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Mid-fifties Despite having short hair in this photo, life is still swell for Dolly.
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1965 Dolly's the kind of gal who would let you rest your tired head on her ample, voluminous, hair hive.
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1965 Dolly's the kind of gal who would let you rest your tired head on her ample, voluminous, hair hive.
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1980 Happiness, earnestness, and a whole lot of brassiness keep this hair helmet in place.
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1981 Dolly's the only person who could possibly convince us to wear matching pearlescent pink nail polish and eye shadow. Photo: LGI Stock/© Cor... more
1981 Dolly's the only person who could possibly convince us to wear matching pearlescent pink nail polish and eye shadow. Photo: LGI Stock/© Corbis. All Rights Reserved.
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1987 If you're ever at a loss for beauty inspiration, just think, What would Dolly do? She'll never steer you wrong.
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1987 #YOLO.
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April 1987 Dolly-meets–David Bowie–meets-the-soft-tufts-of-baby-chick-feathers.
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April 1987 Country tip #43: A true Tennessee woman coordinates her lipstick, nails, and eye shadow with the photographer's backdrop.
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April 1987 Country tip #43: A true Tennessee woman coordinates her lipstick, nails, and eye shadow with the photographer's backdrop.
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April 1989 Her "casual" look.
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March 1997 Dolly must have been gifted with lashes of steel: It's the only way they can be coated with excessive layers of mascara and still mana... more
March 1997 Dolly must have been gifted with lashes of steel: It's the only way they can be coated with excessive layers of mascara and still manage to curl upward. Applause.
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Circa 1999 This one's a little too Andy Warhol. Not her strongest look.
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January 2001 This is a favorite trick of Dolly's: From the front, it looks like she has face-framing layers. From the back, it's all piled high i... more
January 2001 This is a favorite trick of Dolly's: From the front, it looks like she has face-framing layers. From the back, it's all piled high into a coccoon of hair.
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October 2002 Zoom in on that tiny turquoise hair clip. Gotta love a woman who can match a barrette to a banjo-embroidered, pastel-blue leather bl... more
October 2002 Zoom in on that tiny turquoise hair clip. Gotta love a woman who can match a barrette to a banjo-embroidered, pastel-blue leather blazer.
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March 2006 Even that spray of hair spurting out of that crystal princess clip seems genuinely optimistic.
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March 2006 Even that spray of hair spurting out of that crystal princess clip seems genuinely optimistic.
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January 2012 This is 66-year-old sassiness looking right at ya, hun.
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