Was it the space race starting in the l950s?

Psychedelics affecting minds (and hair?) in the l960s?

Or women ready to blast off into new heights thanks to hair spray so strong it could be used to repair roofs and make hair so hard they could likely flatten an attacker with a head butt?

We don’t know, darlings, but we love a good time machine.

And the wonderful and free ol’ British Pathe videos can take us back to a world of 1962 beauty via the link below – where a satin robe wearing hairstylist smokes a cigar while styling hair and silver and gold lame wearing young dude hair artistes create space age ‘dos aiming to be out of this world.