Goodnotea9/2/2023 ![]() Because of the hole in both cushion types, excess hair can be rolled up and stuffed down in there, or pinned within the hole and the ends curled to sit atop, like we did with Laurie’s hair.Ĭynthia’s hair was just past her shoulders and was plenty to create the sculptural late 1760s hairstyle. Hair that is very long – waist-length or booty-length also works perfectly well with the 1770s styles. Add more height with a pouf, cap, hat, and feathers. Hair just past the shoulders can do a perfectly lovely “Beignet” with a scaled-down cushion. So long as your hair can reach up and into the donut hole, you can do the tall coiffure, and remember…your donut or ski slope cushion don’t need to be as large as the ones we make. Once pomaded and powdered, her hair was double the size and easily put up into the donut hair style with plenty left over for top curls, buckles, and chignon all made of her own hair.īoth Laurie and Jenny had quite long hair for the 1770s “Beignet” and “Ski Alpin” styles, but truth be told, Laurie’s hair didn’t need to be that long. Laurie has very, very long and fine hair. The bigger the cushion, the more hair (yours or someone else’s) you need. In the 1770s, though, very long hair was preferred for the very tall styles simply because you needed that much hair to get up and over the cushion. ![]() In “The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty” we cover the 1750s through the mid 1790s, and for a greater portion of that timeframe, shorter hair *in front* was the fashion, particularly with the frizzed 1780s hairstyles. Can you do a frizzed hairstyle with long hair? How long does your hair have to be to do the tall donut styles? Is there such a thing as hair that is *too* long? ![]() Nearly as often as we receive questions about doing 18th century hairstyles for short hair, we see the question come up for long hair. Jenny’s long hair was plenty to go over the ski slope hair cushion.
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