Consider The Placing Of Curls

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 14

Consider The Placing Of Curls

Coiffures To Suit The Face

"AT ANY women appear to be perfectly satisfied if the front and side views of their coiffures present a flattering picture, but quite overlook the important relation that the arrangement of the back hair has to the appearance of the face and neck.*

There is a tendency with both young and old to follow, blindly, prevailing fashions, or to choose a hair style because it looked well on someone else. The older woman, perhaps, is the chief offender in this direction, her weakness usually being a fondness for long curly bobs and page-boy effects. A slight modification of present-day styles, with their unswept and trim lines, give a dignity and charm to the coiffure of the matron. The girl or woman with a short neck should arrange her hair high on the nape to give an illusion of length. When the neck is long, it can be made to ap-

pear shorter by wearing the hair dressed low on the nape. If the hair-line is high at the back of the neck the curls should be placed low to cover it. With a low hairline, the curls shoqjd be kept high. If the hair grows extremely low, it is advisable to have it trimmed to a shapely line and the hairs low on the neck should be removed with an epilation wax. There should be no return of the hair under a month. This method is better tlian removal with clippers or scissors. If the back of the head is flat, a Bounded effect may be simulated by having the waves set full and high on the crown, with the lower portion well thinned, and flat at the head. If the back of the head has a tooprominent curve the hair should be dressed very smoothly and closely on the crown, with the ends “fluffed” or built out with a roll at the nape. To give the effect of both length and width to a short thin neck, the hair should be set in a close swirl across the head.

It should never be worn full or standing out from the head, because, by contrast, the large hair area will dwarf the neck. A pointed neck line makes the neck appear shorter. With a short fat neck, a sunpie style of hairdressing is most suitable. Curls may be worn but they should not fall below the hair-line. If curls are allowed to fall low on the neck the head lias the appearance of resting on the shoulders. Many plump people have an unattractive bump on the back of the neck. Where this occurs the hair should be swirled across the back and kept close to the head with the tips of the ears exposed. Thus the faults of the neck are overlooked, and the attention attracted to the hair style. A long thin neck appears shorter if the hair is worn in a bob covering at least half its length. With a thick muscular neck and broad shoulders, the hair should not be dressed close as this makes the neck appear almost as wide as the head. Neither should curls be worn low on the neck. If desired they may be worn but should not come below the natural neck-line.