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Frosty Hairdo
Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs/SWNS
First, submerge your head completely in the water of the hot spring. Then come back up and style your locks—the crazier the better. Wait until every hair, eyelash, and eyebrow freezes in the icy air. Finally, take a picture of your all-natural, frosty hairdo! That’s how to enter the Hair Freezing Contest at Canada’s Eclipse Nordic Hot Springs each winter.
The trick to these wild hairstyles is the change in temperature from the hot springs’ 104° Fahrenheit water to the subzero air outside. The air is so cold that hair freezes in a few minutes. Winners are chosen across six categories and receive about $1,500 in prize money!
The frozen styles need a special kind of cold! The air temperature should be no higher than -4° Fahrenheit. Write this as an inequality, using the variable w. Record your work and answer on our Numbers in the News answer sheet.