Creation of Desairology:

Noella’s inspiration to create Desairology came to her in 1952 when a funeral home director asked her to come to the funeral home to do a hairstyle for a recently deceased individual. It gave her the idea to develop specific cosmetology techniques and procedures in preparing decedents at casket side.

Noëlla published her first book Desairology: The Dressing of Decedents’ Hair in 1980 and continued writing and publishing on this and related topics throughout her life. She gave numerous lectures and interviews on her work and was periodically the subject of news and magazine articles written about her and this unusual subject.