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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

BEAUTY SHOP


Sitting under the hairdryer for an hour or more was difficult.  Bobby pins were used to curl hair, then clippies, small pink sponge rollers, large wire & brush rollers, and then VERY LARGE rollers - even cardboard toilet tissue rolls.  In between the once a week visit to the beauty shop, girls would roll their hair every night and somehow manage to sleep!

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  1. I always thought those days must've been torturous for women. But when I watch my daughter spending an hour straightening her hair, I wonder if things have really changed that much.

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  2. Young girls were overly concerned about looks; however it must not be just a Fifties or Southern notion. The thought of someday being seen without make-up and with rollers in hair when we married was alarmingly discussed. Should we get up early? Sleep with make-up on? Run to the vanity immediately upon rising? Keep daylight out of the room?

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  3. In January, the collage "Beauty Shop" will be exhibited in "Beauty Matters" - a juried show at Giles Gallery, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY. "Miss Firecracker Legs" will also be shown.

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