Home & People Continental ideas for Chch salon

Press, 15 June 1979, Page 7

Home & People Continental ideas for Chch salon

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Paula Ryan

“Hair is still permed in Europe but the trend is towards softer, looser curls.” This comment came from Peter Sahrmann, during his recent stay in Christchurch. Peter Sahrmann, a hair consultant from Germany, is currently touring New Zealand giving seminars and spending time at various hair salons so that the stylists may learn new techniques in styling and see new developments in equipment. He spent a week working alongside the stylists at the Bruno Barberellis salon, where I had the opportunity to chat briefly with him.

Peter has Deer. involved with hair almost all his working life. He spent 13 years working with Wei la in Germany and is currently touring New Zealand after working on several seminars in Australia. ‘Hair stylists need to be stimulated,” he said. “They need seminars to keep up to date. For several years hair cutting has been sterile.

“Before Vidal Sassoon introduced his geometric cutting on straight hair, the behive with it’s high packed teasing was the order of the day. “However, the precision cutting tended to leave hair with no movement. This trend was then followed by the wash-and-wear perm. But hair then tended to look overpermed and tight so now the frizzy look has been superceded by a looser softer curl.

"Although the perm is still required for this look, newer perming techniques allow for more control. There are about 15 different techniques in the winding of a perm,” Peter said.

“For example, the invisible perm involves perming every second hair.” He warns New Zealand women that these softer

perms require more work. He went on to say that there is no such thing as an easy perm.

Although the perm

holds the curl, these looser perms require the daily use of hot rollers, tongs, etc. If women want their hair to look like the styles they admire so much in magazines they have to spend more time.

“The whole new look today is lady-like. The scruffy heads have gone to be replaced with sophisticated looks. There is more creativity in styling,” he said, “with the use of marcel irons and finger waving."

In Germany, hair has charged to the city-line with super-short styles or shoulder length hair worked into sophisticated 1959 s looks. The Grace Kelly image of the 1950 s is most popular, using hair accessories like feathers, pearls and combs, or hair worn up under pillboxes and cocktail hats.

These styles said Peter Sahrmann may not prove initially popular here as, on the whole, New Zealand women want easier styles.

A man who reflects

charm and style himseif, Peter Sahrmann firmly believes that women should make an effort to look good. In a soft German accent, he said: “If a woman wants to look right, she has to look after herself.”