Chignon

The chignon is a Coiffure where the Cheveu X are gathered together in a round form.

It makes it possible for example not to be constrained in its activities by a hair which one does not want to cut for esthetic reasons, cultural or religious. It is thus not always the prerogative of the women, as it is the case in the modern Occident. The male chignon was formerly current in India (see Buddhist iconography), in China and in Japan (hairstyle of the Samurai S and the fighters of Sumo). The men sikhs gather their hair in a chignon at the top of cranium.

Among women, the chignon is regarded as an modest and wise hairstyle which releases the face.

The simplest chignon consists of a very tight Queue of horse, rolled in ball.

The net in Résille is an excellent means of making hold a chignon.

There exists of different the shapes of chignons, such as the chignon banana , more complicated and which consists in placing a fabric roll in the chignon to give volume to hair.

When the chignon is extremely bulky on the top of the head to the manner of a Casque, it is indicated under the term of chignon helmet .

If the hair is divided into two Couette S, each one allowing the development of a chignon on each side of the head, one speaks then about macaroons .

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