'Hair archaeologist' solves ancient fashion mystery

[Mountaingrrl]

Cool article/video about how a Baltimore hairdresser discovered the key to ancient Roman hairstyles.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22630813

[Mommyof4]

OOOOoooooOOOOO...

I LOVE stuff like this :D

Hair and history?

Cool beans!

[Tristania]

I love Janet Stephens. She has some pretty cool YouTube videos.

[Quixii]

So my dad sent over this link because I like long hair and Graeco-Roman history, and I thought it was pretty cool, so now I'm sharing it with you. :)
[Link to article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22630813)]
The basic summary is that this hairdresser visited a museum and really liked one of the ancient hairdos she saw, and was told that it was simply done on a wig. She didn't believe that, and endeavoured to figure out how to do it on real hair. It reminds me a bit of Elizabethan Hair taping, because she sews most of the styles in, which I suppose makes sense. :)

[jacqueline101]

It's different hair style.

[jacqueline101]

That's a neat video.

[Kelli Kat]

Very cool. I wish she would come to my town.

[rainfortheend]

She has a youtube channel, too! Now I wish my hair were long enough to do these styles... or I had a styling head... or I lived with girls rather than guys! :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA9JYWh1r7U

[Amorice]

Really cool! I wish my sister-in-law still had her long hair, she was a Classics major in school and I would've had SO MUCH fun doing these 'dos with her!

[Violeta]

very cool!

[kpzra]

There is another thread on it here

http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=112582

[Macaroni]

So very interesting, thank you!

[bekstamonkey]

Janet Stephens' videos are awesome, I've tried a couple of the styles on myself...particularly fond of the basic Cleopatra one :)