Changing Vogues In Hair

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1938, Page 13 (Supplement)

Changing Vogues In Hair

Choice Of 31 Dijferent Tones

VXJfOMEN. and girls in Sydney can, and do, have their hair dyed in 31 different shades, from jet black to very light blonde. In other words, a girl with rav?n tresses can be transformed to platinum, or vice versa. Inquiries among firms of ladies' hairdressers in the city showed that a court witness had not overdrawn the picture when she said that the colours of coiffures changed with the change of vogue in hair hues. Any woman whose hair is becoming streaked with silver, and any girl who has that hair of indefinite colour known as "mousey," can change 'her tresses in S#dney to any gradation she chooses of the following colours:— Jet black, black, darkest brown, dark brown, medium broivn, brown, light brown. Chestnut, dark auburn, auburn, light auburn, red brown, Titian red. Blonde, dark blonde, light blonde, golden blonde, red blonde, Titian blonde, dark ash blonde, ash blonde, light ash blonde, medium blonde, golden brown, light golden brown, old gold, warm brown. Assume that a woman or girl does not feei disposed to cross the Rubicon aitogether. She can have brought out iqstrously, by special oil shampoo, all the golden glints in her hair that hide their sheen in negative brown. If she is a brunette and wants to look more romantic, she can have added to her black locks v silver streak. This she may elect to have disposed in a vivid sweep across the forehead Resurgence is the watchword in feminine hair this year. Its waves must ascend in an tipsurge from the brows. "Girls, it is true, change their hair colour on occasions, but most of the clients to-day are young women whose hair has become splashed with grey prematurely or middle-aged women

whose hair has turned grey," said Mr. A. B. Graig, manager of one of Sydney's oldest-established ladies' hairdressing firms. "There have been vogues in hair colours," said a young woman employed in one of the city's leading ladies' hairdressing saloons. "Up to the year before last, bionde was the popular colour with girls whose hair wa, 'rnousy' or dull brown or otherwise negative in colouring." Blonde retained its attraction for four years, she added. Then came the era of platinum, or the very lightest blonde, which makes a girl look like a Circassian. "Platinum is now gone, and so is the yellow blonde tint," she said. "Henna dye, which gives a girl more oi less a Titian head. or dark bronze red hair. is now very popular. "A d brunettes are back again 1 Many Sydney girls with brown, golden or fair hair -- w ask for a jet black or deep black or dark brown dye." These 31 different shades of dye comprise tl.e range of two leading dye manufacturing firms in France and Germany. They cover the whole. scale and all the possible tones of the natural shades of the hair. It is not possible with these tints even for an expert to detect that the hair has been dyed. "Sydney girls never seek to have their hair dyed purple or green or other bizarre colours, which -re seen sometimes in Paris or on the Riviera," said a hairdresser to-day. "On occasions, however, girls here have come In to have their hair gold tacquered for some special ball or other function. The lacquer, of course, is only temporary, and can be washed out with a shampoo." Tinted hair, as distinct from dyed hair, is popular in Sydney just now. If. a woman has grey hair and does not desire a cor plete change, she can have impared to it at various strategic spots,

bluish tints that add a new attraction to the hair. i girl's hair can be tinted Li Sydney in about two hours, with two extra hours for re-setting. To change her from "a mousey" to a blonde, platinum or red-head, takes six hours. and may even extend over several i days, because hair cannot be bleached at once too drastically. Perfume is often misused in a sick room. It is sprinkled just anywhere, and if not of the best quality, Ieaves a stale

odour In a short time. Only good lavender water, or good Eau de Cologne, should be used in smali quantities on the invalid's handkerchief, hands and forehead. Toilet vinegar must not be too free'.: used on the face, as it is apt to make the skin rough. Nor should Eau de Cologne be too lavishly used, for the same reason, yet it is frequently added, Ln quantity, to the patient's washing water. Carbonate of magnesia dusted over the

feel is soothing to a feverish patient. It can be used alone, or ' mixed with equal parts of rice powder. A satisfactory liquid preparation is composed of ten drot— formic acid, one ounce methylated spirit, and half an oun- o" water. A powder composed of equal parts of salicylic acid and French chalk -uits some feet better than anything eke. The salicylic acid must be in very fine powder.: Boracic ointment is safe to use on sipall scratches or abrasions. and is quit

simple to make at home. Break one ounce of hard paraffin wax into smali ( pieces, and place it in a large sauccr, 1 over a saucepan of boiling water. When melted, add two ounces of vaseline, stir well, and sift in, gradually, four drachms of boracic acid powder. A good plan is to tie a piece of white muslin over a smali tin containing the acid, so that it can be evenly sifted in. The great secret in making a good ointment is to stir continually until it is cold.