WANTED TO BE A BLONDE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 8

WANTED TO BE A BLONDE

■ I I“AGONY" OF HAIR TREATMENT A 29-vearold woman, who told of her "agony” after lia.r t re:.' merit, was awarder! i-J'J damages al Birmingham County Court recently, hike was Miss Edith Gladys Whcddon, of Couth Yardlev, and she sued Florence Amelia Austin carrying on business as Austin s Beauty Parlour, Birmingham Miss Wheddon alleged ".at her hair, naturally red, had turned greenishvellow, like an unripe lemon, after she had undergone "white henna” treatment. She eventually had to go to a hospital, she added, to have her head shaved, after which she had io go about “with a turban of bandages.” Answering the Judge, she remarked that she wanted to be a platinum blonde. She had seen a girl in the I entity saop with platinum blonde hair, and she w-anted to have hers like that. The doctor who attended Miss Wheddon in hospital estimated that it would be 12 months before her hair attained normal length and colour. When an assistant po.tiled out that he used ordinary peroxide and ammonia mixture, and he had used :t before and Sime without any harnifu. effects, the Judge commented that he thought the mixture a very dangerous thing to deal with, and that it ought to be stopped. It ’had. he emphasised, produced a terrible state of thinks on the woman’s head, and subjected her to great pain. It might have injured her for life.