A lot has been said about my vanity. The Paparazzi were always trying to paint me at my most unflattering. For instance, after having a baby when even the tightest of tight-lacing experts could not mold me into the miniature hourglass Spanx shape I required. Or worse yet, when my teeth began to rot and [...]
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sisi’s beauty secrets: one
Posted in Beauty, hair styles, tagged 19th century beauty cures, eggs and cognac for conditioner, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, hair, olive oil hair treatment, Sisi's face cream, Sisi's hair on May 5, 1848 | 1 Comment »
four centuries of bad hats
Posted in fashion, hair styles, Victorian Clothing, tagged Bea's hat, Celine Dion's ugly hat, history of hats, kate and pippa, sisi museum on March 1, 1848 | Leave a Comment »
I have gone on and on about my hair in past posts. I have written of the three-hour ordeals involving washing, conditioning, delousing, the weaving in of flowers and jewels. And here, I bored you to tears with my thoughts on the relationship between hairstyles and tarts. And who could forget my reportage on the [...]
my hairstyles on display. using genuine hair!
Posted in hair styles on May 4, 1848 | 1 Comment »
Since I am widely known as a coiffure icon, it is only fitting that, at long last, my trendsetting hairstyles (such as the one to the left) are now on display at the Sisi Museum. Finally, a realistic representation of the lavish and painstaking details of my plaited garland. If you care to read the [...]
apollo knots, exotic tarts and everything greek
Posted in Beauty, hair styles, Jane Digby, tarts & harlots on September 6, 1848 | Leave a Comment »
Like all proper duchesses, Mummi continued to slave over her hair until it started falling out. Fancy hair was of utmost importance in our castle and thereabouts. All of us girls had to spend hours with the ladies-in-waiting, with their pulling and oiling and poking in sphendones and wreaths and so forth. Of all the [...]
Mirror, mirror, on the Wall
Posted in Beauty, beauty "cures", hair styles on August 22, 1848 | Leave a Comment »
Nené’s face was covered in her beauty cream of lard, marshmallow root and ground slugs; her dark grey eyes looked like tarnished coins peeking out of a ghostly dew. She’d begun to freckle, too, and Mummi had warned against the sun, so when my sister wasn’t covered in slime, she dabbed her face with milk [...]
