1906 is a crucial year for women who love beauty.
Because of Karl Nessler (1872-1951) and his perm machine in Totenau, Hesse, Germany.
19061010.8 In a hair salon in Oxford Street, London, England, Naisler publicly demonstrated his new technology-the first perm machine.
This kind of equipment using electric perming is huge, and the permer has to sit with more than a dozen brass perming clips weighing two kilograms on his head for more than six hours. It takes time and money to have beautiful curly hair, but celebrities are still flocking to it.
People respectfully call him "the father of perm", and Parisian women even do whatever it takes for Jeannes to perm her curly hair.
It is said that Egypt was the first place in the world to invent Perm.
At that time, women rolled their hair on a stick, coated it with alkaline mud containing a lot of borax, dried it in the sun, and then washed it off, and beautiful curls appeared on their hair.
The ancient Egyptians used soldering irons to curl their hair and beards, the Greeks used iron and earth-colored cloth to curl their hair, and the rich in Rome used empty pipes with hot rods in the middle to curl their hair ... These all became the origin of "perm".
Before Naisler's invention, people were able to make wigs with curly hair technology, but the chemicals used in wigs were too corrosive for women's fragile hair and skin to bear.
Since 1896, Nessler has been thinking about how to make beautiful curly hair.
He invented the spiral heating method: the customer's hair is wound on the thread of a stick, coated with alkaline paste such as sodium hydroxide, and then placed in a hot iron tube with a pincer-like handle, and heated by electric current until the hot air smokes the hair.
Nesler hung a strong alkali paste and an electric heating rod on a tree-shaped decorative lamp to ensure normal power supply, and at the same time, it also prevented the high-temperature metal rod from contacting the scalp and avoiding burns.
However, his wife, the first experimenter of this invention, was not so lucky.
During the experiment, Nesler burned his wife's hair and her scalp twice.
Soon after, Nessler perfected the perm method, and his perm machine 1909 was patented in London, and then it was widely used, thus opening a fashion wave sweeping the world.
Karl Nesler was born in Hesse.
During the First World War, in order to escape the war, he fled to new york by boat under the pseudonym of 19 15.
There, he found hundreds of his perm machines in the street, but most of them were not well used and unsafe.
Naisler opened a shop on East 49th Street in new york, and soon opened his hair salons in Chicago, Detroit, Palm Beach, Florida and Philadelphia.
Naisler also invented a perm machine worth 15 dollars for family use.
After World War I, short hair became popular, but the perm method in Nesler was not suitable for short hair.
Ladies are imitating American actor Louis Brooke, eager to have smooth short hair.
Until 195 1 year 65438+1October 22nd, 78-year-old Karl Nesler died, the fashion world still had short hair, and housewives still kept their hair in good order.
After 1960s, with the rise of hippies, perm returned to the center stage of world fashion. There was even a wave of perming in the 1980s, which was the heyday of perming.
However, no matter how the perm method is improved, the perm technology still cannot completely solve the initial problem: in the process of perm, people's hair will be seriously damaged due to various factors.
Although more and more people call on people to reduce or not to have a perm, the "father of perm" will never be forgotten.
In order to remind future generations of this fashion pioneer, Tottenham built a museum to commemorate Nesler's achievements in inventing perm for a hundred years-the museum looks like a hairdressing salon.
This museum contains the drawings and documents of Nessler's first invention of the perm machine, early perm modeling drawings, and an early Nessler perm machine-he is still a respected hero of the local people in Tottenham.