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Techniques For Life Casting Hair
PART 1
BY DAVID E. PARVIN, A.L.I.
Photograph #1 Photograph #2
air has always been important; so In the sixties, there was a whole musical
important that even in two biblical devoted just to hair in which some of the
stories, hair was critical to the cast members stripped down buck naked
plots. Remember the brothers Esau to show off all the hair they were born
and Jacob. Esau was a hairy man but with! Almost certainly, religion, history,
Jacob was a smooth one. Jacob glued art, poetry, music, theater, and
lamb's fur to his hands and convinced his civilization would not be the same
poorly sighted father that he was his without hair.
brother. Skip a few books, chapters, and Amazingly, when I began life casting
verses, and one finds Samson whose about twenty years ago, hair was
strength was in his hair. Unfortunately, he something that just got in the way. It was
fell for the wiles of Delilah who usually tied back and covered; what
whispered, "Hey handsome want to come Photograph #3 stuck out was smeared with petroleum
up for a good time and a haircut?" Not jelly or Crisco, neither of which washed
only are there many more references to out very easily. I don't remember exactly
hair in the Bible, but hair seems to show when, but it must have been at least 15
up just about everywhere. If it hadn't been years ago that I got lucky. I was
for her long hair, Lady Godiva would preparing a little girt of about eight for a
have had to take the time to cover her face casting. As I was covering what
assets before jumping on the horse. Don' t little hair was visible with petroleum
forget Repunsel and Goldilocks. Poetry is jelly, her mother who was a hair stylist,
filled with hair, Photograph #4 mentioned that she knew of something
that might work better, a thick hair
"My hair is gray but not with years Nor conditioner called "Cholesterol." The
grew it white in a single night As men's name seemed odd to me then and still
have grown from sudden fears."
does. Just imagine someone coming into
And then there is music. Look no farther a marketing meeting and announcing that
than old English folk songs: he/she has just thought up the perfect
name for their new hair conditioner,
`Black, black, black is the color of my true "Will Harden Your Arteries!" But I got
love's hair..., " "... then a flash of some and tried it; it worked great and
phosphorus in her seaweed hair and I was easy to wash out. From that time on,
looked again and my mother wasn't I could promise that getting cast is like a
there...," or stay in an expensive spa, including
Photograph #5
"She wept, she cried, she tore her hair, ah getting a seaweed wrap and the best hair
me what could I do... " conditioning ever.
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