Hairstyle
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A hairstyle, hairdo, haircut, or coiffure refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human head but sometimes on the face or body. The fashioning of hair can be considered an aspect of personal gro
Chinese woman with an elaborate hair style, 1869
Traditional hairstyle of a Japanese bride
The Venus of Brassempouy
Golden helmet imitating hairstyle, the First Dynasty of Ur, circa 2500 BC, Early Dynastic period III
Nihongami
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Nihongami is the term used for a number of traditional Japanese hairstyles considered to be distinctive in their construction and societal role.
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…cutting their hair into styles known as jangiri or zangiri (which roughly means "random cropping"). During this period, Japanese women were still wearing traditional hairstyles held up with combs, pins, and sticks crafted from tortoise, metal, wood and other materials, but in the middle 1880s, upper-class Japanese women began…
Back view of the marumage (丸髷) hairstyle
The yuiwata hairstyle
A maiko with the sakkō hairstyle
An oiran re-enactor wearing the date hyōgo hairstyle