Beauty Through The Decades: 1900-1910 Hairstyle
- Posted on 20 June, 2010
- Hair Knowledge
- By Anonymous
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At the beginning of the last century, there were no movies or television, or even radio. Advertisements and style came directly from newspapers and cartoons. One cartoonist, Charles Dana Gibson, gave life to his perfect woman: a Gibson Girl was spunky and sentimental, down to Earth and aristocratic at the same time. She was very lady like, but she was allowed to get her hands dirty as well.
His cartoon Gibson Girls sparked a fashion revolution, and every woman around the country found herself yearning to be a Gibson Girl. The Gibson Girl was the Pin-Up Girl of the 1900s, and she stayed that way until World War 1.
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Hey guys so today, I'm going to teach you how to do this. Gibson girl hairstyle it's from the 1900s, and this is actually the first look. That'S going to jumpstart my new series Beauty through the decades or whatever don't mind the front. The front turned out pretty bad because I I just got my hair colored and cut. I don't know if you'll be able to tell, but I look much more blonde now and I have shorter bangs so the front because of my bangs turned out a lot worse than I wanted them to, but the back is really nice. It'S just a nice little poofy, you know style and there's a little tiny bun on top, which should be bigger because way. Back in the 1900s in the Edwardian era, a late, Victorian era, early Edwardian area, they didn't cut their hair. The only reason that they cut their hair is for some kind of disease. Long hair was the the best style ever and curly. Hair was the best style ever and if you had short straight hair, you were the awkward one and the social outcasts. This is my take on the Gibson hair style. I'M going to put a picture of what the Gibson hair style looks like right here. It'S really pretty, and it's up and this guy named, I don't remember his name, but his last name was Gibson and he was the he was the cartoonist that came up with the hair style. If you want to know how I did my makeup, which matches this era, I'm going to put a link right here and I'm going to put a link in the sidebar as well underbar bottom bar, it's down there. I hope you guys liked it and stay tuned. If you want to know how to do this hair, I soy damp it to my hair a little bit in the hopes that it would make this hairstyle a little easier to do. The first thing I'm going to do is take a wide tooth comb and just brush. It back, make sure there's no tangles and the next thing we're going to do is just brush it back and part. The hair in the middle doesn't have to be perfect. They'Re not going to see the part much anyway. The next thing we're going to do is part from the middle of the part, all the way down right behind your ear, you're going to bring the hair forward and back like that, just section it off you're going to do that with both sides and with the Back portion, I'm just going to use a little elastic and section it out of the way. Okay, just like that. So now you have this nice front portion, and none of it is in the back, then take a white wide tooth comb and brush it all to the front. Okay and then you're going to section this part off into two sections. It'S going to be a front portion and a back portion and try to make the sections as even as possible, but I think we both we all know that it's going to be a little bit hard to do. Let me have you now: you have a front portion in a back portion. I have the back portion in my hands right now and what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to take a rat tail comb and I'm going to tease the back of the back portion and now you're just going to drop the hair once you drop To the portion - and it has been teased you're going to take all of the front hair and bring it on top of your head, like that, feel free to adjust the strands as you need, and I'm going to pin this little front portion to the top of My head with a couple bobby pins: okay, once it's secured, feel free to play with the strands a little bit to make them look as volumous as possible, because we're kind of going for a rather big hairstyle okay. So I let the back portion go and now what we're going to do is the same thing. We did with the front to the back and bear with me, because I don't have a mirror in here, so I can't see what I'm doing just pretend that it looks okay section it off like we did in the front, make it so there's a back for Our top portion in the bottom portion make sure that the bottom portion is a little bit bigger than the top portion. So this is pretty much. What I want, then, take your rat tail comb again to tease the top part of the top section not under here, but on top what you have rat tailed, the top section just drop it down like we did in the very front gather it all up in One bundle and just fold it up like we did before like that, but instead of adjusting it and securing it now we're going to unbox out and make sure that they are just about meeting each other. So there should be. They should be both right about there. So I gathered both portions up, so they I have like a little tiny, ponytail right here, I'm going to take a little baby elastic like that and I'm going to secure it. So it makes a little bun right on top just like that and feel free to adjust it, because it looks really weird right now, I'm going to bring the sides of the bun down and bobby pin it to the top of my head now with the back Portion just just kind of play with them a bit, so you get that little soft settle like just a drop that you want. We have all these little tiny strands hanging down and what we're going to do with those right now is we're going to take some putty or some finishing gel to sew me softly finishing cream, a little pot, it's white and it's very clear. We don't want too much of it and with these little strands starting down at the bottom, we're going to take the finishing cream and do it about half way up. Then we are going to pin roll them up and what I mean by pin rolling em is we're going to take the very end of it fold it kind of roll it into itself and roll it up the whole strand. I want pretty loose, pin curls, so I'm not going to do it very tight is how they used to curl their hair way back when and then we're just going to secure it to the top of our head with a bobby pin roll it up, and in And bobby, pin it down four strands that are a little too short four pin curling I'm going to take a hair spray, I'm going to use the Aussie hi, what hi hold high shine spray and I'm just going to spray it on my hand like that, and I'M just gon na push it up and bobby, pin it down to my hair now for the pin curls you're supposed to sleep with them overnight. But if you're really impatient like me, then I would just go blow-dry them and I'm actually going to go. Do that right now, so I'll be right back okay, so I pin curled my hair. I just went and blow-dried them, and what this is hopefully going to look like when I take it down is like a little curl yeah, it's a little cascading curl that we get these days with a curling iron, but way back when they did it just with Pink curls yeah, so now you get those little little curly parts which I think are really cute. So that's pretty much our look, I'm not as happy with the front portion as I am with the back portion. I think the back turned out way better than the front, and that's because of my bangs I think, looks very just poofy and like nice and that's what it's supposed to look like little bun on top should be a little bit bigger, but I don't have as Much hair as I as they did way back when that is our look. I hope you guys liked it, and I hope you guys liked this upcoming series, I'm pretty excited for it, so the next look that I will do will be the 1910s and 19. It I'll talk to you soon. Bye,
Comments
Pam Mercury45: Thank you. I am 67 years old and my paternal grandmother wore her hair in the Gibson girl style. She said that women back then would save their hair from their hairbrushes after a brushing and place it in containers made for saving this hair. They would use this hair and form it into large balls called rats nests. They would tuck and pin the nests under the hair to give the Gibson hairdo hidden volume. This was a forerunner of the bun gadgets we use now days. Sounds a little gross, but I think they made sure the nests were of clean hair. Sometimes they wrapped these hair pillows with hair nets.
Lightbluesky01: Thank you for this tutorial! I went to a women's suffrage rally re-enactment, and I got a lot of compliments on my hair.
Aidan Phelan: Thank you for putting this up. I've been researching 1910 for a comic I'm working on and the whole mechanics of the hair from the time baffled me. This step-by-step guide has enlightened me considerably! Thank you.
Joanne Gillan: Thank you! I'm in a play called Pygmalion, set in the 1900s and this hairstyle is perfect for the part. Thanks for the video.
Danielle Stefik: Wonderful! Thank you so much! Just a pointer, when some one says 19th century it refers to the 100 years before that number, so in this case the 1800's. But if you call it the 1900's then it would be the 20th century. But I loved your video. Now I feel I can actually try this and not completely fail at it! Lol. Very helpful!!!!
Celia Wade: Thanks. You saved me when I found out 1 hour and 30 minutes before our school play , that I needed to do a gibson for mrs. Darling . I had never done one before! You kept it nice and simlpe, what a life saver!. It came out awesome!!!
Victoria Grace: I'm going to do my hair like this, because it's a truly beautiful hairstyle. Thank you for sharing this wonderful tutorial!
Phaenelope L’estrange: "This is the first look that's going to jump start my beauty through the decades... or whatever." That was as classic as this hairstyle!
MissGoldenDreams13: @Caty135: I think a great alternate version to this style would be the way you had it when the front was pinned up and the back was left natural. That look was sported in the early Edwardian Era by a lot of teenage girls and young women; Evelyn Nesbit springs to mind as an example.
trey que: I used to do a gibson girl style, just bend from the waist, make a pony at top back of head and then slide your hand back about 2". Stand upright and make into a bun. Simple, fast and gave the required volume.
Kat Meyer: Oh my god! Thank you soooo much for this video! For this production of Hello Dolly that I'm doing, we have to do Gibson Girl Hairstyles, and I had NO idea how to do it, before now!
Fay: THANK YOUUU! I was looking for a style like this!! :D
Brittany Ter Meer: this is truly going to help in my semester project of the 1900's, we were told to do whatever we could to look the part while presenting it and since i always wear my hair in a bun im deffenitaly going to be trying out this style! thankyou (:
TheChazzmander: I currently work at Gibson Girl ice cream shop in Disneyland and I have wanted to wear this hairstyle to work ever since! Thank you much! Cheers.
SuZet Rides an Andalusian: Actually, for authentic style check out Vintagious, she does a great job with turn of the Century hairstyles such as this.
Heather C.: Only instructional video I could find for the Gibson girl hairstyle! Thank you.
willalwayslovefood: Doesn't matter if it wasn't neat. I just wanted to know how its done! Thank you :)
Jan Franklin: love the vintage styles. This is very loose, any problem getting style to last thorugh an event or the day. I have seen old photos of Victorian women with there hair down, and many had there hair all the way to there feet! A womans' hair was said to be her crown and glory.
Civille7: This is a cool hairstyle. I wonder if it would be very difficult for a woman with super-curly hair.
007candytrojan: love it!!!!!!!
Caty: @RosalindBlack It's difficult with bangs, but I did it in this tutorial with bangs! Make sure you have a lot of bobby pins and hairspray on hand haha.
Caty: @claudeval Thanks! I'm looking forward to the 60s, myself. :)
Caty: @omgfiercelawl No problem! I'm glad I was helpful!
I'm Not Kira: I could pick out Debussy's Claire De Lune anyway. And they did have curling irons back then too. It was an iron rod and the lit a candle under it so it would heat up.
Angelina Brierre: Awesome thanks u really helped me!
Caty: @VampsAreLovee All the songs in my videos are in the information bar or in the video itself. This video has both. So the music title and composer are in the lower right hand corner of the video at the start of the song, as well as in the information bar under the video. :)
Caty: The darker color is pretty much my natural color, the blonde was just added to it. :)
Jessica: So some girls had floor length hair? I imagine if it reached a certain length most girls would keep it there due to manageability.
Caty: @coyoteno74 No problem!! Glad I helped.
Caty: @vtoodler Thanks so much. :) That' means a lot to me.
Caty: @brittdog2 Thanks!! No problem. :)
Gwir Galon: appreciate the music Caty. Chapeau!
julikzhulik: hello dear. I tried to do this hairstyle but it became a mess in about 1 hour (everything just sort of drops down so to speak) ... I have this very long thick straight hair so in theory it should look great :( What shall I do to make it work?
Ana Kay: this is how my hair looks when i wake up in the morning: A MESS!
Carol M.: Curly parts also known as tendrils
antiq90: Good tutorial I like youre way of speaking, you seem very nice :)
Elise Lewis: good job, but next time try it when your hair is dry and a few days old rather than freshly washed, you also need to tease THE CRAP out of it for the volume to stay. This way, you can brush a little bit of hair back over the teased sections to make it neat. You've definitely got the idea right though :)
Lemontree23: How do you know all this things!! I find it very interesting!!! :)
Alicia Esquivel: Thank you!
Erin B.: I have short straight hair and I'm in a production of Hello Dolly. I guess I'm now a social outcast
Donna Isadora: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Caty: @TheTriste13 Women grew their hair out as long as it would possibly grow. The longer the better! Hair was only cut to deal with some kind of disease back then.
Caty: @007candytrojan Thank you!!
Opal Martin: It would grow until it naturally stopped. Well, I don't guess hair "stops" growing, but if they had dead ends then their hair wouldn't grow as quickly.
vtoodler: you look beautiful. lovely eyes, btw.
Rmac: im trying to find the fashion and hair dos for the movie gone with the wind do you know what time range that was in or can you do one so i can figure out how to do it
Ysahcreativehobbies 🌹: i like old hair style
VampsAreLovee: What is the song playing in the backround ?
Caty: @ShadowPrincess12 You're welcome! :)
IVY wang: i love you this is wonderful ~~~~~~ i get all your vedio !!!
Jayliebird Piatt: Oh dear...this is not very accurate. The little bun in the back is just a bit sad looking. And the Edwardians LOVED frizz and backcombing. It would do you good to do a bit of that before attempting such a big hairstyle.
Caty: @athenazg No problem!
Lily Rose: EliseAmy0794 is right but what about people with thick long hair? Those tiny Bobby pins can't hold up thick people's hair. I guess use clips.
ornellab530: that is NOT how you pincurl...and that is NOT how they curled their hair.. they would correctly pin curl it. =]
Andyyoureastar: lmao i thought u just loaded since i saw June 20. but its 2010....! 10 years late but ty if u ever see this
Lily Rose: Nevermind your hair turned out awful looking.
LadyKay: cooool
nikitusilu: This is really bad, doesn't look like at all.. You have to tease it and curl the hair alot...
Tuba Khan: Its seems like a lot of effort and patience required...for a "messy bun" hairstyle..nice try though
Mer Albion: Thats a hairdo? You spent time doing that? I thought you were starting from the beginning . It honestly looks like you just woke up and got out of bed.
hollabelle: I'm sorry but this looks awful, front AND back.