Show NUNS FIRST TO POWDER HAIR then custom qu akly spread to women of fashion the custom of powdering the hair dates back as tar as the sixteenth century and was first introduced by the nuns in french convents those who had occasion to leave the chols for any reason were wont to powder their hair so as to make it appear gray and give them a venerable look the fashionable dadea were so struck with the novel effect ot white powder on dark hair that they soon appropriated the device as one of the arts of the worldly toilet out of this grew the use of tints in the hair the roman women often used blue powder and later in 1860 em press eugenic set the fashion of using gold powder rome under the empire and greece during the time of per ides were seized with a mania tor golden hair the belles and tops of the day devised several methods whereby black locks might be changed to golden yellow but bleach lag did not always succeed consequently quite a trade was established with the tribes beyond the alps who sold their locks to latin merchants to be worn on the heads of roman dandies |