Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-07-21
BEAUTY PUT ON.
THE IMPROVEMENT OF NATURE
BIZ SUPPOSED HIDDEN ARTS.
Some of the Methods Adopted by
Women of Fashion to Increase
Their Attractiveness.

"De you bleach hair here ?" | asked on
well-known Chicago hair-dress-
ers establishment.
Certainly" said the smiling attendant
'FWhat color do you wish?"
Il am rather undecided between ablonde
and the new auburn shade" / replied I'M
"You had better decide in favor of the
red. That is the shade just now, and your
hair would take it splendidly. wouldn't
have to touch the ends at all, just here
next the scalp, where it is 50 dark"
Glow many applications would be ne
cessary?7
''You could do with two, should say.
Of course some ladies have to have great
many more. I'll give you two good appli-
cations for s..
''Do you do much of this sort of work ?'
ooh, yes Nine oat of every ten Gus
toners have their hair regularly touched
up"
Don't you consider it dangerous?"
"Well, Eve had my hair redeemed for
six years now, and it hasn't hurt me-" she
said smilingly. "There's not 50 much
risk with the red dye as with the extreme
blonde"
Can dark hair be bleached white?'
Not on the head-at least not in this
country. / have heard it could be done
in Paris, and Il lady buyer for one of our
large dry goods firms is going to try and
discover the secret for me when next she
goes abroad"
"To redden very dark hair would re-
quire great deal of work, fancy ,"
Yes, indeed have as many as three
applications in one day on one head, but
that tires out both the customer and my
self Generally the lady prefers to take it
gradually, as it isn't so noticeable | have
Redeemed hair as black as this" pointing to
coal black wig {" 1t makes lovely
Titan red The lady in question has
blue ewes, with black lashes and brows,
and the combination is beautiful and strik-
ing"
said | would think ii over and would
call again. While | sat in another fash
ionable hairdresser's shop, waiting for my
hair TO dry, idly watched Il little woman
through glass partition as she made up
her face She rubbed her entire face with
some fine white powder until she looked
like a clown at the pantomii.a then she
took chamoiS skin and carefully rubbed
and smoothed it until only the suspicion
of the powder was visible.
Next she took small hare Toothbrush
and, dipping it daintily into a box of
rouge, proceeded to redden her cheeks.
This was then carefully toned down with
another dash of white Then the eyes.
She penciled her brows and drew black
lines close up to the under lash. Then
daintily wetting her finger, she drew it
over her eyebrows, the moisture empha-
sizing, as it were, the blackening process.
Then she took a hand-glaSs and regarded
herself from all points of the compass.
The result evidently was satisfactory, for
she came out with gratifed smile She
had gone into the little room dark
skinned, rather tallow-faced person she
emerged with the pink and white COM
plexion that should belong to radiant
blonde. This process had been gone
through with in plain view of the rest of
the people in the room and with a serious
and business-like air that was quite aston
ishing
"Doyou have much of that sort Of thing
done here?' | asked the young woman who
approached Inc and took up my hair to see
if it was quite dry.
ooh, yes" she answered, in the most
matter-of-fact way. :" Lots of ladies come
in here and get their faces made up. All
the young ladies from" -mentioning one of
the most prominent dry goods stores in
the city-"and some of them look Just
beautiful. You ought to just let me fix
you up now. You'd look so lovely you
wouldn't know yourself"
But as | was not an enthusiast on that
subject, as she evidently wished me to be,
she did not press this easily-obtained
beauty upon me.
" Do you make up many society ladies ?"
| asked. "Yes, indeed though not here.
We are sent for and go to their houses to
dress their hair and then make up their
faces for them afterward. o, yes, we have
a great many regular customers in the
makeup line"
| suppose you have actresses too?'
"Well, not so many. You see they
know how to do their own makeup.
That's part of their business, just as much
as fine dressing; but ladies generally make
a botch of it-either get too much on, or
too little-So they save themselves the
bother and fuss by having It done for them,
as hair-dressing or manicuring. There.
your hairs done-now better let me touch
your face up little; you've no idea how
nice you'd look. No? Well, good-dav."
| went into another fashionable hair
dlesser's shop. She was applying bleach
ing to the long dark tresses of lady sit
ting there. The hair-dresser had gloves
on her hands to prevent the stuff from
touching her skin.
My Turkish-bath attendant tells me
that she has seen the frightful rayage
which cosmetics and dyes have produced.
81 wish ladies would see the results of
such follies as | have" she said, "thev
would not try every vile cosmetic and hair
wash in the market"
Hairdressers say that the yellow bleach
is not much in demand now. The lemon
haired blondes are not in vogue The red
haired girl is the rage. The hair that
looks brown in the dark and turns red in
the sun is also very desirable. | know
lady who has such hair, or, at least, her
back hair was that color Her bangs were
much darker than her back hair, and the
contrast was not pretty. Her hairdresser
suggested doctoring them bit.
81 don't dare" she said.
81 have stuff that will do it-positiyelv
harmless" he urged.
"Drink some of it and I'll believe vou.Y
she said, and he complied. She argued
that if it couldn't hurt his stomach it
ought not her head, and allowed trans
formation to take place Nor has she
ever experienced any i'll results. But it
is generally very unsafe to tamper with
ones hair. Blindness and insanity are
often brought about by this folly. This
has been told women again and again,
but they pay no heed and rush madly in
where angels would fear to tread. There
Is no risk woman will not run, no pain
she Will not suffer, if she thinks
thereby she can be made more beautiful.
l know woman who has used cosmetics
all her life, and those, too, of the rankest
and most poisonous kinds. Now she is
paying for it. Heskin is something terri
bic to see. Physicians tell her it is her
stomach, but those who have seen her
daubing on lotions, pastiles and powders
know better. She was handsome woman.
too-she had no need of these accessories.