Elizabethan Hairstyles

Queen Elizabeth once again set the trends for the hairstyles in the renaissance period. Hairstyles were highly important in the extravagant fashion. Hairstyles were also necessary for achieving attention in court. Queen Elizabeth had a natural red colour hair. This red hair look was copied by many other women during this era, an upper class Elizabethan woman continued this fashion further and dyed their with a mixture of saffron, cumin seed, celandine and oil. Wigs were also regularly used, Queen Elizabeth had a wide variety of wigs and hair pieces and was believed to have over eighty. Elizabethan hair styles for women were designed to match the upper class fashions, women kept their hair long, the long hair flowing hair of a young girl was a sign of a virgin and the favoured hairstyle for a bride on her wedding day, once a woman reached the married status she kept her hair up. Much of the hair was covered by some form of head covering. Long hair was normally kept up in a bun to where a variety of head coverings would be pinned.