Brushing the Shingle

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 5, Issue 3, 1 September 1926, Page 45

Brushing the Shingle

The shingled woman has come to rely almost entirely on her coiffeur for all the care and attention her hair receives. She visits her hairdresser once a week, and spends a great deal of money on shampooing, waving and trimming. In between these visits she treats her hair with the utmost care, and would he horrified if it were suggested that she was neglecting it. She combs the waves gently to help them to "stay in. and sleeps in a dainty cap of net and ribbon to prevent their disarrangement at night.

If a friend of an older generation should innocently suggest a course of brush drill, the shingled one is horrified. Very few . short-haired women use a hair brush, although some of the Eton-cropped maidens have invested in "military” brushes, and, with one in each hand, give their hair a vigorous brushing just as their brothers and fathers do. QU W _ y 'T'he old regime of ten minutes’ A brushing in the morning and ten minutes at night has passed, and, on

the whole, our hair is not improved by the omission. Its beauty is all on the surface, and frequently the scalp is not in a healthy condition. Dandruff, the commonest of diseases of the scalp, is, so doctors say frequently the cause of other and more serious skin diseases, and there is nothing like regular brushing' to remove the accumulation of tiny scales and grease from the scalp. When the scalp is dry and irritating after washing, and the little scales of the skin are scattered when the hair is combed, when it becomes heavy and greasy in less than a week after the shampoo, then is the time to turn again to the hair brush. Our mothers knew the value of that ten minutes’ brushing at bedtime, and if shorn locks arc to retain their beauty, the shingle comb must make way for the hair brush.