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Hebe is creating and ABC book of hairstyles for a school project. She needs styles for the letters N V X Y

she poo-pooed my idea of bald for X :D

We have googled hairstyles until I can't take any more, so we turned to you, oh wise dwellars, for help. Your suggestions, please.

(tip: do not perform image search for "V" hairstyles with safe search off if you have just eaten or have a mouthful of beverage, or a child peering over your shoulder.)

How about N = needle (from Wikipedia)?

Egyptian Noblemen?

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In the heat of Egypt, noblemen and women clipped their hair close to the head. But for ceremonial occasions heavy, curly black wigs were donned. Women’s wigs were often long and braided, adorned with gold ornaments or ivory hairpins. Men’s faces were generally clean shaved, but stiff false beards were sometimes worn.

Nape?

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Unmarried Chinese girls hair was usually worn long and braided whilst women combed the hair back from the face and wound into a knot at the nape.

Needles?

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The complex style of the Mangbetu women involved plaiting the hair thinly and arranging over a cone-shaped basket frame, flaring the top then adorning the whole thing with long, bone needles.

Veil?

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Amongst the Muslim community the hair was traditionally concealed in public. Men wore a turban or fez and womens hair was hidden under the traditional veil.

Vermin?

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Big hair was definitely the ‘in’ thing and many styles were modelled over a cage frame or horsehair pads – the bigger the better. Some immensely tall coiffures took hours to create and were heavily starched and powdered. However, the length of time spent creating these elaborate styles did mean that weeks went by between styling and the mixture of horsehair and heavy powder created perfect nesting material for vermin!

Victorian?

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A Victorian lady would play up her natural features and aimed at a healthy hygienic look. Hair was supposed to look sleek, shiny and healthy and styles were altogether more elegant and demure. The hair was often smoothed down with oils and curled into long ringlets, fringes were short and decoration was more subtle.

All those from here. Still working on X and Y...

she has Z. (zigzag parting). we found "needle" in a wikipedia list of styles, but got nothing on an image search. you found anything? she's sketching these things.....

veil's a goodidea -I'll suggest it. she didn't like Victorian, either, (although at least it led to gibson girl) ...it's funny though -that description of "Victorian" is nothing like the one we found :lol: (frizzy wooly hair due to too many straightening hot irons, also smelled nasty....)

Oh hell, you need pictures? That's nuts!

yes sorry, failed on that description -their project is to make pictorial ABC books

she picked hairstyles, at the behest of her totally unsuitable high-school-musical-loving best friend :rolleyes:

Vokuhila (another link w/ photo)

(Though, as it is from German, I suppose it won't qualify)

How about the "Yak"... kind of like a long emo fringe, but with eye-holes.

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For "B" please use the "barcode" ... the Japanese name for a comb-over. It packs me up.

Could you get away with New Wave or New Romantic for N?
Show your daughter what was considered attractive when her Mum was a teen?
Then again, maybe not :)

Ohhh.....oh I lurved Adam...

Oh yea. I should get that album again. The Ant was awesome!

Don't drink don't smoke...whatcha do you...