A NEW HAIR-COMB MATERIAL.
A non-in/lammable substance called Galilith has mado its appearance for hair combs, and is expected (writes our London correspondent) to supersede entirely the dangerous celluloid comb ; it is an imitation tortoiseshell, and is so similar in appearance to the real tortoisesholl that it is not easy to tell t'other from which . A new method of' hair-waving is announced. A strand of hair is fixed' inside a fold of elastic, which is pulled out to its limit, "and *rhich »vhon it rebounds, catches up all the hair into its length and sets_ it in a wave, the little packet of hair and olastic being then pinched with a flab hot iron the shapo 6f tho packet ; this makes a rich flat waving of a natural type. It is understood that if one did not wish to use the hot iron, the hair could be left in Several of these little elastic packets all night, having first been damped with water or spirit, and that when unwrapped, there would bo found the naturallooking flat wave.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19080314.2.114
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 63, 14 March 1908, Page 11
Word Count
177A NEW HAIR-COMB MATERIAL. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 63, 14 March 1908, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.