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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.

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Our endless quest for eternal youth

From poisonous 16th-century cosmetics to the latest “vampire facelift”, discover the fashions in unsavoury methods for improving our appearance.

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Inside the minds of Teeth’s two curators, James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing

James Peto and Emily Scott-Dearing talk visceral reactions, their interactions and object extractions.

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The housing that gives hope to refugees

A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.

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  • Zululand: a married Zulu woman with a pyramidal hairdressing. Photograph.
  • Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
  • Two Japanese barbers: shaving (left), and hairdressing (right). Coloured photograph.
  • A Malagasy female hairdresser dressing the hair of a woman. Reproduction of a photograph.
  • A Yoruba female hairdresser dressing the hair of a woman. Halftone after A.W. Gelston.
  • A hairdresser is using curling papers to curl a woman's hair. Coloured lithograph after L. Boilly.
  • A hairdresser powdering a wig on a stand. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Traviès de Villers.
  • A hairdresser holding a bust of a woman with an elaborate hairstyle. Coloured engraving by A. Joly, ca. 1813.
  • A woman having her hair dressed by a male hairdresser who is assisted by a black servant-boy. Coloured lithograph by G. Charton.
  • Japan: a hairdresser wearing a loin cloth at work on a kneeling man; a man in a robe squats in front of him. Coloured photograph, 1870/1890.
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