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Title: The manual on barbering, hairdressing, manicuring, facial massage, electrolysis and chiropody as taught in the Moler system of colleges
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Moler, Arthur Bass, 1866- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Beauty culture. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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face has been well washed. You may now apply cream again and you have thecustomer ready for the instrument. If you are usingthe style of machine to which the hand is attached inplace of the rubber cups, fasten the right hand onsecurely by running the entire hand through the firststrap and the second and third finger through thesecond strap. Buckle it tightly, so there will be nolost motion between the hand and the instrument.Place the machine on the opposite side of the chairfrom which you are working, so that arm of instru-ment will be at right angles with the hand, as shownin illustration. Vibratory Hand Massage. Start the machine in motion and begin the massageon the forehead. Cross the lines, working from oneside of the forehead to the other. Place the fingerson the face lightly, then pass over the same surface,allowing the ends of the fingers to tap the face withthe rapid movement caused by the machine. Workdowai over the cheeks in a rotary movement until the THE BARBERS MANUAL.
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VIBRATORY HAND MASSAGE. 100 THE BARBERS MANUAL. entire side of the face is massaged. Work up over thenose and very lightly underneath the eyes, gradnall)working across the chin to the other side of the face,and massage both sides alike. If you have a revolving chair so that it can beadjusted, it will not be necessary to stop your machineto operate on both sides of the face, but in case youhave an ordinary reclining chair which does not re-volve, it will be necessary to massage one side, thenplace the machine on the other side of the chair andcomplete your work. The Vibratory Massage should not be overdone. Inno instance should it be applied more than fifteenminutes and usually not more than ten. This methodof massaging affords the customer a very pleasantsensation, one that is difficult to describe, but whenonce given will be much sought after. If the workhas been properly done, the cream will have beenabsorbed by the face an-d it will be left with a healthyglow. Judgmepit must be dis

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