ROMAN WOMEN.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18777, 27 October 1932, Page 9

ROMAN WOMEN.

PLATINUM BLONDES. Much curiosity is aroused by the prevailing typo of fashionable hair — 111 c complete platinum blonde and the platinum streak. How is the shade attained? There is more in the making of platinum tresses than one might suppose. Peroxide is, of course, one of | the most usual ways of bleaching this i lock over either the right or left temj pie, but the way in which hair takes a I jilallnum streak varies so much that ! one woman may find It a quick pro- ! cess while another spends hours in Ihe hairdresser’s cubicle waiting for | the transformation to take place. And j some hair refuses to take it at all. Very tricky is the task of conlln r ing Ihe platinum to its destined streak i of hair. { Although Him stars are responsible for the present craze, Hie platinum j blonde vogue was equally fashionable In classical times. Roman women used lime to bleach their hair.