10/27/08

In need of a little body in your hair?

Spotted on a recent visit to a local museum!

Even I would be hard pressed to be convinced to utilise this machine in the interests of beauty. I doubt very much that consuming any liquids was allowed during this procedure, which looks not only excruciating, but life endangering too!

14 comments:

Sandi McBride said...

OH MY GOD SARAH! I have seen one of these, and it wasn't in a museum (unless you consider the 80 year old beautician, Dorothy Gaskins a museum curator in her "beauty parlor)! She would use it to this day, I was told, if she could find anyone brave enough to sit under it! Loved this!
Sandi

Pam said...

Obviously invented by a man, ha. I'll take my straight hair any day than have to do this! OMG!

Tess Kincaid said...

Yikes! This give me the willies...just like an electric chair!

Kat said...

Note to users of this machine. Make sure your hair is entirely dry or there is a risk or electrocution. Holy hand grenades that looks dangerous.

Anonymous said...

Yowzers--looks painful!

Tonya Staab said...

OMG that is hilarious. Geesh, I'd be scared I wouldn't make it out of there alive.

Expat mum said...

She looks like she's already been zapped!

Anonymous said...

OMG, is that something plugged into her arm? What was that about beauty without cruelty?

*mary* said...

I have seen one of these at my local museum. I was pretty impressed by it... and pretty terrified.

Sherri said...

WOW, the things women did to look "beautiful" back then!! Glad I live now!

Bella Foxx said...

It's alive! It's alive!

Glad I look good in long straight hair.

Linda Jennings said...

My 95 year old aunt was a hair dresser (beutician)years ago and used one of these. Her customers rode the train from far away to come to her salon for a perm! It looks like torture! *LOL*

Daryl said...

bOMG! This is one step below the yearly perms my mom gave me every spring .. stinky lotion, tight hurtful curlers and the kink that was supposed to be curl .. and the stink .. did I mention the stink?

:-Daryl

Veronica said...

YIKES!!