elaborate hairstyles
Intricate hair arrangements
Elaborate hairstyles are complex, ornate arrangements of hair requiring significant time, skill, or styling products to achieve.
The phrase covers everything from intricate braids and towering updos to sculptural designs seen at formal events or in historical periods: The wedding party spent hours on their elaborate hairstyles.
The term often implies impracticality or special-occasion wear.
- updoHair arranged atop head
- coiffureArranged head of hair
- braidsInterwoven hair sections
- curlsSpiraling hair sections
- bouffantVoluminous teased hairstyle
beehive · chignon · ringlets · pin curls · pompadour · intricate · pinned · twisted · teased · big hair · voluminous · hair spray · ornate · sculptural · woven · plaited · glamorous · red carpet
- Nok cultureNigeria, iron smelting
- FulaniFulani, Fulani braids, Fouta Djallon, Sokoto Caliphate
elaborate hairstylesnatural hair
Unchemically treated locks
shaved head · buzz cut · bald · bedhead · hair down
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