Hair rat

How to make easy cheap hair rats, from not real hair. I a lot of hair styles in most eras from Georgian through vintage require volume in ...

Ever wondered how Marie Antionette had such large hair? Or wanted to create vintage hair like the ladies in White Christmas? Introducing: THE RAT. Don’t panic — a rat isn’t as terri…

Epic haircut fails

At long last, a tutorial showing you how to create a popular 1909 hairstyle, a sort of modified "Grecian" look. As always, please click on the images for larger-size versions This coiffure's front silhouette is wide, with large-ish puffs to each side, rather flat on top. From the side it looks large too, because the back hair is gathered into a big coiled bun. The style came into being, so newspapers of the day reported, in response to the ever-increasing dimensions of fashionable hats. The…

Edwardian pompadour hairstyles were often arranged over hair rats. Learn how to make your own DIY wire hair rat with aluminum screen!

(source) While wandering through an antique store, one might come across something that looks like this: (source) And a thought might cross the mind, "Oh, what a beautiful trinket/powder jar!" Unfortunately, that thought would be wrong. This is a hair receiver, a specially made container for storing ones own hair. Nowadays this might seem like a strange concept, but with more women becoming interested in Edwardian/Gibson girl hairstyles, I feel that a revival in hair receivers is in order…

The inspiration for this project comes from an original hair “rat” from the Forties that I was lucky enough to win on ebay. It was created using human hair sewn into a hair net with bro…