An Everyday Victorian-Style Updo

I hope this answers things.

The book: ‘How to be a Victorian’ by Ruth Goodman

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[SpoopySpoops]

"Then realize it's in the way and sheds excessively."

Can relate.

[greenyawgmoth]

I'm a dude with short hair, and yet I still clicked on and watched this fully.

[elleknight]

By the time she said, " "Begin with undoing whatever swamp hag styling you probably just woke up with", I was sold xD

[MatchStickGirl]

ok, I’m a total goth but ever since I discovered this channel my look has become Victorian goth. I’m living my best life.

[AnneEWilliamson]

"You are a respectable woman of the wrong century." Describes me perfectly!

[carolinegcooke]

“Embrace the beauty in your flaws, my friends.”
-Bernadette Banner

Making that my senior quote! Lol

[johanngambolputty]

"Swamp hag"

If that ain't me every day

[PwnageFury]

I wanted to thank you so much for this. I went to a wedding tonight and I used this style. I embellished it with some crystal/pearl hair pins for a bit of bling and it was perfect. I have wavy/curly hair that normally fights any restraint. After 4 hours of heat, humidity and dancing it looked as great as it did when the evening began.

[belindacoba]

Loved the phrase "Embrace the beauty in your flaws".

[kuroiuzumaki]

I can't believe I thought I was the only one being in love with the Victorian and Edwardian eras. As a girl who lives with a super modern family who thinks I'm always too fancy when wearing long dresses, this is super relatable! "You are a respectable woman of the wrong century", I never related to anything as much as this!

[roninelenion]

I took a theatrical make-up class, and for our "free reign" project (whatever we wanted to do), I made myself up to be Mina Harker from _Dracula_ after she got bitten. I covered my face in light foundation, made prosthetic bite marks on my neck, and even the burn on her forehead from the Host. My professor told me that I needed to do a hairstyle as well, so I used this one. My hair is on the shorter side, so I _did_ need to use half a ton of hairpins, but it did the trick. Thank you for the tutorial. My professor loved the hairstyle, and I got an A on the assignment.

[thespectreslie]

“i think you can achieve this just as easily with shorter and/or curly hair” i have a really short bob so LETS DO THIS

update: yes it is possible but i just did two little braids and used a clip to hold them together and did the cool twisty things on the top

[robertlozyniak]

The way you look in the video thumbnail (with your hair up like that, and wearing those glasses), you look like someone who, with a toss of her head and a wave of her hand, could seal people's fate.

[spicax]

I’m literally crying how could a human being be so pretty you should appear in some sorts of Hollywood movies

[tasnb]

I hope it's not a plait-itude
To say 'Sincerest gratitude
For this video so fair
With hair... everywhere!'

[HopeEvey]

Thank you so much for this! Due to my recent medical treatments, my hair is now short, and thinning alarmingly. This is after a lifetime of longer than waist length hair. I don't care if other people know my hair is thinning, but seeing vast tracts of scalp in the mirror upsets /me/. This video gave me another attractive style to wear that doesn't show a superhighway of scalp :)

[mainlyfine]

Single plait movements are called 'iterations' ie. one iteration of the plait, two iterations of the plait etc.

[jcfra]

You seriously bring classic style and beauty that this age unfortunately has forgotten. Keep history alive.

[Marialla-ub]

For those of us with thinner and wimpier hair, a good idea is to slightly back comb any sections you want to swoop/puff, along with a spritz of hairspray. The ratting gives pins something to bury themselves in and grip to, as well as making more of what you've got.

Another tip for extra grip and body is to have day-old (not freshly washed and slippery silky clean) hair. I like to dust a light sprinkling of body powder on my hands and schwoosh that through my hair and scalp to help control any oily look, and it also seems to give more body.

[justalurkr]

"Asymmetry is cool, I guess." I cracked up here.