Title: Makeup and Hairstyles of the 1700's - Straight Ahead Beauty
Headings: Makeup and Hairstyles of the 1700’s
Makeup and Hairstyles of the 1700’s
Content: For middle-class women, as well as those of colonial regions, this tall shape was favored, with teasing or hair rats made of sheep’s wool providing height on a smaller scale. After 1780, women’s hairstyles became shorter, wider and rounder in Europe. The hair was powdered. American women’s hairstyles became significantly simpler after the American Revolution, with curls surrounding the face and simple, neatly pinned hair in the back. Some women in America adopted the wider and fuller styles favored in Europe. By Jennie C