Roman women, such as Greek, wore their hair long and fastened with ribbons and braids. Hairstyles evolve as times and social classes. The girls, before marriage, is easily combed, collecting hair in a bun on the back with braids or ponytails.
Married women, in principle, they had a distinctive hairstyle, the mane sex, six braids, hairstyle which also carried the vestal virgins, priestesses very important social and religious life in Rome.
Throughout the empire, the hairstyles were more complicated following models: all hair fastened with tape on the neck, forming a multi-storey wore her hair up, arranged in a semicircle hair twists around ... All these need fake hair, needles comatoriae, nets and expert hands of slaves. It was also common to use blond wigs and dye to lighten hair.
The professional female beauty was a mixture called Ornatrix hairdresser, beautician and image consultant whose fundamental purpose was to beautify the Roman matrons. With respect to the functions of washing the hair salon to clients, made more visible eliminate gray hair with tweezers and pulling them were experts in making collected, which is essential to distinguish with the naked eye a lady and a prostitute (including the wearing loose).
These professionals also make wigs who called CAPILLAMENTUM, with hair imported from India or cut to the slaves, also painted the bald areas of the head.
The blonde caused a sensation among both sexes and to get gold dust were cast in the sixth century C. the Romans adopted the Greek habit of dying his hair reddish-yellow, getting this color with caustic soap (foam caustic or Batavian) made from tallow and ashes. Also placed wigs brought from Germany.
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