It’s a sunny afternoon in Stratford upon Avon and I’m watching actors become witches. In Georgia McGuinness’s design for Macbeth, the witches seem to be mostly hair. Amber Sylvia Edwards and Dylan Read peer out from mountains of furry locks, each looking as if a yeti has fallen asleep on their shoulders. The tumble of tresses is so heavy, it needs a harness for support. Welcome to the wild world of wigs.
Marjorie S. Joyner filed to patent her Permanent Waving Machine on May 16, 1928.
The machine allowed a hairdresser to set many curls at once, and included scalp protectors to shield the client from heat.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Series: Utility Patent Case Files
Image description: Several views showing how one square inch of hair is wrapped around a piece of fabric, which in turn is clamped with long tongs. A flat piece of material sits between the tongs and the scalp.
Image description: View of a stand that holds a hanging set of tongs, so that a client can sit in a chair beneath the stand and many sets of tongs attached to their hair at once.
am i a bit sad that almost nobody regularly wears updos like this anymore? yeah, i'm a bit sat that almost nobody regularly wears updos like this anymore.
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Plot: A competitor is found dead and scalped at a regional hairdressing competition. In the aftermath, tensions boil and rumours spread throughout the dressing rooms. Who knew a quick trim could lead to something so violent?
My Review: A stylistic film, presenting itself as a one-take (though it is a few long-shots edited carefully together), the camera snaking itself around the labyrinthine backstage. The characters are all wonderfully fleshed-out, each with a plausible motive and eagerness to found out the killer's identity. The score too adds to the tension, only broken by the occasional joke and reminder that it's just a regional hairdressing competition. It's not mace, it's Tressame.
Infrared hair dryer (invented by Miklós Glavina), Budapest State Hairdressing salon, 14 Erzsébet (then Lenin) boulevard, 1959. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.
All I can find is a reddit post where someone asked the same and ppl were just like 'not real' or 'genetics' but I think it's doable! I just don't know what to ask for, and I don't want to take the image of an animated man to a hairdresser - I am not that brave! Hairdressers scare me at the best of times!
As for genetics... my hair has started doing this at the front lately all on its own:
This is literally what it was doing when I woke up this morning.
It's curly, but also very fine, so the curls get weighed down quickly when it gets at all long. I think with the right haircut it would behave quite a bit like Astarion's but I don't know what to ask for, or have photographs of real humans I can present to a hairdresser.