Introduction to my Project Brief
Hello I am Lauren, I have just started studying Make-up and Hair design BA Hons at Southampton Solent University. I have this Blog to show my progress through the years I will be studying here. The first project I am to undertake on this course is the Elizabethan Era.
I am excited to be doing Elizabethan Hair styles this will help me learn new skills and techniques such as plaits, buns, frizzing, curling and padding. When first starting to look at Elizabethan Hair I found all the trends from that era where originated/started by Queen Elizabeth I her look was what all the women wanted and all the men found attractive. Strawberry Blond, Frizzy/Curly which was full of Gems, Jewels, Pearls and Feathers. Lower classes would wear their hairs differently as they could not afford to look as good as the wealthy upper class.
Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger. 1588. Elizabeth I Armada Portrait. Can be viewed at National Portrait Gallery.
Upper Class
Queen Elizabeth was the one who inspired the hairstyles, women would want the colour, frizz and height of the hair they would go to any lengths to reach this trend. Metal framing and adding would be used to heighten the hair to give it structure, also wigs wear very popular it was well know that the Queen has a huge range of wigs that she often wore but she favoured her tightly curled hair wigs. Women would bleach their hairs to get the lighter colour hair, they would use a mixture of saffron, cumin seed, celandine and oil. It was popular for young at the time to have their hairs long and down this represents their virginity and purity, as it was popular for married to wear their hairs up and off their face as they wore collar framing. Head pieces of Jewels would be added to the hair which would match their garments, women would use these to keep the hair off their faces and to push their natural hair line back which gave the illusion of bigger foreheads which was popular. They would also pluck their eyebrows to give this illusion.
Middle Class
In Elizabethan times these where normally fulll of rich people also, so they would copy all the trends that queen Elizabeth set.
Lower Class
These where mostly peasants, servants or beggars. The Lower class would normally have common hairstyles which would be long but during the Elizabethan Era where it was popular to wear wigs the lower class would often cut their hair and sell it. The most common hairstyle to be worn by Lower class would be plaits or braids as it was comfortable while they are working.
https://elizabethantimeswiki.wikispaces.com/Fashion+and+Classes
KONINGIN FABIOLAZAAL. n.d. The Laboratory of Seduction- History of Make-up. Antwerpen. Provinciebestuur Antwerpen.
Queen Elizabeth was the one who inspired the hairstyles, women would want the colour, frizz and height of the hair they would go to any lengths to reach this trend. Metal framing and adding would be used to heighten the hair to give it structure, also wigs wear very popular it was well know that the Queen has a huge range of wigs that she often wore but she favoured her tightly curled hair wigs. Women would bleach their hairs to get the lighter colour hair, they would use a mixture of saffron, cumin seed, celandine and oil. It was popular for young at the time to have their hairs long and down this represents their virginity and purity, as it was popular for married to wear their hairs up and off their face as they wore collar framing. Head pieces of Jewels would be added to the hair which would match their garments, women would use these to keep the hair off their faces and to push their natural hair line back which gave the illusion of bigger foreheads which was popular. They would also pluck their eyebrows to give this illusion.
Middle Class
In Elizabethan times these where normally fulll of rich people also, so they would copy all the trends that queen Elizabeth set.
Lower Class
These where mostly peasants, servants or beggars. The Lower class would normally have common hairstyles which would be long but during the Elizabethan Era where it was popular to wear wigs the lower class would often cut their hair and sell it. The most common hairstyle to be worn by Lower class would be plaits or braids as it was comfortable while they are working.
Sources
KONINGIN FABIOLAZAAL. n.d. The Laboratory of Seduction- History of Make-up. Antwerpen. Provinciebestuur Antwerpen.
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