WANTED TO BE A BLONDE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 198, 19 May 1936, Page 16

WANTED TO BE A BLONDE

Agony of Hair Treatment A 29-year-old woman, who told of her “agony” after hair treatment, was awarded £5O damages at Biriningham County Court recently. She was Miss Edith Gladys Wbeddon, of South Yardley, and she sued Florence Amelia Austin, carrying on business as Austin’s Beauty Parlour, Bii-miiigliani. Miss Wheddon alleged that her hair, naturally red, •’’had turned a greenishyellow, like an unripe lemon, after she iiad undergone “white henna” treatment. She eventually had to go to a hospital, she added, to have her head shaved, after which she had to go about “with a turban of bandages.” Answering the judge, she remarked that she wanted to be a platinum blonde. She had seen a girl in the beauty shop with platinum blonde hair, and she wanted to have hers like that. The doctor who attended Miss Wheddon in hospital estimated that it would be 12 months before her hair attained normal length and colour. When an assistant pointed out that he used ordinary peroxide and ammonia mixture, and he had used it before and since without any harmful effects, the judge commented that he thought the mixture a very dangerous thing to deal with, and that it ought to be stopped. It had, he emphasised, produced a terrible state of things on the woman’s head, and subjected her to great pain. It might have injured her for life.