THE HAIR-CURLER

Waikato Independent, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3419, 13 February 1936, Page 6

THE HAIR-CURLER

One might have thought that the permanent wave had abolished the hair-curler for ever. The contrary is the case, and shops are again becoming full of mysterious metal implements such as used to adorn the heads of lodging-house keepers from Monday morning till the following Sunday at dinner time. For the permanent wave is not as permanent, as might be wished and really straight hair has a knack of rebelling against the astra-khan-like flock of curls into which it is regimented. Moreover, it is only for a comparatively short time at that best which is demanded every day. Hence the curlers, which include everything except the old curl-papers which Thackeray enjoyed caricaturing in “The Rose and the Ring.” Curly hair nevertheless offers a perplexing problem. While the plat-inum-blonde has to have it at all costs, her male equivalent spends his time trying to rid his hair of the fatal waves for which his sister longs. The really woolly negro spends fortunes in hair-straighteners and the inventor of a mixture alleged to deal with wool died a millionaire.