aristophanes

Never occurred to me before, but the only difference between and Edwardian pompadour and a Marie Antoinette 'do is how far forward the false hairpiece is put. I was experimenting today for the sake of my Edwardian beauty blog and learned this by accident. Here's a terrible photo to show how it looks:



The back needs a little more padding and false hair to finish the rococo look, but I don't have my own hairdresser to help me. (Indicentally the idea that women typically wore full wigs I think is incorrect -- period illustrations almost always look like it's the women's own hair, and period books like Evelina that describe the hairdressing technique indicate that while the hair was padded and supplemented with some false hair, the base of the usual hairstyles was one's own real head of hair.)