Practicing an Elizabethan Hairstyle

Last week, relying on our current skills we were asked to practice on one of our peers an Elizabethan hairstyle. So I curled the front part of my models hait and then using a pad I tried to create my interpretation of Elizabethan Hairstyle:

I didn't crimp the hair of my model because her natural hair is curly and with a lot of volume, so I thought that it doesn't need to be crimped to create the shape and the volume I needed. My version of Elizabethan Hairstyle was a kind of modern Elizabethan hairstyle because the pad should be higher, while mine is lower than it had to be. Anyway I'm happy with my work even if it was difficult to curl an already curly hair

This kind of hairstyle is inspire by some of Elizabethan hairstyles sush as:

http://4206e9.medialib.glogster.com/media/6ae0a47d7da4d687c4797d347975a926a89909d95c85a243a90669d7ddfac18c/queen-elizabeth-1-kings-and-queens-9843855-1500-1650.jpg

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizaburghley.jpg

A heart-shape hairstyle

 While continuing to practice the Elizabethan hairstyles, we were asked to create a heart-shaped hairstyle relevant to the Elizabethan era. So I started my work with sectioning the hair into 2 parts, from one ear to another. I crimped the upper part and I left the bottom part straight. I devided the crimped hhair into 2 equal parts and then I put the padding in. After padding the crimped hair I made a bun on the back of the head.

I found difficult to back-comb the hair for making the bun, because my model's hair is a heavy straight kind of hair and it is also rebel. I would use a hairspray to make it easier to shape it.

  This hair style was inspired by Elizabethan designs such as:

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz5-mainpic.jpg

http://www.blackworkarchives.com/art/ElizabethBrydges_lg.jpg