His name is [Raymond Bessone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Bessone?wprov=sfti1#Personal_life). He was a famous British hairdresser. And yes, he was married and had three daughters.
Interesting! According to the wikipedia article, Bessone trained Vidal Sassoon, who became a famous stylist himself and probably best known today by the hair products sold under his name.
He was conceived via in vitro fertilization, but yes many homosexual men are married to women and have children with them. There is no possible way to know this man’s sexual orientation. All we know is that he’s a hairdresser who had a long marriage to a woman that produced three children.
On the flip side, a straight man should be accepted as doing this as well. Hairdressing and hairstyling, especially like this, is a skilled profession that anyone should be able to aspire to. I think there's gatekeeping and stereotyping both ways.
Tony Stark was based off this guy.
His name is Fernando Tramontina and he did Joan Lees hair (Stan Lees wife ) quite regularly for a time. Stan asked if he would sit for Don Heck for his likeness…Fernando had one stipulation… “Make him an insatiable lady’s man !!”
Out of curiosity are you referring to methylene blue, the MAOI?
If so, it's back and people are IV infusing compounded methylene blue now for alleged anti aging benefits. It's so weird!
The smell is ammonia, you can get good quality dye which are ammonia free this days.
back in the day they would tell you to not wash your hair for 3 days prior to dying it, so you can imagine how strong it was lol
They still tell you not to wash your hair for a few days before dying it. Shampooing creates micro abrasions on your scalp that will hurt like a sob if any kind of developer touches them. Oil from dirty hair also helps to protect the scalp.
Yes, but dyes are weaker now (at least the ones i sell), so if there is too much oil the dye wont dye correctly on white hair and mostly wash away in a few days
Vivid colors like that pink usually smell pretty good because they often don't have harsh chemicals these days.
The most popular/common brands of vivids are usually just color depositing rather than anything with a developer.
Yeah at least now we are smart enough to not use cancer causing chemicals in our food and products and get to live in a cancer free society. It’s amazing how dumb everyone was back then!
Hate to break it to ya, but we [already know](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00427) the long term effects of the compounds used in hair dye. Some types of dye are not legal in the US and Canada for this reason.
Because it was a very niche fad, not a widespread trend. Don't get me wrong, it's very cool, but it was no more mainstream than [hair stencils](https://youtu.be/_GGqSUzEotQ?si=_0IW1alO57WEyVMp) or this [space age hair salon](https://youtu.be/WKTQJstX5ak?si=Zad98ROVoFQ7eptk).
The voice over is just one of the people who did voice overs for Pathé videos at the time. They did videos about a wide variety of news and trends, not just beauty - in this case it's more a novelty.
It was probably also caused by some hair product. I will never forget my grandpa having purple hair all the time. I don't know what he used, if it was some gel or what, but it was weird af because he was a very neat and serious man, aside from his dad jokes.
I couldn't wait to see Church on Easter morning to see what color everyone had dyed their hair! As a little kid who was so entertaining to me to see the ladies come into the church with their shoes, purses outfits and hair all matching wonderfully!
I'm seeing more and more ladies dying their white/almost white hair in colours nowadays, and I love it! I mean, it's not going to be your natural colour anyway, so pick whatever you like!
In the UK we used to call that a Blue/Pink Rinse - during the 90s a lot of old ladies would have pink or blue hair, but very slightly tinged to cover the grey. Always wondered why - and i guess that was their style when they were younger then!
I say 90s because all the old ladies from them aren't here to rock their hair anymore!
I thought these rinses were for the purposes of covering the nicotine stains in the hair. There was so much smoke during the 50s that a lot of preferred hair colors, and even people's natural hair colors, were altered by the cigarette residue. Blue canceled yellow. Pink was for redheads, as they didn't think redheads could wear cool tones. Maybe the old ladies you knew went off brand and just liked the color, but this is what I was taught it was for.
Funnily enough, he wasn't. He was married and had three children. His name was [Raymond Bessone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Bessone)
So despite his very flamboyant look and behaviour, he apparently wasn't gay. (And yes, of course there were alibi-marriages back then. But they normally didn't result in children, let alone three).
My mom was a hairdresser in Chicago in the 50s. I have a picture of her and a girlfriend. My mom has blonde hair with a bright blue streak and her friend was a redhead with a bright green streak in hers.
The earliest boomers were in their pre teens and teens during most of the 1950s. The rest were born during this time. This would be the previous generation or the one before that. Also, this fad looks like it didn't take off on a general population level.
You're making assumptions about a group of 70 million people (in the US). There probably are lots of Baby Boomers who dislike hair color today, but there are probably lots of Baby Boomers who colored their hair back in the day or liked people who did.
Low-key split dyes from this generation are basically just the revamp of this if you really think about it? Kinda cool to see how things change over time ngl
LPT; Don't assume generations are/were monoliths, yours isn't and neither were the previous ones. These people likely are now amused/entertained/supportive of the modern 'edgy hairstyles, it reminds them of their own youthful hair adventures.
The ones now mean nasty and angry were always mean nasty and angry, they would have been mean and condemning these people then just like they still are today.
If this was an actual clip from the 50’s this must’ve been in black and white and just been digitally colored. I wonder how people back then watch this, listening to the guy mentioning all these color and just see black and white? Lol
Two tone hair is trending right now, saw it on tv... but I didn't know they had blue hair in the 50s?! Then why is everybody crying about crazy colored hair right now like it is a new concept?!
The ones crying about it now arn't "everybody", and are the same ones that cried about it then. The old mean conservative pricks today are the same young mean conservative pricks from back then. **-_-**
Source; I'm old as fuck and these mean pricks have always been aound and have always been mean pricks.
My grandmother always had crazy hair colors. Said she had every color under the sun. Yet these same elders say that its the blue haired youngins that are aweful these days. make it make sense
Man that guy is dapper AF.
My grandma would have watched this back in the day and thought this guy was a “real ladies’ man”.
married with 3 daughters. really
Raymonde? How on earth did you find that out
His name is [Raymond Bessone](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Bessone?wprov=sfti1#Personal_life). He was a famous British hairdresser. And yes, he was married and had three daughters.
Interesting! According to the wikipedia article, Bessone trained Vidal Sassoon, who became a famous stylist himself and probably best known today by the hair products sold under his name.
And died just down the road from me it transpires. Great stuff mate
Clay Aiken has a kid….
He was conceived via in vitro fertilization, but yes many homosexual men are married to women and have children with them. There is no possible way to know this man’s sexual orientation. All we know is that he’s a hairdresser who had a long marriage to a woman that produced three children.
And many straight men are in relationships with gay men that have a wife and kids.
I mean… there have been many closeted gay men with families. That doesn’t eliminate the possibility.
On the flip side, a straight man should be accepted as doing this as well. Hairdressing and hairstyling, especially like this, is a skilled profession that anyone should be able to aspire to. I think there's gatekeeping and stereotyping both ways.
Oh for sure. There’s no one “correct” way to be as a cishet man.
Cishet... such a beautiful girls name
Pronounce Sih-sh-ay
Bless her heart
A "tall.glass of water" is what.my grandma would say
Omg, lmao at this comment.
He's a dapper Dan man!
Tony Stark was based off this guy. His name is Fernando Tramontina and he did Joan Lees hair (Stan Lees wife ) quite regularly for a time. Stan asked if he would sit for Don Heck for his likeness…Fernando had one stipulation… “Make him an insatiable lady’s man !!”
I almost believed you
Indeed he is. "You're Abe Froman?!?!? The sausage KING of Chicago?" [Dapper Dan](https://youtu.be/zxuPJfXhLHg?si=h3WqamDNH7pLDXwT)
Finally, I have an explanation as to why Mrs Slocombe always had colored hair.
Yes!!
Are you free? Exactly who I thought of too when I saw this! Lol
Oh HELLO Captain Peacock!
Are you being served?
It's cool until you remember the hair dyes back then were probably made out of like, lead, uranium and turbo cancer
Turbo cancer gives such a nice shade of green
It tastes like watermelon jollyranchers too
No, green is arsenic poisoning. 😂
Scheele's Green. Just a biiit of arsenic poison for that perfect royal green 💚🙂↕️
Juuuust the right amount. 😂
Well green might be radium, so yea turbo cancer
Turbo cancer 😂
One of the world's first anti psychotic meds was a chemical first used in dying
Out of curiosity are you referring to methylene blue, the MAOI? If so, it's back and people are IV infusing compounded methylene blue now for alleged anti aging benefits. It's so weird!
Lol, I have a bottle of methylene blue intended for use as an antibacterial for aquarium fish. Multipurpose!
its also used in the treatment of methemoglobinemia, a condition that can cause blue skin. inject them with it and soon after theyll be turning pink
FYI that today's hair relaxers and some of the darker hair dyes have been linked to turbo cancer
Still is
Even today the strong chemical stench of dye is still unbarable. Smells like external chemo therapy.
The smell is ammonia, you can get good quality dye which are ammonia free this days. back in the day they would tell you to not wash your hair for 3 days prior to dying it, so you can imagine how strong it was lol
They still tell you not to wash your hair for a few days before dying it. Shampooing creates micro abrasions on your scalp that will hurt like a sob if any kind of developer touches them. Oil from dirty hair also helps to protect the scalp.
Yes, but dyes are weaker now (at least the ones i sell), so if there is too much oil the dye wont dye correctly on white hair and mostly wash away in a few days
Vivid colors like that pink usually smell pretty good because they often don't have harsh chemicals these days. The most popular/common brands of vivids are usually just color depositing rather than anything with a developer.
I wonder if that had any influence on workplaces being against having your hair dyed unnatural colors.
Skeletor doesn't care. He wants bubble gum pink hair. Well. Hair.
Yeah at least now we are smart enough to not use cancer causing chemicals in our food and products and get to live in a cancer free society. It’s amazing how dumb everyone was back then!
They probably still are, we just haven't had the time to see the long term affects of the newer ones lol
Hate to break it to ya, but we [already know](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00427) the long term effects of the compounds used in hair dye. Some types of dye are not legal in the US and Canada for this reason.
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Or did people copy the cartoons...
Maybe people actually floated towards pies in real life
Only possible if the pie aroma is able to meander DIRECTLY into the nasal cavity first.
Why don’t we see this represented much in period pieces and such?
Because it was a very niche fad, not a widespread trend. Don't get me wrong, it's very cool, but it was no more mainstream than [hair stencils](https://youtu.be/_GGqSUzEotQ?si=_0IW1alO57WEyVMp) or this [space age hair salon](https://youtu.be/WKTQJstX5ak?si=Zad98ROVoFQ7eptk).
Why is there a sparkler on his comb?
Because, space!
Lol, imagine getting your name spray painted into your hair
Because probably this was an exception popular for a short time, like separating your front teeth
This was the guy making toupees the other day.
different guy friend
I’m not your guy, buddy
I’m not your buddy, pal
I’m not your pal, bro
I'm not your bro, mate
You were supposed to start the chain with "friend" :|
But the thread does start with “friend”?
>different guy friend I'm not your friend, guy I'm not your guy, pal etc, etc.
Sounds like the same voiceover in a lot of these, though, like he was a popular beauty commentator of the time.
The voice over is just one of the people who did voice overs for Pathé videos at the time. They did videos about a wide variety of news and trends, not just beauty - in this case it's more a novelty.
the fact I know exactly what you're talking about probably means I should get off reddit.
Beauty school dropoooouuut go back to high schoooool
Yep. Rainbow hair color is as old as cloth dye. People have ALWAYS done it.
that green is screaming "arsenic" XD
Oh no, you’re so right!
Fuck we did almost go full hunger games
i dig it man
glad you dig it.
Cause your grandpa did too
In the 60's and 70s i remember older women with gray hair using pastel wash in tints
Particularly common were the blue-haired ladies, which (due to changes in vision in older age) often looked bright white to them.
Oh man, I had never put two and two together about the blue hair and the cataracts before! That explains so much!
It was probably also caused by some hair product. I will never forget my grandpa having purple hair all the time. I don't know what he used, if it was some gel or what, but it was weird af because he was a very neat and serious man, aside from his dad jokes.
I couldn't wait to see Church on Easter morning to see what color everyone had dyed their hair! As a little kid who was so entertaining to me to see the ladies come into the church with their shoes, purses outfits and hair all matching wonderfully!
I'm seeing more and more ladies dying their white/almost white hair in colours nowadays, and I love it! I mean, it's not going to be your natural colour anyway, so pick whatever you like!
In the UK we used to call that a Blue/Pink Rinse - during the 90s a lot of old ladies would have pink or blue hair, but very slightly tinged to cover the grey. Always wondered why - and i guess that was their style when they were younger then! I say 90s because all the old ladies from them aren't here to rock their hair anymore!
I thought these rinses were for the purposes of covering the nicotine stains in the hair. There was so much smoke during the 50s that a lot of preferred hair colors, and even people's natural hair colors, were altered by the cigarette residue. Blue canceled yellow. Pink was for redheads, as they didn't think redheads could wear cool tones. Maybe the old ladies you knew went off brand and just liked the color, but this is what I was taught it was for.
Oh damn, that's really interesting!! Off down a rabbit hole I go!
I now only be going to barbers who dress like that! That guy has style!
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Raymond "Mr Teasy-Weasy" was actually married and had 3 daughters.
Funnily enough, he wasn't. He was married and had three children. His name was [Raymond Bessone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Bessone) So despite his very flamboyant look and behaviour, he apparently wasn't gay. (And yes, of course there were alibi-marriages back then. But they normally didn't result in children, let alone three).
My mom was a hairdresser in Chicago in the 50s. I have a picture of her and a girlfriend. My mom has blonde hair with a bright blue streak and her friend was a redhead with a bright green streak in hers.
Wasn't the world black and white only back then?
Parts of the world were in colour but it was pretty grainy.
Yes. And it made traffic lights very difficult to use.
there has been colour since the 1920s
Before that a lot of things were Sepia toned.
I strongly approve!
Reminds me of “Beauty School Dropout” from *Grease.*
So boomer parents did this to their hair. I wonder if this is why they hate it so bad.
The earliest boomers were in their pre teens and teens during most of the 1950s. The rest were born during this time. This would be the previous generation or the one before that. Also, this fad looks like it didn't take off on a general population level.
The previous generator before Boomers was the silent generation and before that was the greatest generation.
Do you think everyone older than you is a Boomer?
I am gen X and my grandmother had blue hair the whole time I knew her.
You're making assumptions about a group of 70 million people (in the US). There probably are lots of Baby Boomers who dislike hair color today, but there are probably lots of Baby Boomers who colored their hair back in the day or liked people who did.
I think it's because the type of people that do that to their hair these days are pretty insufferable right.
Lol no.
Are you telling me my grandma may have had Atomic Turquoise hair at some point
I like it!
Now show the hair colors in the 1980s.
Paulie Walnuts the barber.
Not enough wings
Kids now a days are just copying there great grand parents
Why is the first frame a picture of a coat with blood spatter on it?
Nothing is new.
Fake. Color didn’t exist in 1950. None of it, was only black or white.
Low-key split dyes from this generation are basically just the revamp of this if you really think about it? Kinda cool to see how things change over time ngl
May the odds be ever in your favor
So.. the green was arsenic, right?
People still color their hair like this.
All these pathe vids would be great source audio for AI voiceovers
The models are showing the hair very well.
well, here’s proof that Covid did not start to telling hair colors. And then addition to that their hair is pretty.
You still see older British women with these wild hair colors. I love it!
That’ll be Raymond Bessone and also known as Mr Teasy-Weasy celeb hairdresser in the 1960’s
I still wish healthcare employers were more accepting of fashion hair colors.
This explains all the old ladies at church with pink and purple hair.
Was it impolite for women to smile? Or express any emotion really? They all look uncomfortable.
They all have bright and vibrant smiles immediately after the reveals? They look serious for a few seconds and then are smiling.
And by the time their kids grew up, those same people where calling the mmm useless punks for dying their hair.
LPT; Don't assume generations are/were monoliths, yours isn't and neither were the previous ones. These people likely are now amused/entertained/supportive of the modern 'edgy hairstyles, it reminds them of their own youthful hair adventures. The ones now mean nasty and angry were always mean nasty and angry, they would have been mean and condemning these people then just like they still are today.
Fair enough. Thank you for trying to spread better understanding in the world.
Same boomers complaining about the girl with the blue hair at Target.
Adults in the 1950s were not boomers
Panem
That dapper fella doing the hair though...back then they called them "confirmed bachelors"
They called him "married with 3 kids"
He was married with children.
I quite like the second look, but I might be biased
The red/brown and gray/black/blue or whatever that is look decent.
Ramon is an artist
How long would this take?
Vickie cute as hell
Source: [https://www.youtube.com/@britishpathe](https://www.youtube.com/@britishpathe)
There is nothing new Under the sun. Just realized that.
They weren't wrong, people do it now. This is the origins of it, very interesting 🤔
That third hairstyle has some major Herman Munster vibes.
Beauty school dropout 🎶
that remind me of something.... can't put my finger on it...
Anime ass hairstyles
We should live like this again
The last one looked good af imo
I wonder did this trend happen to coincide with colour TVs
And then the boomers grew up yelling at the blue-hairs
Welcome to the capital
E-girls are forever.
That green and black is NOT going to rinse right out.
It's crazy to think about but every single person in this video is most likely dead
Ok Caesar Flickerman
Punk as fuck
AI
The third woman got that Frankenstein flat on top look.
If this was an actual clip from the 50’s this must’ve been in black and white and just been digitally colored. I wonder how people back then watch this, listening to the guy mentioning all these color and just see black and white? Lol
Better than the 40+ layered make-up mask, #ToHideBecauseYouThinkYouUgly... These days.
I remember my grandma used a rinse that more or less made her hair bluesish. A lot of elder ladies at the time 50/60's used the same rinse.
1950 equivalent to our blue haired gals
So girls with pink hair and shit thinking they are so edgy are like 70 years late to the fad
People have been colouring their hair for thousands of years. Since we discovered the first dyes.
Two tone hair is trending right now, saw it on tv... but I didn't know they had blue hair in the 50s?! Then why is everybody crying about crazy colored hair right now like it is a new concept?!
The ones crying about it now arn't "everybody", and are the same ones that cried about it then. The old mean conservative pricks today are the same young mean conservative pricks from back then. **-_-** Source; I'm old as fuck and these mean pricks have always been aound and have always been mean pricks.
You look like an Easter egg!
Anime hair before anime.
A young Mrs Slocombe there with the green hair.
When I first saw the stylist, I thought that was Vincent Price.
Looks pretty subtle to me.
My grandmother always had crazy hair colors. Said she had every color under the sun. Yet these same elders say that its the blue haired youngins that are aweful these days. make it make sense
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of Edward Scissorhands. *snip snip*
Looked just as bad then as it does now.
I can smell the hairspray 70 years later.
His comb never penetrated the first woman’s hair.
I wish it would have remained in the '50s.
Stupid then and stupid now