Unique Hair and Exotics Looks Around the World

I love hair and unique looks so I'm gonna share some from around the world. 

Japan

Taregami

The taregami hair was a product of the Heian period. According to the British Museum, this period marked the rise of courtly culture centered around nobility and the end of Chinese influence on Japanese culture. The Japanese noblewomen began wearing their hair as long as possible without binding it. Long, flowing hair was considered the height of Japanese beauty during this time because noblewomen were expected to remain sedentary most of the time. The novel "The Tale of Genji," written by a Japanese noblewoman named Murasaki Shikibu, describes women wearing the taregami hairstyle.

Chonmage

With the decline of the Heian court came the rise of the samurai military class, who took over Japanese culture. The Kamakura, Muromachi and Sengoku periods, or height of the samurai class from 1194 to 1600, saw simpler and more practical hairstyles. The distinctive hairstyle of the samurai was the chonmage, or topknot. Several varieties of chonmage existed, ranging from the simple Chinese-inspired ponytail half-loop topknot to the mitsu-ori, or a topknot folded forward onto the head. The mitsu-ori was popular during the late 16th century. In the 21st century, the only common wearers of the chonmage are sumo wrestlers.

Shimada

With the unification of Japan in the early 1600s came the rise of civilian culture. One of the most distinctive cultural figures of the Edo period was the geisha, or hired entertainer/artist. All geisha wore their hair in one of several hairstyles collectively called shimada. The most commonly seen hairstyle is known as the momoware, or split peach, and is worn by apprentice geisha known as maiko, according to Beauty and the Bath. The momoware is a high bun that splits in two along the middle.

Brazil 

I would like to have more to say about Brazil and traditional style,   However I Chose to post the women with the tignons.  Made me think of Carmen Miranda- MAMÃE EU QUERO.  

It was the mandatory head-wear for Creole women in Louisiana during the Spanish colonial period, and the style was adopted throughout the Caribbean island communities as well. This headdress was required by Louisiana laws in 1785. Called the tignon laws, they prescribed appropriate public dress for females of color in colonial society, where some women of color & some white women tried to outdo each other in beauty, dress, ostentation and manners.

In an effort to maintain class distinctions in his Spanish colony at the beginning of his term, Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miró (1785 - 1791) decreed that women of color, slave or free, should cover their heads with a knotted headdress and refrain from "excessive attention to dress."

Panama

The traditional women's costume of Panama, the "pollera," would be incomplete without the intricately decorative hairstyle. There are three types of pollera: the pollera de gala, for special occasions; the pollera montuna, for everyday wear; and the pollera de boda, or wedding dress. Each of these traditional costumes is topped with appropriately elaborate hair ornaments.

 

France

 ( well the French braid and roll) I liked this picture because if you look at the lady's hair is the back, it touches the ground....wow!!

                                                                   The West Indies

Rastafarian Dreadlocks often come to mind when mentioning the West Indies.  The reason I added the white lady with the locs is to show that not only do they where locs as a culture in the West Indies(particularly Jamaica) they also where them as a fashion statement around the world as well.

Polynesia/ Melanesia- I wanted to post them together to show the diversity in the South Pacific.

India

It always amazes me how dark Indians can be and how straight their hair is.  

Australia

Aborigines have beautiful hair, thank God for the hair right? I mean if it wasn't for their hair... well that's all I will say about that lol. 

The things we do for health and beauty.  It all fascinates me. Someone would call me vain but I am no more vain than someone that goes to the shop faithfully to get their hair and nails done or puts on make up.  I call what I do "celebrating beauty" and me addressing the "dos and don'ts"