Show me your "historical" hairstyles/tutorials!

**bettylibertine** · February 27th, 2012, 03:01 PM

Originally Posted by MermaidTresses

I love this blog: http://rapunzelsresource.wordpress.com/
she has great tutorials for period hairstyles!!

Oh yes I love that website. The styles are just fantastic! And I really love her hair curling tutorials

Originally Posted by heidi w.

I really want to make youtube videos because a lot of these updos cannot be done or done so easily at my hair length. Not a lot of info for updos on very long hair, it seems to me.

Oh please do!

Originally Posted by door72067

this video channel has helped me a lot
http://www.youtube.com/user/isaetno
there isn't any audio instructions, but the hand placements are quite clear

Thank you! I haven't seen this one before

**door72067** · February 27th, 2012, 06:15 PM

you're welcome

**bettylibertine** · February 27th, 2012, 07:10 PM

For anyone who's interested - I found another good one here

**Tisiloves** · March 3rd, 2012, 03:37 AM

Some hardcore historicals here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/jntvstp/featured

It's a little academic, but many of them are easily adapted to modern methods.

**GaJunebug** · March 3rd, 2012, 04:17 AM

Also, check out the tutorials on American Dutchess. She has great how tos and also shows how to with wigs if you don't want to backcomb and tease your own hair into a hedgehog style.

http://americanduchess.blogspot.com/

**bettylibertine** · March 3rd, 2012, 07:51 PM

Ooo yes I really enjoy her tutorials Tisiloves! Thanks for the suggestion

I've never come across this one before GaJunebug. Looks like there's some great stuff on there (and the costumes are so pretty!). Thank you!

**Honestwitness** · March 3rd, 2012, 09:25 PM

Yes, Tisiloves, thanks so much for sharing this link to Janet Stephens' videos on hairstyle archaeology. I learned something from the one on Julia (something) 2 that I did not know before. She mentioned her theory that Julia must have suffered from 'distal-side androgenic alopecia.' She showed how the before and after braids are so different in thickness, especially toward the ends.

I googled this condition and from what I found, I believe I have it too. I have entire areas of my head where the terminal length is only about six inches, mostly on my lower areas, not on the canopy so much. If you look at my "Hair Weaknesses" album, you can see what I mean.

Anyway, it was good to see that women have dealt with this in creative ways, even in antiquity.

**AnqeIicDemise** · March 4th, 2012, 12:26 AM

Ooh.. I need to look it up but there is a youtube channel of a forensic hair dresser. Its amazingly beautiful! You'd need a partner to do most of them as she does the styles by replicating the methods used originally.

**AnqeIicDemise** · March 4th, 2012, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by Tisiloves

Some hardcore historicals here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/jntvstp/featured

It's a little academic, but many of them are easily adapted to modern methods.

AHA! Here it is, she beat me to it. I love her channel so much.