Early Victorian Hair

Early Victorian Hair

You will need:

Pin Tail Comb

Hair Grips

Hair Elastics

Hair Tongs

Method:

Use the comb end of the tail comb to smooth the hair at the front of the head back and section to create a strong, straight centre parting.

Section the hair from the centre parting down to the back of the ear, if you’re using a Katie head section further behind the ear as they don’t have as much hair as most real people.

Pin these sections out of the way for now.

Smooth the rest of the hair and place into a high ponytail using a hair elastic to secure it. When you have practiced the look with a hair elastic you will be able to complete the look without one.

In early Victorian times high buns were popular, if you’re doing a later Victorian look you may want to do the bun slightly lower.

Section the hair in the ponytail into two sections and twist them around each other, or split the hair into three sections and do a plait.

Then wrap the twist or plait around the hair elastic and secure with grips.

At the front of the hair you could do curls or a plait.

For curls:

Use hair curling tongs and curl sections of the hair, about four sections on each side should create a nice look, but you can change the number and thickness of the sections to suit your design.

Make sure you curl all the hair towards the face as this was seen as flattering in Victorian times.

Slide the tong down the section of hair you are curling and then spiral the hair up the tong so the hair is covering all of the tong.

Use the pointed end of the tail comb to took the ends of the hair around the tong and to smooth any hair you need to keep flat as you are spiralling it around the tong.

Also hold the tongs in place vertically straight towards the ceiling to create a Victorian style of curl.

If you need to you can put the comb between the hair and the tong to protect the scalp from the heat.

Hold the tong in place for a few seconds and then carefully release the curl keeping the tongs vertical as much as possible so the curl hangs down nicely.

For plaits:

Take the section of hair and direction it towards the ear.

Section the hair into three and start plaiting from the height of the bottom of the ear- remember 

French plaits were not used in Victorian times.

Loop the plait around the ear and secure the bottom of it into the bun using hair grips.

I originally tried doing two curls in the hair but found it difficult as the sections of hair were too big for the tongs I had. Therefore I did four curls instead and the curls were a lot neater and had a better, more uniformed shape. I attempted the bun with and without a hair elastic and found that I could get all of the hair to lie flat against the scalp and in the direction I wanted the hair to go a lot more easily when using the hair elastic. I tried angling the hair forwards and backwards when I was plaiting to see which worked best, and angling it backwards made the hair lay flatter and overall looked better but angling in forwards did help to create the loop shape.

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The Young Victoria fim

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The Young Victoria film