Rachel Gibson
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170 appearances
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard Sep 2025
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They actually used horse urine to go blonde, which I know sounds very unpleasant and I'm sure it did not smell nice either.
But it contains ammonia, which is an effective bleaching
Substance and is used to bleach hair.
So although the product isn't very nice, there are contemporaneous anecdotes and even illustrations of women in Renaissance Venice sitting on roof terraces wearing hats which have holes in so their hair can be pulled through, which would allow the sun to work with the ammonia and bleach their hair.
You know, we see examples throughout history of people doing quite extreme things.
in order to become blonde.
And when we see someone's hair, we make lots of assumptions about that person based on their appearance.
And we have, yes, so many connotations with what being blonde means that it's no surprise that I think people will suffer to be blonde.
Yeah, those in positions of power have really always inspired other people with their fashion and beauty choices.
I'll mention Marie Antoinette again.
She inspired high society and her hair was reported on in the newspapers of the time in really great detail, much like the kind of get the look features you see in magazines today.
So people have always been very interested in that.
And I think as we go into the twentieth century, obviously the birth of really popular media and
cinema and colour photography really make a big difference.
And I think a really interesting candidate would be Veronica Lake with the famous peekaboo waves, which were really popular in the 1940s.
In fact, that was so popular that she had to do a public safety campaign during the Second World War, asking women factory workers in the US to not wear their hair like her because it was really dangerous for people doing practical work.
So they made this video with her showing you how to style your hair and
I think that haircut is such a good example of it the kind of your hair but better idea, which people always strive to, which is it doesn't look overly done.
It just looks really kind of natural and beautiful.
And we think, oh, I could make my hair like that.
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