According to Web site Hair Dressing “The ancient Egyptians practiced curling hair with wooden sticks and mud. First they wrapped the hair with a layer of mud from hot springs around sticks. Then they dried the mud wrapped hair in the sun and later removed it … the mud had an alkaline chemical makeup that helped the curls to set.” Step right up for an application of mud setting gel folks … My personal favorite method is rag curls, which I grew up with. Later model Jean Shrimpton’s iconic curls in her Yardley ad inspired big curls pinned up or tumbling all over my head when I was in my teens (when I wasn’t busy ironing my hair straight on my mom’s ironing board). And now … well, usually no curlers, just air dry and let it flow naturally … lathering on the gook to try to tame it, shine it, and unfrizzy it… maybe mud isn’t such a bad idea after all!
All pictures on my collage (except the one of moi) from public Internet searches are subject to owner’s copyrights and used here strictly for educational purpose.
