Description
A natural golden yellow earth pigment, this variety from Saxony, Germany. In ancient Greece and Rome, the gods were often depicted with golden yellow, or blonde hair and the colour yellow associated with the sun gods Helios and Apollo. It was fashionable in ancient Greece for men and women to dye their hair yellow, or to spend time in the sun to bleach it. In ancient Rome it became a fashionable hair colour for aristocratic women, influenced by the exotic blonde hair of many of the newly conquered slaves from Gaul, Britain, and Germany.