When you said all the other tribes wanted to copy it, I was just imagining a bunch of super buff warriors being like “oh my gods Mark do you SEE that killer updo, I bet they’ve received all the lovelies”
lol I know, it was Tacitus that was writing about young men from other tribes imitating the style and all I could think of was these 16-year-olds going "yo bro! that 'do is tiiiiiight"
I wish I could have the patience to do french braiding, I would've done with the Ragnar's hairstyle from Vikings show, it's just pain in the ass to do it on one self, arms get tired and just hurt, and you end up nowhere with it :D since I have been growing hair the time I saw Ned's hair from Game of Thrones, then I saw Vikings and Ragnar's hair, and wanted to have that french braid on top that goes into the single tail without shaved sides, and incorporate it within that single braid. Never managed it and I simply have just long ass hair.
@@nerofoxkrell It's actually good...since at least portion of people can stand out in subcultures, such as metal and rock community where bunch of guys (including me) have long hair because of dedication of staying true to the community and for other reasons. Personally it started different for me, as an experiment that quickly turned into likability, I looked much better with longer hair than with short hair, but at the same time I didn't wanted just a long hair, so I got inspired by TV shows like GOT and Vikings after which I wanted similar hair, but the coolest ones tend to have french braiding, and it's just so happens it's the hardest one to do as well...
@@nerofoxkrell Not entirely, men used to have long hair until civilization lead to closer living (or rather larger masses of people in this closer living), which lead to constant fleas. No 20th century flea treatment? You shave (or shear) that hair off! Simple as!
Same it's sadly not as long as it used to be because my current job doesn't allow anything longer than shoulder length, but eventually when I can have it really long again I can keep this video in mind. It sucks too my hair was just like Aquamans/Jason Mamoas back when in the day, and now I always hear Women talk about how great his hair is, and I'm just like that was my hair 2 years ago, I guess it is still like his just shorter, I mean it's still wavy and curls at the ends, and it's still really thick.
@@Werewolf914 What kind of shit job doesn't allow men to wear longer hair styles? If it is that limited, I can't imagine what other limitations it has towards other things that are natural for human beings to have. I heard horror stories of teachers and administrators in public schools forcing little boys to cut their long locks. It is especially retching to learn that those little boys were just practicing an ancient form of filial piety, to which one honors their family by embracing family traits, including growing ones hair out, because it is part of family DNA. In cultures like Native Americans it is like cutting off part of your soul. Hair acts like an antenna to connect one to mother Earth and all those who live on and within it. I really don't understand all of the fuss though. It is just keratin, let it be. If people want long hair, let them. If short, let them. They all still have to wear hair nets and other head gear for protection regardless. >_
My boyfriend and I saw this and thought, "FINALLY! The TH-cam suggestion algorithm has blended our individual uses of the computer into one video suggestion! PERFECTION!!"
Silvousplaits I think it sucks sometimes. Got laughed at in middle school because all I did was playing video games or reading and now the same people that laughed at me are suddenly nerds.
I wore the Scythian braids last Friday. Received quite a few compliments and questions about it. I knew that would happen, so I actually brushed up on Scythian history to make an interesting conversation. Did you know: the Scythians were one of the first civilizations to master horseback riding and.....wait for it....they rode armored bears into battle. Adding a couple of accent beads to each braid gave it a nice touch as well. Thank you so much for keeping fresh ideas available to try.
first off, i'm 56 seconds into this video and i have never seen your channel before but i really need to applaud you for using and referencing archaeological records. I study archaeology and am going on my first Dig in 14 days and i think that is the COOLEST thing ever!
Hats off to you for doing the research.... awesome job . These braids are awesome, but they are warrior styles. I would love to see the style worn by Nordic women. I’d love to see you try a Boudicca style , she was a woman warrior, that would be interesting.
I can confirm how useful braids are for a warrior. I usually wear some kind of braid either three strand, four strand or a rope braid. When I started with Full-Contact Sword Fighting I used a Gjermundbu helmet, which only consists of a plate for the upper head and the face and some mail armor hanging down to about the shoulders. One time my braid together with the chainmail on top of it, saved my neck from quite a hard sword blow (blunt sword of course, but still made of steel). Without the braid as some kind of padding underneath the chainmail it would have been quite unpleasant... Just to clarify it advance: I don´t consider myself to be comparable to an ancient warrior, I´m just pointing out, that braids can be quite useful from time to time ;-)
Oh, I forgot the most important thing. To all kids out there: Don´t try hitting each other with steel swords at home. To all adults: If you´re trying to hit each other with steel swords, use a complete helmet or braids :-P
I guess that might be one of the reasons why ancient warriors often wore long hair, just to have additional padding under the helmet. Might also be useful for winter warfare as an additional insulation to keep them from cooling out. Or they just did it to look cool...
@Marrowbones well the Knights Templar were a monastic order, which means they were monks before warriors and it was normal for them to have short hair not everyone though had them, there are historical references of Templars with long hair as well(Jacques de Molay, last Grandmaster is often depicted as long haired)
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Maggie Macfarlane I would love to see that, it's so difficult finding videos of historically accurate Celtic hairstyles most historical videos relating to hair are either Greco-Roman or Egyptian
As far as I know Celtic hair might be hard to do as it was quite often short, imagine the hair you see on kids but spiked up and mixed with something to make it an odd white colour
Funnily enough, the closest thing we have in the modern day to an authentic celtic man's hairstyle, is that worn by Guy Fieri xD According to various sources, The celts of Britain at least (The celts weren't a people per se, but a large group of individual tribes across western Europe that shared cultural and linguistic similarities) let children's hair grow naturally until they were old enough for war. Then, it would be cut short and dyed with lye to bleach it and arranged in short spikes.
If you follow me on Pinterest, I have a board going where I'm accumulating 19th/early 20th century hairstyles. I plan on doing videos for those one day!
Becca Janet Stephens has a civil war hairstyle tutorial on her channel. She mainly does ancient Roman and Greek styles but also a few from the 1800's and one of them is an authentic civil war hairstyle. I can't paste the link here for some reason but her channel is just called Janet Stephens.
Wow, that Suebian knot is so comfy! I nearly always have my hair up in a hair tie and it often feels like someone is yanking my skull down regardless of how loose or tight the tie is but this knot just feels weightless in comparison. Thanks! Also kudos for doing some historical research.
I need more!!! My husband has very very very long hair and likes me to braid it with viking flair. It makes me angry when people at his work day he has dreads so i try to get really creative using referances from historically accurate pictures but i dont get much luck! This was awesome. I will definitly be combining these in different ways for his hair the next time i do it!
I think it comes down to people not knowing what things are actually called. When I had dreads, some asked if they were braids! 🤷🏾♀️ Or like, calling the Scythian braids "braids", when I would call them "twists" (braids being strictly with 3 or more sections of hair).
My hair's quite long for a dude (slightly longer than shoulder length), and I hate tieing my hair up with a passion, may actually try those viking fringe braids next time I'm playing sports.
wow I practice JiuJitsu and have long hair, this came out at the right time. Thank you and compliment for the beautiful video! I'll try the suebian knot first. I'll be a very special head on the day of my black belt exam 👍🏻
I love history, I love martial arts, I love fashion, although not trends, I love hair, and I love braids; when I kept long hair I always tied it in a braid or two for kickboxing, I always thought it was more comfortable and more practical than ponytails. Will be checking some more of your videos because this one was actually really enjoyable. Almost makes me sorry that I keep my hair super short now, these are super pretty, and don't look too hard for my unskilled hands. But I like seeing myself with short hair, and since I'm a lazy bum not having to blow dry or comb my hair is a blessing, although having to cut it so often is a chore. I hope I remember your channel when I get tired of short hair and decide to grow it out. But with super thin hair I always get annoyed, because it always feels like I don't have enough hair, and no way do I have the patience to use hair products. Well, rant over. TL,DR: hair good, braids great, this video excellent.
Fr it's only in the last 100 years or so (and really not even that, look at the 70s) that Men's Hair™ has become standard short nothingness. Also tbh a lot of guys hair even now uses more product and effort than we'd like to admit 😉
I love long hair styles on men. I wish it were more popular and common for guys to wear long hair. It seems unless they're alternative lifestylers, or rockstar/celebs, or ren faire fans, dudes rarely wear long hair anymore.
Essentially the modern hairstyle came out of the 1st world war, since you couldn't put a gas mask on if you had more elaborate hair and beards. As usual men's fashion copied the military and it became ubiquitous
I'm a longed haired guy, and I was actually curious in learning the Viking braid, but I'm new to braiding. I'm surprised that it's that simple; I'll give it a try when the time comes.
I love wearing these kind of styles for work! I have an active job and long hair. It doesn't feel good sitting on my back while I'm working so I'm constantly finding new styles that I can try.
I’d just like to say that the second hairstyle with two rope braids is really awesome, I’ve been wearing it a lot recently and I like it because it’s strong enough to stay in all day. I get a lot of compliments and once some kid chased me through the grocery store demanding to know how my braids stayed together lol. I did have to modify it a little since I couldn’t pull off the version in this video. I love this channel!
You're welcome, it's well deserved. Would love to see you do more of these kinds of hairstyles, historical ones. Especially the early ages, not a lot of hair artists seem to go back that far in era.
This was amazing! I’ve seen hair from some lady bog bodies, but not men before (Looks like I need to research more big bodies). Would you consider making a video about real female hairstyles from these periods too?
Sometimes the internet disappoints me and fail to satisfy, other times it gives me tutorials to ancient hairstyles with historical facts. Today, I am fully pleased. Thank you!
Really cool video! I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone give a tutorial for real ancient hairstyles... with multiple, real, researched references. This is pleasing on both an entertainment and an academic level. =)
Have you checked out Janet Stephens' channel? She mainly does ancient Greek and Roman hairstyles but also a few from other time periods, including the 1800's and she also has one for the authentic valkyrie hairstyle taken from carvings and a recently found pendant. She's really good and it's a fascinating channel. The channel is just called Janet Stephens.
I have been trying to figure out the suebian knot forever! So helpful! Thank you! And with a history lesson or two! The note about the thinner historical hair even has me feeling a little better about my now slightly thinning hair. I may be in love.
Happy I found this channel. Got plenty of hair and never really did anything with it myself. Took me 3 hours to make the second style with two braids - Jeez. No words can describe the frustration and burning at hands. Guess eventually it will get easier.
Ahhh!! I did do a suebian knot at some point but I did it in the correct historical position!! And omg! You have no idea how much this pleases the nerd in me!!
Thank you for demonstrating those beautiful plaids! Two quick annotations, if you allow: First: The Suebenknoten is traditionally done on the side of the head above the ear. Second: The way you presented the ethnic groups is like you would say "Today I show you traditional hairstyles of the French, the Japanese and the firefighters...". XD While Sueben and Scythians are names for tribes (...), Vikings isn't. Viking means "seafarer"; the people you are talking about are North-Germanics or Scandinavians. There have been Suebian vikings, and maybe even some Scythian vikings, too. ;) It may be nitpicking for some, but us Germanic descendants are still here. Lots of love, and keep those lovely hairstyles coming. Elle from the Chattic folk.
Also I think the Vikings series as little as I've seen it had some hairstyles inspired by the Norman warriors. And they too were "vikings" with Scandinavian origins. With hair cut really short in the back and longer on the top.
True, longer hair tended to be more of a Scandinavian style. One of the books I linked in the video description explicitly says that the Scots modeled their long hair on "Scandinavian tradition." And there's a funny story in the second book about how King Harold's army was scouting the size of a Norman army, and remarked how "their army consisted entirely of priests" (because of the short hair).
when i saw first hairstyle i was yelling(even i was alone in room) "This is Suebi knot from Rome Total War II!!"(a videogame),10 second later you just confirmed it.Point is that i have bad memory but if it's about video games facts i am an computer machine
I’m so glad I stumbled upon your channel. I’m a hair stylist and I’ve been wanting to learn more traditional braiding and styling for myself. I’ve always loved low maintenance type of protective styling but no one I’ve met in the industry so far knows and I haven’t been very lucky finding tutorials. I can’t wait to incorporate these styles into my daily work and personal fashion. Thank you!
I know that you do more of warrior/cosplay type hairstyles, but I would love it if you could do Miss Elizabeth Bennett's ball hairstyle from Pride and Prejudice (2005 version) when she danced with Mr Darcy! 😍
I love the viking braid the most :) All of them are really lovely but I'm forever wearing sort of Elvish hairstyles in my hair with lots of braids, so that one was really something I will try
Thank you for posting this!! I’m a hairstylist and I always wondered how people did hairstyles without the modern products we have today. Learn something new everyday!
I absolutely love these videos and your new braiding book. Watching this one is making me miss my old long hair. I recently donated 18 inches and now my waist length hair is above my shoulders.
This is such an interesting video. I don't think I've ever seen a video that comvines both hairstyles and history together. This makes it twice that much informative. ❤❤❤
Fantastic! Hoping your arms didn't hurt too much after these tutorials, mine would feel like they were falling off! This is the first video of yours I've seen & I subbed immediately, thank you~
I might try the suebian knot for a cosplay I'm doing this Saturday (or just in general because i never know what to do with my hair) I'm really glad i came across this video!
I happened on this video by chance and expected to be bored... boy, I was wrong! And now I miss my hair even more because I would love to tie my hair in some Viking plaits!
Silvousplaits I’m kind of hinting to my husband to grow out his hair and braid it . He’s a little Germanic , Irish and Native American Indian. Yikes !! What a mix -
I haven't been here in awhile..I just realized I wore the 1st bun (suebian) almost daily when traveling thru humid places. It felt Right. And was easy. I love this and how much research and history is provided
As a man, I am so glad you made this video. Keep up this nice historical work, accuracy is really important nowadays (and of course I will definitively give a try to these hairstyle ;)
I used to do my hair similar to the viking one. But I'd French-plait around the head. Keeps the hair out of the face even better than normal plaits. Very practical hairstyle!
Bless you! I am a man and your channel isnone of the strongest motivation I had to grow my hair. At this point the shortest are 20cm long and the longest barely 30cm. So the average would be 24. How long do you think they should be to perform this hairstyle? I can't wait. Xd
The first half of the Viking style can be done with nearly any length, you should be ready for that now. For the Scythian braids, I'd say shoot for ~40cm. The Suebian knot will need at least armpit length I think.
Leigh Barry boy that would be awesome. My husband is part Native American Indian . I’d love to see him grow out his hair to his shoulder blades and braid it. Connections to his historical past ... Apache Warrior !!
The Scythian braids ROCK! Seriously, this style looks so fucking cool. I'm so going to wear this whenever I can. Thank you for your awesome videos and the great work and research put into them. These historical hairstyles totally satisfy my history nerd brain, so I can't wait to see more!
very cool video! as an archaeologist I absolutely love this :) Do you know Elling Woman? I've never quite been able to figure out that hair, it would be awesome if you could do a video
I'd like to make a video like this for women that would include the Elling Woman. I've got the style down as the way it currently is on her body, but I'm still wondering if the braid length wasn't wrapped up more at the actual time of styling, and become unwound a bit in the events that led to her death and burial. Will probably muse on that a bit in the video. Those sticky questions I'm sure you deal with all the time :)
Other stupid issue of my hair life you helped to settle: I am and have been doing a lot of random sports. Aikido "Butoh" garage dancing. Sword Parkour And a lot of random climbing and crawling in the forest. I have long hair and could never find a hairstyle going for everything. A low braid was annoying when stretching and having my knees over my head or for kimono back grabbing in Aikido. A high bun was perfect for dancing but awful for sword practice. Now I practice with the Scythian braids. And even if I am not a historian or archeologist. I guess I can say somehow your sources are valid because of the convenience of this hairstyle to hold on while the hair owner ia doing a wide range of moves. To be a warrior and having an annoying hairstyle might be problematic. You can't say a lad who wants to chop your head off "wait a minute, I have a braid loose... Ah now that's ok, you can go on!" :D Thanks again!
am i... the only one that sees the suebian knot as a phallic symbol? i mean... given how much status was given to phallic symbols you can't really rule it out
Aww darn! I wanted to see the mummies! Regardless, thanks for this video! I just learned about the Suebian Knot and went to look for modern videos after I read about it and yours was on top. I enjoyed the other two styles as well. I'm weird in that I think details like hair seem unimpotant to most history teachings, but just as today, hair is an integral component to a person's look, same as clothing. Thanks for doing this. I'll have to look at the rest of your channel now.
I just found your channel and I'm very happy to see videos about hairstyles for males with long hair. That's something I've been looking for on the internet for a long time.
When you said all the other tribes wanted to copy it, I was just imagining a bunch of super buff warriors being like “oh my gods Mark do you SEE that killer updo, I bet they’ve received all the lovelies”
lol I know, it was Tacitus that was writing about young men from other tribes imitating the style and all I could think of was these 16-year-olds going "yo bro! that 'do is tiiiiiight"
You just made my day xD
Lol - can you imagine what they were saying? Wether they were admiring it or laughing at it, makes one wonder !!
TurquoiseCrow
More like Rufus or Brian
Ginny Jolly
Yep. Mark was derived from Mars, a Roman God.
If men would actually wear these hairstyles. That would be hot af.
You can blame Christianity for promoting a shaved face and short hair amongst men
Nero Krell boo christianity
I wish I could have the patience to do french braiding, I would've done with the Ragnar's hairstyle from Vikings show, it's just pain in the ass to do it on one self, arms get tired and just hurt, and you end up nowhere with it :D since I have been growing hair the time I saw Ned's hair from Game of Thrones, then I saw Vikings and Ragnar's hair, and wanted to have that french braid on top that goes into the single tail without shaved sides, and incorporate it within that single braid. Never managed it and I simply have just long ass hair.
@@nerofoxkrell It's actually good...since at least portion of people can stand out in subcultures, such as metal and rock community where bunch of guys (including me) have long hair because of dedication of staying true to the community and for other reasons. Personally it started different for me, as an experiment that quickly turned into likability, I looked much better with longer hair than with short hair, but at the same time I didn't wanted just a long hair, so I got inspired by TV shows like GOT and Vikings after which I wanted similar hair, but the coolest ones tend to have french braiding, and it's just so happens it's the hardest one to do as well...
@@nerofoxkrell Not entirely, men used to have long hair until civilization lead to closer living (or rather larger masses of people in this closer living), which lead to constant fleas. No 20th century flea treatment? You shave (or shear) that hair off! Simple as!
As a man with long hair I appreciate this video
Bless you! Why should us women have all of the fun with hair? ^_^
*cries in balding*
@@allium2718 wigs ftw. Plus if you have partial balding you can still use the hair you do have for awesome styles
Same it's sadly not as long as it used to be because my current job doesn't allow anything longer than shoulder length, but eventually when I can have it really long again I can keep this video in mind. It sucks too my hair was just like Aquamans/Jason Mamoas back when in the day, and now I always hear Women talk about how great his hair is, and I'm just like that was my hair 2 years ago, I guess it is still like his just shorter, I mean it's still wavy and curls at the ends, and it's still really thick.
@@Werewolf914 What kind of shit job doesn't allow men to wear longer hair styles? If it is that limited, I can't imagine what other limitations it has towards other things that are natural for human beings to have. I heard horror stories of teachers and administrators in public schools forcing little boys to cut their long locks. It is especially retching to learn that those little boys were just practicing an ancient form of filial piety, to which one honors their family by embracing family traits, including growing ones hair out, because it is part of family DNA. In cultures like Native Americans it is like cutting off part of your soul. Hair acts like an antenna to connect one to mother Earth and all those who live on and within it. I really don't understand all of the fuss though. It is just keratin, let it be. If people want long hair, let them. If short, let them. They all still have to wear hair nets and other head gear for protection regardless. >_
My boyfriend and I saw this and thought, "FINALLY! The TH-cam suggestion algorithm has blended our individual uses of the computer into one video suggestion! PERFECTION!!"
Beauty tips and historical reference? It does not get any better than this.
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You + Your Boyfriend = OTP
Perfectly balanced as all things should be ^^.
@@MissKellyBean She didn't used any pommels to end them rightly...like Skallagrim woud do.
her: "...their hair was thinner..."
me and my thinass hair: perfect
Lmao my thick hair could never 😅
This completely satisfied the nerdiness in me
I'm so happy it's cool to be a nerd these days.
Silvousplaits I think it sucks sometimes. Got laughed at in middle school because all I did was playing video games or reading and now the same people that laughed at me are suddenly nerds.
I got laughed at too. Now I see it as a bit of revenge, all these people trying to be like how I already am. Not sure if that helps you at all.
I wore the Scythian braids last Friday. Received quite a few compliments and questions about it. I knew that would happen, so I actually brushed up on Scythian history to make an interesting conversation. Did you know: the Scythians were one of the first civilizations to master horseback riding and.....wait for it....they rode armored bears into battle. Adding a couple of accent beads to each braid gave it a nice touch as well.
Thank you so much for keeping fresh ideas available to try.
Great idea to add beads! Too bad you didn't have your battle bear with you as well ;)
Silvousplaits I have a Shorkie. While not large enough to ride into battle, she does have a fierce bark for her size. 😂😂😂
Ooh, armoured bears? Sounds like the His Dark Materials trilogy! 😊
Even if dogs are big enough, they aren't built for riding. Your best bet with a large dog is dog carting or sledding.
TaraLynn Gray I'm 6'3" weighing in around 240lbs. I don't ride anything smaller than a horse. 😂😂
first off, i'm 56 seconds into this video and i have never seen your channel before but i really need to applaud you for using and referencing archaeological records. I study archaeology and am going on my first Dig in 14 days and i think that is the COOLEST thing ever!
that's awesome, hope you have fun!!
Hats off to you for doing the research.... awesome job . These braids are awesome, but they are warrior styles. I would love to see the style worn by Nordic women. I’d love to see you try a Boudicca style , she was a woman warrior, that would be interesting.
Good luck, adventurer, may you help further truth and knowledge!
Skallia Ray wow what about the mummy at 435!! Amazing. Skallia would you tell us what else you saw? Where I want to hear more.
Yes I agree! I’m in grade 11 and I want to be an archaeologist so badly!
"If you have longer hair like the most powerful viking men would have had..."
Such mad shade #Brutal 😂👌
Only *_real_* men have long hair.
Those Scythian braids look awesome.
As a long-haired metalhead and a history nerd, I'd totally wear these hairstyles to a concert.
That's what I'm doing haha 🤘
I can confirm how useful braids are for a warrior. I usually wear some kind of braid either three strand, four strand or a rope braid. When I started with Full-Contact Sword Fighting I used a Gjermundbu helmet, which only consists of a plate for the upper head and the face and some mail armor hanging down to about the shoulders. One time my braid together with the chainmail on top of it, saved my neck from quite a hard sword blow (blunt sword of course, but still made of steel). Without the braid as some kind of padding underneath the chainmail it would have been quite unpleasant...
Just to clarify it advance: I don´t consider myself to be comparable to an ancient warrior, I´m just pointing out, that braids can be quite useful from time to time ;-)
Wow, awesome story!
Oh, I forgot the most important thing. To all kids out there: Don´t try hitting each other with steel swords at home.
To all adults: If you´re trying to hit each other with steel swords, use a complete helmet or braids :-P
I guess that might be one of the reasons why ancient warriors often wore long hair, just to have additional padding under the helmet. Might also be useful for winter warfare as an additional insulation to keep them from cooling out. Or they just did it to look cool...
IF I lived as a female viking in that time I world be SO dead 😂
Because my hair is really thin it is no good for protecting me.😶😐
@Marrowbones well the Knights Templar were a monastic order, which means they were monks before warriors and it was normal for them to have short hair not everyone though had them, there are historical references of Templars with long hair as well(Jacques de Molay, last Grandmaster is often depicted as long haired)
As an archaeologist I definitely appreciate the research you did into this video. I'm going to give the Scythian braids a try.
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THIS IS SO COOL! Can you do historically accurate Celtic hairstyles?
Maggie Macfarlane I would love to see that, it's so difficult finding videos of historically accurate Celtic hairstyles most historical videos relating to hair are either Greco-Roman or Egyptian
Oh yeah, it’s hard to find. Celtic styles are beautiful and to be admired.
As far as I know Celtic hair might be hard to do as it was quite often short, imagine the hair you see on kids but spiked up and mixed with something to make it an odd white colour
Another vote for Celtic styles!
Of course, Pictish would be awesome as well, but not that much is known of them.....
Funnily enough, the closest thing we have in the modern day to an authentic celtic man's hairstyle, is that worn by Guy Fieri xD According to various sources, The celts of Britain at least (The celts weren't a people per se, but a large group of individual tribes across western Europe that shared cultural and linguistic similarities) let children's hair grow naturally until they were old enough for war. Then, it would be cut short and dyed with lye to bleach it and arranged in short spikes.
PLEASE MORE HISTORICAL HAIRSTYLE.
I'M FREAKING IN LOVE GIRL 😍
Yes! Agreed! :D
As a history major I love this, as a girl with waist length hair I love this. Basically you hit all the points of my nerdiness and I'm so happy.
Please do more historical hair! I’d love to see some 1860s hairstyles. I do civil war reenacting and always struggle with my hair
If you follow me on Pinterest, I have a board going where I'm accumulating 19th/early 20th century hairstyles. I plan on doing videos for those one day!
Silvousplaits awesome! I’ll go look
Becca Janet Stephens has a civil war hairstyle tutorial on her channel. She mainly does ancient Roman and Greek styles but also a few from the 1800's and one of them is an authentic civil war hairstyle. I can't paste the link here for some reason but her channel is just called Janet Stephens.
Wow, that Suebian knot is so comfy! I nearly always have my hair up in a hair tie and it often feels like someone is yanking my skull down regardless of how loose or tight the tie is but this knot just feels weightless in comparison. Thanks! Also kudos for doing some historical research.
Yes! More of this kind of tutorial please! I love seeing how actual historical hairstyles looked.
Kota W. HISTORY can be really fun, I think when you learn how they did stuff!
The Suebian Knot works surprisingly well with a side-cut. Thanks, I needed a new hairstyle while it grows out ^^
I need more!!! My husband has very very very long hair and likes me to braid it with viking flair. It makes me angry when people at his work day he has dreads so i try to get really creative using referances from historically accurate pictures but i dont get much luck! This was awesome. I will definitly be combining these in different ways for his hair the next time i do it!
why dont u like dreads
I think it comes down to people not knowing what things are actually called. When I had dreads, some asked if they were braids! 🤷🏾♀️
Or like, calling the Scythian braids "braids", when I would call them "twists" (braids being strictly with 3 or more sections of hair).
As vikings didn't have dreads you'd be hard pressed to find historically accurate styles for them
@@allaniedawn1667 They're ugly. They're like a cousin of braids who got hooked on meth.
@@jurikurthambarskjelfir3533 maybe on homeless ppl who can't take care of their hair
I am fascinated by Scythians and Parthians. Thank you for sharing.
The "powerful men's hair is longer"-part reminded me of the Dothraki
My hair's quite long for a dude (slightly longer than shoulder length), and I hate tieing my hair up with a passion, may actually try those viking fringe braids next time I'm playing sports.
I had no idea rope braids could have more than two, I was trying a bit on my hair as you explained it, it's so cool!
I love how the first one is just a literal knot, what absolute legends.
The Scythian braids are my faves omg
wow I practice JiuJitsu and have long hair, this came out at the right time. Thank you and compliment for the beautiful video! I'll try the suebian knot first. I'll be a very special head on the day of my black belt exam 👍🏻
"that's not how the mummy wore his braids, but feel free to get creative" lmao
Honestly I can't thank you enough for the warning about the pictures of mummies, they're kind of a phobia of mine so I really appreciate it.
Absolutely! I'm not at all looking to suddenly traumatize anyone with stuff they aren't expecting.
I love history, I love martial arts, I love fashion, although not trends, I love hair, and I love braids; when I kept long hair I always tied it in a braid or two for kickboxing, I always thought it was more comfortable and more practical than ponytails. Will be checking some more of your videos because this one was actually really enjoyable. Almost makes me sorry that I keep my hair super short now, these are super pretty, and don't look too hard for my unskilled hands. But I like seeing myself with short hair, and since I'm a lazy bum not having to blow dry or comb my hair is a blessing, although having to cut it so often is a chore. I hope I remember your channel when I get tired of short hair and decide to grow it out. But with super thin hair I always get annoyed, because it always feels like I don't have enough hair, and no way do I have the patience to use hair products. Well, rant over. TL,DR: hair good, braids great, this video excellent.
I didn't know that male hairstyles were so elaborate thank you for making this video 🙂
Fr it's only in the last 100 years or so (and really not even that, look at the 70s) that Men's Hair™ has become standard short nothingness. Also tbh a lot of guys hair even now uses more product and effort than we'd like to admit 😉
James bruh lol true I use like 8 different products on my hair 😂
I love long hair styles on men. I wish it were more popular and common for guys to wear long hair. It seems unless they're alternative lifestylers, or rockstar/celebs, or ren faire fans, dudes rarely wear long hair anymore.
Essentially the modern hairstyle came out of the 1st world war, since you couldn't put a gas mask on if you had more elaborate hair and beards. As usual men's fashion copied the military and it became ubiquitous
Blame the 19th Century, instead. All that blasted moderation.
I'm a longed haired guy, and I was actually curious in learning the Viking braid, but I'm new to braiding. I'm surprised that it's that simple; I'll give it a try when the time comes.
I love wearing these kind of styles for work! I have an active job and long hair. It doesn't feel good sitting on my back while I'm working so I'm constantly finding new styles that I can try.
I’d just like to say that the second hairstyle with two rope braids is really awesome, I’ve been wearing it a lot recently and I like it because it’s strong enough to stay in all day. I get a lot of compliments and once some kid chased me through the grocery store demanding to know how my braids stayed together lol. I did have to modify it a little since I couldn’t pull off the version in this video. I love this channel!
I was skeptical when I clicked on this, and then you blew me away. As a Viking reenactor, I applaud you for this. ♥
That's a big compliment, thank you!
You're welcome, it's well deserved. Would love to see you do more of these kinds of hairstyles, historical ones. Especially the early ages, not a lot of hair artists seem to go back that far in era.
This was amazing! I’ve seen hair from some lady bog bodies, but not men before (Looks like I need to research more big bodies). Would you consider making a video about real female hairstyles from these periods too?
That's the plan!
Silvousplaits Would you consider trying the Elling womans braid?
Sometimes the internet disappoints me and fail to satisfy, other times it gives me tutorials to ancient hairstyles with historical facts. Today, I am fully pleased. Thank you!
Really cool video! I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone give a tutorial for real ancient hairstyles... with multiple, real, researched references. This is pleasing on both an entertainment and an academic level. =)
Oh dude you should check out Janet Stephens' channel on youtube then. All of her work is historical hairstyles!
I'll have to check her out =) Thanks!
This has got to be one of your best tutorials to date, thanks for making this! Looking forward to trying some of these out.
This is awesome! I've been researching authentic historical hairstyles too, it's so interesting! Would love to see more like this from you! :)
Have you checked out Janet Stephens' channel? She mainly does ancient Greek and Roman hairstyles but also a few from other time periods, including the 1800's and she also has one for the authentic valkyrie hairstyle taken from carvings and a recently found pendant. She's really good and it's a fascinating channel. The channel is just called Janet Stephens.
kez kezooie thank you, i'll definitely check that out ^^
I have been trying to figure out the suebian knot forever! So helpful! Thank you! And with a history lesson or two! The note about the thinner historical hair even has me feeling a little better about my now slightly thinning hair. I may be in love.
The twisting in the Scythian braid reminds me of how cordage is made with long fibres, but I guess that's why it's called a rope braid
Happy I found this channel. Got plenty of hair and never really did anything with it myself. Took me 3 hours to make the second style with two braids - Jeez. No words can describe the frustration and burning at hands. Guess eventually it will get easier.
One of the coolest videos ive ever seen...the history of hair design is amazing...and you are an excellent narrator/demonstrator
this is the kind of content I need in my life
I absolutely LOVED and appreciated this tutorial! It is SO HARD to find historically accurate long hair tutorials for men! Thank you!!!!!
I really like all these historical hairstyles much more than any of the modern hair tutorials I've been looking at ^_^
Your videos inspired me to grow out my hair so i can be able to do these beautiful hairstyles and look badass, thank you! I love your tutorials!
Ahhh!! I did do a suebian knot at some point but I did it in the correct historical position!!
And omg! You have no idea how much this pleases the nerd in me!!
I tried doing it in the correct position and it looked so crazy big and ridiculous on me I just couldn't for the video, haha.
I heard they did the knot to appear more enormous in size in battlefield. To scare the opponent.... but i am quite unsure if that really worked
Thank you for demonstrating those beautiful plaids!
Two quick annotations, if you allow:
First: The Suebenknoten is traditionally done on the side of the head above the ear.
Second: The way you presented the ethnic groups is like you would say "Today I show you traditional hairstyles of the French, the Japanese and the firefighters...". XD
While Sueben and Scythians are names for tribes (...), Vikings isn't. Viking means "seafarer"; the people you are talking about are North-Germanics or Scandinavians. There have been Suebian vikings, and maybe even some Scythian vikings, too. ;)
It may be nitpicking for some, but us Germanic descendants are still here.
Lots of love, and keep those lovely hairstyles coming.
Elle from the Chattic folk.
Also I think the Vikings series as little as I've seen it had some hairstyles inspired by the Norman warriors. And they too were "vikings" with Scandinavian origins. With hair cut really short in the back and longer on the top.
True, longer hair tended to be more of a Scandinavian style. One of the books I linked in the video description explicitly says that the Scots modeled their long hair on "Scandinavian tradition." And there's a funny story in the second book about how King Harold's army was scouting the size of a Norman army, and remarked how "their army consisted entirely of priests" (because of the short hair).
I was running along the comments just to find this facts. Thankyou for being nitpicky. ^.^
I'm just binge watiching all these videos for inspiration for my historical fiction novel
when i saw first hairstyle i was yelling(even i was alone in room) "This is Suebi knot from Rome Total War II!!"(a videogame),10 second later you just confirmed it.Point is that i have bad memory but if it's about video games facts i am an computer machine
I've played so much of that game it's insane
Thank you for making such an easy to follow and clearly explained video on historical hairstyles!! I'm gonna go try this on my own hair 💖
I’m so glad I stumbled upon your channel. I’m a hair stylist and I’ve been wanting to learn more traditional braiding and styling for myself. I’ve always loved low maintenance type of protective styling but no one I’ve met in the industry so far knows and I haven’t been very lucky finding tutorials. I can’t wait to incorporate these styles into my daily work and personal fashion. Thank you!
That's awesome you're interested in historical hair, mad respect to the working hairstylists out there! :)
I know that you do more of warrior/cosplay type hairstyles, but I would love it if you could do Miss Elizabeth Bennett's ball hairstyle from Pride and Prejudice (2005 version) when she danced with Mr Darcy! 😍
That's actually in my book!
I just got your book in the mail and I'm so excited to start trying the hairstyles!!!
Clicked because of the interesting historical topic; subbed because of the superb demonstration and instructions along with male hairstyles.
I love the viking braid the most :)
All of them are really lovely but I'm forever wearing sort of Elvish hairstyles in my hair with lots of braids, so that one was really something I will try
Thank you for posting this!! I’m a hairstylist and I always wondered how people did hairstyles without the modern products we have today. Learn something new everyday!
I'm glad you're still posting sometimes, your voice is so soothing and the hairstyles so pretty!
I absolutely love these videos and your new braiding book. Watching this one is making me miss my old long hair. I recently donated 18 inches and now my waist length hair is above my shoulders.
Hi really interesting video. Would you make more of these, recreating some other real historical hairstyles¿
Will do!
Huzzah! :D
Amazing video! My husband has been asking for help styling a Suebian knot and I had no idea how I'd learn, but you came to the rescue. Thanks!!
Ive had my hair in a swabian knot all these years and never knew it! I hold mine with a hair stick.
me too!!!
This is such an interesting video. I don't think I've ever seen a video that comvines both hairstyles and history together. This makes it twice that much informative. ❤❤❤
YOU LOOK SO MUCH LIKE SANSA STARK
words cannot describe how excited I am that this video exists!!!
Fantastic! Hoping your arms didn't hurt too much after these tutorials, mine would feel like they were falling off! This is the first video of yours I've seen & I subbed immediately, thank you~
I might try the suebian knot for a cosplay I'm doing this Saturday (or just in general because i never know what to do with my hair) I'm really glad i came across this video!
I happened on this video by chance and expected to be bored... boy, I was wrong!
And now I miss my hair even more because I would love to tie my hair in some Viking plaits!
If I can convince even a couple more guys to grow their hair long so they can do interesting things with it, I will consider that a success :)
unfortunately I'm balding... otherwise I'd be already convinced.
Silvousplaits I’m kind of hinting to my husband to grow out his hair and braid it . He’s a little Germanic , Irish and Native American Indian. Yikes !! What a mix -
I love the mummy at 4:35 the braided hair so well preserved amazing that you found that
This was very interesting. Will try the three stranded rope braids some time :)
This twisting each strand in one direction and then winding in the other direction is how rope was made.
One minute into a hairtutorial: "you might see some dead bodies in here"
I haven't been here in awhile..I just realized I wore the 1st bun (suebian) almost daily when traveling thru humid places. It felt Right. And was easy. I love this and how much research and history is provided
Very interesting video!
As a man, I am so glad you made this video. Keep up this nice historical work, accuracy is really important nowadays (and of course I will definitively give a try to these hairstyle ;)
Absolutely love your page and thank you so much for all your tutorials!! You're amazing!! 💕
I used to do my hair similar to the viking one. But I'd French-plait around the head. Keeps the hair out of the face even better than normal plaits. Very practical hairstyle!
Bless you! I am a man and your channel isnone of the strongest motivation I had to grow my hair. At this point the shortest are 20cm long and the longest barely 30cm. So the average would be 24.
How long do you think they should be to perform this hairstyle? I can't wait. Xd
The first half of the Viking style can be done with nearly any length, you should be ready for that now. For the Scythian braids, I'd say shoot for ~40cm. The Suebian knot will need at least armpit length I think.
Silvousplaits thanks! For Christmas I should be almost ok then.😁
You might be able to do the seubian knot using only half your hair! You could totally do a bunch of mini ones, that would look badass
Lithostoic I will try for fun at least!!
Leigh Barry boy that would be awesome. My husband is part Native American Indian . I’d love to see him grow out his hair to his shoulder blades and braid it. Connections to his historical past ... Apache Warrior !!
The Scythian braids ROCK! Seriously, this style looks so fucking cool. I'm so going to wear this whenever I can.
Thank you for your awesome videos and the great work and research put into them. These historical hairstyles totally satisfy my history nerd brain, so I can't wait to see more!
very cool video! as an archaeologist I absolutely love this :) Do you know Elling Woman? I've never quite been able to figure out that hair, it would be awesome if you could do a video
I'd like to make a video like this for women that would include the Elling Woman. I've got the style down as the way it currently is on her body, but I'm still wondering if the braid length wasn't wrapped up more at the actual time of styling, and become unwound a bit in the events that led to her death and burial. Will probably muse on that a bit in the video. Those sticky questions I'm sure you deal with all the time :)
great! I'll keep an eye out for the video
Other stupid issue of my hair life you helped to settle:
I am and have been doing a lot of random sports.
Aikido
"Butoh" garage dancing.
Sword
Parkour
And a lot of random climbing and crawling in the forest.
I have long hair and could never find a hairstyle going for everything.
A low braid was annoying when stretching and having my knees over my head or for kimono back grabbing in Aikido. A high bun was perfect for dancing but awful for sword practice.
Now I practice with the Scythian braids.
And even if I am not a historian or archeologist. I guess I can say somehow your sources are valid because of the convenience of this hairstyle to hold on while the hair owner ia doing a wide range of moves.
To be a warrior and having an annoying hairstyle might be problematic.
You can't say a lad who wants to chop your head off "wait a minute, I have a braid loose... Ah now that's ok, you can go on!" :D
Thanks again!
I--I've been braiding my hair like a wealthy viking all this time? Welp, it sure is a surprise. I will give the scythians braids a chance
"The OG Man Bun"...I love it! :) Great job, and great research!
"One bogbody has been found that used cord for this knot..."
Bog bros: FAKE
This is the first video of yours I've seen, and OH MY GOD YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL! You look like a real life angel!
am i... the only one that sees the suebian knot as a phallic symbol? i mean... given how much status was given to phallic symbols you can't really rule it out
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this! It's like a little dick bun lmao
That Scythian hair is just the coolest.
This is wild. I've been doing this to hair for years. The freaky part?
My father's family is from the swabian area of Germany Baden and Wuurenberg
So cool!
Aww darn! I wanted to see the mummies! Regardless, thanks for this video! I just learned about the Suebian Knot and went to look for modern videos after I read about it and yours was on top.
I enjoyed the other two styles as well. I'm weird in that I think details like hair seem unimpotant to most history teachings, but just as today, hair is an integral component to a person's look, same as clothing. Thanks for doing this. I'll have to look at the rest of your channel now.
Super cool video! Reminds me a little of Janet Stephen's historical hair channel. Very fun!
She's one of my TH-cam idols. So inspiring!
Same! You did a great job with this video, I hope you do more that explore historically accurate methods and styles!
Thank you for this tutorial! Wore the Suebian Knot today.
Hello, sorry for my english but could you make a tuto about naevia hair style in Season 4 of Spartacus ? It would be Amazing !
This is actually really cool. The fact that you did proper research makes it even better. I'm definitely gonna try out the Viking one at some point.
Yeah could you just do my hair for me xD
I just found your channel and I'm very happy to see videos about hairstyles for males with long hair. That's something I've been looking for on the internet for a long time.
Stopped for the pretty redhead, stayed for the awesome history lesson.
I tried the Scythian braids today and loved it. So practical and got quite a few compliments