Crimping & frizzing & backcombing

To create Elizabethan hairstyles texture is very important and in most of the old Elizabethan portraits the women pictured often had frizzy and curly looking hair, crimping, frizzing  and backcombing are very simple and effective ways of creating texture, structure and decoration in Elizabethan inspired hair styles.

Equipment:
- Crimper
- Tail comb
- Paddle brush
- Section clips

How to crimp:
- I brushed the hair through until it was knot-free and while waiting for the crimpers to heat up, I sectioned the hair into small sections using my tail comb and clipped sections out of the way to make it easier to manage
- I picked up my chosen section and lifted it with the tail comb away from the head so I had more room to work with and make sure I don't burn the models head
- Once I had my section in place I began crimping from the root end of the hair and held the crimper in place for a few seconds before moving it slowly down the rest of the piece of hair until the whole section was crimped and then repeated this for all other sections

How to create afro curls:
Equipment:
- Large V shaped pins
- Tail comb
- Section clips
- Straighteners

- Take very small pieces of hair and wrap them around the large V shaped pins in a figure of 8 motion and secure with a bobby pin
- Then take the heated hair straighteners and clamp over the hair pin to set 
- Once the hair cools gently slide the hair of the pin until it looks like the second image
- Then take the pointed end of the tail comb and slowly pull the hair out of the zig-zag shape until it starts to frizz and become a afro

How to backcomb correctly 

Take a piece of hair and leaving the front side flat, take your c0mb and push the hair down. Don’t be aggressive and attack the hair with the comb as it will just knot and look messy and will be hard to comb out. Well backcombed hair will comb out easily.

With fine hair you can crimp the root area to create the illusion of a thicker base to work with. You can then backcomb the crimped area to help with the texture and smooth the visible side over with a comb. This technique will make the root and final outcome stronger and easier to work with.   

Equipment
- Tail comb

I did some research on looks that had been influenced by the Elizabethan era that had used some of these techniques

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