I have been looking at my faire pictures and I have desided to figure out a new way to do my hair. So ladies (and gents) how do you do your hair? Pictures if you have em!
It depends on what I'm wearing. Are you talking fairwear or historically accurate? Noble or wench or fantasy? You can see my hair in my avatar; it's a bit too long for the style, but it was based on Italian hairstyles (also, I *hated* the way the white caul looked on me; hence the pillbox hat instead):
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2761/4150726978_a36553eed5.jpg)
Here's a hairstyle tutorial that I really like. I'm having trouble getting a good part in my hair, though:
http://www.lynnmcmasters.com/hairdo.html (http://www.lynnmcmasters.com/hairdo.html)
And a shot of the nearly-finished style:
(http://www.lynnmcmasters.com/hairstyle/hairdo14.jpg)
Ummm..... takes me about 15 minutes to shave it smooth.
Cheating! :P
Usually I just straighten mine or pull the front bit back into 2 small ponytails. Eventually I will get a good hat or net thingy to use. But until then...
My hair is of medium length. I just put it in a snood and that is it!
Depends on the character and the hat I'm wearing
For wenchy peasant, I usually go with pig tails.
H/A Medieval peasant I leave it down but cover it with a veil
For noble I either put it up in a caul or leave it down and wear a hat.
For pirate I mess it up and plop a cavalier hat on top
For pirate-era noble... well, it gets complicated...
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v376/163/97/72600033/n72600033_38508614_645.jpg)
Long and loose, wild and free!
Or I bundle it up and tuck it under a pirate hat.
And there is such a thing as good bedhead.
I wash it first then shake the water out and let it dry as it falls. Not terribly complicated but it gives me that ancient highland, fresh from the shared pillow of a young maiden look. ;)
The way I wear my hair everyday is the way I wear my hair at faire, which is in my profile picture.
However, if I wear noble garb, I wear it in a snood with my French hood.
This is a pretty good shot showing my snood and hat.
I have hair that is almost waist length so its much cooler and simpler if I wear it up in a snood.
(http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x71/Dona_Catalina/Scarby%202009/April26Scarby.jpg)
depending on the weather (heat and wind) I usually let mine fly free.
I don't like tangles so I typically pull the fringe out of the way with a clip them pull the back into a pony tail, then braid it with a bow at the end. However if I want to get artys I do low pig tails, braid them then do princess leia buns. It makes camping easier. I can just braid them for the weekend. Take out the pins in at night, then re do it the next morning for fair. no tangles, and easy up due to heat.
Since I'm an elf, I usually do some variation of fancy braids. Sometimes I try to do stuff like you (can kind of) see in my avatar (I'm not quite that good at doing it myself yet. That was done by a professional, for my wedding), sometimes I do LoTR movie inspired stuff, sometimes I do Princess Leia hair, and sometimes I just grab chunks and braid. :)
I wear either faire hair, dreads, or my natural afro puff thing, depending on how I am dressed.
I used to spend a lot of time working on braids and gathering them up and stuff- then covered it all with a hat! =P I wised up and figured out not to waste my time on the cute braids and pretty hair and just shove it all under a snood now! Well, that is when I'm a noble. When I'm a fairy it all depends on how I'm feeling and how much time I have before heading to Fest. I like to do curls and half up/half down. If it is crazy hot I'll put it all up, some times in pigtail buns, some times in a 'fancy updo.' Other times I'll just let it hang wild.
I just wear down, my normal way, with a chainmail headpiece to keep it out of my way. If in gypsy glamour, I also wear a scarf. If showing my fae self, I pull the top back to cover the elastic from my horns.
Most of the time I just wear my hair down. If I have the money I'll pay the ladies at faire to braid my hair. My hair absolutly refuses to curl (GRRR!!!). So long and straight is the only way.
I usually wear my hair up (much more comfortable in the summer) under a wrap, turban, or hat.
Depends on the outfit, the weather, the mood... Sometimes I'll let it go curly, sometimes I put it up and wear my faire hair, sometimes I'll straighten it, sometimes I'll go with a wig if it's not sweltering hot...
...and then sometimes I just get lazy and let the wild beast roam free! (Like today...seriously - it's a lion's mane!)
Pads, braided, sometimes taping, buns, and twisted. Bound by non period barrettes, bobby pins, and pony tail holders.
Quote from: gem on May 04, 2010, 06:10:20 PM
http://www.lynnmcmasters.com/hairdo.html (http://www.lynnmcmasters.com/hairdo.html)
And a shot of the nearly-finished style:
(http://www.lynnmcmasters.com/hairstyle/hairdo14.jpg)
I started wearing mine like this last year, along with my pretty gold and pearl escoffion (from a Lynn McMaster's pattern!). What I like about this hairstyle was that after the faire, when we'd go out to eat, I could take down my hair, brush it, and have something fairly decent looking. And it stayed put all day! ;D
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v5207/28/113/16925321/n16925321_40847618_276799.jpg)
It all depends. If I'm coming from home or from a hotel, I'll curl it and then pin the sides back. If I'm camping on-site AKA without electricity, I usually wrap it up in a bun and hairspray it before I go to bed. When I let it down in the morning, it's kind of curly-ish and has some volume, so I call it good. If it's really hot, I just say 'Screw this' and ponytail it :)
Right now, I'm getting ready to be on court at my home faire, so I'm working with different fancy updos right now. I liked the hairdos of the ladies in waiting in Elizabeth a lot but I'm having trouble finding pictures of them online.
Here's a pretty good link for pics from the films. They have Bess's hair and some others...
http://www.costumersguide.com/cr_elizabeth.shtml (Elizabeth)
http://www.costumersguide.com/cr_elizabeth2.shtml (The Golden Age)
Thank you!
Most of my hair has left me for parts unknown...I've more beard than hair upon my head. I figure in a couple more years I'll have a beard long enough to do a subtle comb-over...
`til then, I let my hair (all three of them) roam free, but I'll occasionally put a few braids in my beard. Also found a very cool spiral thing-a-ma-bob (the technical name) at Scarby this year that most folks wear in their hair, but I can wear in the beard.
My hair is very short. Not exactly period unless I want to pretend that I have just sold it. :) So, I wear a 3/4 wig and put it up in the back into a snood. Makes me look as though i have long beautiful locks! :)
I just met Mythrin today (!!!), and she was kind enough to show off her hair (which is quite long). She had it braided into two long braids, with lengths of ribbon braided in. Then, in about ten seconds--maybe even less!--she wrapped the braids around her head and tied the ribbons together. She says it's super-easy, period-correct, and stays put all day. I want to try it, but my hair is layered (for mundane wear), and I'm not sure I can manage the pigtail braids.
Mythrin had a hat on in the pix we took, but here's a Ghirlandaio portrait showing more or less the same style:
(http://lh4.ggpht.com/_eIY5UI7L9HU/SrZitrzXv2I/AAAAAAAACvo/fP5zJb65bLI/s512/Lucrezia%20Sommaria%20%28Ridolfo%20Ghirlandaio-1510%29.jpg)
This is great guys! Keep it coming its really fun to see how everyone else does it!
When my hair was long ( I just cut and donated over 18 inches of braid to Locks of Love), I would braid it in 2 braids and wear a kertch or a veil for my peasent look. For a noble look I wore a caul or snood and hat. For my pirate persona it was beaded braids, head scarves and whatever else struck my fancy. Now that I have a graduated bob, I have figure out how to play with the front hair but hide the shorter back hair.
I do my daughter Sarah's hair for fair in an Elizabethan type style. We use two knee high stockings stuffed with dryer lint (strange but true) as rats to roll up the front part then I just make multiple braids out of the rest and twist and pin in a pretty knot all on the back and decorate with pearls.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3903310385_b827851980.jpg)
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/3904096938_a729f1e571.jpg)
This shot of the back is a rush job but you get the idea...
When she is doing her "Celtic" look we just roll it up with setting lotion in a mass of perm rods the night before and she wears these amazing ringlets! These are toooo fun! They bounce all over!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/3904077126_d814946bf6.jpg)
I have really short hair so I completely conceal it in a coif and hat... If any peeks out I just say I spent some time in a convent and the sisters sheared me!
Amy, that's fantastic! Could you take a picture of the rats themselves? I'm having trouble picturing how fat to make them. What holds them in place?
Think of putting another kneehigh stocking inside the toe of the one stocking.
They are held in with the hair its self think of it as a mushy curler.
For my Elven persona I use a clip on hair piece for the back, add my yarn hair on top and twist a small bit of yarn and hair from clip to the metal braid twists to cover part of the ears to help hide the seams.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/firehillqueen/ReynaScarMay10.jpg)
Shave it smooth myself.
I'll have to see if I can come up with a pic of the rats. In that older photo we were doing them rather small, but with confidence they got stuffed more and more. I smoothed the hair over and hold with a comb. They are very squishy so you can mold then spary!
Thanks, Amy! I'd love to see that.
I just found a great tutorial for a common Italian hairstyle on Kat's Purple Files!
http://katerina.purplefiles.net/garb/hair/HairRoll.html
(http://katerina.purplefiles.net/garb/hair/pics/Portrait%20of%20Maria%20di%20Cosimo%201%201555-1557%20Alessandro%20allori%20detail%20e.jpg) (http://katerina.purplefiles.net/garb/hair/pics/roll%20fin1.jpg)
My hair will actually do this without all the teasing, but I love how she's embellished it.
That is a very cute hair do, isn't it. :)
Its funny I have a book on the hair styles of the 30's,40's and 50's and there is a section on the different silhouettes that were aimed for and some of them are very close to the silhouettes that were used in the Renaissance!
And there are some neat styles that I would love to try in there too
Quote from: gem on May 20, 2010, 10:19:47 PM
Thanks, Amy! I'd love to see that.
I just found a great tutorial for a common Italian hairstyle on Kat's Purple Files!
http://katerina.purplefiles.net/garb/hair/HairRoll.html
(http://katerina.purplefiles.net/garb/hair/pics/Portrait%20of%20Maria%20di%20Cosimo%201%201555-1557%20Alessandro%20allori%20detail%20e.jpg) (http://katerina.purplefiles.net/garb/hair/pics/roll%20fin1.jpg)
My hair will actually do this without all the teasing, but I love how she's embellished it.
Wow, nice job. :)
Michaela de Bruce has some gorgeous shots of her hair on her site (http://costumes.glittersweet.com/sca/spanish/valois.htm).
Tiny thumbnails, but you'll get the idea:
(http://costumes.glittersweet.com/sca/spanish/th_2valoisda6.jpg) (http://costumes.glittersweet.com/sca/spanish/th_2valoisda7.jpg)
(http://costumes.glittersweet.com/sca/spanish/valoisk5.jpg)
(I'm guessing there's some false hair under the pearls.)
This is very encouraging to me, because my hair is very thin in front, and it's nice to see someone else with hair that looks similar, all done up beautifully like this.
Just discovered that there are *lots* of tutorials on Ren-friendly hairstyles on YouTube! (Finally, a reason to watch! LOL)
Looks like there is a false braid under the pearls. If anyone wants to try something like that I would go to a Sallys Beauty and get some hair extenstons and braid them and pin it in the way that you want and tada!
*note to self go to youtube*
Any links Gem?
I just did a search for "Elizabethan Hairstyle" and "Renaissance hairstyle" and a bunch of things popped up. More specific terms (like "hair taping" etc) might get more. :)
Just happened upon this page (http://www.youtube.com/user/torrinpaige) in a facebook link, and thought it had some fun period and fantasy hairstyle tutorials...
Noble: snood with flat cap on top
Wench: Pig tails with ribbons.
Currently, I wear my hair twisted back and pinned into a bun underneath my escoffion and tall hat with my noble garb, and I wear it in looped up pigtail braids under a sort of giant cotton snood with my "milkmaid" look.
I have close to waist length thick hair with a slight wave/curl, I mostly always wear my hair down, the humidity will dictate how big it gets, ha! ::)
If it's really hot and humid my hair will get really curly so I will then usually pile it on top of my head and let it be a big poof of hair.. :D
I am trying something new. I have been putting my hair up in a banana clip and then wearing the flat cap over that. It works pretty good when there's no hurricane. ;D
Opening weekend, I spent the whole day on Saturday fighting with my snood to keep it upon my head, as it's not actually attached to a hat or other headpiece, and the barrette I was using was just not staying in my hair for some reason (they are from http://morganreed.net/ and generally do a GREAT job, but that day was NOT the day, apparently). Sunday I wore my feathered headband and just pulled my hair back into a loose ponytail.
Second weekend, I left it down in back with the feathered headband, but the wind did a real number on the back and combined with the sloppy ponytail I threw it into before I got in the shower to keep it from getting wet (and keeping me up later waiting for it it dry, since I try not to use a blow-dryer on it), then failed to take down before bed made for a HUGE knot when I woke up Sunday morning. Since then, I've been using one of my larger Morgan's Mane barrettes to pull it up and back loosely. I've no idea what I'll do this weekend, we'll just have to wait and see. I like the look of it down, all pulled back I think is too severe, and too many wispy bits around my face drive me crazy, so who knows!
If I don't condition my hair, I wear it like this-----
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e65/welshwench/frizzhairedqueen.jpg)
It's good to be the queen of the jungle.
And i thought I was the only one that went Tina Turner in the 80's when its humid or not conditoned
Nope! Heard I hold the title! ;D
That's what my hair looks like after I take it down from a day of faire!
Oh Syrilla! I saw you had posted here and I was so excited that you were finally going to reveal the secret to your beautiful rolls!
I generally just let my hair be loose and wild. Occasionally ill do tiny French braids on either side with just the top part of my hair and tie them together at the back.
I have super short hair and for years covered it up with a scarf or hat. Now I'm just to lazy and wear it the same as I do in the "outside" world. Altho last year I had one of the vendors bring in a feather headband/ring/garland thingie (lol any idea what I'm talking about?) so now at least you won't notice my lack of hair so much due to all the feathers flying around!
Its going to be hot at the faire this weekend. I'm playing Nobility. I would normally wear my hair in a snood with my flat cap on top. I have about shoulder length hair. Is there a quick hair style I could do, and still wear my flat cap?
Sigh. I usually just leave my hair down. I would love to put it up but its hopeless, since it has a mind of its own.
The only way to control it would be to chop it all off and I have been tempted a time or two just to wear hair like a boy. ::)
Iam envious of the many hair styles!!
Quote from: Once Debauched on April 28, 2011, 04:12:13 PM
I have super short hair and for years covered it up with a scarf or hat. Now I'm just to lazy and wear it the same as I do in the "outside" world. Altho last year I had one of the vendors bring in a feather headband/ring/garland thingie (lol any idea what I'm talking about?) so now at least you won't notice my lack of hair so much due to all the feathers flying around!
oooo. Would that be a 'Halo'? I wants one of those....
They're called Feather Festoons, and lots of vendors are carrying them now... in all sorts of wonderful colors!
One benefit of having a wizard persona it that you are somewhat expected to look strange and wild, which comes natural to me. My hair is quite thin these days, and I let it fly at is wants.