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"We&amp;#039;ve done many &amp;quot;Biggest Mistakes&amp;quot; stories like these, and it turns out that our predecessors did, too! Here are the eight biggest mistakes you were making with your hair...all the way back in March 1950.  &amp;quot;Scalped&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;An enthusiastic shears has clipped this hair too short and thinned it out too much. This is hard on anyone&amp;#039;s looks, especially bad for those with fair or white hair, which affords no contrast to the skin.&amp;quot; 2014 Update: Thank goodness the &amp;quot;scalped&amp;quot; mistake isn&amp;#039;t nearly as painful as it sounds! But in reality, we think this falls in the category of haircuts that never get old.  &amp;quot;Dirty&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;Least excusable of hair faults, this is probably the commonest. It&amp;#039;s so easy to put off a shampoo from day to day \u2014 and so disastrous.&amp;quot; 2014 Update: If you insist on participating in the &amp;quot;disastrous&amp;quot; habit of skipping shampoos, you could always give dry shampoo a spin.  &amp;quot;Dated Hair-Do&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;One falls into this mistake through complete lack of fashion sense or sheer intertia. Serious, because it&amp;#039;s dull and aging; suggests that you have settled into a rut.&amp;quot; 2014 Update: While kind of harsh, they do have a point. And what better time than spring to try out a new trend?  &amp;quot;Bad Cut&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;This might happen once to anyone who unwarily picked a hairdresser with no knack for clever cutting. We hope it won&amp;#039;t happen to you because you try to snip your own.&amp;quot; 2014 Update: Heed their warning and leave the trimming to the professionals. Just make sure you know what you want before you head to the salon.  &amp;quot;Too Flowing&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;Hair streaming over the shoulders has been out of fashion for several years, except for children, but we still see it around. It once seemed charming, but now it&amp;#039;s too coy even for pretty teenagers.&amp;quot; 2014 Update: It&amp;#039;s hard to imagine a time when long, luscious locks were out of style, but maybe we&amp;#039;re getting back to that place with all the celebrity bobs.  &amp;quot;Too Mannish&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;The most precious quality a woman has is femininity. Why destroy it deliberately with a short, straight, masculine cut like this? True, it&amp;#039;s no trouble to arrange, but that&amp;#039;s its only virtue.&amp;quot; 2014 Update: This argument is invalid. See Jennifer Lawrence.  &amp;quot;Frizzy&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;The kinks may be natural, or they may be the result of a too-tight permanent or one that is not set properly or often enough. The result is the dull and shapeless thatch we often see around.&amp;quot; 2014 Update: We&amp;#039;re not sure we&amp;#039;ve ever heard hair referred to as a &amp;quot;thatch.&amp;quot; Nevertheless, we understand completely.  &amp;quot;Too Elaborate&amp;quot; We said: &amp;quot;A too-fancy hair-do usually fails to have any design of its own, and detracts from the face it is intended to frame. A simpler scheme would do much better for the one [on the left].&amp;quot; 2014 Update: While stars like Katy Perry have given this exact look an updated spin, we kind of agree. Leave the up-do&amp;#039;s for fancy events. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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