Historical Women Knew How To Grow Long Hair!

cheyenne keeney: I feel like their diet had a lot to do with it too

Luna Stella: Should be noted that, the maidens (in the paintings at least) that could afford to keep long hair...were of wealthy families that could afford a lot, including better, more nutritious food than most. Nutrition/diet plays a big role in overall health but also hair health (today's diet is very different).... aside all that... hair care that has been mentioned in the comments previous to mine can, and, do make a significant difference in hair growth and maintenance of length.

Noel Stoneville: One thing many people don't realize is oil keeps your hair healthy,bacteria free, clean, and strong.

F C: They also wore wigs and hair pieces, it's not just that everyone had long hair. Also they had to keep it covered all the time and never washed it

thekatelinn: I've been using clay for over a month, and I absolutely love it. Bought a silk pillowcase today, and I use a bonnet and protective hairstyles. Hopefully my hair will thicken up as time goes. Thanks for great videos Katherine.

Hanna Fardew: I started to cut back on how often I washed my hair and my hair has grown a couple of inches as a result. I'm thinking of buying a boar hair brush so that I can continue to lengthen my hair

Fanny Issac: Also it depends on what you eat

Tove Lokiwife Odindottir: I tell you in the last 3yrs my hair has grown from chin length to my waist. I have been wearing wigs on an almost daily occurrence. I wash and brush my hair once or twice a week since it is kept up in a mesh wig cap so it stays clean. Before that my hair would not grown longer then my shoulders because of all the dying and bleaching as well as 3 pregnancies that drained all the nutrients and vitamins from my hair as well an toxins in the environment. But since I started covering it and washing it once a week it started growing at an amazing rate.

Sarah Griffin: My grandfather told me his mother had really long hair and he only ever saw it down once when she was brushing it and he was so shocked

J Romeo: There is far less minerals in food now. Ladies I'm 52. My hair is thick and long. One supplement. Black strap molasses one tablespoon 5 times a week with orange juice

Myrddin Emrys: As beautiful as their hair was in those pictures they wouldn't have worn it down on a daily basis. It was usually braided/twisted in protective updo styles and kept covered when they went out or were working. My grandparents still held the belief that once a woman is old enough to be married that it was "shameful" for anyone other than her husband or children to see her with her hair down.

Kira de La Rochefoucauld: I just made my first batch of fresh fenugreek seeds infuded into oils. I even bought a coffee grinder to do that. I added saw palmetto powder, and magnolia powder, amla, numerous oils, can't wait to start using it. I'm already doing a Just Nutritive oil treatments 3-4 nights a week. my hair is growing extremely well at hairline, sides etc. Getting silky soft, & shiny. Oh yeah, i'm using the clay, super gentle shampoo. babying the heck out it, like a pet almost, lol. .

Missy Starr: No heat, no sulfates, brushes hair multiple times a day in every direction (hair flipped and right up), tons of stress, wash max twice a week, genetics

Amy: it is their genes I know a whole family whose women have extremely long hair.

Keara Dunne: I grew my hair past my tailbone by only trimming split ends once a month for 2 years, i also stopped all air drying and heat styling. I didn’t color my hair, pull it into tight ponytails, or sleep without my hair being loosely braided. I see the oil trends making their way around again. Please do not sleep with oil in your hair if you want to grow it long. A quick nap is different than overnight, like of course you can take a nap while doing an oil treatment. Now I use products with my favorite oils but I do a scalp exfoliation and oil treatment on washday. Sometimes i wash my hair 3 times a week, sometimes I go 10 days without a shampoo. ‍♀️ i almost always wet my hair and put a leave in conditioner in though. I hope this helps!

Lisa Benden: I have bum length hair, and have found some of the historic practices quite comfortable. The main one that I've started recently, that has made a surprising difference is braiding it for sleep. My household growing up never did any kind of night time care for hair, and I was shocked to find that after braiding it for sleep for a few nights, it's much less dry, more silky, and just nicer. I also usually wear it up, and only wash it when the roots get more oily then I prefer. I make a point to only shampoo it at the roots, and only once.

TerriH: I just ordered a boar bristle brush. My hair is at its longest, near my waist. Thank you!!

HisSongGirl:MONI: Well part of the reason they were able to grow longer hair was that they were always putting their hair up in different styles daily. Sometime twice a day. The more you stimulate the scalp the more it grows imo.

EatWhatU KiII: These women weren’t ACTIVE, either. They were pampered and had attendants who groomed and dressed them. They wore soft linen, silks, and slippery satins that didn’t snag hair. Not a hair was harmed by active lifestyles or polar fleece, sweaters, and denim like modern women’s hair.

Face Shredder: hi im a licensed cosmetologist of 12 years. we did some studies on this when i was in school and women at that time did infact cut their hair but not as often, a lot of times cutting hair was ritualistic and performed mostly in ceremonial settings.. it is also good to note that at that time they didnt have modern shampoos like we do today that have these chemicals in it to strip your hairs natural oils and tamper with the scalps/hairs ph. washing hair is a fairly new concept of a 200 years. daily combing with special combs and ash bathing was more common. from the research i have done i believe that the constant stimulation of the scalp (the combing) promoted hair growth, which modern women today dont really take the time to stimulate the scalp while brushing. if you want long hair in the modern day you need to limit your hair washing routine, change your products to sulfate/paraben free products, get your regular trims, STOP flat ironing and curling your hair with heat, stop dying it frequently and lastly get a scalp massager! massage your scalp daily 2 times a day for at least 20mins. if youre worried about greasy hair use a little bit of cornstarch at the roots. itll "freshen" up your hair from looking greasy. you will notice production in oils when you start massaging the scalp frequently. all of these mentioned above will help you grow your hair out.

Aj Scott: I definitely think it has to do with cutting your hair I cut my hair every other week even if it's just a trim and it always looks super shiny after I cut too

Jessamyn Rose: I would love a list of the pictures in this video. Some of these are really beautiful.

Sylvie Henry: I think it’s important to keep in mind that there’s selection bias at work here. I don’t doubt that care and diet are important, but the women in these photos have long think hair mainly due to genetics. I bet we don’t see this as much today because it’s just not fashionable to have such long hair.

Dorothe Scharf: Your examples show women of high class. They had maidens to attend to their hair. The lengths of their hair was a status symbol.

cayla rose: 2 things you need to realize about how they lived back then to help encourage thr growth of long hair. 1, no hot tools. 2, they didn't have shampoos and conditioners with all the chemicals and bs we have now. I never use heat on my hair and I definitely don't wash it everyday. Since I started doing that, and no longer dying it, and getting better nutrition, my hair grew like wild fire. It's now almost to the point where I can sit on it lol

Eva VanAken: As afar as practices go when your hair is very long, like mine is, you end up washing it less frequently and it is often braided for most of the day. Nutrition probably plays a big part and we also have a lot of hormone disrupters to contend with, hormones effecting hair length and thickness. Diet can mess up hormones too, as can consuming things you are allergic to.

Lotsof Love: Yep... That's definitely me... no growth or increase in length in 10 years... I am only 32 years old... It is crushing as far as self esteem goes...

Paeggla Resi: Keeping in mind that photography was very rare back then shows rhat these photos were taken of exceptional women, not the average

Shannon Mcneely: What we eat has a lot to do with hair growth. Pollution in the water is very hard on hair and it can dry it out easily and cause breakage as well.

Marble Tree: I hope I can be a historical woman one day

Amanda does not care about me so: I have “long hair” it is to the middle of my back. That is as long as it has ever gotten. I don’t cut it. Every few years I get a couple of inches cut off.

Faith M: 1 Corinthians 11:15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

Sophie: I oddly don't have this problem. In the last half decade, I've gone from ear-length to below hip length. Although I can see how this may still be rather difficult for a lot of other people. I feel my genetics may very well play a role in this as my mother also had quite well grown hair in her younger years too. Who knows. Long hair is definitely quite beautiful, but ungodly high maintenance. Humans already lose loads of hair strands per day. But long hair makes it especially noticeable... and messy. Not to mention the extra volume of products necessary to upkeep the hair. Shampoo, for example. Then the extra maintenance and ensuring it all doesn't tangle and remains voluminous. It's a little too much work for the length. Unless you're doing it for a special reason, like cultural traditions or the like, it's just a bit much. I for one grow out my hair and will not do a huge cut until I fulfill I promise I made a good time ago now. Until that day, I'll just have to keep up the responsibility.

Michael Spinelli: The length of hair is partially genetic. So the women who are being pictured have genes that predispose them to having long hair and are being selected specifically for their above average ability to grow their hair. Not saying they don't have to maintain their hair well to keep it from breaking at that length, they certainly do. But genetics do also determine how long your hair is by regulating the amount of time spent in the anagen phase. So these extreme examples of beautiful long hair from the past are just that, extreme examples.

Arsonists' Energy Drink: I feel like it's 99% the washing, we wash our hair way to much and it kills it

manyBlessings2all: Brilliant, thank you very much for the info & your lovely enthusiasm.. & your beautiful hair..

Jezidca: go to a Pentecost church. a real one, they don't cut their hair, no makeup, and beautiful long hair

Gretta Lemabouchou: I appreciate all of your information my hair is hip length and you're right on

Marysol Narvaez: I saw your video, about shampooing hair with herbal mask. I have tried it a couple times I think I like it but I still have to use regular shampoo.

BirdsInCanada: Did they ever trim off their dead ends? Or did they just leave them since you’d rarely see the tail end of the hair?

Annie Rose5: I take prenatals and eat a high protein diet and my hair grows very fast. I also feel like women. Ack in the day didn’t burn the heck out of their hair like most women do today as well. Since I dnt use any heat. Not even a blow dryer I dnt have any split ends

Purrfection: I understand that genetics play a role in how long the hair will grow, I'm sure all the chemicals we use also plays a role

gökotta: I'm good with once/week washes, oiling ends, boar bristle for my fine hair. I used to henna my hair. Thinking of doing it again for fun. Henna is definitely good for hair, even fine, right? (I buy from night blooming, a knowledgeable seller) I'm wondering when during my weekly hair routine I should dye it (long after oiling?) Katherine or anyone know?

Nichole Shackelton: Story time: ok so three years ago I got really sick, the short story is ingot sepsis and had to have 5 amputations and lost all my hair! To this day the hair is the only thing I've cried over lol but it's been about 2yrs since it stopped falling out and started growing back in, and it's completely different! It's wild, it's literally ten times thicker, it's curly, like really curly! And the color is different! I've always had very dark colored hair and now it's got so much random blonde in it ( not talking about the grey, which is there lol I'm 40yrs old) but these blonde hairs that are really fine, and there's so many it looks like I have crazy highlights! The ends almost look bleached! Anyways like I said I think it's been around two years since it started growing back ( I was one of those people who hadn't cut my hair in years but it was stunted) and it's already several inches past my shoulders! My life's obviously different than it was before and I used to wash it everyday and now it's like once a week, once every 10 days. I'm trying hard to take the proper vitamins and use oils and such so I'm so happy I found your page! I'm going to order the stuff for your growth recipe today!

Jade Forest Co: It has a lot to do with diet and genetics.

Arycke: Hair length is also determined by genetics

Ligiane: Yes. Not cutting is just one peace of the puzzle

sumgrrrl: You and Olivia from the Syd & Olivia YouTube channels could be sisters...twins even

Ellie5621: I mean it’s not a huge mystery. Most women back then didn’t dye their hair, or wash it everyday, or use a lot of heat and products. In other words almost no hair damage plus not cutting it for years gives you long long hair.

Celina R: I can grow grow grow but it’s thin thin thin. any suggestions on how to stimulate new growth? I heard rosemary oil?

Lewis Edwards: 1. DIET 2. Sleep 3. EMR/EMF exposure 4. Air quality (but to a much lesser extent.

Gigi Dodson: Stop washing your hair. We over clean ourselves. Oil in your hair and body is there for a reason.

Matthew Clewes: Your beautiful like a princess

Jasmine Partridge: Can you do some more research on different cultures of historical women that have long hair such as the Mexican culture where women were groom not to cut their hair

saltylikesalineRN: I'm fascinated why anyone would WANT that much hair its just all over you and I couldn't do my job with hair like that so I assume that excessively long hair like this isn't something that works with more modern careers that women have

Ida Earl: Genetics play a major role. Not all ethnicities can grow extreme lengths. Also, many products we use on our hair will damage hair.

Shelley Dawson: They didn’t use ‘product’ manufactured to create a need when it didn’t exist.

L Wolfstar: As someone who regularly grows my hair to my hips, diet, hair care and how you style it all play big factors. A diet fairly high in sulphurous foods like onions and eggs, protein and gelatines (including old fashioned soups and stocks made with real bones for the gelatine) helps have the building blocks for good keratine production, washing only a couple times a week and leaving in a good silicone free conditioner to help smooth the cuticles helps prevent split ends and breakage, as well as protective styles like buns, plaits and similar, that support the hair and tuck them away from the elements and rough treatment. I'm growing mine back out from shaving it off for a few months in 2021. Its already to my waist. Should be past my hips by Xmas!

Luneras Oscuros: Nah, you gotta back those claims with actual facts. They could have been painted with longer hair than they actually had. Wigs existed. I'm sure when our era becomes "historical women" people without any research skills but a need to be seen will say "The past generations has thick lashes that they "snatched" and nails that were like talons from years of harvesting "fleekness". "

indigo bunting: Our diets are worse.

-ˏˋ maria ˎˊ-: Thank you for your brave content. Unfortunately, nowdays the truth about healthy hair care is opposite to what shampoo companies are trying to recommend. I've been doing rye bread&raw eggs hair washes for 2 years, and I just can't get off this routine. Not now when this no-shampoo way brings me more luxurious result than any shampoo or conditioner ...

Mama Millwright: I have very fine hair. Anytime I grow it waist length, it just becomes a tangled rats nest

Joy Jeffcoat: Their food was purer no preservatives. The meat was grass fed

Renata Tarnawski: After awhile Hair will stop growing at a certain length Split ends? If they aren't cut Will go up the hair shaft

Nicole McWilliams: They don't have all the chemicals we have today. They use natural products from nature without all the chemicals without pesticides

TheTruthHurts: Their secret weapon: eggs

VERA Addo Yobo: They eat proper healthy foods as well the oil

LJ B: Much has to do with diet

Rasha Sharif: Lifestyle. Hair was not targeting by beauty industry and advertised as todays. The amount of products and chemicals we add to our bodies is incomparable. Food and nutrition is big too. People used to just leave their hair alone. Short hairs was a sort if discipline and punishment.

Stephanie: Maybe they had the advantage of better air

N A: Eat sprouts daily

Mae Sua: Foods were pure

Blackdiamond: They didn’t eat processed food

Maria Vazquez: "Historical women"... ÁAAAAAAAAGH hahaha

Angela Hackney: not only diet but they believe in 100 strokes at bed time lot stimulation at bed time the brushes where differen

Drunk Vegan Gal: No photos, historical or modern, of Sikh women?

Kay: The garbage they put in the food these don’t probably doesnt work

Sengupta: Diet

Robyn Wild: What is a "historical woman"

Curious George: Did not bathe

Sylvie Henry: I think it’s important to keep in mind that there’s selection bias at work here. I don’t doubt that care and diet are important, but the women in these photos have long think hair mainly due to genetics. I bet we don’t see this as much today because it’s just not fashionable to have such long hair.