Having a bad hair day? Spare some thought for your great-grandparents
because in their time it took about 10 hours to complete the process of
waving hair to withstand washing, weather and time. Compton’s Online
Library explained that the advent of electricity sparked a major change
in the concept of hairdressing when in London in 1906 the hairdresser
Charles Nestlé invented the permanent-wave machine. The bulky machine –
about the size of today’s fridge – took almost 20 minutes to get to
usable heat and up to 10 hours to complete perming. Still, it was great
20th-century technology. The next year a Parisian chemistry student,
Eugène Schueller founded the company L’Oréal, created a dye to cover
gray hair with natural-looking colors in a permanent process, and made
life a little more fun for a lot of people.
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