Hello everybody and welcome back to another historically inspired hair and makeup tutorial
with myself Liv Free.
Today I'll be taking you back to the 18th century and demonstrating hair and makeup
on our beautiful model Kate Fenwick
and in the first part I will be demonstrating the hair and second part I'll be demonstrating
the makeup.
Okay so we've started by curling Kate's hair already.
I figured that was a fairly boring thing for you to sit and watch me do.
So you can start by curling your hair it's very simple. and all I'm going to do now is
sort of section Kate's hair.
and we're going for fairly big but not a huge 18th century hair do today - this is very
very similar to the hairstyle I did on actress Ellie Pickering's hair for the 18th century
Brunswick dressing video.
When it came to hair styling in the 18th century ladies would use something called Pomatum
in their hair.
Pomatum was made from animal fats and scented with pleasant herbs and spices.
This would have been worked throughout the hair.
Hair-powder, usually made from starch, was then applied for the fashionable look.
Hair-powders were often white but were also made in different colors such as brown, pink,
blue,
violet, gray, and orange.
The pomatum and powder together would have made the hair fairly easy to style.
You really want this part of the hair starting behind
Kate's ear - behind your ear - and just sort of push the front section of the hair forward.
I'm not going to bother clipping it because it's being rather obedient and staying where
it should. and I'm going to just take the front section and the top section and I'm
just going to backcomb the roots a little bit.
So with the back combing I'm not going up and down like that because you'll damage the
hair if you do that, but just literally just push the comb down towards the roots and you'll
see you get quite a lot of volume that way, and this is going to be the foundation for
our hair padding.
So that's just going to be something that I can pin the hair pads onto.
So don't worry about it being perfect now you're not going to see this bit.
So for the hair padding I've got one rather large bun ring here and a smaller one on top
so it looks, quite amusingly, a bit like a bread loaf, and I'm just going to pin that
onto that back combed section that we just created.
All I've done with these hair pads is just pin the two together.
Hair pads were made from wool cloth in a colour to match the wearer's hair.
These were stuffed with feather down or sheep's wool the hair was wrapped around the pads
and then pinned into place.
So probably, in all, probably going to put in about four pins to secure these hair pads
into Kate's head.
So with these side sections I'm just going to give it a bit of a spray some hairspray
- don't be shy you're going to need a lot of this stuff!
I'm just going to take a volumizing powder and I'm just going to sprinkle this on the
roots of the hair and backcomb ever so slightly you don't need much of this a little goes
a long way.
Okay so I'm just gonna leave it like that for now and then I'm just going to repeat
that on the other side so these front sections are what's going to be covering the bun ring
because you don't want to see that, obviously!
So now I can have a look at where I'm gonna bring this hair, so I'm just gonna bring the
front sections over the top of the bun ring and because we've got the product in the hair
and the the ha.. you know all the volumizing powder and the hairspray it will help support
the back-combing and you can sort of... now you can sort of play with where you're going
to put the hair.
You just sort of comb the outside of it so it looks a little bit smooth obviously.
Switch to my different comb.
Starting to see there's...
I need a bit more back combing in there.
A bit more hairspray... yeah okay I'm gonna put my first pin in now and that will help
just hold it in place while I continue to fiddle around.
So this pin will just go underneath the bun rings at the back
there.
Is that all right?
that's not in an uncomfortable place is it Kate?
-No
Good!
Okay, so that's one side where I'm fairly happy with where the hair is going I will
continue to sort of build and work around it.
So now I can work on just finalizing this side.
Just smoothing that hair out.
Just going in with my pin tail comb, I'm just sort of manipulating her hair.
So you can see any unevenness from the from the back combing you can just go in with your
pin tail comb, just sort of the metal part and just gently sort of tease those areas
out without ruining that by using a hair brush or anything.
So it's quite good for that really.
I'm just gonna pop another pin in to secure this bitch okay so now I can really start
to work on the shape and covering of the buns in there, smooth things out a bit.
just have a play and see what works best for you - in the mirror.
It doesn't feel heavy - at all.
Yeah it's a great thing about using those... that hair padding, it's not heavy.
Really all we're going to do is just sort of pin these curls up around the back here
so it's going to be fairly big here and we will also leave out a little bit just to hang
down.
so what I'm going to do is just take sections of these curls and I'm just going to sort
of roll them up into barrel curls, and I'm just going to pin them and you can just sort
of tease them out a little bit
then take a section, now I appreciate this be very hard to do on yourself so just sort
of roll the the curls up and pin them as best you can.
If you're doing it with somebody else then you know obviously this back bit will be a
little easier.
so I've taken another section of hair and I'm just going to hold this with my left hand
in between my index finger and my thumb and then when with my other hand I'm just going
to take that little tail of hair there and bring that up so you got a loop and then just
sort of wind your way up with the length of hair and then you've got this curl and then
you can pin that into position.
and that's a barrel curl and then you can just sort of tease that open a little bit
so you've got lots of volume there.
and so you just want to repeat that really until you've got most of this section of hair
up and in curls.
Okay, so I've got all of the hair pinned up and I've just left out this little bit here
and just giving it a bit of an extra curl and a bit of a hairspray and that's good to
go.
So and, Kate if you just turn you head this way for me.
So you can kind of see all of the curls here.
Now I appreciate it not all of you have the hair for this but you can use hair extensions,
that will work perfectly fine.
Alternatively you can just style a wig with this particular hairstyle and you know you
might find for all of the historical styles that might be the easiest way to go, but it's
exactly the same principle if you were styling your own hair, somebody else's or a wig, that's
why, it's good to see it from this... this point of view.
So now really all you have to do is just sort of see if there's any other tweaks that you
need to do... a bit more hairspray, just to make sure that you've got a good shape going
on at the front.
Which I think I'm quite happy with that.
I'm just gonna spray these curls at the back.
Now this is one of many different kind of eighteenth-century styles, it's same really
with any area that we do but if there's a particular hairstyle 18th century or no that
you would like to see me recreate, then please say in the comments!
Because I know that 18th century particularly is very very popular and I'm happy to do pretty
much anything cuz it's great fun for me!
So, yeah, let us know.
Ok so you could leave it like that or you could add some white hairspray, I've got some
white hairspray.
So we're gonna have a bit of fun.
Just make sure you cover your face.
Just give the appearance of powder that they used to use in their hair and in the wigs.
So you've got a good eighteenth-century piercing going there Kate!
Lovely I think that will do.
okay so you don't have to do that obviously but that's just a bit of fun and I couldn't
resist, so there we go here finished hair.
ten out of ten
approve well done
join us for part two
where I will be demonstrating the makeup
and you can see the finished look