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The short hair of the men and the braids of the women were, towards the end of the second century, curled, and arranged in tiers, while for women the hair twined about the head over the brow. Particular locks were reserved to fall over the forehead and upon the temples. Christian iconography still proceeds in accordance with types created in ...
The hair is bleached such that the tips of each spike will be light blond, usually in contrast to the wearer's main hair color. Frosted tips were prominent throughout the late 1990s. The style, without the coloring was also common and commonly just called "short and spiky". Hi-top fade: The hair is cut short on the sides and is grown long on ...
Greco-Roman hairstyle. So-called "Exaltation de la Fleur" (exaltation of the flower), fragment from a grave stele: two women wearing a peplos and kekryphalos ( hairnet ), hold poppy or pomegranate flowers, and maybe a small bag of seeds. Parian marble, ca. 470–460 BC. From Pharsalos, Thessaly. In the earliest times the Greeks wore their ...
Pork pie hat. Shovel hat. Sidara – national Iraqi headgear. Shtreimel. Sombrero. Spodik. Keffiyah or sudra. Papal tiara – a hat traditionally worn by the Pope, which has been abandoned in recent decades, in favor of the mitre. Top hat, also stovepipe hat, chimney pot hat, lum hat, or (in collapsible form) gibus.
Chonmage. The chonmage (丁髷) is a type of traditional Japanese topknot haircut worn by men. It is most commonly associated with the Edo period (1603–1868) and samurai, and in recent times with sumo wrestlers. It was originally a method of using hair to hold a samurai kabuto helmet steady atop the head in battle, and became a status symbol ...
Flattop. American basketball player Gary Thompson sporting a flattop haircut, c. 1958. A flattop is a classic hairstyle characterized by short hair on the sides and back of the head, with the top hair cut short and styled to stand upright in a flat, level plane.
Liberty spikes trace their origins to the Ancient Britons. [ 1] Warriors washed their long hair in lime water, which also bleached it blond. [ 2] This hairstyle was highly symbolic as a badge of honor and manhood: Celts were not allowed to spike or cut their hair until they had killed an enemy. [ 3] After the subjugation of Britain spiked hair ...
Bun (hairstyle) A bun is a type of hairstyle in which the hair is pulled back from the face, twisted or plaited, and wrapped in a circular coil around itself, typically on top or back of the head or just above the neck. A bun can be secured with a hair tie, barrette, bobby pins, one or more hair sticks, a hairnet, or a pen or pencil.