The evolution of beauty: See vintage photos of salons, barbershops, styles

Hairdresser M. Balbus removes the electric curlers from little Peggy Vaff's hair after giving her a bubble perm March 17, 1930.

A woman having her hair cut in her hairdresser's studio, circa 1865.

Three-year-old Jaqueline Power of Maida Vale sits under the hairdryer between two older customers at a Golders Green hairdressers, where she is having a shampoo and set for the Christmas party season, December 1957.

The latest Macdonald steam permanent waving apparatus being demonstrated at the hairdressing and Beauty Fair, Olympia, London September 23, 1936.

A solemn little girl sits under a hairdryer at the hairdressers which is equipped with a rocking horse for customer's amusement, circa 1957.

A man leans back in the barber chair as a barber applies shaving foam to his face ahead of a wet shave at a barbershop in Harlem, New York City, circa 1935.

A man getting a shave at a barbers shop while listening to the radio, circa 1922.

Don Triplett reading a newspaper while his hair is permanently waved by a permanent wave machine, in March 1925.

The new sunlight ultra-modern cubicle for hairdressing on show at the Hairdressing Fair of Fashion at London's White City, circa 1929.

A woman has her hair coloured to match her evening dress using the latest plastic hairdressing processing at Messrs Vascos Salon in London. Every colour is possible by the new technique, including mother of pearl.

A beautician gives her client a stimulating neck treatment with a massage machine, circa 1933.

A little girl having her hair cut at a Clapham hairdresser's, which boasts the unusual gimmick of seats shaped like miniature motor cars January 30, 1932.

A French hair colourist dyeing a customer's hair bright green at a salon in Paris August 3, 1973.

A French hair colourist dyeing a customer's hair bright blue at a salon in Paris August 3, 1973.

American actress Clara Bow, the 'It' girl, gets a haircut on set during a break from filming 'Red Hair' for Paramount, circa 1928.

A woman has her hair waved at the hairdressers, circa 1930.

Monsieur Gaston Bondon seen here chatting with beauty queens who were playing bridge, while trying out a new method of permanent waving, circa 1938.

A woman at a hairdressing salon having a wave put in her hair, circa 1921.

A customer at a Parisian hairdressing salon which specialises in straightening and restyling textured hair, circa 1955.

A hairdresser washing the hair of a customer in December 1956.

Master beautician Fernand Aubry attends to a client in his Paris salon October 22, 1956.

A customer has her hair styled at pianist Winifred Atwell's hairdressing salon in Brixton, London, April 30, 1957.

A hairdressing student at Barrett Street Trade School in Oxford Street, London, September 26, 1930.

Open air barber giving customer a shave, Singapore, circa 1930s.

A window display with photographs of 'Original and Latest Hair Styles' available at a hair salon in the Harlem neighbourhood of the borough of Manhattan, in New York City, circa 1945.

Inventor of the styling technique of hairwaving, Marcel Grateau, demonstrates how it is done, circa 1922.