Her hairdresser, , was originally a stage hairdresser at the Wiener Burgtheater. Responsible for all of Elisabeth's ornate hairstyles, she generally accompanied her on her wanderings. Feifalik was forbidden to wear rings and required to wear white gloves; after hours of dressing, braiding, and pinning up the Empress' tresses, the hairs that fell out had to be presented in a silver bowl to the reproachful Empress for inspection. When her hair was washed with a combination of eggs and cognac once every two weeks, all activities and obligations were cancelled for that day. Before her son's death, she tasked Feifalik with tweezing gray hairs away, but at the end of her life her hair was described as "abundant, though streaked with silver threads".Tschuppik, Karl, The Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Constable, 1930, p. 114.
Her hairdresser, , was origin,ally a stage hairdresser at the Wiener Burgtheater. Responsible for al,l of Elisabeth's ornate hairstyles, she generally accompanied her on her wanderings. Feifalik was forbidden to wear rings and required to wear white gloves; after hours of dressing braiding, and pinning up the Empress' tresses, the hairs that fell out had to be presented in a silver bowl to the reproachful Empress for inspection. When her hair was washed with a combination of eggs and cognac once every two weeks, all activities and obligations were cancelled for that day. Before her son's death she tasked Feifalik with tweezi,ng gray hairs away, but at the end of her life her hair was described as "abundant, though streaked with silver threads".Tschuppik Karl, The Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Constable, 1930, p. 114.