Have you ever really thought about where barbers and cosmetologists came from? Honestly I never had until I started school. Cause that's one thing you have to learn about in your theory class. Each semester you learn different things, and right now it's barbering. We just finished the chapter on barbering and I thought I would share some interesting facts...
Cutting hair can be found going back a REALLY long time! The most info we have on it started with the Egyptians and Cleopatra. All the ladies used to use
Henna (which is a red dye or color that comes from plants) on there hair and sit out in the sun to let there hair bake so it would turn a reddish tint...
People believed that if anyone got a hold of there hair clippings they could use them to posses or take over the lives of the person so they kept the clippings and were buried with there old hair. SICK!
In the time of Alexander the Great he made his soldiers cut there hair and beards so that in battle no one could grab them by there hair and cut off there heads! CRAZY!
Monks used to shave the crown of there heads because they believed that god could get to there minds easier.
The Chinese men never cut there hair in the crown section because they believed that the braid was the way they would be pulled into heaven.
that's all the facts for now...More to come :)
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