Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
Admittedly that plastic piece to pouff up the hair is clever..and heck alot better than upbrushing hair and lacquering hair with tons of hairspray to freeze the heights.. but probably the gals are still throwing on tons of hairspray
In the 50's and 60's they had hair 'rats'- soft netted poofs that were in your shade of color and you held in place under your hair with bobby pins or wrapped your bun around:
http://www.adiscountbeauty.com/page73.html
They were better than these hard plastic Armpits...ooops I mean BumPits.

Women used to make their own hair rats from their own hair!:
http://www.shasta.com/suesgoodco/new...swear/rats.htm
Talk about a green solution!