Queen Tiye’s Hair Care Routine: How you can keep your hair healthy for thousands of years!

El-Shai
2 min readApr 4, 2021
Queen Tiye's Hair Care Routine: How you can keep your hair healthy for thousands of years!

We got to see the Royal Mummies Parade last night, and we got to see several kings and queens walk down the streets of Cairo. One queen stood out, however, and it’s Queen Tiye.

Admit it, you all thought how the hell is her hair still that good after thousands of years. We’ve all been thinking it; just very few have been able to admit it.

And just because we’re as petty as it gets, we left everything about the history and looked at Tiye’s hair care routine.

Yes! We’re bringing you the royal hair care routine by the queen herself, so when you die, your hair can remain fabulous!

First off, we need to know a bit about who Tiye is.

She was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III, Akhenaten’s mother, and Tutankhamun’s grandmother.

So it’s safe to say that she was a powerful and wealthy woman.

Tiye wasn’t just another queen, however.

Historically, she was known to be a strong woman with solid and unconventional opinions. Let’s just say she was the OG BAD BITCH, and if she was alive today, we’d be spamming you with her news.

Egyptologists, however, have suggested that Tiye’s father, Yuya, maybe be of foreign origin, which might be why the queen had politically solid and unconventional religious views.

Now that we got Tiye’s background story out of the way let’s talk about her hair.

Tiye was the type of woman who would do whatever she can to get to where she wants, and she wanted the perfect hair.

She lived and died obsessing over her hair, and it obviously paid off.

Famous archeologist Zahi Hawas said that she was described as the owner of the best hair in the ancient Pharaonic civilization, and she was constantly taking care of her hair.

Before getting into the actual routine itself, it’s important to note that the hair is one of the parts that is not subjected to significant damage after death. Additionally, because Tiye was obsessed with her hair, it was given more attention during the embalming process, which helped preserve it and keep it almost as it is.

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