Initial ideas

    For our assesment we are asked to create a New Elizabethan hairstyle that will be suitable for ourselves. For doing that we have to apply our actual skills and of course improve our knowledge by making researches and finding new inspirations. So I've started my research by looking at Elizabethan portraits wich afascinated me most paying a particular attention to the hairstyle in those portraits.

    I started with thinking about creating a hairstyle which is influenced by the very famous Elizabethan hair design that we usually call " Heart-shape".

http://www.bottesfordhistory.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/lizpic.jpg
After that I was looking for a contemporanean design for this kind of hairstyle:

"Pinterest"- downloaded on the phone

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio3JtP42F4Uy2FBzl17hex2bl5C8JriQhFaMS7xuDV5RaCTzjy3_jN1WzaAXV4cV-I9K_vQupOgh9O8OJrXgnavtYaTJL7djTV7V8WhwyzNDSISUqRuV2h5JrtEJKgXJScYGYvnRUGY5w/s1600/mcqueenelizabethian.jpg

I think this image represents perfectly a contemporanean style of Elizabethan heart-shape haisrtyle thanks to the disordered styling of the hair, which I like a lot so I tried to create my own hairchart including another Elizabethan dettail which is the french plait:

So I wanted to create a kind of messy heart-shape on the top the head and behind on the bottom I wanted to have a horizontal french plait as I don't have a long hair and it is not enough to have it all up into the padding. After that I thought that the heart-shape won't suit me as we also had the task to create on each other a heart-shape design and I didn't really liked it for the shape of my face.

I've done other researches and I found a way of changing my hair chart saving anyway's the heart-shape, inspire bu the following picture that I found on the Pinterest:

"Pinterest"- phone download

In my hair-chart I thought to make three pads: one small in the middle and two bigger pads in the top left and right side of the head, in order to create the heartshape. As an ornament I would use Pearls arround the two pads that form the heart-shape. It is important to remember tha Queen Elizabeth loved wearing pearls, and it is very noticeable also in her portraits. The pearls were a symbol of purity,this is why she wears them as a decoration on her gown and hair. In the back part of the head I would fix the small pad that is in the middle with a pin wich would have on it a small bow and the I would devide the rest of the hair into two equal parts and I would make two french plaits.

To be honest I fell inlove with this design. I found it very Elizabethan and modern at the same time.But while trying to create this look on me,at home, with one of my peers, we foud it too difficult to make it whith my hair,because as I already said my hair is not long enough. So I couldn't reach the hight I really wanted and also it was very complicated to make the french braids as my hair on the back is much shorter than the front part so it was nearly impossible to do it.

After all these tests I decided to change my hair design again. So after looking at other Elizabethan portraits I found my inspiration in the fallowing portraits:

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http://www.britannia.com/history/images/elizabeth_2.jpg

http://goodmusicbrighterchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Queen-Elizabeth-1.jpg

This hair chart consists of a high pad on the top of my head and two small and very tight french plaits un the left and right side of the head and on the back I would loke to have a low bun:

My final design