University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 7, 1962
Women's Editor 'Tears Hair' Over Asian Hairdressers
By Gay Pauley UPI Women's Editor
BANGKOK, Thailand—(UPI)一Getting one's hair done in some southeast Asia cities often is enough to make it stand on end.
And with some of the techniques used in combing by beauticians I've encountered, it does.
Also, unless the female tourist has fingers to spare, she might well take along manicuring needs. In Manila, as one manicurist clipped away at nail cuticle, I said, "Ouch" so often I know she thought that it was English for "Thank you," because she smiled, nodded—and dug deeper with the sharpest scissors this side of an operating room.
But, keep the nails and hair done one must—not only for ap-
pication, sake, but for morale. $ \textcircled{4} $
But, keep the nails and makepearance's sake, but for morale Nothing lifts the spirit of this traveler more than a clean head and freshly-painted nails, even if I'm scaled and left bleeding in the process.
IF I WANTED to get into politics (and I don't), I'd suggest that the Kennedy administration could help under-developed countries by offering some beauty technicians for a stay, or recruit Mr. Kenneth (Mrs. Kennedy's hairdresser) for the Peace Corps.
Lest some of you start criticizing and figure "she's just one of those travelers who expects everything to be the way it is state-side." I say not at all. Simple facts are, southeast Asia is just as anxious as Europe to lure tourists. All I'm doing is to try to be helpful.
And one way to get the female tourist talking favorably about a country, once she's home, is to start her talking about the beauty shops. She's more apt to tell her neighbor, next year's tourist, about the bangup hair style she got in Bangkok then she is to tell how her counterpart here digs ditches to help support her family.
TAKE the technique of hair teasing, for instance. As done in the shops I've visited in this part of the world, the process of reverse combing to add body is carried to the extreme. Properly done, the hair is teased in the direction of the curl as it comes off the roller.
The shops use American-style rollers in setting but as soon as the dried hair is unwound, the teasing comb comes forth. No brush out first, in most cases. When the hair-dresser is through teasing, every strand is standing on end. The head resembles that of a bushman who's just seen the ghost of an ancestor.
How this thatch ever is converted into a civilized result baffles me. But with brush or comb skirting the surface, the works is smoothed out, on the surface that is. It is three or four hours later, or the next day, when you try to comb your hair on your own that you find underneath that facade is hair tangled into a two-inch deep pile.
A Chinese hairdresser in Hong Kong took a look at the blonde top,
NO. I didn't get my hair tinted.
I figured the artificial blonde would have to last until my return—so all right, I'm going back to the United States with an inch of brown at the roots.
Theta Chi to Install Chapter At Central Missouri State
Theta Chi national fraternity will install a new chapter Sunday at Central Missouri State College, Warrensburg, Mo.
The new chapter at Central Missouri State was formerly affiliated with Kappa Sigma Kappa. The new chapter is composed of 60 members.
Members of the newly installed chapter at Warrensburg will visit the KU Theta Chi chapter house Sunday.
the brown base, and called a couple of other hairdressers over. "Look," he said, "Two color." In his limited English and my non-existent Chinese, I never figured whether he thought this was the latest trend from the States or wouldn't I like to have a bleach?
One New York business-woman I encountered in Manila asked to have the yellow in her blonde hair toned down. She came out brunette.
A group of Navy ROTC midshipmen and members of Alpha Phi sorority are making plans to go caroling Monday, Dec. 17.
But the greatest thing in their favor is the prices. Except in Tokyo, where a shampoo and set cost the same as in the United States, you can't afford, financially, not to pamper yourself.
Navy ROTC, Alpha Phi Plan Christmas Carol Tour
They plan to serenade unannounced at the homes of Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe, L.C. Woodruff, dean of students, and several other faculty members.
Lt. Cmdr. LL. Dobbs, assistant professor of naval science, said the Navy ROTC Choir sings carols every Christmas and invites a different sorority to join them each year.
Alpha Phi Omega Sponsors Toys for Tots
The United States Marines will invade the KU campus Monday, Dec. 10th.
At 2:30 p.m., a two-ton truck will park in front of the information booth on Jayhawk Boulevard, and its cargo will be unloaded there. The unloading will mark the opening of another season of the "Toys for Tots" campaign, sponsored by the United States Marines and the KU chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, service fraternity.
The toys will be collected and taken to Hallmark Cards where they will be wrapped free of charge.
The collection points will be in each living group and will be labeled with the campaign slogan. These barrels will remain in the various houses until Monday, Dec. 17th, when Alpha Phi Omega will pick them up. ___
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything—Voltaire
The toughest day in our lives comes when we leave the womb of family, friends and school and venture forth to live alone. The brave ones never turn back.—Thomas Fox
D&G AUTO SERVICE VI 2-0753 $1/2 blk. E. 12th & Haskell
STARTS: Sunday, December 9 2:00 P.M.
KANSAS UNION
STUDENTS-FREE OUTSIDERS-50c
FRACTIONAL MASTER POINTS
Refreshments!
Everyone Welcome!
837 Mass.
2nd must Exceterize Calla after
VI 3-4255