HAIRDRESSING COMPETITION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 316, 6 January 1909, Page 4

HAIRDRESSING COMPETITION

An international hairdressing competition is held every year in London, and this event lias become of great, importanee not only to professional hairdressers, but to tlie feminine world as well, for without doubt the display of beau tifully-dresscd heads which takes place after' the judge* have awarded tie.' prizes influence* the fashion of curls and juifl's for the year. A writer in the Argus stale* that' the competition and subsequent display for 11HIS-JI has just taken place, and the winner holds 10 gold medals won in recent years in the practice of his art. His dictum oil thprevailing modes applies equally to those whose hair is plentiful as weil as to those whose locks are scanty and short, lie says: "So lady who wishes to be in the fashion v -,\a do without 'postiehes/ A lady's own hair will serve for the foundation coil to whieli the pojatiche may .be attached, but it is not possible to use it in getting the proper Creek ell'ect which will be essential for the coming season. Tlie Creek ?,tyle does not consist in bunching cm is at" the back of the neck, but it is a dressing continued to a point whieli would be made by the. meeting of two lines drawn from the forehead and mouth. The front of the -head is dressed simply without any artificial building up. ami is waved with a side or middle parting The long ell'ect is gained bj building up curls on the lines of the Creek knot. a ud the addition of curls in front and behind the ears will be found to assist in getting the needed line and to soften the features. These side curls are suggestive of (he early Victorian ringlets, and tbev must not be exaggerated on a classic coiffure,' This expert goes on to deplore the many dark feminine heads, and he says that if only every woman could have fair hairthe hairdresser's art would be a glorified one. Next to golden locks, the fashionable. henna tint is most satisfactory. Short, thick hair is said to be easier to dress, and has a better effect.. Tn fact, it would seem that the natural "clowning glory"' of a woman is not much gnod to her nowadays, for she who buys both quantity and color has the greater advantage.