The Tudor Revolution

  Hello Beautiful Humans! Over the last year several of you have asked questions about historical hair care and bringing more of these practices into the 21st century for your own routines. In this video I go over some of the pros and cons for different hair care practices from the middle ages and today. Please do keep in mind that these observations are based on my personal experiences which might be different for other people with different hair types. A few questions I go over include: "What is the difference between medieval and modern hair care?" "How do you prevent your hair from matting/ getting tangled?" "Which products should I use for historical hairstyles?" "What is your favorite historical hairstyle?" I hope you enjoy this update on historical hair care that I was able to recover from the vault when my laptop data came back. Do you have a historical hair care question or tip? Please shar in the comments! You may also be interest...

  Welcome Back Beautiful Humans! I talk a lot about 16th century haircare and hairdressing on this blog because I feel it completes the look of your historical outfits. Today we are going to work on a renaissance hair tutorial for long hair, but I will give you a few pointers on ways to adapt the style for shoulder length hair too. Make sure that your hair has been thoroughly combed out and separated with a center part while you are getting ready for this hairstyle. I would recommend having about 2.5-3 yards of silk ribbon on hand to complete the style for hair going to your waist. You may need less for shorter hair, or more to secure thicker hair. I have other blog posts where I go into history of hair dressing in the 16th century, and thought this video would be helpful for those out there trying to do a full circle or crown of braids instead of just a semi circle like I posted a few weeks ago. Renaissance Fabrics for Silk Ribbon Historical Hairstyle Playlist Thank you as a...

  Welcome back to my follow up project about keeping your hair clean in the middle ages. My research for this project was based in trying to dig deeper into medieval hair care. I was pointed to a book called The Trotula: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine , translated by Monica H Green through a Society for Creative Anachronism web conference and set off to reading. This is a popular medieval treatise on for women's health, and includes a range of medical advice from cosmetics to assistance with child birth. Obviously I can't promise that all of this information dating back the the 11th or 12th century is still thought to be sound, but it is fascinating. While reading through the section on women's cosmetics I found some hair care recipes and had to pause. Were they asking me to put powder in my hair to make it smell good? This sounded suspiciously like a home made dry shampoo I had used on and off at camping events and during the pand...

Today I have a vlog for you that I filmed in August and September of 2020. Pandemic Chic for the last year and change has included sweatpants, fewer showers, and the messy up-do. This had me passively wondering about how 16th century people handled hygiene more. One one likes being stinky after all, but they did not believe it was necessarily healthy to shower as often as we do in the United States in 2020. Please note I am not going to perpetuate the myth about medieval people being dirty and unclean, it was just a different time period with different methods. Around this time I started reading How to be a Tudo r by Ruth Goodman. When the book was published in 2015 I added it to my to be read pile immediately because I respect her work as a historian and in living history. Like many, the pandemic has helped me put a dent in my "to be read" pile. She has a section where she discusses the clothing and the hygiene of the Tudor period and I became inspired. One of the major wa...