victorain hairstyles, AND TV AND FILM EXAMPLES

https://www.pinterest.com/anouskaelester/fashion-1830s/

1830-1860'S

The Victorians rarely cut there hair and used wigs and extra hair to make there hair look fuller and thicker, unless they were ill in which case it was cut short. There hair was there glory at the time and was worn pulled back into a bun with a centar parting and either tight curls at the sides or very plain plaits which showed the ears though, this may sound boring but it really wasn't there buns were full and had intricate plaits running though or around them very high up on there heads, hair clips and ornate combs were also used to decorate there hair.

https://www.pinterest.com/victorianparlor/victorian-era-hairstyles/
VIWED 26/01/15

 In class this week with Helen we practiced how to achive this look on our Katie head dolls using tongs and a simple bun at the back. I also went on to try out the plaits.

all taken from my phone in Helens class using the 'katie head' doll 

1860-1890s

As the 1800s come to an end the victorian women started being a little bit more free with there hair, they starting wearing loser curls which hung around the face or elaborate big up dos. they were massively influenced by the like of the gibson girls who were more favoured then the New women.



1860

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a typical style for 1860
viewed on 26/01/15

1870

https://www.pinterest.com/annajose23/history-hair/
another typical hairstyle of 1870

1890

http://modelsown.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/charles-dana-gibson-illustrator.html
the gibson girls a massive influence in 1890s
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are we any differet

so this question has been running though my head the whole time i'm resurshing into victorian makeup and hairstyles is "are we any different now to them then?' and i really mean it. As women we are every day influenced either by magazines, twitter, facebook or what the girl on the bus next to us is wearing an i'm repeatedly seeing this throughout history....the difference is i hear u ask.....is there is no difference.
Take a look at the 1890s the Gibson girls the original Kardashians of there day with the big hair, tiny waists and flawless complexions. they used corsets to the point of nearly death to achive there intsiy bitsy waists and we are doing the same, by buying waist trainers and lotions and potions to achive the ideal look......our ideal look.  are we as women envolved, really? i want to keep asking these questions and pushing bounderies i want us to really think about how we are living each day expected to be a certain type of woman to be able to get anywhere or achieve, and i just completely hate these bounderies which are ever changing....... so as a new age Gibson girl, i refuse to wear tight waist triners to enhance my "booty" and chest, im going to throw down my comb, only go to the gym when iv eaten my body weight in cake and just enjoy life the way in which i want to.

the ugly truth of victorian beauty ideals

The use of makeup was on a decline once Queen Victoria took to the throne in1837. England was under Strict moral code and sexual restraints. Make-up was frowned apon and seen as a sin. However that didn't stop women entirely, the use of powders to take the shine off the face and cole to enhance the dark circles of the eyes to enhance the look of being fragile.

http://lamodeillustree.livejournal.com/148980.html
26/01/15 viewed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2271241/Beef-marrow-shampoo-LARD-face-packs-Victorian-beauty-tricks-revealed.html
viewed 26/01/15

Just like years before them having a tan was a sign of working outdoors and being poor and this was deemed as being vulger. they prevented gaining a tan not by just using parasols outside and covering up but also using makeup mixtures of white minerals powder and zinc oxide. They also drew vians on to give a transulute look to them selfs which was desired at the time.more natural tones ere used, eye shadows were made out of lead and antimaony sulfide, beet juice was used for cheecks and lipsticks were made from mercuric sulfide.

http://www.remimaillard.com/img/DiapoLaque/Laque4.jpg
visited page 26/01/15

Pre Raphaelite brotherhood

This extraordinary brotherhood was founded by Sir John Everett Millais in 1848 at his parents home in London, with only three starting the group and then eventually expanding to seven, they changed the face of art and how its perceived. the group was that of poets,artists and critics. There paintings ooze romance and symbolism, which is captivating and dream like. they explored social problems and used literature especially thoses dealing with love and death to create paintings.
although at the beginning of the brotherhood they were almost frowned upon by the late 1800s they were making heavy influence to the art world and symbolism.

Everett's first painting was that of "christ in the house of his parents" this beautiful painting was heavily criticised and deemed 'blasphemy' with "Mary looking like an alcoholic".
 Again the symbolism to me in this painting is very evident, the wound on jesus hand and blood dripping onto his foot relates to the crucifixion, the dove in the picture is about peace and the triangle on the wall above him refers to the holy Trinity.

http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite
viewed 26/01/15
christ in the house of his parents
painted by Sir John Everett Millais 1849-50

Another famous painting is that influenced by shakespeare play Hamlet. Its of Ophelia picking flowers and falling into the stream but over come with grief after hamlet murders her father she drowns. this stunning peace was created in two separate stages the second being he Millais feels a bath tub at his parents house and uses a girl to flout in it. The symbolism is shown in the flowers that surround here, daisy's as innocence and poppy's as a sign of death. 

https://frankzumbach.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/john-everett-millais-ophelia-elizabeth-siddal/
Ophelia
1851-52

Iv really enjoyed looking into this fabulous movement and there heavy impact into the art world, and by far this is my favourite painting.

“It doesn’t matter how beautifully a thing is painted, it is no good if it isn’t right – it’s got to come out… What does it matter how you do it? Paint it with a shovel if you can’t get your effect any other way.”

Sir John Everett Millais

http://chasingart.com/2012/08/26/sir-john-everett-millais-the-controversy-begins/

The Victorian era

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.’ - Queen Victoria

http://qvj.chadwyck.com/home.do
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Known for her morel high ethics and strict structure, Queen Victoria took to the thrown from the age of 18, for the longest rain so far, just shy of 64 years.
She and her husband, whom was also her first cousin had 9 children together.
 Queen Victoria shaped and moulded english society into structured island again after the turmoil of the  previous Kings and their lavish lifestyles. It was a time of peace and prosperity.

Her refined sensibility mirrored itself throughout the country and even impacted into make up and hair. make up was seen that of the devil in the early part of the period ,and even though those beliefs eased off come mid 18th century it was still considered that women, unless they were whores or actresses were not to wear make up and improper to do so.

Timeline for Queen Victoria

Historical Timeline 800 - Present

1837	Victoria succeeds her uncle, William IV
1838	Publication of People’s Charter. Start of Chartism.
1839	First Afghan War. British Forces capture the fortress of Ghazi in Afghanistan.
1839	- 42 First Opium War. Britain gains Hong Kong.
1840	Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1840	The Penny Post is introduced. First postage stamp is the Penny Black.
1840	First colonist settlement in New Zealand
1841	Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1842	End of First Opium War. Britain gains Hong Kong
1843	Launch of SS Great Britain the worlds first all metal ship.
1844	Railway building mania starts. 5,000 miles of track are built in Britain by 1846
1845	- 1849 Irish Potato Famine kills more than a million people. Many emigrate to America.
1846	Repeal of the Corn Laws
1848	Major Chartist demonstration in London.
1848	Pre-Raphaelite movement begins
1849	Harrods store in London is opened
1851	Great Exhibition takes place in Hyde Park. Its success is largely due to Prince Albert.
1852	Death of the Duke of Wellington
1853	Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory.
1853	Victoria uses chloroform during the birth of Prince Leopold.
1854	-1856 Crimean War fought by Britain and France against Russia.
1854	Charge of the Light Brigade
1854	10,000 die of cholera from contaminated water in London.
1856	The Victoria Cross is instituted for military bravery.
1856	David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls
1857	-1858 Indian Mutiny against British rule.
1858	Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches The Great Eastern, the largest ship in the world and the first with a double iron hull.
1858	First trans-Atlantic telegraph service
1859	Publication of Charles Darwin’s The Origin of the Species.
1861	Prince Albert dies of typhoid
1861	- 65 Civil War in America. Southern states unsuccessfully seek to involve Britain which has sufficient cotton from Egypt and India, but needs the Union North's grain.
1863	The world's first underground railway is opened in London
1863	Edward, Prince of Wales, marries Alexandra of Denmark
1863	The Salvation Army is founded.
1863	The Football Association is founded.
1865	Slavery is ended in America with Northern Union victory in the American Civil War
1867	The Second Reform Bill doubles the franchise vote to two million.
1867	Canada becomes the first independent dominion in the Empire.
1867	Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital
1868	Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the first time.
1869	The Irish Church is disestablished.
1870	First Education Act. Primary education becomes compulsory.
1870	Death of Charles Dickens
1871	Trade Unions are legalized
1872	Secret voting is introduced for elections.
1872	Henry Stanley finds David Livingstone who had been missing in Africa.
1874	Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the second time.
1875	Suez Canal shares purchased for Britain.
1875	Thomas Moy demonstrates his Aerial Steamer the worlds first flying machine at Crystal Palace, London
1876	Victoria becomes Empress of India.
1876	Scots Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone
1878	Second Afghan War. British defend the Kyber Pass.
1878	William Booths Christian movement adopts the name The Salvation Army
1879	Tay Bridge disaster
1879	Zulu war, British troops massacred at Isandlwana and Rorkes Drift
1880	Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as Prime Minister
1880	- 1881 First conflict with Boers in South Africa
1883	British occupy Egypt
1884	Third Reform Act all adult males given the vote.
1884	Greenwich Meridian and Mean Time adopted
1886	First Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass House of Commons. Gladstone resigns as Prime Minister.
1887	Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee. She has ruled for 50 years.
1887	Independent Labour Party is founded.
1891	Free schooling is introduced. 11 years later school attendance becomes compulsory for all children.
1893	Second Irish Home Rule Bill fails to pass the House of Lords.
1897	Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee.
1897	Marconi demonstrates wireless transmission across the Bristol Channel
1899	-1902 Boer War in South Africa. Siege of Mafeking
1900	Labour party founded
1901	Queen Victoria dies, aged 81.

http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=victoria
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Entertainment and arts
Like periods before them victorians enjoyed literature and the likes of  Charles Dickens and Emily Bronte. In the 1800s theatre took on a massive change, wealth was growing in middle class so the theatres were more full then before. Costumes, make up, hair and actors were more thought out and better quality music such as Michael Balfe. they also enjoyed magic,circus and dancing but this all deepened on your social structure.

http://www.joyceimages.com/chapter/11/?page=10
viewed 20/01/15

Men tended to enjoy gentlemen's clubs and casinos. victorian burlesque was also a big hit at the time and has since trickled down though the years.

http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/chance.html
viewed 20/01/15

unit breif

The unit this semester is in relation to Gothic horror. We will be looking into Charles Dickens  "the great expectations" and the Victorian beauty ideas, and practices.

This stage of the project will examine the reasons why the stories of Charles Dickens have been filmed more often than those of any other novelist (50 versions had already been made by the time of the First World War). Among the aspects that made his writing so well suited to the screen were the episodic structure, the clear definition of good and evil, the combination of social realism and the phantasmagorical, comedy and tragedy, and a cast of grotesques and eccentrics so colourful they’re God’s gift to character actors.  This initial brief will allow you to create a colourful tribute to a master storyteller whose tales transcend the medium in which they are portrayed and to, ultimately, take on a life of their own.

To embrace the range of possibilities through research and subsequent design development you will develop a sketchblog to record your journey throughout this project. Use your sketchblog to record your thoughts, drawings and ideas together with any sourced imagery; film, video or music that you feel would be of help to a television production team at planning meetings. Explain how you see the characters on screen and how you came to your design conclusions. You should look to suggest how you see the characters developing and how you feel they could be fleshed out in production through styling, make-up and hair design as well as their mannerisms, character traits and socio-economic background. You should also discuss how your overall character design will impact on viewing figures and potential audience bearing in mind the capability of High Definition Broadcasting.

How can you use the ideas from text, film and historical references to inform the makeup & hair design for the characters of Great Expectations?

For this part of the unit we will be looking at Miss Havisham and Estella. You must suggest through image and text, at least 3 solutions of how you will develop these characters and blog all of your findings and self-experimentation. The journey from text, film and historical research to characterization should be concise and show a clear progression of how you have reached the final stages of your designs.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1305730/The-ugly-face-Victorian-beauty-BEAUTIFUL-FOR-EVER-BY-HELEN-RAPPAPORT.html
19/01/15