History Of Classic Hairstyles
History Of Classic Hair Styles
Many a hair stylists dream is to create something so stylish it transcends current fashions and fads — and becomes a classic.
We can look back in history to The Golden Age of ancient Greece for the origins of many of today's styles and the stylists who unknowingly created them.
This was an influential time of both innovations and ideals.It was also a time of perfection
From this period emerged a distinctly opulent and aristocratic society that innovated many forms of hair styling to meet those ideals of perfection.
They created influences that endured history and continue to be recreated and in vogue even to present day
A standard for perfection in beauty was set by the distinctive theme of balance and its counterpart symmetry.
This desirable and essential perfection was found in the art, architecture, and hair styles of the day.
History Of Classic Hair Styles
Color as well played a very significant role for beauty standards.
Blond hair was thought of as ideal and in a time that was ruled by divinity, appeared to be god or goddess-like and warranted one a superior social standing.
Blond hair was also considered to signify purity, innocence, divinity, and sexual desirability.
This would definitely be the period in hair history where blonds did have more fun!
The men and women of Ancient Greece strove to meet these standards in their hair styles to appease their deities, for the beliefs of these ancients was the governing factor of all their efforts.
In their quest to equal or mirror their deities, both men and women in early Greece created some of the original innovations in hair coloring, in keeping with their adoration for blond hair.
History Of Classic Hair Styles Some of the earliest documentation of hair lightening originates from this time.
At first men would use gold dust and pollen, sprinkling it through their hair after styling, women would use a solution of potassium, yellow flower petals and pollen to wash their hair.
More permanent methods began to develop in the 4th century B.C.,from Athens.
A hair appointment at that time would consist of having one's hair rinsed with this ointment, and then sitting for long periods of time to bleach the hair.
This bleaching ointment may have been made using the natural recourses available at that time, olive oils, citrus juice, pollens, and gold flecks.
The Greeks as well as the Egyptians also favored dyed wigs of red, silver, and especially, gold.
These influences were behind some of our most enduring and romantic innovations in hair styling.
The different regions of ancient Greece each created their own identities with different looks that have also influenced hair styles since.
History Of Classic Hair Styles
Curls
Curly locks was a signature hair style throughout this time, and is definitely a look and style that has endured for many a century.
No woman, or man, for that matter had a perfect crown of glory unless their hair was styled into a perfectly balanced halo of tight curls.
The origin of aristocratic women of ancient Greece could be identified by the hair style.
Athenian women wore their hair in the now classic chignon at the back of the neck or at the crown secured with the finest gold or ivory handcrafted hairpins.
Spartan women preferred wearing their hair styled in a ponytail but lavishly threaded with pearls and beads
The earliest types of hair pieces originated from the hair styles of Cyprus woman. These were defiantly not the light weight hair extensions or hair pieces we enjoy today, these although very ingenious in design, using a single or several wire meshes extending from ear to ear to support and display spiral set locks and curls
History Of Classic Hair Styles
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