Sun and Hair

Southland Times, Issue 21000, 5 February 1930, Page 12

Sun and Hair

Sunny day's this summer have been all too few, but even the limited number of days of glorious sunshine has been sufficient to give a tinge of becoming tan to the skin of many holiday makers and to have a disastrous effect on well-disciplined shingles and bobs.

Sun is the most powerful bleaching agent wc know of, and salt intensifies the bleaching action. Hair was the last thing woman thought of on the beach, but on coming back to town it is the first thing.

Hot oil shampoos are recommended by a beauty specialist for getting the hair back into manageable condition, and one or another form of massage should be employed to restore the natural flow of oil in the hair again. If women must have their hair waved before getting it back to good condition, a permanent wave is counselled, as hot irons should not be used while it is recovering from its ordeal.

To guide aeroplanes a 2,000,000 candlepower beacon, to be called the Lindbergh, is to be erected on a Chicago skyscraper.