when I was in junior high and high school.

In the photo of the graduating class of 1932 from my high school, which included my mother (at age 20!), there were a surprising variety of hairstyles for the boys, including at least one that would have not been out of place when I was in college. Most but hardly all, combed their hair straight back (I think). All had short hair on the sides. My father had wavy hair and so is mine to a lesser extent. But I have a distinct wave to my hair in front when I comb it straight across, which appears in all photos of me since I was "in knee britches." Another person in my mothers high school class, who was a distant relative, had exactly the same wave to his hair. He became an undertaker and buried everyone in my family.

The women's hairstyles were equally varied. Overall, you have to work with the hair as it grows but women have the same issues.