Historical Braids: Ancient South American Hairstyles from the Inca and More
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- The last two historical hair videos I made explored the styles from ancient European cultures. What about an entirely different continent? Turns out, South America has a ton of mummies we can learn from!
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Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
Hair Length: at least armpit length
Materials: hair ties/thread, headband
Skills needed: English braid
Time cost: 5-25 minutes
ideal hair type: any
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"Braids aren't just for women." I'm so grateful you said that. I work in an equestrian centre and children who come on field trip are often pretty shocked when they see braids on stallions and geldings because, I'm quoting, "Braids are for girls". So I need to explain them that men wore braids (and still do) in many countries for practical reasons and aesthetics. Not to mention long hair is an attribute of power in numerous cultures. But I'm still quite disappointed to observe so many people are still believing that.
As a Peruvian it makes me so happy to see that you did a realistic portrait of the hairstyles of my culture. I’ll try to apply one of this when my hair gets longer ✌🏼
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me too!
Somos Peruanos 🇵🇪❤️
My spouses family is from Arequipa. I'm on a high right now seeing these amazing hair backgrounds. Def gonna rock one como una Peruana🥳
@Melian And?
I've been wearing my curly hair like that Peruvian style for about 10 years. I'm no longer accepting the label of "lazy" and am now calling myself "historically appreciative."
I love this tutorial! I’m Peruvian (and an archaeologist!) so I was rather excited to see you recreate these hairstyles. 💜
As an argentinian i can confirm that people still to this day do the first braid style in Chile and in here. It's pretty common to see the hairstyle amongside descendents of natives and it's also common a single braid done lower on the back. Just in case anyone was wondering.
Inu The Changa I Think it is pretty universal. The particular style is not that common here in Scandinavia, but You do see it every now and Then (mainly on children and people trying to look like milk maids) but the english braiding technice (or simple braiding technice) is one of the very first thing children from many modern cultures learn to do when it comes to hairstyle.
I think it's also pretty popular for North American First Nations people!
@@katrinepetersen2566 I'm half mapuche and I can tell you, yes it is pretty universal, but in the native South American culture braids are particularly strong, you won't see any hairstyle other than two braids, one down the back, a ponytail or just straight up loose, that's it nothing else not even a bun (I'm talking day to day bases)
Soffi Alvarez
Yes!! 👌Thank you!! 😊💕
Do they *never* wear buns though...?
I've seen some beautiful south American style buns with ancient haircombs.
+Rosie Brown When it comes to historical hairstyles yes, they do. I was talking more on a day to day basis on the native culture now, as far as I know (and I'm only familiar with the South Andean part) they don't use buns just for practical purposes, usually their hair is way too thick and long for them to do buns. This doesn't mean they couldn't wear them thought.
Don't take this as an expert speaking, I'm just passing on what I've learnt from my grandma and watching kinda from the outside.
I am loving your historical hair tutorials and personally I really like the hairstyles based on mummies. Artists don't always realistically portray their subjects' hair, and you run the risk of a hairstyle in artwork being unachievable in real life. Mummy hair on the other hand is constrained by the rules of physics.
I totally agree.
Exhibit A: Any anime hairstyle ever
It's nice to see some non European historical looks! Really loved it!
Yesss!
Why do you say that as though seeing European historical looks is a problem? I like seeing European looks as well. My family is from South America. Very mixed culture.
Azalea Rose lol chill. It’s nice to see something else other then some European standard of beauty.
90sNOSTALGIA um im sorry but european hairstyles get NO RECOGNITION please dont talk sh!t
90sNOSTALGIA also its not standards of beauty its just showing european styles. She is european so of course she will show european ones. I dont see any blacks doing european ones
Hey! I work at the viking ship museum in Oslo, Norway. and today I looked trough the gift shop and came across your book! How freaking cool is that? to have it sold in the vikingship museum?! 😁 just though you should know, because I got really excited when I saw it.
Whaaaa that is so cool! Thanks for telling me!
WOW you might be the first and only braid tutorial creator to mention the Chinchorro people, I am loving it. Thank you so much for this video, amazing 😄😄 I might try the inca lady 🙆
There is such a rich archeological record in South America that I never knew anything about until I started working on this video. I learned so much!
The Inca Trail is definitely on my list to visit now!
@Skincarejunkie Thanks so much for the tips! This is legitimately on my bucket list now, so I'm writing these details down.
All these came out real good. Showed my grandma and she started to tear up remembering how her mom use to style her hair
And now I'M tearing up... it's a beautiful chain reaction
What? No mummies in the next video?
But we like mummies!!
I'm running out of cultures that have mummies with braids :)
Silvousplaits that's fair, we've been spoiled with mummies for direct reference lol. But you always do your best! ❤️
If you like mummies, you should watch ask a mortition 😁 she has a lot of cool stuff about mummies and other death themed content 😊
Pleasantly surprise to see the ancient hairstyles brought back to life on your channel but also the historical background . Definitely fills me with pride as a Peruvian women for people to learn about our culture! Thank you!
Even though the mummies dont bother me, I think it is so kind of you to warn people when they are going to show up!
Fascinating! As an archaeology student, this is super interesting. I am pretty sure that there is a master's thesis, or at least an honors paper in this.
For sure! I didn't do it as much justice as it deserves, but I sorta have my own neuroscience dissertation to be working on as well :P
I remember the first time I heard about research into hair and the woman who tried to recreate Roman hairstyles. It was the first time I heard about sewing the hair and braids instead of pins. That was an eyeopener for me regarding historical hair. :P
I love that we don't just get a hair tutorial, but a mini history lesson too! It's so cool seeing what hairstyles originated from where :)
Thanks for looking towards South America! I am from Colombia and I feel that most people just ignore the whole continent altogether. Also, it is cool to try braids that have at least a vague connection to me
LillaIgelkotten I’m also Colombian and I feel this!!
I'm sure fascinated by the ancient and recent histories of the other Americas! I live in the NORTHERN part of North America, i love when there are great documentary shows on the Incas or Mayans or Peruvians of long ago or any ancient civilization that for their time had as good a lifestyle or maybe better as any free folks. Of course they didnt have ALL the meds to heal everything but i think they had a healthier community then anywhere today! I wish i could afford to see the Amazon and all the beauty of the people & forests there. We all need to care about what happens everywhere on this ball we share💚
I'm so happy to see loads of latin american brothers and sisters feeling represented! I am from argentina myself and seeing somebody speaking about south america in such a respectful and educated way really made me happy!
I guess we should be calling English braids Peruvian braids then huh
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@@silvousplaits I know your channel isn't really active anymore but if you do happen to see this I was wondering if I could get the source for this specific piece of information. I am Peruvian so I really enjoyed this part and I do believe you I would just like proof so other people don't think I'm crazy :). thank you.
This is amazing, thank you very much! I love your historical videos. Greek, Roman hairstyles would be fun; I would really love Gallic hairstyles (before romanization). And why not ancient Chinese or Japanese hairstyles?
Bahamaria For some of those Chinese ones, they're so intricate that she might need a second pair of hands lol.
I'm legit scared to try ancient Japanese wedding styles. They depend on making the hair into big shapes rather than braids and that's soooo hard to do...
An Asian hairstyle tutorial would be cool! Even though i don think my hair would let me style itself into an Asian hairstyle...nonetheless, a tutorial would still be informative
Yes, and it usually looks like styling must take hours...well, maybe just as an inspiration for easier looks!
Yes to all of these!
Braids have always played an important part of any Venezuelan girl XD the mixture of native braids and African braid hair stiles are very common specially at the beach. When i was 10 you could see rows and rows of girls getting their hair braided. This is so nice, love your vids. My greatgrandma was from the Wayu tribe and his husband was a black man, my grandma said he was the son of a slave that fought against the Spanish settlers that stayed after the Country independence alongside the wayuu people and that's how he fell in love the my great grandma. Then my grandma fell in love with a Spanish man and she run away from home with him at 17 XD so I guess i have african blood, wayuu blood and spanish blood? all i know is that my wayuu part of the family and the black part of my family loved braids
That's an awesome family story!
That brutally sacrificed women probably couldn't have imagined that she'll be honored thousands of years later because of her hairstyle
I wonder if she'd be like "oh cool" or "wtf, my face was smashed in and you only care about my hair?"
We'd be like gods for her so she'd be honoured.
@@eeaotly you really think my ancestors thought yours were gods? You probably learned that in the American public schools lmfao
@@andream.2558Huh?! Sorry, first of all, I am not American. Not at all. And nobody has taught me that. It's just pure logic. The difference between our current planetary civilisation and the ones existing millennia ago is so obvious that it doesn't even worth the discussion.
@@eeaotly oh god so you do view the world with a Eurocentric lense, and it shows. So you think that because we didn’t have smelly castles infested with rats and poop everywhere we were not civilized? So because our civilization didn’t look like yours and your religion we weren’t civilized. Okay you’re right, there’s nothing to discuss here, move along.
Mummies are always vaguely unsettling to me, but I like that you are looking at braiding cultures that aren't ONLY from Northern Europe.
This video was originally longer with a few more that eventually got cut for time's sake, but the ones I cut were especially unsettling to me because they're so well preserved, that they just look like they fell asleep. That undercuts the psychological distance you kinda need in order to deal with dead bodies. Look up the Children of Llullaillaco.
Wow, that was troubling indeed. Especially as they're children.
@@silvousplaits I don't find mummies unsettling at all. The people are dead whether we have their bodies to study or not. We've learned so much about ancient cultures because we have mummies to study - in a way it gives us an opportunity not only to learn about their cultures but appreciate them as well. Think how many cultures have been lost to the ages because they left nothing behind! Being able to study mummies, especially with the newer techniques that allow scientists to take DNA and use hair samples to discover what they are, etc. helps us learn so much more about a culture than we would otherwise know. And isn't that what a lot of these cultures wanted, what a lot of people want - to be remembered?
The children you're talking about, for instance, they were killed whether we like it or not, whether we ignore them or not, even if their bodies had decayed over time and not mummified, they still would have been killed. By studying them, we can learn more about their lives, their society and even respect and feel sad about the way they were treated at the end of their lives. I don't think it would have been unsettling to show the Maiden and how her hair was braided - it would have been honoring her, remembering her. We aren't stamping our approval on what her people did to her when we remember her - of course we think it was terrible. But nothing we do now can change what they did, so why not remember her?
You don't plan on having a open casket funeral are you?
As a Native/Indigenous American I love seeing you give our culture some hair love!
I'm loving this series you've got going! I feel like I learn both about history at the same time I learn about new hairstyles. For a future vid, I'd love to see the hairstyles of Japan, China, or Korea, since those cultures tended to go for very ornate hairstyles, and you've got a talent for breaking down complicated styles into easy step-by-step instructions.
Came for the hairstyles, stayed for the educational content 😆 I was so impressed with how well researched this was!
As an anthropology student I gotta say I so appreciate all of the information you add to your videos. Your warnings for the mummies is so nice to see. Not everyone in this field considers the sensitivity of a dead body to some religions. Keep up the good work!
I love this!! Love the education aspect and how it opens doors to appreciating different cultures. When you get a chance, could you make one about Amazigh hair styles (indigenous to North Africa)?
This is amazing! I'm from Mexico, so these are a bit south of me, but I Iove seeing these! It's also fascinating to me to see some hairdos that both are simiIar to what I've seen in Mexico and what I've unknowingIy done in my own day to day Iife. You're awesome, and pIease keep up the great work!
I´m so happy to see the Chinchorro in your video, I´m chilean, and i wish they would be more talked about, cause they were really an interesting culture.
As someone of Incan descent, I absolutely loved this video! ❥
You have such a classical face you really pull off these historical hairstyles, I feel like I'm being taught by an Elizabethan lady in waiting
All of your tutorials are amazing, but the time and effort that you put into these historical hairstyle videos is incredible!! Keep up the fantastic work, and thanks so much for sharing!!!!!
hey as a male with long hair i loved this video. i have hispanic/native roots. yes skulls/mummies are creepy. i ask you not to stop because you do so well presenting the positive side. the beauty of why they took the time to save the hair.
the first hairstyle is my everyday look it's been that since I was a kid
Hi! I've seen your video about female Viking hairstyles and I loved it. I am just wondering if it could be possible to make a video about middle eastern/Arabic hairstyles? I'm half Danish half Jordanian and I now know how half of my ancestors wore their hair, and I'd just love to know how the other half did. Also the braids in this video are beautiful
I agree. I haven’t found a single video or article on ancient middle eastern hairstyles other than Egyptian, which are usually just saying that Egyptians wore wigs. It’d be awesome to see hairstyles no ones addressed before!
I've got a chrome window going with 25 tabs on ancient Syrian hair, so stay tuned...
Egypt is in Africa. That’s why they wore wigs....curly Afro hair
I always loved braids! No matter the culture. Since childhood my favorite hairstyles involve braiding. Now that I have very long hair again I'm going to try some of these ancient styles. Thanks for such an interesting video!
I´m from Nicaragua and our natives used the first style adding colorful lace´s and flowers, nowadays this is something pretty common on little girls. I really liked you video!
I think historical hairstyling videos are absolutely fascinating, so thanks for adding to the topic! The little history snippets you gave were awesome. I also applaud you for the mummy timestamps at the beginning. I think people who get up in arms about trigger warnings don't realize how small and easy they actually are, just a courteous heads up that something potentially unpleasant is coming. Great video!
Maybe you can do some more Native American hairstyles? I feel like they’re pretty neglected on CZcams hairstyle channels... just to see something different. Love love love this video
czcams.com/video/xAYj5MNy7e4/video.html This isn't a hairstyle channel, but here's one of a woman explaining and demonstrating the Hopi squash blossom.
Indigenous South American's *ARE* Native American though.... 😑
These are Native American hairstyles...
These are native American/indigenous/pueblos originarios hairstyles please get a book
Wow I'm peruvian and I feel so happy to watch my culture in your historical videos!! Surely enough, mummies are a valuable legacy to learn more about!
I don't often comment on CZcams videos, but I have worked with Chiribaya and Chinchorro mummies/human remains. One other surprising hairstyle I also have seen is "microbraids" all over the head, which are then sometimes braided or gathered into even more elaborate hairstyles. I loved this video, and as an bioarchaeologist, think this is a much under-studied area of prehistory! Thank you for sharing your talent/research!
I think it’s really important to remember the people of other generations because they are the reason we are here today as a whole, and not just our own ancestors history either, everyone had contributed In one way or another to history and all cultures deserve to be celebrated.
You do such a great job with these. You do so much research and I really appreciate the work you put into it! Thank you for another excellent video! And also for giving major shout outs to non European cultures and hair types, which you do in such a sensitive and lovely way.
Could you make some slavic historical braids?
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Maybe Egyptian look in the next video? I know you said no more mummies, but would love to see what you can find with the Egyptian culture
I love your videos by the way!!
Egyptians usually wore wigs. If she found something that worked though it would be a good idea.
Also Egyptians had a completely different hair texture, so it would probably be pretty difficult. Maybe she could have a guest and show how to?
Most of them (men and women) had completely shaved heads, exept sometimes, for a small patch that was tied into a ponytail. This was to prevent head lice. That is why wigs (with the familiar long-bob hairstyle) were common.
I'm pretty sure they were non sub saharan african, so that would make their hair texture the same as hers.
It's impossible because she doesn't have kinky hair, it will look tacky and ugly
Thank you for this video. The Americas do not often get as much attention, regarding archaeology, as do European countries/civilizations. Very refreshing.
can you do some african hair styles next
She can also invite somebody with 4'th type od hair, characteristic for ppl from Africa, it could be nice video
OH YESSSSS, my continent
Would love to try it out if I can find enough references!
i love these historical hairstyle videos- such a cool way to see the ancient world. like these people arent just statistics, they had preferences and styles... idk its a nice glimpse into daily life!
Red hairs, green eyes, stylish and an archeology fan... It's official: I'm in love.
As a person born and raised in Ilo,where the Chiribayas used to take place and also where my family have lived for many years, I wanna thank you for portraying the culture in your video. Not even in Peruvian media or general knowledge the Chiribaya culture is usually acknowledge. I guess because they're overshadowed by other cultures. But I just wanna say thank you!!! Also, it would be super cool if you could check out some incan mummies with micro braids, similar to box braiding, I found it super interesting
Love how well researched this is
I'd love to see a tutorial of Artemisia Gentileschis artist turban hair, she often has the same hairstyle in her self - portraits. (Early 1600's female artist hairstyle)
I’m a descendant of Incas and seeing this video makes me very happy! So glad to see some accurate history
Hi, I'm from Brazil and I love your hairstyles, could you do any of them exclusively for curly hair?
I was just visiting Brazil last month! Beautiful country :) I don't do much for curly hair right now because I don't have curly hair myself and it's hard to get other models to come be in a video for me. If there comes a video I really want to do though for curly hair I'll try to make it work.
Depending on how curly your hair is you can do pretty much any up style or braids.It may not look 100% exactly like the style on straight hair but it will work.Curly myself but never let it stop me from trying a style.
@@silvousplaits I would absolutely 100% let you perform historical magic on my curly hair.
I don't know if you saw it, but she did a video on Greek hairstyles - they are all better for gloriously curly locks!
@@silvousplaits bb
I’m so thankful and happy to be Peruvian 🖤🖤
Yes! I love historical hair! I love Janet Stephens' work, but have never seem her touch on these styles! Fascinating! I'll have to wear some braids tomorrow. ❤
She's an actual archeologist, so she has a field of history she specializes in. I'm an academic in a completely different discipline so I feel less inhibited to take a wack at historical things I know nothing about ;)
Thank you so much for this, I appreciate you for finding info on all these cultures, my indigenous culture was sadly whipped out completely buy the Spaniards they are officially extinct and my people doesn’t know almost anything about our culture and indigenous traditions because the Spanish forced their religion onto us. We I was looking info to learn more about my ancestry and I am so touched that you did this😌
I love these historical hair videos! Thank you for taking the time to make them.
I've known how to (english) braid for probably 11 years and I still mutter: "left in, right in..." as I braid
...still hoping for ancient Celtic hairstyles!
The difficulty with that is there is not much of a record of what the styles were actually like, beyond basic descriptions from the Romans or some such. Will have to put in a lot more work before a video like that could be made.
Silvousplaits either way, I’m still looking forward to future ancient hairstyle videos! They’re so interesting and put together, so any ancient civilization would be fascinating.
I love these hairstyles! Thank you for making the video. For a next one, maybe Grecian or Japanese hairstyles?
WoW thanks you! Im happy to know about this. Grettings from Chile.
These are so interesting! I love the history and the non-European locations! There's so much out there to learn! Thanks for doing such a great job, girl!
take a shot every time she says "braid"
all jokes aside, very pretty hairstyles!
I love these historical tutorials! Have you thought about doing any based on Asian or African historical styles?
While I loved your Norse/Viking hairstyles because of my genetic heritage, I love the South American ones because of mi corazón. I lived with a Peruvian family for a time and loved the people and culture so very much!
I absolutely adore your historical braiding guides! Such a unique niche of videos, I always look forward to them.
i'm Bolivian so seeing the first Chinchorro Braiding Style reminded me of the many Cholitas from the Aymara and Quechua cultures that wear this type of braid till today. My Childhood maid that basically taught me personal hygiene and stuff also showed me how to braid this and wash our long hair with lemon and cold mountain water. Truly interesting video and i loved your reserach references✨💯
we had to do our presentation on maya in history class today and after that learned a bit more about the invasion of the inka and aztec folks by spanish explorers. coincidence that it was on the day you upload this video with an incan hairstyle? who knows :)
Too bad the presentation wasn't a day later so you could have dressed up your hair for it ;)
@@silvousplaits i have short hair so i wouldn't have been able to, but one of my friends I've done the presentation with has long enough hair i think
I love how much effort you out in each video :)
Love your historical braids vids! Thank you for granting respect and life again into those who dawned these plaits.😊❤❤❤
The oldest known braid! How cool! Thank you!
i've always loved your videos but historical ones are always the best. I can tell you do your research and i like that.
I know it must be hard to choose a less trendy topic to cover and receive less views/attention for so much work, but I really appreciate this kind of cool and fun historical education/coverage on topics that aren't 'European/western' fashion. Thank you for doing it.
I think it was nice of you to show different hairstyles from different cultures, and points in time.
Thank you for this video.
I hope you are well.☺
I ADORE, these classic hairstyles videos, AMAZING!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video! Really appreciated, shout-outs form Colombia!
I love how u explain some history with it and etc ❤️
I adore the mummies! If there are more mummies out there with discernible hair styles, I'd love to see more videos! Keep up the good work.
This is honestly the best series of hairstyle tutorials I've ever seen. Thank you for taking the time to do real historical research. I homeschool my kids and I am always trying to find ways to make history and culture come alive for them.
I love the history of these. So fascinating and cool to see how well some of those bodies were preserved. Plus I love a hair tutorial from you 😬
I love the mummy-based examples you provide. Those mummies give you a glimpse into a moment in time that we will never see again. It might be grisly in some cases, but it is still a part of the world's history, and it is beautiful to see a part of them being brought back to life.
I love these historical videos. Well researched, fun to watch and copy
Thank you for representation and historically accurate hairstyles. WELL DONE! Thank you for shedding light on our beautiful culture.
Thank you so much for another great historically accurate video! I love the mummies personally and find all the history fascinating. Thank you for making another historical video and please keep them coming!! Let keep the ancient hairstyles alive!
I love the research and educational aspects of your videos like this!
Thank u for shaing this because as a Peruvian I was so shocked that I couldn't find any content made by Peruvian women. Its sad to see that because of colonization we have to learn from the European lens. Not a knock on u obvi, (grateful u did this video) but I've been on the internet for hours and I wish someone from Indiginous decent was making videos too.
I loved this video! Been looking for South American braids! Men and woman styles!
No one talks about South America. So thank you for this
I love your hair, it's so beautiful
Can you do an indigenous Amazonian people’s hairstyle? As a Brazilian I would be really interested. I was really happy that you finally paid attention to South America.
Omg this video is the best resource I’ve found for any kind of hairstyling around central and South America 😭😭 thank you so much
I would absolutely love to see one focused on Central America too, because that’s specifically what I was looking for and I haven’t been able to find very much. This was still incredibly informative and helpful though
I love these historical hairstyle videos! I'm excited that you'll be looking at historical hair styles across the world.
I am binge watching history and hairstyles. So much research ❤
I'm wearing those first braids right now haha. My father is from Bolivia and there, ladies from the countryside (called "cholas" or "cholitas") wear those braids all the time, with additional decorative pom-poms tied at the bottom, and a round hat. The "caporales" female dancers (a traditional inspired dance) wear those too, though sometimes they make french braids, and also with decorative pom-poms on the ends and the round hat (today, bedazzled lol)
I like how you are taking it around the world.
Oh my god! I'm so happy you made a video about South America! Those are awesome.
Much love from Brazil xx
Thank you for sharing and bringing these ancient, mumified hair styles back to life. It's fascinating. And a lot of these are lovely looking too. I also really appreciate that you put time into researching and giving us context. Good job.
this is super cool! most of the historical hairstyle stuff i see is so focused on like, the romans and greeks and maybe vikings or victorians. its rad as hell that youre looking globally!