This is the portrait of Queen Elizabeth is what I have chosen for my Elizabethan portrait. I feel it shows a very typical Elizabethan hairstyle, with the colour, the style, the hairline, etc.
The main thing I like in the portrait (as I have mentioned in a previous post) is the tendrils. I like how defined they are and the general shape that the hair is able to create. It is also very interesting to look at the hair/head accessory that she is wearing because it is very elaborate and features many different pearls and jewels and detail.
I have chosen this hairstyle as a contemporary Elizabethan style. I feel the colour and curls still relate to the Elizabethan era, but it has a lot of modern twists. For example, the hair is actually ombre, which has become very popular recently. Also, the use of a half-up, half-down look is quite contemporary but the length and type of curls used makes it look much more contemporary.
I have chosen a second image, because this is very different from the one above, and in fact from Elizabethan styles, but it has a lot of the same elements. For example, the colour comes across as very modern, because these new-found vibrant colours have recently been used a lot in today's society, and it is now seen as acceptable and quite normal. However, this actually relates to the Elizabethan's because they valued and aspired to have red hair, and this definitely is red. I find it extremely interesting how simply the use of colour can change and adapt a hair style. Furthermore, Rihanna has incorporated many different plaits into her hair style (as used in the Elizabethan era), and she has all of her hair off of her face, as they would in Elizabethan times.
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