{"id":39478,"date":"2017-06-19T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/?p=39478"},"modified":"2023-03-23T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T12:19:41","slug":"tints-of-time-the-history-of-hair-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/hair\/tints-of-time-the-history-of-hair-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Tints of time: the history of hair color"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>If you are rockin\u2019 a hair color that isn\u2019t what your momma gave you\u2026 you have malaria to thank for that. But we\u2019re getting ahead of ourselves. Hair dye, much like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/booksy.com\/blog\/us\/cutting-edge-history-shaving-part-1\/\">shaving<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/booksy.com\/blog\/us\/barber-pole-secrets\/\">barber poles<\/a>, has had a colorful history.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_87_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<\/div><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/hair\/tints-of-time-the-history-of-hair-color\/#the-history-of-hair-color\" >The history of hair color<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/hair\/tints-of-time-the-history-of-hair-color\/#changing-with-the-time\" >Changing with the time<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.booksy.com\/us\/hair\/tints-of-time-the-history-of-hair-color\/#you-aint-seen-nothing-yet\" >You ain\u2019t seen nothing yet<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"the-history-of-hair-color\"><\/span>The history of hair color<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let\u2019s go back, waaaaaaay back, to the first reported uses of henna-based hair color from about 1500 BCE in Egypt. The motivations for this milestone are not particularly exciting: to solve the age-old problem of grey hair. The hair color options were similarly thrilling: you could get black, black, or\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trend continued in Greece and Rome, leading to the first permanent hair color. First they tried plants, but later found those were toxic and used a fermented leech mixture instead (yum!).\u00a0\u00a0As soon as different colors came into\u00a0play, it became a way to mark members of a given class. Around 300 BCE\u00a0in\u00a0\u00a0Rome, noblewomen would dye their hair red, middle-class woman chose blond, and poorer women were left with darker options. There was a similar trend in 100 BCE, when high class members of the Celtic Gauls would use red hair dye to demonstrate their elite status or other unnatural colors to intimidate their opponents on the battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"changing-with-the-time\"><\/span><strong>Changing with the time<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 27 BCE, hair color played a very different (and interesting) role in Rome\u2026 that was legally enforced! All prostitutes in the Roman Empire were required to have blond hair as a mark of their profession. If you didn\u2019t have a wig, you used ash and plant mixture to achieve this look But, as quickly as hair trends change, so did the meaning of different hair colors. Remember how popular red was among the nobles? That was true until a genetic mutation resulted in red hair occurring naturally in Scotland. While you\u2019d think this would be celebrated given all the hype it got for centuries, it was instead associated with witchcraft. So\u2026 red is out (until Queen Elizabeth the First says otherwise). Now blond is totally the color associated with angelic innocence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"you-aint-seen-nothing-yet\"><\/span>You ain\u2019t seen nothing yet<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still wondering what this has to do with malaria? Well, you\u2019ll have to come back to find out! New cultures, concoctions and colors will emerge\u2026 in the second part of our series. While you wait for more exciting facts on the history of hair color, take a minute to read our other interesting stories on our blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are rockin\u2019 a hair color that isn\u2019t what your momma gave you\u2026 you have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":39479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[191],"class_list":["post-39478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hair"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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