Hair-dyeing as a Fine Art.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 April 1890, Page 3

Hair-dyeing as a Fine Art.

« . Hair-dying is rising to the level of a fine art. A woman who dye 9 hair ip a " specialist." Her business she calls her " practice" ; and, like a fashionable physician, she makes up her appointment-book three or four days deep. Mrs Fairbanks, who has her consulting rooms in Bon4*treet, is a striking example. It was with difficulty (writes a lady representative ) that I could get a short chat with her, so busy is she. She showed me her book, in which sh© bad registered appointments for three days in advance. Mrs Fair* banks is a middle-aged woman, and her own hair is an advertisement. She bas amass of auburn tresses, and" Every hair my own," she said. <( What is the most popular tint ?" I asked. — " Golden-auburn," said Mrs Fairbanks. ■ •' There are half a dozen tints, and it takes about two hours to change the colour of a woman's hair, so I can only see about four people a day. I am always careful, however, to get one custf mer away before another arrives, as ladies like privacy in the mysteries of their hair." •• But can't people dye their own hair 7" — " Yes, they can ; but it v best to havti the fust two applications from the hands of an ox perienoed person. I made a stud] oftue hair and the complexion, am try to get tints that will match th< skin. Then there is the difficult: with amateur hair dyes of getting thi same shade over the whole head 0 hair. I sometimes have womei come to me who have made th most /earful mess of themselve wjth hair dyes. There are womei with actnally green hair, and in th beads ef others are tufts of grey ani red, when th^y.bave failed to get ; consistent dye." Krf Fairbanks is an enthusias in her profession. She palled out tress that she had dyed for some on< »nd exolaimed: 4< There's hair There's colour for you! I thin that's glorious. Now here is a trei oigra/iair. I em going to dy tfaii tt a nek golden. I shall be i

3 this and darker tints during the a week, and at the end of the time my 7 hands will be like a niggers. The a tints are very permanent. They t usually last a fortnight ; on some a hair they ast a month. The time r depends on the nature of the hair f you know." — P. M. Budget 9 ■»—»——■————'