The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-07-03
Investigation By Journal Staff
Writer DisclOses Interest
ing Situation.

! Is the blonde type of feminine
beauty disappearing in favor of the
brunette and mixed types?
| Beauty specialists, say that the
blonde beauty of which fiction writer's
used to rave is becoming less and less
seen in America, especially in the
south, where it is said the climate is
not favorable for producing the hair
and skin of a perfect blonde.
Most common of all here is the mix
ed type, hair ranging in color from a
blonde shade to a very dark brown or
almost black, complexion between that
| of the brunette and blonde and eyes
of varying shades of blue and brown,
| the most general shade being gray
blue or green blue.
Next to the mixed type is most COM
monty seen the pure brunette type.
A type considered beautiful, rather
rare, but more often found than the
real blonde, is that of the beautiful
lady with auburn hair, deep or pansy
blue eyes, and creamy, peachlike skin.
This type is an artists favorite, be-
cause of its colorfulness. Another rare
| type is that of the otherwise perfect
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/ lovely type is the Irish American, blue
black hair, deep blue eyes and very
fair skin.
The perfect blonde, when she is
found, is considered the most striking
of all types, but because a certain del
! icacy in texture of skin and hair re-
quires more care than any other type,
she fades much more quickly.
The brunette is said to make up
more effectively than any other type
and has combined qualities of both the
brunette and blonde, with the bru-
nette predominating. This type is said
to result from the large number of in
termariages between distinct nation
aIities and between totally different
types.
Not real true-to-type blonde is said
to be found in Pensacola, and there are
! only two of the artists" type. All of
the others are mixed types and bru-
nettes.
No matter what type of beauty Mi
lady happens to be, though, she is for
ever in quest of Fountain of Youth"
and forever trying to make herself
more attractive than she thinks the
cialists admit that to be fact. Since
time immemorial beautiful woman has
powdered and painted her skin, dyed
and colored her hair and eyebrows and
eyelashes, had her eyebrows plucked,
tried to change her shape with corsets,
tried to change the shape of her fin
gers and, keeping some of the barbaric
instincts of her foreign sisters, tried to
squeeze her feet into becoming small
er. Every device that the feminine
mind can conceive of is used in an
attempt to improve on her original
self.
The present day beauty parlors have
superseded the elaborate secret beauty
rendezvous and processes of the
lady" of other centuries, and gives
to the present day woman aids for
keeping fit" as well as beauty" aids
Every class of woman visits the
beauty parlor, some for reasons of
comfort, some for bushes; and social
reasons, and some out of pure feminine
vanity
The business girl is as frequent a
visitor as the society belle or the
home" girl. Her messages and sham
poos are as regular with her at her
beauty parlor as her employers are
with him at his barbershop. Having
an independent and regular income she
spends her money differently from the
society girl, who usually has an al
lowance or draws on her father at the
bank. The life of the society girl calls
for more of the beauty aids. and she
goes to have her hair curled and waved
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cial occasions.
While some women regard it neces-