Delilah caresses the sleeping Samson as she sets her barber to work. Engraving by J.B. de Poilly after F. Verdier, 1698.

Knot in hair

AIDS : guidelines for hairdressers and barbers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.

Hair brain sculpture

Children playing at being adults; a boy sits at his dressing table having his hair dressed by a boy pretending to be a hair-dresser; another boy in the background folds clothes. Coloured lithograph by C. Bargue after H. de Montaut.

Example of a coiffure on a Tartar or Manchu female

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Sculpture of the brain made from layering donated human hair into a mould of a model brain. This hair is from a female donor and retains its natural grey colouring.

"Hair brained" is an English idiomatic phrase used as a derogatory term to explain someone's possibly irrational thought.



The brain measures approximately 18 cm (W) by 17 cm (H) by 18 cm (D).

Sculpture of the brain made from layering donated human hair into a mould of a model brain. This hair is from a female donor and retains its natural brown auburn colouring.

"Hair brained" is an English idiomatic phrase used as a derogatory term to explain someone's possibly irrational thought.



The brain measures approximately 18 cm (W) by 17 cm (H) by 18 cm (D).

False-coloured scanning electron micrograph showing the surface of a single strand of hair which has been heavily bleached and straightened. This image shows the tip of a hair taken from the front of the head of a female of Caucasian descent. Although naturally curly, the hair has been repeatedly straightened. Exposure to hair colour or dye, heating and drying can over time damage the hair shaft (barbed wire-like appearance seen here) making the hair brittle and more prone to breakage. The hair shaft is made up of several layers of a tough protein called keratin. The outer layer (cuticle) is visible here and is made up of overlapping, tightly packed scales. Horizontal width of image is 829 micrometres.

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

<p>Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: Hungary-Water Warehouse (Ludgate Hill, London, 1733) and the great Chymical Elixir (asthma and consumption, 1733), Treble-distilled Lavender Water (Henry Christian, Canterbury, 1813) with Dr. Hooper's Female Pills (Newbery and Sons, on the back), Austen's Forset Flower Cologne (1889), Hoyt's German Cologne, Murray & Lanman's Florida Water, Bloomsbury Hair (London, 2009).</p>

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Perfume ephemera. Box 1.

SEM of a strand of human hair. Variation can be seen in the structure and appearance of hairs in particular the cuticle, the outer most part of the hair, which is composed of overlapping, scale-like cells and can be a useful indicator as to its origin. Human hair scales have a random, non-repeating pattern, in contrast to those of animals, which are more regular in their arrangement. Scanning electron micrograph; x 750; hair is approximately 95 micrometers wide.

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Hair brain sculpture

Hair brain sculpture

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Perfume ephemera. Box 1.

Human hair (Asian origin)

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Hair brain sculpture

Hair brain sculpture

Damaged human hair, bleached and straightened, SEM

Perfume ephemera. Box 1.

Human hair (Asian origin)

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