Casual Edwardian Hairstyles

Hey guys, welcome to a new video! So, I love Edwardian hair. You love Edwardian hair. Everybody loves Edwardian hair. I have made Edwardian hair way too complicated, for all of us. Usually I tend to do these really elaborate hairstyles, lots of curls, very formal or stage photography updos, but there is so much more to Edwardian hair, and there are so many ways to make it more accessible. So today I thought I would show you a couple of casual Edwardian hairstyles. I found this image on Pinterest that features a load of photos from this era of real life women with real life hairstyles, and you can tell that not nearly all of them put that much effort into their hair. You can tell these hairstyles are much simpler than many of the very elaborate evening hairstyles. That is what we're going to do today. We're going to make Edwardian hair a little bit easier. So before we do anything, we need to prep the hair, and I've already gone ahead and done that. So I started by spraying my hair with some dry shampoo. You could use a texturizing spray, just anything to give the hair a bit more grit, because our modernly shampooed hair tends to be a little bit too slippery, especially if you already have fine hair like I do. So dry shampoo and I put my hair in rollers overnight, so that I now have a bunch of texture and some curls and fluffiness. We definitely need fluffiness for this. You don't necessarily have to curl your hair, quite a few of these women don't have their hair curled, but you do need a bit of texture to your hair, so that's important. And if you have fine or thinner hair, then curls definitely help to build some of that volume. Next thing I am going to do is a little bit of backcombing along the front of my hair. Now, as I'm sure many of you are aware, the Edwardians did not shy away from a hairpiece or two, and they would have used hair rats, but I'm just assuming most of us don't have piles of our own shedded hair lying around somewhere in the house. So I am going to work with a little bit of backcombing. Don't worry about backcombing too much, a little bit of gentle teasing won't do much bad to your hair. Just be sure that when you comb it out, you're gentle. Maybe even just do it in the shower and use a bit of conditioner to detangle your hair, if your hair does tangle easily. I'm just going around the front, creating a bit of volume. If you are strongly opposed to backcombing, then by all means feel free to use a hair rat or one of those hair donuts. You can cut them up, create a tube almost, and use that as padding for your hair. But my teasing is done, I look like a mad professor now, which is a perfect starting look for any hairstyle. So I am just going to grab all of this hair actually from right behind my ears, going all the way up, and I want to make sure that the outside of my hair is kind of smoothed, but that I don't ruin my volume here. So I'm just going to gather it all into a kind of ponytail on top of my head, give it a little twist, and push it forward so that we have a little bit of a poof. My bangs are going to be giving me trouble throughout this entire video, by the way, so try not to mind those. If you don't have them, then you're golden. I'm then going to take a bobby pin, I'm just gonna slide that in here to hold this hair up. Let me just backcomb these so that they hopefully stay a little bit better. I'll maybe try and stick in a pin. Come on bangs, behave. There we go, that's better. And then the rest of the hair you can just comb through, create a nice little frizzy wave. The Edwardians love their frizzy hair, and I can't blame them, I really like it as well. And that is actually the first hairstyle done. I have seen this one quite a lot, seems to be a pretty often occurring one, and I have to say I really like it. It's a really nice kind of basic hairstyle. If you wanted to spice this up a little bit, you could take a nice big hair bow. The Edwardians love to accessorize their hairstyles. You could take a hair bow like this, mine comes with a beret in the back, and just put that either in place or on top of the bobby pins, and that just gives a little something extra to the back of the hairstyle. Once your hair is prepped, then this is a matter of a couple of seconds, and it looks really cute. Now, while we have this tease and this kind of upward motion, I'm gonna try and retain that, and actually just pull in the rest of my hair as well, loosely. We want to keep, again, a lot of that volume. Just gonna pull everything up, and now it's up to you how historically accurate you want to make this. If you want this to just be secure and last well all day, then by all means use a hair elastic. If you don't and you want to be a bit more historically correct, then you can twist this into a bun. Just a very plain and simple cinnamon bun. Don't make it too tight, again. We're all about the light and airy hairstyles here. And then secure this with a couple of bobby pins. And again, if you're going for historical accuracy, then hair pins are the way to go. These kind of, can you see that? U-shaped ones. But again, very much depends on your hair type how well those will hold. I need to fix my buns again. And there we are, another super basic, yet very recognizably Edwardian style hairstyle, a simple top knot. As long as you make sure there is some volume around the edges here, then you're all good. And this is a super quick and super simple, and really cute, casual Edwardian type hairstyle. If you have bangs, stick to maybe Regency. Curl them, be done with it. Yeah, Edwardian era isn't kind to bangs. Next hairstyle, definitely better to do on curled hair. But we are going to do something that is a casual center part. Don't make it too strict, kind of straight. If your hair doesn't naturally part in the center, by all means, follow the casual look. But just make sure that it is kind of, you know, parted somewhere close to the center of your head. We are going to allow again for a lot of volume and room in the front here, so I'm just gonna actually pull back the hair and then pin it, while again pushing it forward a little bit to make sure I have plenty of volume here. Same thing on the other side, and then for the back. I don't think this is historically correct, this probably isn't how they did it. There's probably more to this hairstyle, but it can definitely be done this way. You're just gonna grab the hair and kind of just roll it up like that, so that it creates this big kind of voluminous thing in the back, and then just secure this with however many bobby pins you need to make this feel like it'll stay for a couple of hours. Now, if you're going for a bit more of a romantic look, then you could pull some strands out in the front here, some nice loose curls. Need another pin here, but there we go. Here is another Edwardian type hairstyle that only requires a couple of seconds of work once you have done all the prep. Or if your hair is naturally curly, I envy you, you can do this literally in just a couple of seconds without even having to do any of the prep. It's definitely one of my personal favorites. Now, if you wanted to spice this up like they did, silk flowers or polyester flowers, because this is the 21st century, you can just stick a headband with flowers on top of this hairstyle. Make sure there is plenty of floof in front of them and behind. There is your hairstyle with a little bit more pizzazz. Or if you want to be really fancy, pull the flowers to one side, no, I genuinely, I really love this one. It's so simple, but so effective, absolutely gorgeous, highly recommend. Next up, I have a style that is historically for younger ladies only, but honestly, who cares. For that one, we're gonna go for a side parting. I'd say about halfway top of your eyebrow, so maybe around here would be good. And then we're gonna do the same thing with the poofy front. So I'm just gonna pull back this hair to right above my ear. I'm just gonna kind of push it forward, secure it with a pin, ensure that fluff on top. Same thing on the other side, push it forward, secure with a pin. Let me just tame my bangs again here. Ah, good enough. Okay, so now you can either go for one or two braids in the back. I have seen both, both look amazing. I think I am just going to go for one for a little bit more of a grown-up look. So I'm just gonna separate my hair into three sections, I'm just gonna make my way down, and then you could secure the end either with a small hair elastic, or for a bit more fun, again, hair bow, which I'm definitely gonna go for, because we need more fun. And ta-da! Another casual, very doable on a daily basis Edwardian hairstyle. My bangs are popping out, aren't they? Oh man, seriously, don't do this with bangs. It's not worth it. Now there is one more style that I really want to do, but I need hair extensions for that one, because my hair is simply too short, and that is the Coco Chanel braid. I've been wanting to recreate that one in a video for a long time now, but I still haven't fully figured out the secret behind that hairstyle, but we're gonna attempt it casually today. But I need to, once again, put in some hair extensions first, because we need two fairly long braids, or actually, ideally just one, but I did try this before with hair extensions even, and I still can't get a braid that's long enough to fully wrap around my head once. If your hair is long enough to fully wrap around your head, then you can use your own hair. Congratulations, your hair is probably amazing and incredible looking. Please hold while I install these. I am keeping the poofy front bits, by the way, I might have to redo them, but we definitely need those, because there is a lot of volume involved in this hairstyle, which is part of its magic, and part of the part that I haven't been able to fully figure out yet. So it's not gonna be an exact recreation today, we're gonna try and capture the feeling at least. So I have split my hair down the center without making a parting, so that the back looks like this. And it's not just because I'm wearing hair extensions, but you don't often see visible partings in historical hairstyles like these. So if you've seen my milkmaid braids without a parting video, we're basically going to do that, but with a bit more air around the top. So I am separating one of the sides into three strands, and before I start braiding, I'm actually gonna pull it to the other side, pull it across. Let's actually redo that. All right, so when I have my braid, I'm gonna do the same thing with the other side. So I'm just gonna pull that hair across. So I have my two braids now, but we still need to make these a bit more dashing. I am going to fluff them up by simply tugging at the sides, wriggling them a bit, to pancake them out a bit, and make them flat and wide. So that's what we need for these. It's going to become harder to do as you come closer to the end, so don't worry about that too much. We're going to be hiding the ends anyway, to make sure the top of the braid is nice and fluffy. When I have both my braids, I am simply going to pull them up, cross them over wherever it is that they cross over, and as I mentioned, tuck the ends away beneath the other braid. Do that both sides, and you've probably guessed it, we're going to secure this with however many bobby pins we need to make this secure. Oh, the bangs. All right, once you've done that, you should end up with something that looks a little like this. Again, super pretty, super easy to do, doesn't take a lot of time at all, and very beautiful results. Here we go. Something inspired by the Coco Chanel braid. I will keep working on the actual Coco Chanel braid and hopefully bring that to you one day, but for now I think this is a very nice alternative. So that is the last hairstyle that I wanted to share with you today. I really hope you enjoyed it, maybe found it helpful if you would like to wear your hair more Edwardian style in daily life, but don't have an hour to spend on your hair every morning, which I can very well imagine, because neither do I. If you did enjoy this video, don't forget to give a thumbs up, subscribe to my channel for lots more beauty, lifestyle, sewing and fashion videos. If you would like to support me through Patreon or my merch store, there are links in the description box below. Thank you so much for your support. There is another video here that I think you might also enjoy, you can go watch next. Thank you so much for watching, and I will see you very soon in my next video. Bye!