Egyptian Wigs Research Paper

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Some of the wigs came in different colors such as being bright green, blue or red. Some of the wigs were adorned with precious metals and stones. Other were quite massive. In Egypt being bald was looked down upon. Chopped lettuce and ground-up hedgehog spines were applied to the scalp as a remedy for baldness. So the Egyptians didn’t have grey hair they would darken grey hair with the blood of black animals and added false braids to their own hair. The Egyptians did many different thing with their hair,and put many different things in their hair, which probably had a big effect on what we do ,and put in our hair .

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