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Hair Coloring

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
April
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent, who writes that she is still young, asks if she can be told of anything "tliat will turn her hair white. It is said that white hair is now very fashionable. " This may be true, asa lady recently returned from abroad reports the great prevalence at fashionable gatherings there of silver tresses arranged in pompadour style, glittering with any amouiit of real gems set in various unique forms, and that many of the ladies so coiffured possessed notably yonthful forms and faces. Perhaps, after having destroyed the natural color of the. hair by experimenting with advertised lotious, women now propose to try the effect of white locks. One would thiuk that after seeing oneveryside the effects of hair colorüig, the seared and streakcd locks, the black and tan heads, the heads that look like a hurriedly prepared disli of scrambled eggs, and the dead lookhif; Patti and Cleopatra craninms, women would learn the wisdom of letting nature alone in respect of their tresses. "Ye caunot change one hair black or white" - that is, successfully. No one ever did this yet, for, let the artificial color look ever so fine for the time being, the face of the wearer in her colored hair will never look right or natural beeide this forced prodnction, the environïnents being abnormal and false. The "sbade of the hair that nature bestows is the only one that goes well with the features, complexion and eyes. The face of a little child chauges as it grows up, and from youth to woruanhood and oíd age nature herself superintends the necessary changes in the hair. ' 'An authority on hair' ' is giving in one of our evening papers in all good faith advice to youug ladies wbo "wish to lighten their hair a trifle, " recommending peroxide of hydrogen for this result. It is a sinf ui pity that this suggestion shonld thus be giveu, for the natural gloss, the natural color and finally the hair itself will most assuredly disappear if this

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News