Louise Brooks Haircut Style

[yippitydodah]

Narrow jaw line, but just below the eye to the side prominent cheekbones for a Louise Brooks. Never on the traditional irish high cheekbones either side of the eyes. On Irish high cheekbones, you can not beat full hair, as a frame, but with modern modifications of fashion, enjoy like super straight, but just overlapping the shoulders, that move upwards when the head is turned.

[1339LARS]

Classic!!

[malvip]

i'll get that hairstyle tomorrow

[kridoprincess]

this haircut has to fit WITHOUT blowing dry!!! Is has to fit WITHOUT today´s technology!

[vintagechica82]

I had a hair cut similar to this once but it came about by mistake. You have to be really attractive to pull off this particular bob b/c it's so short and the lines are so sharp. It's more flattering to have the front sides cut to where they taper down to the lips or right below the lips and have the back shorter with graduated layers.

[creolelady182]

That model was perfect for this demonstration

[londenemily]

I should have married a Hair Stylist..

[cynthiacher]

The famous Hollywood costume designer Edith Head had a hairstyle similar to this. It did NOT look good on her. Edith Head was no glamour puss; if truth is to be told, she was quite homely. But I suspect a lot of people who shouldn't have gotten that hair do got it anyway; it was very, very popular at one time, and you still see it sometimes today.

[Desperada57]

They even gave the model that 1/2 eyebrow that Louise had! lol

[DatsFunni]

Wow the model really had Louise Brooks look. Beautiful.

[ketimaniac]

In every second, I see Louise Brooks. Stunning!

[Fullmetalpizza]

Spider splicer!

[mx4406]

those hair are ugly

[creolelady182]

His model is perfect to wear this hairstyle

[cynthiacher]

I would like to see a video about Jean Harlow's hair. It was the color in that case that was so striking: "platinum blonde" as it was called. Harlow was a natural blonde but not THAT blonde; she got the silver-white blonde color from a horrifying concoction of peroxide, ammonia, Clorox and Lux flakes (a laundry detergent). Of course, it destroyed the hair eventually and she'd have to tone it down for a while. But that was what they used back then.

[creolelady182]

Love this hair style and it is popular today as well. He is right not everybody can get away with a style like this. you would have to have a striking face. Louise Brooks did. I got a wig like this because my hair is too curly and bushy to maintain a style such as this. No doubt-this hairtyle is Louise Brooks trademark

[xDeepPurpleDreamx]

I really love this hair style, I want it so much, lol that dance at the end is quite funny.

[eap7mm]

I have the exact same haircut! I have had it for three years and I still love it! Not a lot people wear it anymore. But, nobody wears it like Louise Brooks. :)

[GearRocks]

What about Colleen Moore ,very similar if you ask me

[Gobbleknoll]

It was the style of the period 1915-'30, everyone wore the bob. It is true that LB's looks especially nice.

[markjhf]

The bob didn't become a trend until the 20's, and those who had it before then had a more fluffy, curly style bob. Louise brooks brought about that style of the sleek bob. Before her there was no "Black Helmet" style. She had this haircut at an early age, you can find pictures of her with a bob, at around age 12.

[Gobbleknoll]

There is no question that Brooks is the most beautiful woman from the period to wear the "black helmet" style (which was called "Egyptian"). But Colleen Moore and other early '20s stars wore the same. And most children under 12 wore a Dutch boy cut at the time.  The first film LULU, Asta Nielsen, wore the same cut in the 1921 version. Georg Pabst was so worried that Brooks looked too much like Neilsen that he had her wear a different hairdo for 1/4 of PANDORA'S BOX (1929).

[markjhf]

I've never found any info, calling Louise's haircut "Egyptian", I wonder were you got this info from. But the point I was making is, Louise's bob was very unique. Why do people feel the need to talk about Colleen Moore. For one, Moore wasn't the first to have a bob, that would go to Irene Castle. But throughout all the 20's no one had a bob like Louise, not even Moore as LULU. The difference being, the hair was cut high just at the ears, and went square towards the lips, not along with jawline.

[Gobbleknoll]

"Egyptian" can be found in Corson, FASHIONS IN HAIR (1965). Brooks' cut may have been slightly different from some others' but an unwaved bob with straight sides and bangs and a shingled back was far from unique, as a glance at 1920s films and photos shows. It is still helpful to call this style a "Louise Brooks" today just because so many people know what you mean.

This guy does a nice job here and his model is good-looking enough to wear this cut.

[markjhf]

That is a good book, however "Egyptian" is just a term created then, but was not used in the 20's, for a certain style of bob. The sleek bob can be found in many women throughout the jazz age, but it would be misleading to hint that Louise Brooks was merely following a trend), for she had her hair in a short cut, be it a dutch cut, or page-boy type cut, at a very early age, and finally got the "black helmet/egyptian" cut very early on.

[NovakMary]

i have one!! love it

[manyhighhills]

This is a clip from the 1990s channel 4(UK) 15 minute series called "Icons", where each program reproduced on a model the style of a fashion/movie/dance icon from the past. This is the one that I remember the most, for obvious reasons.

[Dorei8606]

love it!!

[pm9175]

Not bad for a modern-day imitation.

Anyone know what that music is?

[wowcats]

ha ha, that model is so cross eyed!

[deketelaere]

The hairdresser It is an Art!

Thank you.

[ForOrAgainstUs]

The music really made that stylist sound like a philosopher.

[yellowchthonic]

The hair is far too long, neck should be shaved. Look up the Brooks website

[niamh180]

hehe give her a chair

[jarvisel]

That model looked like she had some severe doubts about this.

[bobbette7]

That's actually what makes it even more fun to watch!

[cynthiacher]

As well she should have! I think she was concerned that the cut wouldn't suit her; it is a haircut that needs a very striking face to make it look good. Anybody can get a severe "bob", but to actually look good in it is something else again.

[HarborGuy]

Most women had there hair "bobbed" at the time mid -late l920's by Barbers most Salons (few in number) were just not equipped...I think the "shingle" was much more becoming than the "blunt" cut. Finger waves and the Marcel were soon to follow...

[cynthiacher]

Louise Brook's haircut WAS "shingled". Actually, that haircut (or one very, very close to it) had been in existence before Louise Brooks came upon the scene. The haircut was made popular by Colleen Moore, a huge star in her day.

[cateyedsnake]

Louise Brooks had that haircut long before she came on the scene.

[cynthiacher]

Brooks had a "dutch bob" kind of haircut as a child, but it was not the haircut that became her trademark. That haircut had been around before Brooks became a movie star, but it became closely associated with her because it looked so striking on her.

[Tinymoezzy]

indeed it did.

[cynthiacher]

Yes, the hairstyle became Brook's trademark feature. I think there are even people who call it "the Louise Brooks bob."

[Tinymoezzy]

i am sure that many would. I used to have it when i was younger, i just can not pull it off now lol.

Very pretty though.

[mzpurple555]

nice haircut but what the hell is the women doing at the end??????

[cambridgedan]

She is doing a dance and a style of pose that was popular around the time of this hairstyle i.e 1930's

[cynthiacher]

She's trying to dance in the manner of Louise Brooks (there are several videos here of Brooks dancing) but obviously hasn't got a clue about how to do it. The model is obviously NOT a dancer.

[sanzoparty1066]

I LOVE this hairstyle! It is so timeless, classic! While this cut looks simple, believe it or not a lot of hairdressers cannot do a really good bob haircut. I wish I could wear this cut!

[bobbette7]

MY word it is so stunning!

[cynthiacher]

This haircut, while striking on the right person, is one almost NO ONE looks good in. It's very severe and straight and totally emphasizes the face. Not many people can pull it off.

[bobbette7]

Wrong, your simply justifying your own fears of having this type of cut snipped out on you. What, does someone in your life think you should as well, exaperating these feelings in you?

[cynthiacher]

The hair stylist said in the damn video that this is a haircut for someone with "quite a strong bone structure and delicate features" and that is "can look frightful on the wrong person". Which is essentially what I said. Not a lot of people would look good in this very severe haircut.

[Gobbleknoll]

She is right...you need to be very beautiful (Josephine Baker, Brooks) to get away with a tomboy haircut.

[skibum7986]

that is the sexiest haircut !!!!!

[dookerbaby]

ooo...fantastic! I cut my own hair in this style and love it!

[ON360]

very nice haircut. nice technic

[AlanJK47]

AmAzingly Stunning!!