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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 4

Titian and Auburn Hair Types continued…
Part 4 (final part) of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
RED : Never becoming to any of these four types in any of its shades up to and including pink. The only possible exception would be the auburn brunette, with hair [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 3

Titian and Auburn Hair Types
Part 3 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
THERE are four distinct groups in this class. First, the Titian blonde.
The true Titian blonde has flaming red hair that is vivid enough not to be called blond and light enough not to be [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 2

Eyes are an Important Color Index
Part 2 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
THERE is nothing as expressive as the eyes. Nothing so portrays a person’s mentality, a person’s soul, a person’s aliveness. The very plainest woman in the world cannot be plain if she has [...]

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Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 1

Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality
COLOR is at your disposal. The correct use of it can have an inestimable value in your life. If you do not pay any attention to its possibilities you are overlooking one of the means for acquiring and [...]

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