Fun Avocado mint find today

[petek]

With all the talk about mint well I found this today, never used, but no box
It's a Baycrest electric skillet/buffet. Baycrest is the Hudson Bay dept store brand name much like Pencrest for Penneys in the US. I won't be using it either, already have one I seldom use.

 

[petek]

and this inside... no teflon

 

[petek]

Now something more mist erious

A whole lotta girls could use one of these in their boudoir

 

[petek]

The secret to a beautiful doo is in the mist. LOL
Lotsa selections, mist only, hi,med,lo mist, cool mist, you can't go wrong.

 

[jasonl]

Get your bouffant on!

Gawd this brings images of beehives and bouffants. Women in curlers and everything.

 

[launderess]

And just what is wrong with Big Hair?

Have one of those things, and though hate sitting under it for hours with curlers, nothing else gives a and set will hold from Saturday to next Friday.

Now all a gal would need besides that dryer is a can of "self-styling" Adorn hairspray and a jar of Dippity-Do. IIRC my babysitters used to use Breck setting lotion, but sugar and water will work in a pinch.

Launderess

 

[jasonl]

Wasn't there a hair spray called "All-Set" or something like that? I remember the can was two-tone white and blue or white and gold or something like that.

 

[launderess]

All Set Hair Spray

Is still around, and used by hair dressers (aka beauticians, a term my hair dresser HATES), and those who love big hair alike.

Does anyone remember those television commercials for Alberto V05 hair spray where two women where sent through all sorts of god awful things to prove which hair spray was best? Was one of my favourite vintage commercials, that plus the ones for Playtex 18 hour girdle (where a woman would announce right before a wedding, boarding a flight, or some such event "we can't go, I forgot my girdle"). Like any man is going to turn around and go back home because his wife forgot a piece of underware. *LOL*

Launderess

http://www.customnails.com/deallsethabl.html

 

[veg-o-matic]

I just got my mom a GE professional portable hair dryer (that's what it says on the box, I swear) from ebay. It's significantly older than Pete's--before mist was invented. Even have a commercial for it--"You know that feeling luxury you get when you know your hair is beautiful?" My favorite line is something about "putting the finishing touches on your shimmering hairdo."
Gotta love it!
Shimmering hairdo!
Shimmering hairdo!
Shimmering hairdo!

As for girdle commercials, the one that comes to mind is the one with the elegantly-clad dame sitting down. Camera dollys in for a closeup. She turns to the camera and says:
"My girdle is killing me."

veg

 

[toggleswitch]

What's that smell?

Breck setting lotion... My mom used to use it. I can still smell it!

Except HER GE hair dryer was the size of a dinner plate and a hose connected it that went to a soft bonnet.

We use to use it to dry our hair before blow-dryers ("pitsol") style were very popular.

..becaue you know the belief was if your hair was wet you got sick when going out into the cold.

 

[launderess]

I Will Pay Good Money

For a picture of "ToggleSwitch" sitting under a soft bonnet hair dryer. *LOL*

As for hair dryers, have always been partial to the soft bonnet types myself. They were much easier to take on sleepovers/babysitting/traveling (in fact IIRC, "Jane" or her mother in my first grade reading primer took one along on a train trip). Also soft bonnet type hair dryers allowed one to move about for the hours it took for your hair to dry. This way one could chat on the telephone, do one's nails or grab a snack.

Anyone remember Tidy Dryer from Ronco?

Launderess

 

[petek]

I remember the first blow dryer that came out for men, had to get one, The Hot Comb, can't remember though if it was Gillette or Schick that brought that out. Wished I still had it now, and of course "The Dry Look" from Gillette, the first mens hairspray. Had great commercials for the Dry Look., no more greasy kids stuff.

 

[scott55405]

Laundress, try the term "Beauty Operator" on that person sometime, and see what reaction you get. That's what my grandmother and her sisters always referred to them as.

At home, Grandma used "Dippity Do", and had a GE soft bonnet style hair dryer.

 

[scott55405]

Pete, I remember those hair dryers in the 70s, with all the different comb and brush attachments. They were kind of fun. I think I had a Norelco.

 

[toggleswitch]

Soft bonnet

L-

Sorry no such pic exists...or i'd send it to you with a pack of "Depends" *LOL*

We'd actually just use the hose without the bonnet..

-Toggle toggle

 

[veg-o-matic]

Hmmm.

I also have a GE soft-bonnet dryer in stock. If it happens to show up at the convention... Launderess, can you smell the photo op?

Pete--can you sing the jingle? "The wet head is dead! Long live the Dry-yy Look from Gillette!"

veg, who's hoping Sherlock Holmes was wrong

 

[maytagbear]

Back to the skillet--

As much as I dislike electric cooktops, I like electric skillets--in my experience, they've cooled down faster than a regular skillet on an electric element, and the thermostat in the probe is usually better than most cooktop controls.

I wish I could find an electic skillet in good condition without Teflon. Don't get me wrong, I like Teflon as much as most other lazy asses, but uncoated pans are better for fast browning.

I currently have the 16 inch Presto oval. Good skillet, and surprisingly useful shape, but just too big at times.

My dream one is the Farberware electric, but I haven't found a used one in really good condition, and I don't particularly feel like paying the $70.00-$90.00 retail.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[spiralactivator]

Hey, hon, you got any Spray Net? My hair's fallin' right down, right off my head!

 

[mrcleanjeans]

betty bouffant's beehive beauty boutique

who remember's "Miss Breck" hairspray when it had oval pics of woman sporting their various starched "doos"? Or Breck Lasting Hold non-aerosol spray which "holds your hair in windy weather"as their answer to Clairol's Final Net? Or when AquaNet Extra Super Hold in the pink and black can REALLY held hair in place with "three times the holding power of regular sprays "?versus the current,not even close formula.Or who remembers "curlers in your hair,SHAME ON YOU"?What fun!