The ugly-girl papers : $b or, Hints for the toiletPower, S. D. (Susan Dunning)
Science
The ugly-girl papers : $b or, Hints for the toilet
Power, S. D. (Susan Dunning)
Beauty, Personal; Women -- Health and hygiene
White lashes and eyebrows are so disagreeably suggestive that one can
not blame their possessor for disguising them by a harmless device.
A decoction of walnut-juice should be made in the season, and kept
in a bottle for use the year round. It is to be applied with a small
hair-pencil to the brows and lashes, turning them to a rich brown,
which harmonizes with fair hair. It may be applied to the edge of the
hair about the face and neck, when that is paler than the rest. Let
me repeat that the best remedy for ill-used tresses is strict care;
glossy, vitalized tresses, kept in order by constant brushing, assume
by degrees a better color. It is a mistake to soak red hair with oil
in the hope of making it darker; it should be kept wavy and light
as possible, to show off the rich lights and shadows with which it
abounds. The sun has a good effect on obnoxious shades of hair if it is
otherwise well attended to, and red or white locks should be worn in
floating masses, waved by fine plaiting at night, or by crimping-pins,
which _do not_ injure hair unless worn too tight. Pale hair shows a
want of iron in the system, and this is to be supplied by a free use
of beef-steaks, soups, pure beef gravies, and red wines. Salt-water
bathing strengthens the system, and acts favorably on the hair. As to
color, hardly any shade is unlovely when luxuriant and in a lively
condition. It is only when diseased or uncared for that any color
appears disagreeable. Sandy hair, when well brushed and kept glossy
with the natural oil of the scalp, changes to a warm golden tinge. I
have seen a most obnoxious head of this color so changed by a few
years’ care that it became the admiration of the owner’s friends, and
could hardly be recognized as the withered, fiery locks once worn.
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