Victorian hair

Early Victorian era (1980s) hair usually consisted of spiral curls, half hair up with middle parting, and hair usually being only shoulder length





During and after the civil war plaits became very popular as well as buns. Usually the the hair would be plaited first and swirled around to create a bun, very often the bun would either be very low or very high of the head. The sides would either also be plaited and connected with a bun or left loosely with very tight curls





Later on in 1870's the hairstyles started to slightly change and the texture and shape of the curls were different (not the usual spiral ones) also the buns started to go out of fashion and women liked to wear their hair down with front of the hair being clipped back






In the classroom I tried to create a Victorian hairstyle myself. I wanted to incorporate bun with curls as it seemed like it was a staple of Victorian era for a long time. I started by sectioning the hair near the hair line all around the head and clipping back the hair that was not sectioned along the hairline. I grabbed a curling iron and started to curl the hair in very small sections to create those tight curls. Once I was finished with the curls I grabbed the bottom section of the hair and twisted it while grabbing the remaining hair and creating a ponytail at the top of the hair. I created a plait from the ponytail and twisted it around the bobble so it looks like a neat bun