Years ago I had an online gamer friend from Pakistan. It was through text chatting that I first learned about electricity brownouts and blackouts, and
he’d often warn me about having to jump off at a specific time so he could power down the electronics.
I tend to take electircity for granted. I want it to be available when convenient to me, instead of me adapting to the convenience of the powergrid.
When a storm knocks out power, the first thing I do is check my phone for the projected restoration time. But what if brownouts or rolling blackouts
or were part of our daily lives, or our business didn't have electric at all? Would we fire-up the generator and keep going? Would we adapt to
earning an income without the convenience of power??
A barber in the Gaza Strip adapted. Since the shop lacks electricity, he devised a creative way to solve the need to do the ‘blow out’ that’s
used to coax hair into a desired style. Ingenious.
Ramadan Edwan, 37, has adopted the blazing technique instead of using blowdryers, due to the lack of electricity at his salon in the southern
Gaza Strip.
I searched to see if it is done elsewhere, and found various stories and vids. Here’s one titled, "Hot Pakistani guy amazing new haircut using
fire”
I remember an episode of the game show 'To Tell The Truth' in the 1960's where the person trying to fool the panel was a hairstylist that used fire to
cut hair. After the reveal, he styled Soupy Sales' hair using a cone of burning paper.
originally posted by: butcherguy
I remember an episode of the game show 'To Tell The Truth' in the 1960's where the person trying to fool the panel was a hairstylist that used fire to
cut hair. After the reveal, he styled Soupy Sales' hair using a cone of burning paper.
Everything that's old is new again, eh? Soupy Sales ~ now that's a name I haven't heard or thought about in years. I bet he hammed it up with facial
expressions and raised eye brows during the demonstration.
Nothing new,I remember my uncle saying there were barbers who cut hair like that in Mexico,yes all these antiquated technics,making it's way to the
mid west and south
Yeah, it's not a new thing by any means, hair history wise and recent trend wise. Gonna have to side with the beauty experts on this one, that it's
risky. Even with split end burning, good luck there if interested.
edit on 10-2-2017 by dreamingawake because: (no reason given)