I’ve been following the 100 years of beauty series for a while now. It’s fascinating to see how hair, makeup, and clothing trends have changed over the years.
If you click on the Youtube link to this video, you can see what the trends were like in other countries as well.
The Kenya episode might be the most instructive one in the whole series precisely because it compresses a century into sixty seconds — you can watch how political moments and global influences show up in hair and styling rather than just in silhouettes. What I keep coming back to is how much the one-minute format leaves out; a single decade there could carry several distinct regional and generational looks that the runtime can’t hold. Watching it alongside the other countries in the series makes the contrast less about which trends were ‘better’ and more about how differently beauty signals travel across borders.