Hairstyles

Anaxi Hairstyles

Fancy Styles

These are some fancy hairstyles, mainly worn by galdori women, who have access to hair products that allow them to maintain elaborate updos. Most wear long hair and use combs, sticks and fans to shape and form their hair into complex styles. Common themes include triangle bangs, long side locks, buns and accessories.

Common Styles

These styles are simple and casual, and are worn by human women and young galdori girls. Often handkerchiefs and scarves are worn over the hair to keep the sun from bleaching it during a long day of field work. Passive servants will usually have simpler, rougher versions of these styles; sometimes they crop their hair very short in order to keep it out of their eyes during work.

Note: the "front tail" style has long since gone out of fashion, and is now seen mainly on old grandmothers. Long hair is separated in two parts, pulled around the neck and tied in front. This hairstyle symbolizes modesty and simplicity.

Other Styles

Double Bun: Popular with galdori students. This style involves two curled buns on either side of the head. These buns can be round or can protrude like cones from the head, and are often decorated with elaborate hair sticks or jewels.

Head Knot: Popular with galdori men. The hair is grown to the shoulder and then knotted on the back of the head using a clasp or a simple ribbon. It is functional but still allows men to grow their hair out.

Bows: Popular among witches. Long hair is separated into small sections and tied with scraps of fabric at the ends. Trivia: There is a record kept for how many bows one can tie in their hair. Current record is 924.

Anhai Hairstyles

Side Knots

Popular for young girls, this style creates high pigtails on either side of the head, just behind the ears, and doubles them up so they form a loop (with a tuft of hair coming out of the bottom or top). This is a good way to keep medium-length or long hair out of the way while remaining fashionable.

Top Bundle

Old Anhai women like to pile their hair on the top of their head and tie it in place with a girdle-like cloth known as the paji and lengths of rope, ribbon or strips of cloth.

Front Ponytail

Same as the general Anaxi ponytail, this style remains popular with Anhai wicks.

Mugrobi Hairstyles

Tall Headscarf

Popular on Mugrobi women. The hair is pulled back and wrapped with many different colors of stiff fabric, usually secured with ropes or strings of beads. The hair is usually completely covered and the wrap can extend quite far from the head. These wraps can be intricate (usually for galdori) or very simple.