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Seegerol hair tint advertisement with woman combing hair – Antique Print

Seegerol hair tint advertisement with woman combing hair — historic image
Seegerol hair tint advertisement with woman combing hair. Historic image from the Medicine & Health collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Seegerol hair tint advertisement with woman combing hair comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.

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Seegerol hair tint advertisement with woman combing hair

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Seegerol was a hair dye sold in the early twentieth century, and this advertisement pairs its product name with a woman at her toilette, brush in hand, as the main attraction. Hair tints of this kind were marketed as a way for women to keep a youthful look without a visit to a salon, and advertisers often leaned on the image of the private, almost ritual act of grooming. Ads like this one reflect how quickly home beauty products were moving into middle-class households, and they also show the period's mix of bold claims and cautious reassurance about safety. The record gives no further detail, so the notice is best read as a window onto that wider shift in commercial beauty.

Original scan568 × 800 px
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