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INTRODUCTION
01. YOUR HAIRCUT PROBLEM
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03. CLASSIC HAIR CUT
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3. The Hair Cut For Classic Oval
People often go on accepting hair cut ideas which have lost their validity. A case in point is that of the classic oval face. We have so long taken for granted that the ideal woman's face conforms to the classic oval that most people have not yet noticed that this is so no longer.
The classic oval is regular and symmetrical. The size of the features and their relation to one another accord with those in the statues of ancient Greece and Rome, or with the madonnas in Renaissance paintings. In a classic oval face, no one feature is more prominent or arresting than another. The effect is smooth, unvarying.
The exaltation of this ideal was a natural growth. In earlier days woman's life was restricted. A great beauty might be a ruler's mistress, a rich man's plaything. In the days when women were not expected to lead active lives outside the home, entertain ambitions, develop wide interests or develop their independent tendencies, their manners were likely to be quiet and self-effacing, their faces passive. Naturally the more their features conformed to the classic oval in symmetry and repose, the more beautiful they were considered to be.
With the emancipation of women, ideals of physical beauty were bound to change. As women developed individual characters and personalities, new kinds of beauty began to come into their own.
2 Dana Wynter's short hair cut contributes to her demure expression.

3 Soft waves in Anna Maria Alberghetti's hair cut enhance the feminine roundness of her features.

4 The "gamine" effect of Natalie Wood's hair cut style is among the most popular today.

5 A fuller hairstyle, with center part, gives Audrey Hepburn a new poise and maturity.

6 Katherine Hepburn's strong features are softened by her informal hair cut.
7 Queen Elizabeth II, an example of regal beauty without conventional "prettiness."
There are women all over the world who are universally considered beautiful, although their facial contours and dress differ from ours:
pictures 8 through 12.
8 A serenely beautiful Indonesian, in native costume.
The classic face of a goddess or a madonna was forced to share the spotlight with other types—pixies, gamins and women with stronger or less regular features which still managed to create an impression of charm or distinction. With the advent of movies, television and picture magazines, too, we have all become acquainted with a great range of facial contours. We have seen that long, square, round or short faces may also be attractive. We realize that irregular proportions or odd features can be piquant, charming or even beautiful.
This fact should give aid and comfort to those women who have features which annoy them or which they consider defects. How often in my salon I hear women pointing out some feature which others may never notice unless attention is called to it! In one case, it may be large ears, in another, a prominent nose or a square jaw. Such women have in their minds the ideal of the classic oval and make themselves unhappy because they fall short of it.
If you are fretting about some real or fancied defect, my advice is to stop it. If you want to disguise it or play it down by optical illusion, there are ways of doing so, by using something else to overshadow the prominent feature. This might be the color of your hair or the styling of your hair cut. It could even be the color of your lipstick—anything which will arrest the eye and draw it away from the feature you want to minimize.
First, however, I'd advise you to take a realistic look at this feature which bothers you. The chances are that if your nose, let us say, is long or your forehead is high, it is proportioned to your face and figure as a shorter nose or lower forehead would not be. Whether it is or not, the very feature you dislike may be the one that gives you individuality. As I have pointed out, the world is full of variety and beauty can take many forms. Why shouldn't you be content to look like yourself and nobody else?
9. A lovely Japanese girl, with kimono and traditional hair cut.

10. A native girl of India, showing their accepted costume

11. Three eighteen-year-old Australian girls, finalists in arecent Miss Pacific contest.

12. A striking Greek-American, Andromache ("Maggie") Geanacapoulos of the American Association for the United Nations.
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