LIFE Archive | Blowin’ Up

Why are vintage hooded hairdryers so cool?  Maybe it’s because they make everybody look like an astronaut from an Ed Wood movie, even your grandma with cateye glasses.  Anyway, enjoy this gallery from the depths of the LIFE Archive:

Lanceur du Jour | Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani has been a style icon of mine since the 6th grade.   Whether she was rocking a vintage dress with a bindi between her eyes or wearing track pants and a fur coat, she always made it work.  Gwen’s style has evolved and become more refined since those early No Doubt days (and so has mine) but she is still the girl doing it her own way. 

Gwen’s hair is what I admire most about her style.  Since the 90s she’s rocked a plethora of gravity-defying, rockabilly inspired coifs that are always a jumping-off point for me when styling my hair.  She always looks stunning, but never like anyone else on the red carpet.  A tribute to the many hairdos of Gwen Stefani…