Giving Myself a 60's/70's Makeover (using an old dryer i found at an antique store lol) 

As a child of the 60's and 70's, you did pretty good. You needed slightly smaller rollers (I used juice cans) and more, three across the top, the ones on either side rolled back, then divide the remaining into 3 sections with 3 curlers each (rolled under). When I used my hair dryer I put folded tissues behind my ears so they wouldn't burn. When dry you finger comb and then flip your head, sometimes I would finger comb while upsidedown. Your Twiggy eyes were pretty good. I had fun watching and reliving my youth. 😎

This look makes Rachel look like the saucy older sister in a 70s film who would like, get out of a bright red car in slow motion. (This is 100% a complement)

I just want to say I love all the women who wore these looks in the 60s and 70s commenting tips and fun stories in the comments rather than belittling our generation for trying out this style. You all are extremely wholesome and please tell us more 💛

I love how Rachel can look like an absolute bombshell in one moment and a complete goofball in the next 😂

My grandma had a thing like this that she used all the time. She had the typical old lady short hair, and this thing got it nice and curly. This might sound weird, but I wish I could smell the way that hair dryer smelled again because the memory of it just hit me, and it felt really nostalgic.

imagine looking this good in every era of fashion. THE POWER

You look fantastic! As a child of the 70s, the "Farrah Fawcett Flip" was created with new home versions of curling irons and blow driers. The bonnet drier was great for sets that were teased (Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda in Barbarella). The zipper in the front of the drier bonnet was for checking if your curls were dry without having to rmove the set up. 😀

I am living for all the 70's ladies commenting on this video! My mom graduated high school in 1974, and I love hearing about her style!

Is no one gonna talk about how Rachel is out here giving us 70s April O'Neil vibes today because that's the only thing I could think about in the last moments of the video✨

RACHEL CAN SINGGGGG

Thanks for the memories and the nostalgia trip, Rachel. Here I sit 70 years old, and you made me feel 20 again!

I was in High School in the 70's, we would definitely have been friends if we had both lived in that era...but we are now and that's fun ,too. You looked groovy! Loved the boots...I loved boots ,too.

My mum was a teenager in the 70s and she said one of her favourite memories is buying a pair of huge platform boots she couldn't walk in, and teetering about the kitchen, holding onto the worktops while my grandparents (her parents) stood there smirking and shaking their heads at her desperately trying to walk in these shoes 😂 We also have all of her clothes still, her flares are still wearable and her Afghan coat is amongst her prized possessions

This era and makeup look made me think you'd rock the heck out of a Queen's Gambit look!

The final look is giving me very strong Velma+Daphne vibes and I'm here for it :)

I love that when you decide to try something new, it's a huge adventure and we get to come along. Your channel makes me so happy!

That was great! You looked like the girls out of a 70's Seventeen magazine. When we were younger , to make our bell bottoms more "bell" we would sew bandanas in the outside seam of our jeans.It was great when the bottom of our jeans hid our feet. We would also make haulter tops out of bandanas. The wide side going around the middle and turn over the point then we would thread through a thick piece of yarn and tie it at the back of the neck. We thought we were so hip!! Hope this will give you some groovy ideas. I would love to see what you come up with. Have fun!

I used to do twiggy style makeup in high school and I have a vague memory of putting white liner on my waterline to really make my eyes look huge like twiggy's. the good ol' days!

Honestly, as someone who grew up in the 70s, your look at the end was WAY more on point with the time. Most of us had the curtain bangs but not so much the super feathery, super voluminous look you see in ads or TV shows from then. And that outfit is amazing!!!

My mom was a teen in the 70s and she said "Screw the rollers, go for the curling iron!" lol, your hair actually looks just like hers used to except my mom had intense feathered bangs lol

OMG I was waiting for that dryer to go up in sparks! Story time: my mom had an old hand-me-down 1950s-era blow dryer from her sister who was 20 years older than she was, and it spent many decades in the back of our linen closet. One day teen me was bored and thought it would be a great idea to unearth the relic and try it out, and it worked fine a couple times though who knows how much asbestos I inhaled using it. Round about the third or fourth time I used it, I was home alone and that thing blew up, smoking and shooting literal FLAMES out the front of it like a blow-torch! It was pure luck that I pulled it away from my head when I first smelled smoke, so I managed to avert a disaster and not burn up my entire head of hair. How I was able to stay calm and get it unplugged and wrapped in an old towel to dispose of it is beyond me. It could've burned the house down and me in it! Anyhow, your hair turned out great, and the makeup and outfit looked fantastic!

Rachel: Posts a video. Her thousands of fans: SHE'S BACK!!!!!

They make attachments that go to a modern hair dryer and does the same thing, asbestos-free, fire hazard-free. Fun video! I feel like you have a preference for the colors popular in the 70’s, could be fun for you to dig in more!

This old grandma knows how to rock 🤘. I was a young person of the 1970s and we were kind of natural with our hair long and free . It was a time of some ironing there hair to make it as straight as possible. That would have been me if my hair had not already been straight enough. Good job btw you really looked early 70s just after your hair started to go kind of flat!

The average “commercial” makeup look for the 70’s was, indeed, boring. But those disco queens with their Biba makeup- chefs kiss. So beautiful and imaginative.

Rachel: anyone else make a turtle face when they do eyeliner? Me out loud alone in my living room: YES

My mom helped me make my first bell bottoms when I was a kid. She was from the era and said that before they had the style easy accessible they would just cut up their own jeans and insert the fabric of their choice. Some would add embroidery around the bell and along the pockets.

You looked beautiful and great job on the Twiggy eye makeup. I used to own a pink dryer that had a side grate warm air vented out and ladies used this to dry their freshly painted nails. The dryer was also good for earaches and to warm you up in the winter.

I have to say, the look suits you, but my first thought was 'Amy Pond' 😂 which isn't a bad thing, and it definitely looks good on you! Trying different aras with different aesthetics is so much fun, so I really enjoyed this video, thank you!

Story time: when I was in middle school, I took my mom's small round brush, took my mid-back length hair, and rolled a chunk in the front allllll the way up the way up to my scalp. We ended up undoing some of it, but yeah. Had to cut it out

Great job! As far as bell bottoms, you can split the outside seam of the jeans about 12"-14" up each leg and add a triangle of flowery material to make the bottom super wide.

Thanks Rachel for this video for my snowy Saturday. I'd love to see more 60/70's era. How about outfits for a music festival, protest march, or prom. I had this sweet peach shade dress for prom. Floor length, cinched just under the girls, and cap sleeves. I can hear Peter Frampton in my head and clogs clacking down the hall of my middle school lol.

I love how your reveals are a perfect blend of looking more stunning than anyone has the right to and then you making yourself look totally silly to compensate.

Hey, Rachel so I recently found a pattern drafting system called the "Haslam system of dress cutting" it started In the mid-20s and ended in the 1960s. It seems right up your alley!!

That eye makeup was super flattering. I'm so impressed by your ability to put the liner on straight.

My high school cousin used bushy rollers and that hair dryer in 1969. She also flipped her hair over her head to fluff out the style - I thought she was so sophisticated!! I also recognize the little yellow jumpsuit you modeled at the end of the video - if it were green, it would look exactly like my middle school gym uniform. Undeniably you look MUCH better in your jumpsuit than I ever did in my gym uniform! Thank you for your funny and fascinating videos, you always brighten my day!

You know what, starting as a 1960's hair style/cosplay that evolves into a Shania Twain reveal while in an unburned house is definitely what I would categorize as a win!

It's a scary thought when the fashions I wore as a young woman in the 60's and 70's are now thought of as vintage! Still you do a good job in your attemps Rachel🙂

This comments section is so wonderful! I love all the women who wore this look in the 70s giving advice and anecdotes

Rachel darling, I make a turtle face whenever I put any makeup on that isn’t powdery. You definitely ain’t the only one. 😂

Maybe go and have a chat at a care home ask the ladies an outfit they remember from there younger years and try to recreate then go see them again wearing it and chat some more about their story :)

I'm here to tell you at the 15:23 mark you totally looked like a 70's model! Congrats! Your expression in the pose, your hair and the make up checked all the boxes! Groovy...Lol!

As a teen from the 70s, your finale product made my heart go pitter-pat!

This video really took me back to my high school days. I didn't use the juice cans instead, I used Clairol Hot Rollers. In fact, I still have mine and use them on my 90 year old mother. Another look to try would be surfer bangs and barrel rolls a la That 70's Show. I had a big curling iron that did amazing rolls. I got curious about the hot rollers and found some on etsy for almost $50. I'm just glad mine still work. Great videos Rachel!

I literally busted out laughing when you put the dryer hood on! My grandmother had one and I remember the feeling of total relaxation with it on. Hard to stay awake when drying your hair with one of those. I remember just using a round brush to blow dry my bangs into a Farrah do. I graduated HS in 1976 so this video was a blast( from the past). 😁😆

Rachel, can we talk about how GORGEOUS you look in that play suit?!?!

I'm getting serious "solving a mystery on the way to my girl-band gig" vibes. Love it!

AH YES. The joys of being an old house owner. We bought a 1926 Tudor a year ago and the past year has been an exciting game of "What will break next?" (So far we've had the roof leak for two different reasons, bats in the basement, water in the basement, and plumbing leak. SO FUN.)

can we talk abt how beautiful Rachel is , even without make up? 🥺🤍

I love Binx. She's so cute and I completely relate to her need to hide all the time. 70's hair is definitely a lot tougher then it looks to recreate. Bell bottoms are my favorite!

I think 60’s and 70’s fashion is really fun. I’d love to see more!

I'm getting Mario Toad vibes with that hair dryer hat. 😂❤️ Love the reveal look! 🎆🌼✌️❤️

Just wanna get in early to encourage people to check and make sure if they're tempted to pick up vintage hair dryers that they don't have asbestos insulation! 👍👍 The one I used for my whole childhood in the 90s and early 2000s had it and gosh golly gee I hope that doesn't matter down the line.

Honestly the final look is like a mix between April O'Neil and Daphne from Scooby Doo, and it's amazing!

I too was a teenager in the early 70's. I went to secondary school ( UK) in that time period. My 6year older than me brother used to wear jeans and one of the many fashions was to cut open the seams from the hem to knee and stitch in with wide fabric, any type,colour you wanted to see how wide a flare you could get. Also, it was fashionable to have holes (usually self inflicted) hand sewn patches of different coloured denim or flowered material, whatever you wanted really. We also had "Loon" jeans wear below the knee was a different, co-ordinated colour to the main part, they were flared too. My mum made me a pair of purple hot-pants with a removable bib and braces which I wore with a gold big puffed sleeved top that laced up with pointed collar. She also knitted me an off white high neck jumper that looked like a roll neck jumper ( sweater) with a zip in the back of the neck with a long purple, button up the front waistcoat. It came to the hem of the hot pants, so that I could ring the changes with a black leather, thigh length, fringed waistcoat. I had white pull on sort of vinyl knee length boots which were replaced with white leather ones when I finally put my fingers through them!! I wasn't allowed blue jeans but had a white Lee Cooper Jean suit, which was acceptable. I still have 1 or 2 things from "my youth". One in particular was a tshirt. It has a sports back, is white with a blue piped trim and an advertisement from the 70's for Pepsi, it went something like this... Lipsmakingthirstquechingacetastingmotivatincoolbuzzingfasttalkinghigh walkingcoolfizzing PEPSI! I may have got some bits in the wrong place but I was doing it from memory, the whole thing was a continuous wrap around like above! I have a 15year old soon to be 16year old (in April) granddaughter who is into Vintage big time. She loves the 1920's through to some of today's fashions but always classics. She likes pulling looks together with what she has. Occasionally I've had to say "too much or not enough " but generally she has a good eye!! She likes to "shop" in my wardrobe, eventually I get things back! She has her eye on a LBD in crushed velvet that's an original Mary Quant but I think she has too bigger bust!! There's also a white fringed Charlston dress and many more designer clothes she'd like to "borrow". I have some coats from the 70's, shoes 70's and 80's that she loves!! I also have a beautiful grey silk dress with small lemon flowers on it with a navy edge to edge coat from the 1940's. She follows you too. I love what you do in all your videos. I thought you looked fabulous in your final look!! The colour was great, boots perfect... stunning, you do yourself a disservice young lady!! The " romper" as you called it was fabulous, the fit perfect! Anyways, take care, keep safe. Love n hugs Lesley-Ann xX

this era of makeup looks sooo good on you omg

This is definitely your Karen Gillan doppelganger look! I'm here for it!

Rachel: "I wanna do more 60s/70s videos." Me: YESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!

My dryer folded up into a domed two-tone green case - spent a lot of time with that dryer in the 1960's. Saturday nights watching Jackie Gleason on TV while doing my hair for church on Sunday morning.....

The "Wolf" haircut is what provides the base of the 70's feathered hair look. We used Conair hot rollers and curling iron, tons of aqua net, and feathering combs that we carried in the back pocket in our Braxton jeans or Calvin Kleins and we thought we were hot stuff.

My mom still has this kind of hair dryer. She would use it to ”try” to straighten her naturally Sherily Temple curly hair when she was a teenager and in her 20s because in her words you needed “cardboard straight hair” to be in style. She would wake up in the middle of the night to turn it off and after a few hours during the school day her hair would start to poof out much to her annoyance. She finally gave up in her late 20s just in time for curly permed hair to be all the rage in the 80s. To this day when I tell people she doesn’t curl her hair they are shocked because it totally looks like she goes to bed with curlers every night. But nope that’s her rocking her natural hair because she is so over trying to keep up with hair trends. She did use this dryer on me a couple of times to curl my hair for a play I was in when I was 12 but it hasn’t seen much use other than that and just sits in a cupboard in her bathroom unused for perpetuity.

Had a bit of a flashback to my childhood. Raised in the 70's but my Mom made my clothes using patterns from the 60's. I can say you look amazing. Hope your flooring issues get taken care of soon. Love your videos in said area.

That makeup looks so cute on you! So does the fluffy, flippy 70s hair. Also giving April O'Neal vibes

You look gorgeous!! The late 60s/early 70s was such a fun time for fashion and beauty 🌼

I was a teenager in the 60's and it's killing me that you bought the dryer at an antique store! Ack!

I was a teenager in thec70s and you did well. We didn't really have curly hair, yours was perfect. I didn't have the wings, but a lot of people did. I think the hairdryer is really cute . By the late 60s we used blow dryers, but when I was lpretty little we had that type of hair dryer-- the weird thing is I remember always having a pixie? But I was looking for a hair dryer and few years back because you could do something else while drying your hair with your hands free, plus your arm doesn't get tired. That's a cute one. DID YOU SAY IT HAD OTHER FUNTIONS? YOU WILL HAVE TO DEMONSTRATE THEM.

I love the 70s style. I always have. Love the music and fashion. I have been making myself bell bottoms since high school. Cough...1998.....cough. I have a friend who is begging me to start an etsy store. I have made her at least 15 pairs of bells out of bluejeans mostly but occasionally out of corduroy or polyester blend. You looked beautiful today Rachel. Keep up the great work.

Rachel is a GODDESS. How can one woman pull of so many looks?

I had totally forgotten about the tiny clothes dryer my mom used to have until you showed that box. She would always use it to dry her panty hose after washing them in the morning and in the winter I would hover over it like a space heater.

Yesss the 60's and 70's are my favorite style decades! I've been waiting for you to do a 60's-70's inspired look for so long!

this video had DIFFERENT energy and i think it’s the jazz but also i’m. thoroughly enjoying it

I did the action of searching this video in the youtube search bar because I didn't have time to watch it the first time I saw it in my feed. This is how much I enjoy this channel. It is possibly my favorite youtube channel

Having been a teen in the late 60's and early 70's you looked just like you walked out of a time machine.✌💜😀

We love whiskey grandpa ♥️🎉

My grandmother had an old fashioned hair dryer, one that you had to sit under and was blue and made of hard plastic. It was so fun to play with as a kid- because she did that, she let us play with it- and it was practical for post-shower hair as well as just being weirdly fun to cook my head in the middle of the afternoon.

Me cheering on RM while she does her makeup even though she can’t hear me: stop doubting yourself! You’re doing great! You look just like Twiggy! 🤩🥳

My 90 year old grandma still uses something like that when she sets her hair, it's brilliant for people with limited arm strength!

Your look is perfect for mid to late 60's for women that were in their 20's. I was a teenager in the late 70's and most just wore our hair layered but straight. Clothing wise was jeans (and painters pants, and overalls) and cute tops, usually some kind of crop top or t-shirt with a short phrase. The real big hair started in the 80's. Perms became popular and lots of layers and highlights.

The creaks of unhappy plastic gives me such childhood flashbacks to aunty's house being a 70s time machine

Far out man! I am also a child of the 60's and 70's. We used to make bell bottoms from Levis 501s. Split the seam from hem to knee and add your favorite fabric. My choice would be chambray, but something psychedelic would also work. My preference was an Indian print bedspread. We also made halter tops. Sew two rectangles or squares together with three inches or so open at the top. Make casings front and back and make drawstring from the same fabric or leather or whatever you want. I would again make mine out of Indian print bedspread fabric. I live in SoCal and personally never wore anything like what you are wearing, my people were more hippy style. But I saw a lot of people that dressed like that on TV. :) I never curled my hair, just wore it long and straight. In the later 70's I Farrah'd it!

I've been doing the drawn on lashes under the eye for like 6 months, and I love every second of it. It makes my eyes look huge and so cute. Looks much better than the whole fox eye thing people are trying to do rn.

Yesssss! We love Rachel trying to figure out technology

All of the little quips and side comments in this vid had me rolling! Pure comedic genius

I'm a child of the 60s (born 65) and the 70s and had pin straight hair down past my bum.......I remember my late mum rag rolling my hair, along with my paternal grandmother and aunts for special occasions, so I could sleep in it, they used to tie a piece of old sheet around it to make sure they all stayed in. My hair was/is very fine, but there was a lot because it was so long. I use a rotating hot air brush these days (I have arthritis and use a brush hurts) and it works pretty well (but my hair is only mid back - any longer and it wouldn't work with it). Thank you for reminding me the hell that we girls went through trying to get curly hair. By the time I was teen I was using allsorts to try and make it curly. My friend however, who had the most beautiful corkscrew curls that I was incredibly jealous of, used to IRON hers between sheets of baking paper to straighten it (this was about 79/80 and we were about 15/16). Now my hair is wavy (grew back like that after my daughter's birth and it all fell out) I straighten it. ROFL!! I guess we're never happy with whatever hair we have! LOL!

PSA: Random fun fact about old hair dryers! They were often made with asbestos. Do be careful with some of these antiques. 💖

I have had a round brush stuck in my hair before, too!!! What a lovely group of people to be a part of 😂

I was 10 years old in 1970 and by the time I hit middle school we were using curling irons for most hair styling. I don’t recall any of my friends flipping their heads around like that unless just out of the pool or ocean (So. California). If you decide to do this again, section your hair into smaller partings and use a slightly smaller roller. I will say, you’ve got the Cheryl Tiegs look going on and it’s a whole mood.

This is the most stunning I think I've ever seen you. You're always lovely, or powerful, or youthful as a fairy, but in this one you're a stone-cold FOX! I was so in love the whole time. I've gotta try new things, it might be fun ^.^

I was just looking for this new video waiting for it to come out when it came out. 13 seconds. HEHEHEEHHEEH

What a loooook!! Imagine having the insane power to stylize any decade. I remember making my own bell-bottoms back when they were briefly A Thing in the 90's. I cut the outside seam of a pair of jeans up to the mid-calf then put a triangle of some cute boho fabric from a skirt or something (I can't remember). I'm sure in reality they looked terrible but in my proud, naive child's eyes I believed I had made something glorious, and I wore them constantly, haha.

My mom used to tell me about these! She had super long hair and loved it and always said because it was so warm and cozy she had to make a point not to fall asleep in it.

Oh, bonnet dryers... the red hot ears, the itchy scratchy elasticized plastic. I don't miss it. I was so glad when blow dryers became available. And conditioner, conditioner was life changing.

Kind of reminds me of Charlie’s Angels look right down to the book and romper. Love it!

I loved this! You looked so pretty. When you do more 60s/70s videos, would you consider doing a Charlie's Angels style lookbook? I think you would absolutely kill that!

I remember my mom putting my hair in pink foam rollers and using our dryer with the cap. We would eat popcorn and watch Mary Tyler Moore. Thanks for the memories!!

Our rollers were a-lot smaller than that. Gotta tell ya, I laughed and laughed throughout. Absolutely love your sense of humor. In the end, I think you did us justice. And, looked pretty stunning as well! 👍🏼

whenever you go 70s I get immediate Amy Pond vibes and I am here for it

I absolutely adore how Rachel oscillates wildly between ⭐stunningly gorgeous⭐ and ludicrously silly

According to a stylist friend, te secrets to the Farrah flip are several smaller rollers going back on the sides and top of the head and very thick hair with a dry finish. Modern soft hair won't take the curl or stay put. Texturizing sprays are supposed to help. There's actually a diagram of the curler pattern, with styling tips, from a 70s hairstyle magazine that's floating around the interwebs.

THIS IS COOOOL! I am 33 now, and i was very strickt on only dressing 40s and 50s, but lately I have been thinking, dang, life is too short! I need some 60s and 70s in my life, after all, that is where all the music I listen to is from!