Recently I read a 1957 book called Eleanore King's Guide to Glamor where Ms. King explained some of the mysteries used by them. She, herself, went to a beauty operator to keep the gray out - not by dying her hair but by plucking it. She did this 1 1/2 hours weekly for 13 years. If I'd done that, by the age of 35 I'd have been bald!
Ms. King also mentioned that many dark-haired women of the time didn't wash their hair very often so that their natural hair color would remain. She personally met many women in their 60s who had gorgeous hair which they dry cleaned most of the time with only semi-annual shampoos.
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After step #1, you "scale" the head by parting the hair every quarter of an inch, and with a comb, loosen as much of the dead cuticle on the part as you are able to do. With vigorous shaking, the scale should fall out. If a woman wanted to add her favorite perfume to the witch hazel (step #4), she could but she would take a chance of making streaks in her hair.
So, I'm thinking that this whole process sounds like a bit too much work for me. Some how I don't remember the shampoo of the 50s being so harsh on the hair that it damaged it, but I was just a child then so maybe it was that bad. And, I can't really believe that not washing your hair will keep it the color you had at the age of twenty.
How often is often enough to wash hair? Ms. King suggests that a middle of the road schedule might be to wash once a week and dry-clean the next week or wash one week and dry-clean the next 3 weeks. Which ever you choose, good luck.
Smarty and I'll be back soon.
Carol
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