This Elizabethan portrait shows the way in which frizzing and curls were used in that era. This is a very famous and beautiful portrait of Elizabeth I, it is known as the Rainbow Portrait, its vivid colours of orange and red really capture the eye. The hair is a bright orange colour which shows the styling techniques very well. It looks like for the top of the hair (main section) a frizzing technique has been used to create texture to help attach the adornments too. The hair which has been left loose looks to have been curled in some way. They are tight waves and look similar to the rik rakking technique we learnt in class. It is hard to identify whether they are tight waves or ringlets, but either way a technique of frizzing or curling has been used.



Modern Frizzing: Modern frizzing is focused on the hair size after backcombing/frizzing. It is mostly used to create a extremely voluminous look and tends to be very messy. Elizabethans used the frizzing technique to create texture and the hairstyles were always well structured and shaped. Contemporary styles of frizzing are less structured and more messy.