hello and good morning lovely friends i have a lot of hair and history has a ton of awesome hairstyles that i've always wanted to try and i've got a bit of time on my hands so hey this video is kindly sponsored by one dream and i will talk a bit more about them later but for right now let's just jump on into it starting with the early 1500s we have a fairly consistent center part kind of smooth look going on the hair is likely all one length and fairly long which is convenient because that's wha
t i've got we don't know for sure though because usually the length of the hair isn't visible and based on the prior and following decades though and the positioning of the headdresses it's pretty likely that the length of the hair is wrapped up in braids around the head like so i don't have a french hood so a veil is going to have to do 10 years later into the 1530s and not much has really changed hairstyle wise although italy has added like a fun round hat kind of mimicking this veil shape to
the equation which is kind of cute i do want to add a quick footnote to say that i can't possibly cover every nuance of every style for every decade i'm just going to do ones that seem to be pretty common or look like they'd be fun you know there's always little oddities that don't really well represent what you're seeing in most portraits more of the same in the 1540s although they are starting to develop just a little hint of a hairline roll which leads us very nicely into the 1550s by now the
roll has definitely taken off kind of like this and then just braid the rest there's also this super cute trend of curling this little baby hair section here right in front of the ears i think it's actually kind of cute so about 10 years later still doing the roll although it's gotten a little bigger little a little fluffier maybe also the rough is starting which i'm a big fan of roasts are so dang cute now the rolls are starting to get pretty serious you kind of have two distinct styles develo
ping one seems to be very smooth and structured they're likely using some sort of form underneath and then the other version is more of like a very frizzy fuzzy style that i think is starting to use shorter hairs and tightly curling them and like maybe gently rolling them a little bit so that you're getting a lot of your floof from the shorter frizzy hairs rather than the smooth structured look now let's let's see if we can just stuff my rolls with some hair rats to kind of in big in them a litt
le bit all right for a quick like just kind of shoving it into my already rolled hair it's not bad for the 1580s the roughs are getting even bigger and so are those rolls there is also definitely a short hair variant like a fringe version shorter hair that has definitely been curled to create volume but in a more kind of defined sort of way instead of the super smooth slick roll so it just it gets real big in the 80s for a bit england and france are now up to pretty much the same thing that they
have been for the last you know 10 20 years just big but italy has kind of an interesting thing going on they've they've started making these little little hair horns which are so cute uh there's this text from a visitor to venice he mentioned something about the hair horns being made with artful curls and twisting alone i think that'd be fun to try so let's go ahead and take out our hair rats here and i have i don't have like full-on bangs but i do have some some moderately decent fringe hair
stuff going on so i'm going to take this down and see what i can accomplish with this all right well you know it's not quite perfect but i think as like a proof of concept for how it possibly could have been done in the time you'd you'd probably want a thicker section of cut short hair but this is pretty stinking close with not very much hair at all for the new century the english are still kind of doing the same thing big and poofy although they do at some point kind of have fun with uh re re a
pproaching that curled like little hair right here but it's very like noodly sixteen tens still big and curly all that super big rolled fringe is finally starting to reduce down kind of deflating in the 20s which actually leads us very nicely into the 30s 30s are where things get actually quite interesting a lot of the styles before now you could kind of get away with not doing any sort of fringe or short hair but if you are going for the kind of fashionable look of the 30s you absolutely 100 ha
d to cut your hair shorter so the hair in the very center front is pretty minimal but if you kind of start there and then go back to about an inch above and behind your ear and kind of curve it down take out this little slice of hair right here that is pretty much the section needs to be shortened i mean you'd probably want to do a better job of getting it even all the way across but you get the idea right let's see if i can do a slightly better job of that so this is like a very conservative so
rt of sectioning off of hair like in some of the portraits it looks like it maybe is a slightly deeper angle so it goes back and covers more of this section on the side of the head but this seems to be pretty average from what i can tell looking at the portraits and the length kind of varies both by personal taste and a little bit by century but you know bust-ish is probably about right so then we're going to take this section here give it a good curl i know this seems like a lot of hair and see
ms like a weird move for them to have done but this hairstyle would cover you and not only for the 30s but also the 40s the 50s and the 60s they found a new style and really held on for a minute so i need to go curl this beer back so the rest of the hair is just pulled back behind the head into a bun or kind of like an oval shaped crown braid you can sometimes see on the back of portraits i think i'm going to braid the length of this really quick so i can get kind of a cute little look while thi
s finish is drying i think it is really surprisingly cute it's completely unlike anything like that you would think of her a modern style but you know after looking at all the portraits i'm like hey i look like the portraits which i think is really fun this does cover us all the way through the 60s but once you get to the 70s 1670s it does seem like the fullness is starting to kind of move up and the the curls are so sick that what i think is happening is that you're basically taking this style
from before and just pinning them up yeah so something to that effect the 80s are a little bit more of a transitional decade i would say that they don't necessarily quite have a style of their own they're just sort of the in-between point of all that curl down here and what comes next all right so this was an incredibly rough approximation of the idea of kind of the hair and curl the volume is starting to move up higher on top of the head and then it kind of seems like maybe the whole bun braid
thing is falling out of favor you see a lot of like what looks like the hair being left loose and often kind of like decoratively curled at the ends 10 years later and the curls and volume has completed its journey upward and it'll stay there for the next like 30 to 40 years like it's they they're really hanging on to trends for a while back then they also have this this cute little thing where they take this little bit of hair right here and make these little like little circular curls right ab
ove the eyebrows i'm gonna be honest guys i have no clue absolutely no earthly idea how they did this business up here i don't know in a lot of portraits it seems like there's this sash or ribbon sort of interwoven throughout it but not in a way that i've quite wrapped my head around just yet so i'm gonna go ahead and give it a try it's probably going to be wrong but we'll see what we can do there does seem to be kind of like a dual pointiness like in a symmetricalness to the style tried to make
sure i was very evenly rolling things as i went up it pretty much continues this way until we hit the 1720s when the the height which i did not really aptly achieve but the height starts to kind of deflate a little bit which now that i mentioned it is i think kind of the fate of all the big hairstyles like styles get bigger and bigger and bigger and then they deflate for the 1730s the little curls over the forehead thing have finally disappeared there we go and instead they're just kind of like
little curls all over except only sometimes sometimes it's like very tight close to the head curls sometimes it's more like a very loose casual style i don't know i feel like maybe they were also a little bit confused as to what was the big style because i noticed a whole lot of cap wearing because now it doesn't matter what my hair looks like because it's covered okay but for the 40s they're starting to kind of get it together again get like a consistent look the new look for this decade as we
ll as the next 10 20 30 years or so is a section about like so that is curled into short little very neat rolls on top of the head so from what i can tell in the portraiture it seems like this whole front section here is a bit shorter than it's been in centuries past so there this is also the time period where we really start to see powdered looks take hold you know that image you have of 18th century powdered wigs very big and fluffy and stuff this is kind of where it starts so we are going to
need to put in some pomade and some powder thank you very much abby for sending both of those over i very much appreciate it lard so apparently what i'm supposed to do is take out a like coin sized chunk and then oh i should take off my rings one second and then sort of melt it in between your hands and then i guess just kind of start applying it to the hair next up is the powder from what i understand i literally just tossed powder on this i believe it's supposed to be uniformly sort of fluffy
and white so if there's sticky bits that are still kind of chunking together like this that probably means that they need more powder all right and now we just do this all over my new mug came by the way and it is very lovely a little bit thicker maybe to help future proof it against clumsy people although that didn't help when i immediately spilled coffee on myself so all right 1740s something to this effect i can also toss on more powder at the end to get like a white powdered look i don't fee
l like it though here you go the back was a little bit more of an educated guess later on they definitely do the braid and then tuck up thing this is what i came up with i do really love how the the center front makes like a little heart very cute oh boy hair has gotten big i i think i'm gonna need that that long hair in the front back again so um one second all right let's get to it so i don't have a hair cushion which is what you would put on underneath to help support the tallness of this hai
rstyle nor do i really feel like making one for just this one hairstyle and that's it so i instead put together four pairs of very fluffy clean socks and kind of tucked them within each other to make a circle and i kind of made a quick little donut cushion for myself i think this is gonna work out really well it feels like it's about the right size and shape for the kind of more modest cushions of the day i did just have a quick peek in the mirror with like so i can look at the sides in the back
and i didn't quite perfectly cover the little sock cushion i think for doing it all by myself for the first time i'm gonna say not bad they would also often put you know some sort of little lacy fluffy you know poof thing here on top maybe add some flowers some feathers you know make it as fancy and tall and ridiculous as they could but you know i don't i don't really have much so here we go that is 1770s alrighty what comes up must come down onto the next decade so that long style for the 70s
was really just in for a small moment before they were right back to shortcuts being the thing particularly for this section in the front and then long and back kind of as per usual up till now right i'm going to need that short hair back again all right so short hair has returned i'm actually going to separate out the long stuff really quick just to get it out of the way there we go nice and neat and separated out again now looking at the original images where they've created these big poofy ki
nd of circle halo of curls unfortunately i don't think this is actually going to quite work because as you can see my hair is blunt cut all at one length and there's from what i can tell is kind of like a circle of hair cut length so the hair here should be the same length as the hair here and it it is not in fact the the hair on top is a fair bit longer than the stuff on bottom because it's you know this has to travel this you know i don't need to explain the geometry of heads and hair i'm sure
you get it so but that does mean i think i need to do a little bit of a quick trim so for this curling i actually want to try a method that i saw it looks kind of cool which is i think it's called using papios it's like a tissue paper that you take your hair you roll it up into a little curl you put it in the tissue paper you iron it flat and then you let it cool like that and then you take it out and you have a beautiful curl theoretically i got some tissue papers and i've already cut them up
into triangles kind of about yay big now i'm going to go ahead and get to roland so we can keep this video moving along it has cooled down completely so let's see how this turned out i do love how easy they are to remove considering it took forever to put in we definitely have a very tight curl very medusa-esque it almost looks like i have fake hair on very weird looking but let's start separating them out some of the curls immediately are falling out so that's cool there is definitely a lot of
curl though in most of them though so that's nice i do suspect that even though i gave it a little bit of a trim it's still a little bit too long but we're just going to use some pins to fix that and then the back at least is very easy you literally just leave it down think that sometimes it's like tied with a cute little ribbon or bow sometimes the ends are curled so they look cute sometimes not you know you got options and then the next decade is basically the same thing except they decided to
add a cute little like ribbon situation basically like that still with the tail down in the back new century new look all of the volume and fussiness and like uh muchness of the last like 60 plus years has completely disappeared it's almost like everyone collectively decided that they were tired of it and you know what messy bun that's good enough haircut wise there's a lot of variation but it seems like the you know small bit of fringe kind of nicely framing the face with a little bit of light
casual curl seemed really really really common but there's there's a lot of really kind of cool things going on in this period actually can i add something really quick oh yeah yeah absolutely in addition to the messy bun look there was this fascinating turn of the century moment where short hair was a really really big thing way shorter than anything we've seen in centuries and centuries it's basically a modern pixie cut although perhaps a little touch long on top slash in the front so that yo
u can still have bangs which are very much still curled to match the look of the messy bun folk anyways just had to share for my short haired folks thanks so on to the 1810s now the bun and curly fringe look is definitely still in it feels like maybe the fringe is starting to get a little bit more thicker and and voluminous and maybe maybe a touch neater like more purposeful with like the the styling of the area and then for the 20s we are absolutely definitely getting much more structured and l
ike purposeful with the look for the back of the head they're doing various very neat and tidy arrangements lots of buns and braided buns and but it's kind of like here ish right at the top back of the the crown and then for the fringe they have kind of a lot of curling styles going but doing a set of buckles along the side seems to be pretty popular and here is our look i liked that portrait with the little three braids on top i thought that was super cute by the end of the decade and into the
30s it just gets to be more and more fantastical uh fans of a gentleman jack will be familiar with the sort of like fun whimsical you know additions that start happening lots of very full fun curls in the front lots of loops and like really elaborate braiding situations going on in back so basically this look just you know add 50 more to it taller floofier all that i think that false hair is definitely kind of making a comeback by now if judging from what i'm seeing in a lot of these looks i don
't have a false hair that would work really well for this particular style but i do have some recently removed real hair so with enough hair spray we've got this let's see if i can make something out of this in particular i noticed that like these little loops seem really popular okay i've got one loop all right well i've tried i've made something happen up here 1830s were a very fun decade hair and fashion wise but as we've seen so far what comes up must come back down and we need to just defla
te everything back down again some folks are definitely holding on to the the cute little side curls for a while but definitely by the end of the 40s it's moved to this no fringe like smooth sided look thing so unfortunately fringe is out long hair all around is back in which means that i'm going to need my long hair back so i'll be right back alrighty so to do this style we're going to want a center part and then i'm going to take the top sections from about the top of the head to about right b
ehind the ear for the back section here we are just going to toss that up into a really quick bun and then for the front bits you kind of have a couple different options you can very simply take your little swoopy bit kind of gently lay it against your head and then wrap it around the bun kind of like so very fetching so i really shouldn't have the shorties here but we're going to do what we can do things are still fairly smooth but they're starting to gain gain some volume in this little side p
oof area in the few paintings where you can see a bit more of a side profile it seems like the loop look is mostly disappearing at this point it's really just kind of a a big floof like so you could use back combing i am going to just use a quick pair of hair rats like it's both ridiculous looking but also i don't know surprisingly cute i feel like uh like a very young grandma it's kind of hard to say anything terribly distinctive about the 1860s like the volume is starting to kind of make its w
ay a little bit higher up here there's maybe a little bit more like waving and curling of hair before putting it up going on but it's still pretty much all one length there is this very cute like flower crowned trend going on in a lot of portraits is that not so dang cute so for the 1870s we have returned to the ever popular crown braid with one small addition okay maybe a rather big addition so hair pieces have reached just absolute new heights in the 1870s the magazines of the time are just fu
ll of advertisements for them and there's even some really cool illustrations on how to add them into your hair i think i'm actually going to go ahead and follow this one because it looks easy enough to be within my skill sets first we're going to take out the front sections and then this like top of the crown section right here needs to be separated off and then braided from that point we're going to take a little section right below it twisted up that bit of hair and then kind of looped it dow
n and around so that i can then pin this section right here and have that sturdy little knot to pin the false hair into later then it looks like we take this and we're going to brush it together and then back and over top of that little bun we made all right we have the first bun the second bun with the top back so now comes the false hair so let's see what i have i have a little like braided bun thing which is kind of nice for filling in an area that needs a little bit more but i don't think th
at's quite what i'm looking for for this style so this is actually probably the closest thing i have to the illustration although mine is woefully inadequate it's not going to be as magnificent as it seems to be in the advertisements and then i'm just going to hide the ends underneath hopefully it looks somewhat reasonable from the back and then apparently we're supposed to take this tail section flip it up and then kind of gracefully lay it about the top bun let's see what we can do here okay i
t looks all right i suspect that this was not done as neatly as it could have but it kind of works uh yeah i can definitely tell that my hair pieces that i added should have been much like fluffier but i have to work with what i've got so there we go 1870s so the super excessive big hair look of the 70s kind of calmed down by the time you get to the 80s and they have a slightly more you know natural and toned down look also the the hair fringe comes back so that'll be very fun but not not like a
massive amount of fringe like we've seen in past centuries instead it's actually kind of what we would more modernly associate with fringe it's just this little section right here i'm gonna go curl it and i think that i will also maybe give a little bit of curl to this front section here as well because whenever the hair gets put back into the bun you kind of want a little bit of extra like sort of textured wave going on there but you don't need to do the whole back of the head so the 90s are e
ssentially the same as the 80s we still have a very fluffy fringe look with a high bun at the back we are getting maybe a little bit more volume here kind of just a little bit more frizzy poofy fluffy until we kind of evolve into the early 1900s when you think edwardian you usually picture this really like big fluffy halo of hair really testing how much volume we can put in this area right above the head in particular usually still the length of the hair on top fringe is mostly gone at this poin
t though they've kind of incorporated that hair in you might see little little slightly fuzzy bits but not much so i'm gonna redo this really quick see what we can do it's such an interesting thing to do older hairstyles because i feel like there's this interesting feeling of like whoo i look like a grandma but at the same time like it was like the sexy it look of the time it's just it's such an interesting thing the connotations that we have in our heads anyways so for the 1910s i feel like it'
s such a particularly interesting decade because it's very much caught in between two incredibly iconic styles that like gibson girl look of the last decade and then the flapper 20s look it's a little bit like if you were to look at a pokemon well it's halfway in between its evolution it's not really either one but you know you can see that it has elements of both so for the tens you kind of just have like a flattening ish of the previous style it's starting to sort of come down and get close ar
ound the face and the head and it basically continues to mush down and flatten and frame the face until suddenly it becomes a bob so interestingly this hair pokemon had two variations the very kind of cute and curly or the very very like completely straight it's interesting not everyone actually went for the full bobbed haircut they didn't all cut their hair short but even those that chose to keep longer hair still coiled it and styled it in such a way that it was still mimicking this shape so l
ike this is the fashionable silhouette no matter what your length actually was the 30s are still quite curly and very cute but maybe less defined and a little bit smoother up top near the crown and the length is definitely starting to get a little bit longer we are still very curly in the 40s although definitely getting a little bit longer about maybe collarbone length on the longer layers that are then curled so they're just brushing the shoulders and then very much covering the back of the nec
k the top half does seem to have at least a bit of layering so that it keeps the whole thing kind of light and fluffy and makes it so that you can easily pin back these layers and it allows the the front to do lots of really interesting things when you brush out the curls the look of the 50s was surprisingly short i would maybe even say shorter than the 20s lots of layering in that shortness and if you did have some longer hair during that period you were definitely doing some pinning up so that
it looked like it was that kind of fashionable short in the back they are adding a bit of height although victory curls are out so let's take those down really quick so it does seem like there was definitely a trend of getting stuff kind of up and away out of the face whereas sometimes the 40s did a little bit of like you know peekaboo fun this is just barely hanging on with a whole bunch of pins so really you should just have slightly shorter hair in order to get that like very kind of messy c
urly look same pin curl technique as for the 40s just a little bit shorter so that you get a more kind of a spiky feel to it as we get near the end of the 50s though the kind of high and curly look starts to kind of round out so here's a very messy approximation of that end of 50s getting kind of rounded and voluminous look that you start to see you still see some of that roundness in the 60s although they definitely let their ends get a little bit longer and do this super cute flipped up ends l
ook there's actually quite a bit of variation for this decade you have some folks that are definitely not doing the big structured sort of a helmet style and instead are going for a much more casual natural usually fairly long but just no must no fuss sort of style to get the volume up here you're going to want to tease the heck out of this crown area of hair you're going to want to curl the ends so that they do that cute little flip up look haircut wise you are going to want your hair a little
bit shorter than this probably about collarbone length would work really well if you want to get that that nice like hovering flip look like you see in a lot of the advertisements and pictures from the day bangs you you actually kind of have a lot of options you can go for the super blunt you can go for kind of the wispy side swept you can go for no bangs at all lots of choices i feel like the first half of the 60s is trying to combine the big hair on top with the like casual long hair on bottom
look that the 60s had but then once farrah fawcett is in her famous charlie's angels role in i think 76 or so the the hair landscape immediately transfers to these big kind of back swept feathered hairstyles haircut wise you kind of got a lot of options for length but whatever you choose you're going to have shorter layers on top and then getting progressively longer and longer with those feathered layers especially along the hairline front edge i think along the back it didn't matter as much h
ow feathered out your hair was although at least a bit for sure and uh yeah and then you curl it until the ends flip up and uh this again surprisingly cute look another big celebrity look emerged in the early 80s with princess diana's very short bob but by the late 80s we see what we kind of now think of as the iconic 80s big permed hair usually kind of haircut wise mid-bust to collarbones or so and curled within an inch of its life maybe a bit of layering up in the top to help make this as ligh
t and fluffy as possible eventually that big puffy curly permed look of the 80s starts settling down and by the mid 90s we have a fairly straight surprisingly kind of chill style much straighter than hair has been in quite a long time and it's very much kind of defined by rachel from friends the rachel haircut wherein it's a bunch of layers that come down and frame the face nicely length can vary depending on what season the show is in and of course individual persons who might be inspired by it
but wanting to do their own thing so length varies a little bit but the like layered fairly straight cut very big another thing that is not a haircut so it's only kind of relevant but it also sort of is is that highlights are very very big in the 90s which would have really nicely shown off the fact that your your hair is layered because all those colors would stop and start and stop and start because of how you're seeing the layers appear so on mine it just looks like a brown blob but you get
the idea hair is still quite straight in the early 2000s maybe a little bit longer now though from like bust to collarbone somewhere in that area bangs wise there was a little bit of the short fringe but a lot of these like long face framing kind of side layers partings could be zigzagged which was very fun or completely straight part side part and towards the end they they definitely did this this interesting what what is this called the bump it like that definitely had a moment there too big l
oose braids came in near the end of the aughts and i would argue or still going pretty strong you can wear it in an updo down do braid do speaking of which braids i i don't think i really realized it before starting this project but let's see game of thrones came out in 2011 i think hunger games came out in 2012 and then the viking show came out in 2013 and youtube just exploded with hair tutorial how to braid type videos and yeah i kind of wonder if in the future the way that we think of as the
80s or the roaring 20s or you know that we have kind of that stereotypical vision in our head of what that look is i kind of wonder if like waterfall braid you know with lots of waves is gonna be that mental image but that said i've always wanted to give katniss's like sideways braid a try and for some reason i just don't think i ever have so i'm going to do that real quick and here we are i love braids so much but time to move on to our next decade the 2020s now yes the decade has only just be
gun but i still think that it warrants a mention if you're on tick tock or even if you're not there's a very good chance that you've seen the wolf cut you know the ponytail on top hold it out cut the end and you get this very layered shag haircut is it possible that i did this entire video mostly because i specifically wanted to try that haircut maybe but let's get to it this is a good look i have some short cut hairs already so i think i want this to be the same length as them you guys can't se
e very well can you there we go that kind of works that seems about right oh no we're still attached okay there we go i see why everybody gets a lopsided one now surprisingly difficult to do that to yourself let go of my head please my hair's so poofy i know that sometimes people will take off more from the shorter layers in order to get a more pronounced layering effect but i'm going to try styling this in its unadulterated form and see what i can get all righty something to that effect i think
i maybe went just a little bit too curly but you know pretty close for a first try i think that does just about finish us up though i take that back apparently we're not done yet um yeah one final last haircut trend and sorry that my hair got drastically different in the last 10 seconds time got a little you know wiggly wobbly type of whimey in this video the buzz cut i don't know necessarily that it's a trend but i definitely feel like i have seen more buzz cuts in the past year year and a hal
f than i have in all of my years prior so it's it's definitely trend adjacent for sure and if nothing else it sounds like a lot of fun and i've never done it before so why not and i am back and feeling very cute my shirt was covered in way too much hair so i wanted to go change and take a quick shower speaking of which this dry is in like 30 seconds flat like that is fantastic also i have discovered that apparently i have like a blonde patch or a gray patch or something going on on the side here
which is very exciting i thought it was a bald spot at first but i realized like no it has just as much hair as the rest it's just a different color so learning all sorts of new things which is very exciting i i really had a blast researching for this video and then doing it if you had fun watching then i would actually really strongly recommend that you check out the sponsor of today's video one dream i love history and learning new stuff and one dream is a great place for both they have a fan
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