Are we too clean for our own good?

I spent years torturing my naturally wavy hair into a straight page-boy style. Now, I just keep it quite short and it goes into its own waves, just like my mother's did.
I am super clean today - three long snorkeling sessions each followed by a shower as I can't stand that salty feeling on my skin and in my hair.

I spent years torturing my naturally wavy hair into a straight page-boy style. Now, I just keep it quite short and it goes into its own waves, just like my mother's did.

My mum, who had trained as a hairdresser, had an antiquated hairdryer which I always expected to give me a shock. She would set my hair with pin curls and sometimes those instruments of torture, things with teeth that set your hair into waves - I think it was a 'Marcel' set. When I escaped from home it was about the time when rollers came on the scene and, until I ceased to sleep alone, I would keep them in overnight - one learned to live with the discomfort. I usually dried my hair in front of the fire, even in Kenya where we had log fires in the evening.

We had a hairdryer in the mid-50s!

Anyone remember those rubber thingies you twisted your hair round to make curls? They sort of folded over like little cones...

I had one of those! Am I old enough to be your mum? [worried look]

I remember my mum buying a hair dryer with a sort of shower cap at the end of a hose so it fitted over your rollers!

I ironed my hair in a futile attempt to straighten my curls. Mum had poker straight hair!

Well you were luckier than me Ana.
I didn't get a hairdryer till about 1967.
The pin curl routine was circa 1959 , but superceded by rollers of varying degrees of discomfort from about 1961.

We did have hairdryers in those days, jane!

Amami wave set Sel
You combed it through your hair and then set it in pin curls with kirbigrips, one row curling left and the next row curling right.
Hours later when your hair had dried, you combed it through and it was possible to create deep waves, or, if you were really into suffering for beauty's sake, went to bed with it all in place, complete with hairnet to stop the pins coming out
You then held it in place with 'lacquer'
Thank goodness for hairdryers!

Wasn't there an ad 'Friday night is Amarni night' or somesuch? Friday being the one night in the week you washed your hair

Worlie www.gransnet.com/info/acronyms

Dear daughters and granddaughters worlie

WHAT ON EARTH ARE DDs AND DDGs

Thank you nelliemoser - glad you like.

Not a good idea as I might set it alight.
'A bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck'

Panda nightlight...

Thanks Aka and a bushel is....? Something you hide your light under?

LOL

Or even my inner Panda [growls sweetly]

[goes off shaking head sadly]

Or reveal your inner Panda?

PPPS

PPS or be condescending and patronising

PS or talk any pseudo psycho babble

I aim to please Ana; not get into any arguments; turn the other cheek; live and let live; and not tell any porkies