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Imagine looking into a computer screen and seeing yourself-but with different hair.

works like this: Pick out a handful of ”dream” `dos, then sit for a moment in front of a camera while a computer operator freezes your face onto a computer screen.

Now the fun begins.

Watch as the computer plucks your chosen styles from its memory, plops them on your head for you and spits out a print for you to take home-or straight to your beautician.

”It`s like a bad rug,” said one Loop physician in response to the too-blond wedge that now replaced her shoulder-length gray hair, compliments of Ultima II, which recently ran a hair-imaging promotion in Marshall Field`s State Street store.

But better a bad rug on a computer screen than three crying for three months, she said.

Ultima II is running its next hair-imaging event Oct. 28 to 31 at Marshall Field`s Woodfield store in Schaumburg (call 708-706-6316). T