Ashenda (in Tigray) and Ashendiye/Shadey/Solel (different parts of Amhara) is a feast colorfully celebrated in the Northern part of Ethiopia in the month of August by the Tigray and Amhara people after two weeks fasting period called “Filseta”. It has a socio-cultural significance for the locals and is unique in a way that girls and young women await this yearly feast and dress up from top to bottom with an array of jewelries in their most attractive and colorful attire made from cotton woven by hand. Ethiopian women have their own unique traditional hairstyle called Shuruba in Amharic. women still attach to the thousands of year old traditional hairstyle during festivities. Women and girls decorate their hair using shuruba in various styles or designs, especially in this holiday season.