Papillote Curls: historical hairdressing techniques

This was amazing!! I thoroughly enjoyed this video!

It's pap-ee-yote. And means paper. Papillon, pap-ee-yon, means butterfly

Nice!

I always hear my gradmother talk about papillotes. Now I know what they are.

I love ur videos

Difficult to hear the voiceover with the singing and the music.

Really enjoyed that! Very interesting!

I think some of the people in those portraits had naturally curly hair...

Yeah, when the French weren’t busy culling half the population in the name of “enlightenment” they did nice hair:)

Tha'ts a lot of work

Very informative and well made video, thank u for sharing!!

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Why were they obsessed with curls?

Interesting!
Those curls look beautiful

I hate it when people pronounce things wrong and don't know how to type words into translate

iow..."pin curls", these are nothing but pin curls.

Woooow😍😍😍

Did she mention if hair was supposed to be dry or wet prior to curling?

That's'a lot of work! I will stick with damp hair
in regular curlers. Works for me. Hairdos last
a full week.

Love the music 🎼🎼🥁🥁🥁🎼🎼🎼

Beautiful, but must have been time-consuming? Can just imagine the person who invented this idea and how much work it took to figure this method out!?

is it a rule that they shouldn't be above 2 fingers in diameter or was that just for that specifik hair style?

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Janet this is wonderful but please lower the volume on the background music! It is too much. I want to focus on what you're doing without the loud distraction. Softer music would be great.

I knew a young man whose hair curled this way naturally and he called these "banana curls". It was a fantastic sight when his wet hair dried in the sun and formed into tight banana curls, especially to someone with straight hair like me!

Wow they come out easy. I thought you would have to unwind and cont to get them out.

I wonder who thought, hmm let me take these tongs and see if I can heat up and curl my hair. Lol

That’s not tissue paper, it’s butter paper used in baking

How can I get the background sound thanks..

I've seen some people use aluminum foil for this technique. Is that bad for the hair or just not historically accurate?

Love ur videos. So interesting. Love the music, too.

@Janet Stephens, would you use baking parchment paper like Reynolds Parchment Paper?

I sure hope you aren't using wax paper or even parchment paper (for baking). Both have parafin wax on them. That stuff is just awful to get out of your hair. I was a Barber and did the bride and bridesmaids for a few period weddings. Instead use aluminum foil. It will heat better, more uniformly. Plus you won't get wax in your hair.

Cool! Love the music too.

What painting is used in the beginning? I can't find it, and I love it!

I've always loved these curls!

So pleased to see your new video today I started watching older videos again.

I would love to see your techniques for pin curls. I use foam rollers for 40s and 50s styles but cant seem to manage pin curls.

You taught me how to French braid so I was hoping you could help with this too. Oh - and my daughter (8) says thanks because she can almost sit on her hair. French braids are very comfy for all that hair. ;)

Very interesting. That music is toooo loud

Excellent!!! Thank you!

thank you ! I dig historical hairstyling and my fav way to look at how to do it is from period sources, which works really well for setting patterns for curls after like 1920, but recently I’ve been getting into more edwardian and earlier stuff, and while there are plenty of books of recipes for pomades and guides to styles, most of the time they’ll just say “and then curl the hair with an iron or papillotes” and i had only the vaguest idea of what that entails.

But what fascinates me about white powdered wigs is...why? What was the attraction? LOL

This song is amazing! Do you have it posted anywhere?

nice but music too loud even nice as well. please pronounce "papiyotte" like "bastiye" not "bastile" :)

fascinating twirls a strand of my naturally curly hair around my finger

The first time I tried this, my papillote fell out before I had even used the iron, and the curl was already lightly set just from being so tightly coiled and from the heat from my head. This works amazingly well for period hairstyling; I may not need to use a half-wig after all!

Hello, thank you very much for the video! How high did you set the temperature of the flat iron?

Just a little French pronunciation tip - the double L is pronounced ‘io’ so papillote is pronounced ‘pah-piotte’ , not pah-pill-ohte.

Do you upload the background music anywhere? I really like it!

Fabulous insights.

love the music