Oprah’s Hair Through the Years

The Oprah Winfrey Show website has a great slideshow up about Oprah’s many hairstyles through the years. Let’s take a look!

There’s Oprah as a child (cute!):

And a teenager:

Then we see Oprah in her early days as a TV reporter, sporting everything from an afro:

To a jheri curl:

When we finally get to the Oprah Winfrey Show years, the hairstyles don't stop. She sports straight hair:

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Historian: Hair Extensions Have Been Popular Since Egyptian Times

Some things never change: obsession with our hair seems to be part of our hard wiring. Even hair extensions are nothing new! Ancient Egyptians associated healthy, luxurious hair with youth, sexuality and sex appeal, according to Judith Illes, author of Beauty Secrets of Ancient Egypt. But, then, like now, not everyone had the hair they wished for.

So wigs and hair extensions became extremely popular in ancient Egypt. Sometimes wigs were placed over one’s own natural hair: statuary and paintings alike often show a glimpse of the real hair sticking out from underneath the false. Extensions sometimes were a blend of vegetable fibers and human hair. But the goal was always the same: a full head of beautiful, long hair.

Wig-making was already a profession in ancient Egypt. And wigs were considered necessary not only for this life, but also for the afterlife. They were buried in tombs, some of which contained specialized wig chests. Quite a few wigs have actually survived all these years, in particular from the New Kingdom.

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Just for Fun – Video: Hair Styles Through the Ages

Hair Dress Through the Ages is a tongue-in-cheek video about historic hair styles that makes the point about how silly trying to be trendy can be. Incredibly, it is distributed by the State of Georgia, Department of Education. Citizens’ tax dollars, hard at work. We bring it to you just for laughs, of course. :>)

My Nappy Roots Explores Social and Political History of Black Hair-itage

My Nappy Roots: A Journey through Black Hair-itage, the award winning documentary on black hair featuring Kim Fields, Malcolm-Jamal Warner and Vivica A. Fox, is being screened in cities throughout the world during Black History month. The feature-length documentary displays an array of various techniques and styles including the conk, press and curl, the afro, elaborate hair extension styles, the jheri curl, and locs.

Each style marks a distinctive time in American history, politics, and African American culture. The film explores the mindset that created the never-ending debate of “good hair verses bad hair” and the role media and politics have played as an instigator.

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A Journey Through Black Hair-itage

My Nappy ROOTS: A Journey Through Black Hair-itage, an edutainment documentary, takes an unparalleled look at how black hair is used as a prism through which to look at cultural, societal, and political issues in the African American community over time. It covers the bad hair days as well as the great, outrageous, and sometimes dangerous styles throughout African-American hair history.

The full-length film traces the cultural and social struggle that created the rise of the first great Black entrepreneurs and the billion dollar ethnic hair care industry-that exists today. Vivica A. Fox, Patti LaBelle, Ella Joyce and Malcolm-Jamal Warner to name a few, along with historians, authors, journalists, comedians, stylists and barbers, industry business icons like Bernard Bronner of the Bronner Brothers International hair show and others provide historical, professional, and personal accounts on their Black hair journey. Lots more information in the Nappy Roots MySpace page.

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Egyptians Used Hair Extensions as Early as 3400 B.C.

Who wore the first hair extensions?

Egyptian women, and men, used human hair or sheep’s wool to make hair extensions and wigs at least as early as 3400 B.C., according to Egyptologist Ilene Springer.

Ornate hair extensions were then, as now, a form of artistic self expression.

Even their wigs had extensions because there seems to have been no such thing as too much hair in ancient Egyptian fashion.

Wigs and extensions were made with a variety of clever weaves and knots that were secured into or onto the real hair (or the scalp) with beeswax and resin. Men often wore more elaborate extension styles and fuller wigs than women.

Braids were a favorite form of hair extension, often woven into intricate designs to provide more length and style. Many well-to-do women, and royalty, were buried with a duplicate set of braids. Hey, you never know….

A History of Hair Ornaments

Here’s a fascinating history of hair ornaments and hair styles in Japan. Historically, the longer the hair, the greater the nobility and beauty; and hair ornaments were talismans to protect them from evil. At various times through Japanese history, and today, hair extensions helped to create popular styles.