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Body Beautiful
For healthy hair, certain truths are assumed to be self-evident -- shampoo and blow-dry less, condition more. But for those and a few
others, you needn't always play by the rules. By Lindsy Van Gelder
Petrarch used the word "radiant" to describe Laura's locks. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote of Zelda that "the glow of her hair...made her the most living person he had ever seen." And Tolstoy's bewitching Princess Helene enters a scene in War and Peace "with a gleam of white shoulders, glossy hair, and
sparkling diamonds." It was ever thus. Lustrous, healthy-looking hair comes somewhat easier in literature than in life, ...