Editing Hairstyle (section)

===Roman Empire and Middle Ages===
Between 27 BC and 102 AD, in [[Roman Empire|Imperial Rome]], women wore their hair in complicated styles: a mass of curls on top, or in rows of waves, drawn back into [[Ringlet (haircut)|ringlets]] or [[Braid (hairstyle)|braid]]s. Eventually noble women's hairstyles grew so complex that they required daily attention from several enslaved people and a stylist in order to be maintained. The hair was often lightened using [[wood ash]], [[Calcium oxide|unslaked lime]] and [[sodium bicarbonate]], or darkened with copper filings, [[oak apple|oak-apples]] or [[leech]]es marinated in wine and vinegar.<ref name="adams1">{{cite book|last=Adams|first=David and Jacki Wadeson|title=The Art of Hair Colouring|year=1998|publisher=Cengage Publishing|isbn=978-1-86152-894-0|page=1}}</ref>  It was augmented by wigs, hairpieces and pads, and held in place by nets, pins, combs and pomade. Under the [[Byzantine Empire]], noblewomen covered most of their hair with silk caps and pearl nets.<ref name="yarwood216">{{cite book|last=Yarwood|first=Doreen|title=The Encyclopedia of World Costume|year=1978|publisher=Scribner|location=New York|isbn=0-517-61943-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000yarw_i6a3/page/216 216]|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofwo0000yarw_i6a3/page/216}}</ref>

From the time of the Roman Empire{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} until the Middle Ages, most women grew their hair as long as it would naturally grow. It was normally styled through cutting, as women's hair was tied up on the head and covered on most occasions when outside the home by using a [[Snood (headgear)|snood]], [[kerchief]] or [[veil]]; for an adult woman to wear uncovered and loose hair in the street was often restricted to prostitutes. Braiding and tying the hair was common. In the 16th century, women began to wear their hair in extremely ornate styles, often decorated with pearls, precious stones, ribbons, and veils. Women used a technique called "lacing" or "taping," in which cords or ribbons were used to bind the hair around their heads.<ref name="sherrow2">{{cite book|last=Sherrow|first=Victoria|title=Encyclopedia of hair: a cultural history|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood|isbn=0-313-33145-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofha0000sher/page/2 2]|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofha0000sher/page/2}}</ref> During this period, most of the hair was braided and hidden under [[wimple]]s, veils or [[kerchief|couvrechefs]]. In the later half of the 15th century and on into the 16th century, a very high hairline on the forehead was considered attractive, and wealthy women frequently plucked out hair at their temples and the napes of their necks, or used [[Chemical depilatory|depilatory cream]] to remove it, if it would otherwise be visible at the edges of their hair coverings.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Natalie Zemon and Arlette Farge|title=A history of women in the west volume III: Renaissance and enlightenment paradoxes|year=1993|publisher=Belknap Press|isbn=978-0-674-40372-7|page=62}}</ref> Working-class women in this period wore their hair in simple styles.<ref name="sherrow2"/>

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File:Romano-British Hair piece YORYM 1998 695.jpg|Romano-British hair piece with [[Jet (gemstone)|jet]] pins found in a lead coffin in [[Eboracum|Roman York]]
File:Portrait of young Roman woman.jpg|Late 1st century BC portrait of a Roman woman with an elaborate hairstyle found on the [[Via Latina]] in [[Ancient Rome|Rome]]
File:Busto de Vibia Sabina (M. Prado) 01.jpg|130 AD bust of [[Vibia Sabina]] with a hairband and center parting
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