Mid/Late Victorian Hairstyles: 1860 - 1890

Key points:

~hair was still centre parted

~smooth front

~plaited or curled into chignon (were low in the back)

~use of artificial hair

~dark hair was desirable during that time, so women with light hair had to dye their hair if they wanted to follow the trend

~wavy hair became fashionable

~later the hair was placed higher on the head

~flowers as accessories

~cascades of ringlets/curls were coming down, as well as having ringlets at the neck area

~the hair moved from the sides to the back

~during late mid Victorian era the chignon became unpopular again

~during the late Victorian times the hair became bigger

~if you had a fringe it was tightly curled at the front

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use of artificial hair to elaborate the hairstyle

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hairstyles from TV adaptions

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the more late hairstyles including the tight curled fringe

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and an overview from the several hairstyles from the early to late Victorian times

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I think you can see that the hair became more bigger ,curly and just overall more elaborate as the century progressed. It started with the innocent looking buns and plaits at the sides and moved to the big curly hair. Even though the middle parting stayed at all times the hair became more loose as time progressed. Also especially during the mid/late Victorian times they used a lot more accessories in the hair and of course the artificial hair (already made ringlets, which you just have to pin in).