Curling and Frizzing in Elizabethan Hairstyles Old and New

The Elizabethan era has become a big influence within fashion today inspiring many designers and makeup artists. In class we learnt to curl and crimp the hair, but we also learnt a figure of 8 way to crimp the hair for if you just have straighteners and not crimpers which was really effective.

Ive found that the modern designs of hair nowadays use less of the crimping frizzy technique and more of the backcombing technique to get the design they want. This hair is very messy, theres a lot of backcombing and curling done here to create the very un-shapened design.

With this hair shape you can tell they have backcombed the hair a lot to create the volume and height in the hair. They have kept the traditional heart shape that is in a lot of elizabethan based hairstyles nowadays. I think that this hair shape is the most recognised design within the elizabethan era.

This is a rather neat version of the elizabethan hair design with a little bit of a modern twist on the shape of the hair. They have kept the hair super smooth and I expect they used some padding to create this shape in the hair as it is very structured and not like the traditional more rounded heart shape that you see.

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I really like this design in the hair, it is traditional yet very rustic. You can tell a lot of back combing has been done here to create the very messy shape to the hair and no doubt some padding was used to create the big size of the two halves of the heart shape here.

• (Beauty bag - handbag.com, 2015)

I find that the actual elizabethan hair styles were a lot more frizzier and more crimped. As they didn't have as much technology and ways to create the looks like we do nowadays they had the use the hair to the best of they advantage, using the hair as the base and the structure.

• (Comment by livius drusus, 2006)

Even with short hair they still managed to get the crimped look and created the heart shaped design in the hair.

• (Jensen and profile, 2011)

The Elizabethan hair was in my eyes a little less neat than our concept nowadays, but then they didn't have as many styling products to keep the hair maintained and tidy. It was almost always either curly or frizzy and most of the time in very tight crimps and curls to maintain a strong structure.

(Mongello, 2006)