Hair has great social significance for human beings. It can grow on most areas of the human body, except on the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, but hair is most noticeable in most people in a small number of areas that are most commonly trimmed, plucked, or shaved. These include the face, nose, ears, head, eyebrows, eyelashes, legs and armpits, as well as the pubic region. Young Girl Fixing her Hair, by Sophie Gengembre Anderson Hair is a filamentous outgrowth of dead cells from the skin, found only in mammals. ... Human beings are defined variously in biological, spiritual, and cultural terms, or in combinations thereof. ... Human anatomy or anthropotomy is a special field within anatomy. ... Human right hand The hands (med. ... For other uses, see Foot (disambiguation). ... A razor shaving some stubble off the underside of a chin. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Human nose in profile A typical bulbous human nose Anatomically, a nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which admit and expel air for respiration. ... For an alternative meaning, see ear (botany). ... For other uses of the word head, see head (disambiguation). ... The eyebrow is a bony ridge above the eye that protects the eye and bears a tuft of facial hair in most mammals. ... A closed eye, displaying lashes The eye now open — lashes less visible An eyelash or simply lash is one of the hairs that grow at the edge of the eyelid. ... For other senses of this word, see leg (disambiguation). ... The armpit (or axilla) is the area on the human body directly under the joint where the arm connects to the shoulder. ... Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area and in the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region. ...

The highly visible differences between male and female body and facial hair are a notable secondary sex characteristic. A peafowl displays its long, colored feathers, an example of its secondary sexual characteristics. ...

Hair has had social and sexual significance in a number of societies, as a sign of masculinity in men, and femininity in women when in the "right" place, and as a sign of effeminacy in men and unfemininity in women when in the "wrong" place. Where the right and wrong places are differs from one culture to another. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Femininity comprises the physical and mental attributes associated with the female sex and is partly culturally determined. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

Portrait of a Woman, Alessandro Allori (1535 - 1607; Uffizi Gallery): a plucked hairline gives a fashionably "noble brow"

Download high resolution version (602x854, 77 KB)Portrait of a Woman by Alessandro Allori (1570-90) Oil on copper, 37 x 27 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence This is -most likely- a portrait of Bianca Capello, the Venezian wife of Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany Source: http... Download high resolution version (602x854, 77 KB)Portrait of a Woman by Alessandro Allori (1570-90) Oil on copper, 37 x 27 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence This is -most likely- a portrait of Bianca Capello, the Venezian wife of Francesco I de Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany Source: http... The Uffizi Gallery (Italian Galleria degli Uffizi) is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the most famous museums in the world. ...

Hair as indicator

• Healthy hair indicates health and youth (important in evolutionary biology)
• Hair colour and texture can be a sign of ethnic ancestry
• Facial hair is a sign of puberty in men
• White hair is a sign of age, which can be concealed with hair dye
• Male pattern baldness is sign of age, which can be concealed with a toupee or perhaps reversed with minoxidil (marketed as Rogaine or Regaine) or finasteride (marketed as Propecia); see Baldness treatments
• Hairstyle can be an indicator of group membership:
  • Metalhead long-hair for headbanging
  • Beatle "pudding-bowl" haircuts
  • Punk mohawk haircuts
  • Skinhead haircut
  • Mullet hairstyle
  • Dreadlocks
• Some groups, for example male Sikhs and orthodox Jews, never cut some or all of their hair

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Growing and removing

• Romans, Greeks and shaving
• Hair as item of female beauty
• Hair length for men: Cavaliers and Roundheads, long hair in the 1960s, skinheads, mullets and other hairstyles, the uncut hair of Sikhs
• Hair length for women: trends and fashions
  • The bobbed hair of flappers
• Hairy arms and legs, regional variations in hirsutism
• Depilation, eyebrow plucking, unibrow, etc.

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Hair, power, punishment and status

French civilians shave the hair of a young woman as punishment for wartime collaboration, August 29, 1944

• Surf Hair (the "cool" style)
• Samson and Delilah
• Shaved heads in concentration camps
• Head-shaving as punishment - especially for women with long hair.
• Military haircuts, monastic tonsures
• Extremely long hair of some Indian holy men
• Regular hairdressing as sign of wealth
• The dreadlocks of the Rastafari movement
• Own removal of hair in order to liberate oneself from their past, usually after a trying time in one's life.
• Tightly curled Afro's are sometimes worn among Blacks as a symbol of racial pride

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Concealing and revealing

• Keeping women's hair hidden: headscarves, the hijab in Islam, head-shaving and wigs in Orthodox Judaism etc.
• Keeping men's hair hidden: the turban in Sikhism
• Displaying women's hair: hair fashions in Western society
• Displaying men's hair: facial hair in Islam, ringlets in Orthodox Judaism
• Hair ornaments
• Keeping pubic hair hidden or shaven

In Hindu culture, it is believed that the base of the hair shaft contains certain hormones that stimulate the opposite sex. This, combined with the notion that the woman's hair is the most attractive part of her body, was the reason behind tonsuring (shaving) of a woman after her husband's death, so that no person would be attracted to her and thereby secure her chastity. This is the reason why the son tonsures his head after his parents' death, it instills a sense of detachment from worldly pleasures in him for the duration of mourning. Iraqi girl Hijab is the word used in the Islamic context for the practice of dressing modestly, which all practicing Muslims past the age of puberty are instructed to do in their holy book, the Quran. ... Hijab or ħijāb () is the Arabic term for cover (noun), based on the root حجب meaning to veil, to cover (verb), to screen, to shelter. In some Arabic-speaking countries and Western countries, the word hijab primarily refers to womens head, face, or body covering. ... Islam (Arabic:  ) is a monotheistic religion based upon the teachings of Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts (The Oral Law) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ... A Sikh man wearing a turban The turban (Arabic: ‎, ‘imāmä; Turkish: tülbent; Persian: دلبنت, dulband) is a headdress, of Asian origin, consisting of a long scarf wound round the head or an inner hat. ... Sikhism (IPA: or ; Punjabi: , , IPA: ) is a religion that began in sixteenth century Northern India with the teachings of Nanak and nine successive human gurus. ... This article has been illustrated as part of WikiProject Illustrated Wikipedia. ... Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonized in the Talmudic texts (The Oral Law) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ... Female pubic hair Pubic hair is hair in the frontal genital area, the crotch, and sometimes at the top of the inside of the legs; these areas form the pubic region. ... Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches of cutting the hair from the scalp of clerics as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem. ...

See also

• Haircut
• Head shaving
• Depilation
• Human physical appearance
• Glabrousness