How To Do A 1770s Hedgehog Hairstyle With Hair Pieces

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Doing 18th century hairstyles doesn't have to be complicated! The magic of hairpieces - totally historically accurate to use! - makes doing elaborate 18th century hair styles much easier and much quicker. In this previously LIVE demonstration, Lauren uses a toupee, chignon, and pin-in buckles, combined with her own hair, to create a towering "herisson," or "hedgehog" hairstyle first popular in France around 1776.
To read more about Herisson hairstyles, check out this blog post - blog.americanduchess.com/2020/...
In This Video -
- "The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty" Book - bit.ly/2zJ1quo
*In this book are patterns, instructions, and photos for making the pomade, powder, toupee, cushions, buckles, and chignon, along with step-by-step instruction for doing lots of different hairstyles.
- U pins and bobby pins available at Sally Beauty Supply
While this funky 1770s hairstyle didn't come out perfectly (those buckles need work, as usual!), I hope I was able to answer a lot of questions and show the basics of putting a tall style like this together. The video was formerly live and I took questions while I did my hair, but it is now recorded. If you have further questions, please put them in the comments. Thank you!
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@lorettajames3175 4 года назад

My hair would be interesting with this hair style, as it is over 30" long. And it's purple and turquoise.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

it would look awesome!

@sestables 3 года назад

I am absolutely waiting for this content

@TimesmithDressHistory 4 года назад

So glad you filmed this, and I'm sorry I missed the live. My hair is finally approaching long enough to start thinking about hairpieces and as the 1770s is the period I end up representing most when in professional guise, I am girding my loins to dive in and start making hairpieces!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

excellent! as you know, it doesn't always have to be huge towering coiffures. You have lots and lots of options. :-)

@jenniferold-dentremont6698 4 года назад

That was really helpful to see some of the techniques in progress, as opposed to just still shots and descriptions. This makes a nice supplement to the book and I hope you have the opportunity to do more of these in the future for other styles.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Thank you! Yes, I plan to do more, either as live or recorded and edited. I'm glad you found it useful!

@nicoledeloncrais5940 4 года назад

Thank you so much yet again! totally brilliant. Being dyslexic the videos are almost vital for me. I am grateful to you all for this as support material for the book. Bless you babe

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

thanks! it's really hard to explain doing a hairstyle with written words - made the books very challenging since we couldn't put all the photos in. Video is a much better format, I think.

@morekalamatas 3 года назад

This was fascinating! Thanks for sharing your interests and gifts with us!

@AmericanDuchess1 3 года назад

Our pleasure!

@pv6450 4 года назад

Another great video! A perfect distraction on a rainy day

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@designdoctor247 4 года назад

Aaawwww i sooo wanted to see the photo shoot. Thanks for the fun video. Blessing

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

You shall! 1770s dressing video coming soon :)

@designdoctor247 4 года назад

@@AmericanDuchess1 yipppeeee excited!!!

@cincocats320 4 года назад

Seeing the do come together in real time was fabulous. Thanks for the demo. Its fun to see but Im so glad it is no longer the style. Id have to wear a cap all the time because all that rigamarole would drive me crazy.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

caps do serve such a lovely purpose for covering the not-great parts, lol. Or just a bad hair day. Or lazy day, hehe

@lauraburdett8932 3 года назад

My new favorite channel!

@AmericanDuchess1 3 года назад

thank you!

@Shade11906 4 года назад

Hi, from VA. My favorite hairstyle of all time!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

thank you!

@rebekah-chriss-k4872 4 года назад

Live is awesome sauce great video as well nice to see different crazy hairdos

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Thank you so much 🤗

@rebekah-chriss-k4872 4 года назад

@@AmericanDuchess1 you are welcome you all rock

@DandyWellington 4 года назад

You are an inspiration!!!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

or insane. not sure

@tenmiltenmil1770 3 года назад

December 9th Wednesday 2020 !!! I can’t believe I just wasted one hour watching the outcome of her wig when all I had to do was open up my sons history book and quickly look up Martha Washington !!! George Washington , Thomas Jefferson , Henry E Lee and John Adams etc ... wore curls like that except that George Washington used his own real hair !!! Thank goodness I didn’t live in that era because my thing is , my own natural ponytail , running shoes , spandex pants and tank tops !!! No makeup 💄 and lots of non scented deodorant !!! ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️🥰🥰🥰

@lijeanneconde9591 4 года назад

Very cool video! I bought your book and I very much enjoy it. About your question on buckles and why they were called "boucles": in french, the word "boucle" means "curl" when talking about hair-- having curly hair is "avoir les cheveux bouclés" :)

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

That explains it perfectly :-)

@Sweethomemovers 4 года назад

Great video !! keep it up

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Thanks!

@mnels5214 4 года назад

This is so great...tried logging in for the live feed but my wifi wasn't cooperating. Very glad you did not use the gas grill, that might have been way more drastic a style than you needed....

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

The mullet I never wanted! lollll

@kellyhamergia 3 года назад

By today's standard the hairstyles worn by the French aristocracy may seem ridiculous but was for that time beautiful and elegant. Etiquette, manners and civility reached its peak in 18th century Versailles. Love your channel!

@AmericanDuchess1 3 года назад

Yep, that's right. Hairstyling took way longer than getting dressed. The hairstylists were primarily male and would travel around visiting the boudoirs of the ladies to do their hair.

@renesagahon4477 Год назад

This was a horrible time if you were poor it’s easy to look nice have etiquette and manners if your rich … civility? The underprivileged were left to starve , the French and the Russians did the right thing getting rid of the aristocracy, hopefully the brits will do it next

@kissmekate14 4 года назад

Can't wait to buy the book, its been on my wish list (with a note stating it must be bought from your site = support small business, vs like Amazon) Will have to wait. Have an big 1870s project in the making that is taking over all the funds.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

thank you!

@drhelenloney1426 4 года назад

re; chinoiserie: European Porcelain production, in particular, English porcelains came out in the 1750s, and were becoming very popular in the 1780s

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

yup!

@suzismith9681 4 года назад

I have to be honest, knowing nothing about this time of dress. My insignificant input is... I would put small flowers between the buckles. And fill the front ones with some hair. But I love what you did, being a mother of 3 sons , hair wasn't high on the agenda. So I found this really interesting. Thankyou, so much, covid has taught me many things in lockdown!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Yes, I completely agree. I'm really not happy with how these buckles came out, so I've deconstructed them and I'm going to try again.

@suzismith9681 4 года назад

I love the buckles, knowing diddley squat about this.....I'd have stuck a flower in the front! Lol....being the creative interpreter that I am , wouldn't be able to help myself. Looking forward to seeing your new creation. Love what you do , keep up the great things And I adore the silly videos ! Such fun

@TimesmithDressHistory 4 года назад

I see in the live comments there were questions about fashion influences from Japan and that opened a wider discussion about banyans and wrappers. Really interesting two part presentation on that over on Neal Hurst's RU-vid channel - lots of research and extants shared by Mark Hutter. There's a lot of confusion around those terms, and women had their own versions too, though they didn't wear them out of the house the way men wore theirs. There's a 1720-1750 gown in Patterns of Fashion 1 that Janet Arnold called a "wrapping gown" -- I don't think that terminology holds up, I'm inclined to think it's an early iteration of Night-gown, which did start out as undress at the private end of that spectrum -- but the function/use certainly stands up. Anyway - it's fascinating! I made a "wrapper" (as in the men's style - using the cutting diagram in Diderot) to wear myself, from Dutch chintz lined with taffeta, and extended the lining at the sleeves to make wide, full pleated cuffs. One of my favourite things. :)

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

I'm going to check that out - thank you!

@KAB7020 5 месяцев назад

Regarding japeanese influece. I don’t know about robes but Marie Antoinette had a Japanese lacquer collection she inherited ( maybe her mother’s? ) se also died her hair pink at some point. I have no idea how. This was very interesting thank so much for making such videos. Alkanet has some benefits for the skin too. Like anti inflammatory and healing properties.

@CrankyBubushka 4 года назад

This is amazing. Wow. Such patients you have to do this. Do you ever get headaches from all that stuff on your head? Is it heavy?

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Thanks! It's actually quite light - the cushion is stuffed with ground cork. But it IS a lot of hair, and I do have to carry my head in a different way.

@TudorositiesbyMaureen 4 года назад

I did coconut oil to replace the tallow and lard, in the marschelle recipe which uses beeswax. The wax does give it more body but your ratio of oil to beeswax is very important.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

great tip!

@candycosmonaut 3 года назад

really great ..... love 18th century history relating to the personal ... so loved this .... and Im male !

@kathleens6837 4 года назад

Lauren, was there an "age appropriate" hair style for the time period or did women of all ages were the same styles? I'm closing in on sixty and my hair is youthfully long as apposed to elderly short. Just curios

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Great question! It depends on the woman's social status, location, even religion. An aristocratic lady of years would still want to be fashionable, and she would be used to having her hair dressed either by her ladies maid or a visiting hairdresser, who would be up on the latest fashions. That beings aid, fashion moved *fast* in France, so the latest-hottest on Marie Antoinette's head would take a little while to trickle down to everyone else depending on how close to the Queen and court one might be.

@musicfruits2920 4 месяца назад

✨❤️🌺💋✨💃🥂🔥🎄🌃☄️🎏🦢🌌🪐✨ Treasure... ❤

@vermillion9nelson188 4 года назад

I put my rouge in one of those plastic, squeezy bottles you can get in the cooking tools section at wal-mart for $0.99. The small opening is really handy for not getting rouge all over the place.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Yes, a small bottle with a small opening is best. I've seen great results with roller-ball top bottles too.

@mildredflemyng-middleton4795 4 года назад

Thank you for doing this, it was quite a lot of fun to watch. I do wonder if anyone has tried using Jojoba oil to make pomade -- it solidifies when chilled like coconut oil but since it's said to mimic sebum it may work more like the animal based ones?

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

oh, that sounds awesome! I'll add that to our list of other fats to try out. Thanks for the tip!

@mildredflemyng-middleton4795 4 года назад

@Mirage Sur As I've not been able to get my hands on pure unfiltered Jojoba oil I can't say for certain (I want it for skin reasonsprimarily), but my research says "around 50°F" (approximately 10 Celsius). And as Jojoba oil is technically a liquid wax ester if it's been filtered or adulterated to alter the chemical bonds to keep it liquid then it may not solidify at all. Rather similar to the difference between coconut oil and fractionated coconut oil from the reports I've found. My Ravenclaw tendencies demand I do more research on wax esters too, but in essnce; they formed of a bond between a fatty acid and a fatty alcohol. Google says beeswax is also apparently a wax ester?

@thelacedangel 4 года назад

The issue with jojoba is that it will stay liquid on the hair, and won’t cool down and settle into a solid form. Your body heat and the temperature of the room would never get cold enough for it to “set,” which is necessary when using pomades in this fashion.

@d.rabbitwhite 4 года назад

I think I'd use shea butter. It does solidify well, and it's melting point is higher than coconut. My dread wax, back when I had them, had shea butter and hemp and soy wax. Soy wax is a bit softer wax. I don't have the dreads, but I still have the wax, so I may try that with some extra shea in it, if it feels too stiff. I noticed someone commented that Jojoba oil may be good. Looking forward to the photo shoot upload.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Great idea! Interestingly, we did some research into the products geisha use on their hair and soy wax was the Japanese equivalent to pomade. :-)

@d.rabbitwhite 4 года назад

@@AmericanDuchess1 That is interesting to know.

@CrankyBubushka 4 года назад

Hi there. I am late to this. But thanks for the video!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

thanks for watching!

@user-kt7xp4zt2t 4 года назад

Красиво очень. Вы молодец

@lindafredtrauffer8175 4 года назад

Every time you used a Bobbi pin I could hear my Gran say, “Your going to break your teeth!”

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

it's a miracle I still have teeth, then

@lindafredtrauffer8175 4 года назад

American Duchess 😄😄😄

@peggyriordan9857 4 года назад

That was amazing! Thank you so much. I knew something was holding up those styles, but didn't know for sure what it was. I also learned that women had access to hair pieces in those days! Would you mind listing the name of the book by the male hairdresser you spoke of? I couldn't quite get his name and I replayed that section a few times. Thank you very much!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Yes, his name was Leonard Autie. His book is "Recollections of Leonard"

@peggyriordan9857 4 года назад

@@AmericanDuchess1 Thank you so much!

@Nariasan 4 года назад

Fantastic video! How did you make that toupet? Can you do a tutorial on making that sort of cushion with hair pieces on it?

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Thanks! The book I showed - The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty - has patterns and step by step instructions with photos for the hair pieces and cushions. :)

@cassiehall479 4 года назад

If you have trouble with the U shaped pins not staying bend the ends back and they'll hook onto the hair as they go through

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

I've tried that before and honestly they're darn near impossible to get *out* of the hair, lolll

@JustIsold 4 года назад

I am going to weigh in on the alkanet as hairdye! You can dye wool with it but it's usually with a mordant to make it stick, and DO NOT use any kind of mordant for fabric dyeing on your hair! They're usually metals or other chemicals you need to be careful with! But I think you could definitely do some experiments with hair from your brush and see what happens!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Thank you for answering that!

@JustIsold 4 года назад

@@AmericanDuchess1 I'm curious myself now! I don't think it would be permanent, since you tend to have to boil dyestuffs and let's not boil our hair! But just because it isn't permanent doesn't mean it won't deposit colour at all!

@emanuelemaritan3336 Год назад

Best coiffure and real 18th century dresses you're so good an Fun brava kisses from Manuel to Bassano del grappa, Veneto Italia ciaooooo.

@AmericanDuchess1 Год назад

grazie! thank you!

@RobinT346 4 года назад

I really want to experiment with some vegan pomades now. I wonder if a little bit of soy wax might work to add firmness (just a little bit as with beeswax). coco butter makes sense though. I imagine people in the UK or cooler climates will have better results with vegetable based oils since they'll not melt so much!

@d.rabbitwhite 4 года назад

I Just posted similar comment. I have shea butter as I use it to make deodorant, lip balm, and I have some old dread wax from when I had those that has shea, hemp, soy wax, although my dread wax is much softer than that of my friend's beeswax mix. Shea butter has a higher melting point when compared to coconut and does not get the weird smell after several hours. I'm going to try those things. Someone in the comments suggested Jojoba oil for its likeness to the scalp's sebum, so i may try that as well.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Yes, please do try it!

@susanpolastaples9688 4 года назад

I started watching probably after it was over. My question concerns Aveda makes a hair pommade. Could I use it for the Pommade? This was fun. Hedgehogs are so loveable animals and could you put a real Hedgehog in your Hedgehog? Or is it a Georgian myth that ladies used live animals in some of the higher hairdos?

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

I generally like Aveda products because they're natural. I don't know specifically what is in the pomade, but the key is that it is lightweight and will soak up and combine with the powder. Also yes, totally a myth that live animals were hangin' out in the hairdos, lol

@YukiLeiu 3 года назад

@@AmericanDuchess1 yay! I work with Aveda products and I was sad to hear that it’s work best with animal fat, so I’m going to test with my Aveda products and see how they work :)

@d.rabbitwhite 4 года назад

Adding a comment, commenting on the weird recommendations that showed up as a result of watching this video. I think the algorithm has evolved into some near AI that has a sense of the absurd

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

interesting!

@amandabeachlife3838 4 года назад

Hello

@jessicaleffler4037 4 года назад

Would a hair dresser coming to your home in the morning be a regular occurrence or just for special occasions? What would an upper middle class or aristocratic lady do for daily hair?

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Yep, a regular occurrence for aristocratic ladies, but not always every day. There is some really interesting information from the 1780s about how long a lady could keep her hair "in dress" by basically tying a scarf around it at night and then just fluffing it up in the morning (called "filleting").

@Ladygeorgianaduchess 2 года назад

Dang i could pull that off

@jenniferandrew3373 4 года назад

If Bobbie pins did exist back then, people would have totally used them.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

agreed!

@AnimeKittenCait 4 года назад

I wonder if modern men's hair pomade would work the same way

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

It depends on what it is made from. Glycerin-based hair pomades are too heavy and sticky but the powder doesn't stick well. A light, creamy pomade with beeswax might work quite well though.

@saundriaegan7976 2 года назад

What were these hair pieces made of?

@AmericanDuchess1 2 года назад

the cushions are made of knit and a filling like wool batting, ground cork, or horsehair. The hair rolls and other pieces are made of hair.

@hazeluzzell 4 года назад

I have an ancestor (UK) back in 1700’s who registered his occupation as hairdresser. I expect he would be dressing hair in the home. No other information was given.

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Yep, in other people's homes! Male hairdressers had a morning circuit and they would visit their clients in the boudoirs, dress the hair, then on to the next house :-)

@jennifermott5651 4 года назад

How do you get all this stuff OUT of your hair???

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

wash it with shampoo twice. :-)

@renesagahon4477 Год назад

Ajax!

@staceymarkum3873 4 года назад

Love everything but the buckles; those things are hideous! Oh my goodness!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

they are indeed super weird, but so iconic to the 18th century

@rodentary 4 года назад

Ok Hairison make sense. Why hedgehog though?

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

it seems to be because the hair sticks straight up at the top in "spikes" like a hedgehog. The French had a sense of humor in how they named their fashions in the 18th c. :-D

@lauraburdett8932 3 года назад

Wouldn't most ladies have had a helper or servant to help her put her hair up? At least the better of ladies?

@AmericanDuchess1 3 года назад

yup! most hairdressers were actually men. They'd come to a lady's home and do her hair in her boudoir (there are fascinating paintings and prints of this). Some lady's maids were also skilled in hairdressing, much to the chagrin of the male hairdressers.

@marylee9122 Месяц назад

@CrankyBubushka 4 года назад

Is this hairstyle something wealthy ladies wore?

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

Yes indeed

@greergarlick4675 4 года назад

The way that i see it, is of anyone wants to go the historically accurate way, then its animal fat products or nothing!

@AmericanDuchess1 4 года назад

animal fats were the accurate material and they work in a particular way, but I've seen some videos where people have used modern alternatives and they've come out pretty well even when the chemistry of the material is very different than an animal fat.