IN A PARIS HAIRDRESSER’S SALOON.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIV, Issue VIII, 23 February 1895, Page 190

IN A PARIS HAIRDRESSER’S SALOON.

MADAME THE HAIRDRESSER INTERVIEWED. ‘AND the parting in the hair, madame, will it continue in favour ?’ ' Yes ; to attain a good white parting one should comb the hair from the crown of the head down over the eyes. The comb should be levelled from the tip of the nose straight up through the hair. This insures a straight parting. Then, with a finer comb, each hair should be carefully picked out to either side, for what an amateur considers a straight parting an expert finds faulty. * A little tonic rubbed on the parting once a day and then the hair rapidly and vigorously brushed away from it on either side produces gloss that is becoming.’ I noticed that all the women in the room were having their hair arranged with the fashionable parting in the centre. Undoubtedly no coiffure for summer will be considered correct unless that white line shows somewhere above the forehead. Women with slender faces, so my informant went on to say, should never allow the parting to be too pronounced. A short, soft fluff of hair should be worn across the eyebrows to relieve the severity. This should be especially observed with high foreheads. It the forehead is low and the face slender, then the fluff in front may be omitted, but the hair coming from the sides of the parting should be cut short and curled that it may hang about the temples. These locks should be slightly confined by invisible hairpins, for nothing is untidier than half-curled hair dangling about the face ; only the most youthful face can stand it. Madame told me that some women, who make a fad of this parting, have one or two lines of hair pulled out from either side to produce a broader space, and that each day the parting is thoroughly rubbed with a weak solution of peroxide of hydrogen and warm water by a stiff nail-brush. This removes any dust that may settle there. The result of the ‘ side bangs,’ worn some three years ago, is a parting that is most objectionable. It curves around the head from ear to ear. It is the despair of two-thirds of the women, for these same ‘side bangs’ have not grown enough to cover it. A cure, says madame, is not to crimp so tightly. Wear the bangs straight as often as possible, brushed back and pinned to the other hair. When they must be curled, slightly wave them over a large iron and be careful to catch them back to the firmer hair. The hairpins may not be artistic in the side of the hair, but of the two evils they are the lesser. Again, the hair grows back quickly with this treatment.