The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-12
RED HAIR THE RAGE.
TFrom the New York Sun.1

lffOIn the New Ork sun.
The peroxide blonde is utterly out of
date, but any one who argues feminine
wisdom and reform from that is sadly
mistaken. The women haven't changed
their principles. They have changed
only the color of their hair. The vary
ing shades of auburn and chestnut are
the thing, and the bleached are becom-
ing the dyed. On the whole, it is
rather an Improvement. Titan red, ar
tistically cOncocted, isn't so aggressive
as golden blonde. Then, too, it doesn't
quarrel so loudly with compilations
never intended. by nature, to consort
with golden tresseS; and it doesn't show
the same lndiscreet tendency to turn
olive green with age, which marked the
blondine's hair. OF course, it is a nui-
sance for those who were blonde to go
in for auburn; but, after all, they are
better off than the brunette who must
jump to Titan glory without any inter-
mediary stage. Dark hair must be
bleached before it can be colOred au-
burn; so the artificially blonde are al
ready half way along the road. That is
the reward for having kept up with the
procession in the. past.
The blondes who are not affecting red
hair are lapsing back to brunette.
Some Of them do it by the natural pro-
cess, and have heads that look like an
impressionist picture or a paint manu-
facturerS' sample card; but there is no
excuse for that state of things unless
ones purse is at low ebb. The thing to
do if ones blondness is artificial and
one wants to return to dark hair is to
go to a 4irst-class hairdresser and have
him dye the bleached locks their orig
inal color. The new growth of hair next
the head will naturally come in dark;
and in the course of time, the dyed
hair can be clipped away, inch by inch,
giving place to the genuine article
The auburn hair, like the blonde, re-
quires constant encouragement. The
color is fairly permanent; but the new
growth of the roots of the hair should
be treated with the red dye. at least
once month, and, preferably, once
every two weeks. Some women try to
attend to that phase Of the dyeing for
themselves, but the results are usually
disastrous both to the hair and the
scalp, and it is far wiser to entrust the
care of artificially cOlOred hair to an eX-
pert coiffeur. Bleaching and colOring
unquestionably do affect the quality
and vitality of the hair The hairdress-
ers acknowledge that, but insist that
the damage is very slight if the work is
done scientifically and only the best
preparations used.
"Bungling, hasty and cheap work will
ruin any hair" said a New York hair
dresser, but hair can be dyed so that
the life and gloss will remain in it. 1t
is very hard to accomplish that result
in the case of bleaching, but that, too,
can be done, by patience and skill. The
red hair, so popular Just now, is hard
to obtain in just the right shade, but it
usually has a beautiful gloss and sheen.
We have comparatively few calls for
complete coloring of the hair save
from theatrical people-not nearly SO
many as we had five or ten years ago
but it would surprise you to know how
many charming women come to US to
have the first gray hairs colored. 1t is
easy to do that without injuring the