Stories
- Photo story
‘My Hair Is Not…’
Eight Black people talk about their relationship with their hair – their hairstyle history, their experiences, and how they decided to have natural hair.
- Photo story
How wigs help children handle hair loss
For young people who lose their hair during cancer treatment, a wig can make them feel normal again. Carmel King photographs some of the processes and people involved with a charity providing beautiful human-hair wigs for kids.
- Article
What our facial hair says about us
Five bearded and moustachioed men choose five hirsute archive images to help them reflect on the way facial hair is linked with personality and identity.
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How your hairdresser could save your life
Barbers and hairdressers have a unique view of us – one that means they can spot potentially dangerous health problems. Find out how buzzcuts can lead to blood-pressure checks, and dip-dyes show the way to the dermatologist.
Catalogue
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Hair-dyes and hair-dyeing chemistry and technique / by H. Stanley Redgrove and Gilbert A. Foan.
Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley), 1887-1943Date: 1934- Books
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The helping hand : containing a great number of valuable receipts on medical, agricultural, culinary, and miscellaneous subjects : and for cooking well at a trifling cost, making hair restoratives, toilet soaps, dyes, all kinds of cements, hair dyes, domestic wines, coloring, scouring clothes, and hundreds of other receipts for use in every position of life.
Somerset, Phil.Date: [1872], [©1872]- Ephemera
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Buckingham's Dye for the whiskers ... : Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer will restore gray or faded hair to its original color as in youth ... / R.P. Hall & Co.
R.P. Hall & Co.Date: [1890?]- Books
The hair : its care and preservation / Philip H. Mason.
Mason, Philip H.Date: 14 x 22 cm- Books
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Perfumes and their preparation : containing complete directions for making handkerchief perfumes, smelling-salts ... cosmetics, hair dyes, and other toilet articles ... / by George William Askinson ; translated from the third German edition by Isidor Furst ; with corrections and additions by several experts.
Date: 1892