While you won’t find boxes full of these magazines every week, they do show up at garage sales, flea markets, and antique shops and when they do I recommend you grab them. What magazines am I talking about?

Vintage magazines from the 1960s and earlier that deal with period hair styles and the hair styling industry.

These magazines originally sold by subscription and at newsstands to women of the time. Each issue was well illustrated with period hair styles for the young woman along with articles for creating many of the styles. When found today, single issues from the 1960s regularly bring between $35 and $50 on eBay.

Here’s the names of a few to get you started:

• Hair Style Ideas
• HairDo
• Hair Magic
• Hair Trends

There is also a ready market for the various trade magazines targeted at the hair salon and beauty shop owner from the same time period. Some of these include:

• American Hairdresser
• Beauty Fair
• Modern Beauty Shop

This kind of magazine from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s all sell either singly or in small lots of the same magazine.

These aren’t magazines you will find on a regular basis, but they do show up at garage sales, flea markets, and antique shops. Other good sources are going-out-of-business auctions sales of beauty shops that have been in business for many years and estate sales of former shop owners.

Pick them up whenever you find them and you’ll have a great hair day on eBay when the auctions end.

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