18th century hair

Regular readers will know that I’m all about the 18th century, baby. I can’t totally explain it, except that it’s 1. fabulous, 2. gorgeous, and 3. better than all your other eras.…

Found this wonderful drawing of over a dozen different 18th century hairstyles. It includes many that might have been warn by Georgina, Duchess of Devonshire. You must click to see the up-do with t…

After styling an 18th century wig for the first time last year, I wanted to give it another go and make myself another. I decided this time I wanted to try the hedgehog style. I had a look through the pictures I have saved of the style for inspiration, as it can vary a bit and settled on something like the images below. I also decided I wanted to make it in pink, as coloured hair powders were actually a thing back then and I thought it would be fun. Plus it would be a little ode to the 2006…

“Historical hairstyle, 18th century, stunning! http://t.co/6vNcJWCFQg”

Costume movies tend to screw up certain things on repeat. We count down the top 8 things that costume movies screw up when it comes to 18th century costume.

"Hannah Bloomfield Giles," 1784, Joseph Wright (1756-1793)

For Snark Week, Trystan threw down with her list of supposedly bad redheads in historical costume movies. I refuted in the comments, but if she’s going to start something, I’ve got to f…