Curly hair hair styles for woman, despite a recent glitch
in popularity, have had their admirers for a very,
very long time.
What's puzzling is that curly hair,
with its long and distinguished history, should ever
have been out of favour.
It looks great, after all.
Or it did, before blow-dryers, flat-irons, shampoos,
relaxers, sprays, gels and other chemicals destroyed
it.
It's surprising, too, and disturbing, that the
creative, playful, outgoing temperament long associated
with curly hair hair styles should fall so far out
of favour. Part of living in a world that wants consumers, not thinkers.
Even now, as
curly hair comes tumbling back to be flaunted with pride and pizazz, the corporate
world continues to reject it. But
curly-haired women and their hair cuts have always been welcome
in creative fields like art, music and design.
This
linking of curly hair hair styles and creativity may
be one of humankind's oldest concepts.
The Venus of Willendorf
Note the hair style
30,000 years
ago the Venus of Willendorf was carved with a braided
curly hair style. Even then, perhaps, curly hair was
associated with creativity. This little statue is,
after all, an original earth mother, a symbol of woman's
fertility and her raw creative power.
The curly hair
styles of Minoan, Classical Greek and Roman women
were celebrated in painting and sculpture.
Three Minoan Women with Curly Hair
Hair Styles
Above: Minoan woman with a long
curly hair style.
Left: Minoan woman with a medium
long curly hair style
Try to find a Renaissance picture
where a woman does not have curly hair!
Detail from Botticelli's Birth of Venus
(Click to view a larger image at Art.com)
In the 19th and early 20th centuries,
girls with curly hair were considered to be sweet-spirited.
Curly hair hair styles were a definite advantage
then. Such styles conveyed grace and could be extremely
flirtatious. Straight-haired girls, on the other
hand, were seen as awkward and reserved.
Victorian era curly hair style
http://hairarchives.com
(Michael Warner's Hair Archives
is an excellent resource
for
the history of hair and hair styles)
The glamour and appeal of curly hair went unquestioned until the age of mass consumerism. That's when things went wrong for curls.
Luckily, you don't need to repeat the mistakes that were made then. There's a great book that tells you everything you need to know about hair products - what's good, what's bad, what's in them, and what they can and can't do for you. Check it out at Amazon (make sure you read the customer reviews there) or Barnes and Noble.
And if you want the most gorgeous curls your hair is capable of producing, this book is also a must.
Now that curly hair hair styles have regained their place in our hearts, can they go further and win a place in business? Doubtful. But the rest of us can look forward to vistas of delicious curls.
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