article · Issue No. 4, April 1958 · p. 23 p. 24

Hair Fashions for Spring–Summer 1958 — Your Hair Is the Crown of Your Head

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For the beauty of your hair, wash it with baladi soap... and choose for it a new spring style that suits the shape of your face.

Of old it was said to every elegant lady: "Your hair is the crown of your beauty" — and the saying still holds true today!

You may, Madam, have neglected the care of your hair during the cold winter, with its long nights and overcast days; so The Woman's Voice offers you here, as a service to your beauty, a collection of the very latest hair fashions, chosen from the greatest houses of hair fashion in the West. You have only to choose the style that suits you and suits the shape of your face, then study it well and try to copy it according to the instructions, with the help of your mirror, your brush and comb, and all the implements...

Cleanliness is the first condition of beauty for the hair. If your hair is dry, wash it once a week; if it is oily, then twice. The markets are full of the shampoos and soaps imported from the West, but the truth is that the best thing you can wash your hair with is baladi soap, made from pure olive oil.

The hair is washed by rubbing the scalp with the fingertips — rubbing it well; after rinsing it with clean water and drying it, treat it with a stiff brush, which gives the hair life and softness, so that it becomes manageable and ready to be dressed in whichever style you choose from among these spring fashions:

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