HARMONIES OF HAIR.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
- Hair and Complexion.
- Black Dyes.
- Persian Blue-Black.
- Peroxide of Hydrogen.
- Chloride of Gold.
- Transient Dyes.
If it were easy to change the color of one's hair, and possible to fix that change, which it is not, the result in most cases would be far from desirable. Nature tints hair and complexion in harmony with each other, and both should be deepened if one is altered. Human pictures as well as canvas would often be improved by bringing out the colors, but the free hand of Health, that divine artist, is the only one whose work is tolerable or enduring. In health this harmony of tint is varied and delicate, ranging from the rose-and-snow complexions that suit the true blonde dorée, the translucent honeysuckle-pink that sets off red-brown, blue-black, and olive-brown
