The Hammerum girl hair

I was working through some of the stuff in my "Hair inspo" folder since I was planning to go through some of the pictures I've saved. Quite a few of them are historical updos, and one of them was a picture of the Hammerun girls hair.

The Hammerun girl was a late Roman iron age bog body found in Denmark in 1993.

The drawing I saved of her hair, looked pretty cool and definitely doable. 

But as I was googling for more information, I just found myself getting more and more confused. 

This was the drawing I originally saved:

Headband braid placed very far forward, maybe Dutch? And a braided, low bun. 

I feel this has very much a classic Greek statue-look to it.

But it also reminded me of something, namely the one in the middle of the picture here:

However, after checking the text in another picture, this is not the same updo. This one is the woman from Lønne hede (Can't find a non-Danish source, sorry) another bog body. But, the two bog bodies are from around the same time period and something similar has been depicted on other finds, so I guess this style was in fashion around there. The other bog body is more famous for her vibrantly blue dress btw.

The Hammerun girls hair looked like this in the grave:

Text says, left to right:

Braid under smooth forehead hair

Small braids by the ear

Neck-knot

And it has been reconstructed as this:

Which doesn't exactly match up to the above description. 

But it has also been reconstructed as this:

...Which also doesn't entirely match up to the description?

So I guess the best reconstruction is something along a headband-braid where you feed loose hair in through the headband, and then put it up in some sort of bun?

Maybe this could be turned into something more wearable and less time consuming to style. Hmm...

Happy Valentines day!

I've had this manga in my "assorted blog stuff" folder for quite a while. I really wanted to share it, just because I think it's unintentionally hilarious. But I also worry that some people would find it too sexy for my blog, so... Dunno.
I have decided to put it up as miniatures, so you will have to click on each picture to read it. That should be a good compromise.
Anyways. I'm going to share it for Valentines day. So have a good laugh at the silly hair-related plot and skip over the sex scenes if those offends you somehow.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

The Expanse hair appreciation post

I'm a simple girl. I like my sci-fi hard and my fantasy soft.

Season five of The Expanse is out in exactly a month and I am hyped.

"My life has become a single, ongoing revelation that I haven’t been cynical enough."

- Chrisjen Avasarala

I love Chrisjen Avasarala in the expanse books. She is my favorite character by far. The snake in the sari. She is so amazingly bad ass, stubborn, clever and rude. Shohreh Aghdashloo did a fantastic job with the role. Way better than I dared hope for.



"How the fuck do you keep your hair like that? I look like a hedgehog's been humping my skull." Chrisjen Avasarala to Naomi Nagata in Caliban's war. 

Well, Chrisjen has amazing hair in the show though! It's quite obviously a (lot of?) wig piece, since you see her with her hair down at least once and it's nowhere as long or massive as it needs to be for her fancy updos.

I would like to try to copy some of her styles, but they look more like "hair pinned up and twisted/braided" instead of an actual updo I could create and would stay in place all day without needing attention.

Camina Drummer however, seems to just be wearing a single Dutch braid started right at the hairline.

Some times she pins the braid up, some times it's left down.

It looks like just a simple Dutch braid, but it might also have included a little trick first where you "flip" it from a French braid to add volume from the start. Like this:

This is probably more doable for me to try than to copy Chrisjens fancy and complicated updos?

Happy Halloween!