Curls and Crimping

Curls and crimping featured a lot in Elizabethan hairstyles, they would have used different techniques to achieve these and they obviously wouldn’t have the latest Remington curler. In Lottie’s lesson we learnt how to achieve these curls and crimps.

For curls, section the hair you want to use. Place the end of the hair in the clip of the curling iron and twist it round will all the hair is wrapped around, holding it upright for about 7 seconds. Then release the clip and let the curl fall if worried that the curl will drop you can use a grip and hold it in place.

Some examples of curls in Elizabethan hairstyles are shown below.

These are the curls I tried out in lesson.

For Crimping, section the hair you want to use, starting at the root make your way down the hair going through each section of hair giving off a crimped affect. The crimped style was also very popular in the Elizabethan era examples include. 

I think this is a contemporary version of crimping at it has the height and texture of an Elizabethan hairstyle but also has a modern feel to it, with the models clothes and makeup. 

And the crimping i tried out in lesson:

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