Modern Hair Styles

Southland Times, Issue 23948, 14 October 1939, Page 12

Modern Hair Styles

Watch Your Ears

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HELEN HUNT

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Make pin curls all over the head, reversing them each way. One row goes forward and the other backward, and they brush out into a soft, natural wave. There is one wave over the temples and one little dip on the forehead.

Beauty shops encourage girls to clip their hair off to about three or four inches all over the top of the head. It is much easier to dress hair of this length in the various curls and rolls required for the new coiffures, so if you are certain you wish to wear them, clip it off by all means. Screen actresses can’t permit their hair to be cut short because they need longer hair for different and lower coiffures.

One noted stylist brought Fay Wray

into the studio one day to design a new upswept hair dress for her, but he could do nothing with her hair because it was long and she could not permit it to be clipped so the coiffure had to be abandoned. We could have handled the hair easily, as we work with long hair all the time. Sometimes the objection to high hair dress is that the ears are inclined to

stick out, so that instead of looking glamorous the wearer of the upswung coiffure looks like Dopey, the dwarf. In the studio we could take care of this problem by pasting the ears back with liquid adhesive, then bandage them close to the scalp for six or seven minutes. They stick to the head and the bandage is removed, the coiffure completed and everything is well for the day. When the girl is ready to take her hair down she rolls up the adhesive with her finger and it comes off easily. Of course, she must be careful not to get it into her hair. Of course, an actress would consult a plastic surgeon if she had such ears, but that is not necessary for the average girl.