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France had long served as the fashion leader for Europe and like the English and Americans, wigs tended to be associated with royalty and the upper classes in France. To avoid the guillotine and to blend in with revolutionaries, nobility and upper classes began to abandon their wigs for simpler more natural hairstyles. Thus, once Frenchmen began to give up their wigs and hair powder, it was just a matter of time before other European countries followed suit. Among those who embraced wigs and hair powder in the eighteenth century were English and French upper classes, middle classes, and royalty. For example, you could find everyone at the French court wearing powdered hair. This included Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette along with the Queen’s friend and Superintendent of her household, the Princesse de Lamballe, the famous Marquis de Lafayette, and Louis XV’s mistress, Madame du Barry. From the mid- to late-1770s, huge hair that was powdered was the popular fashion for women. The towering hairstyles that women wore were created using a thin metal frame and a cushion or toque as a support. False hair pieces were intertwined with a woman’s real hair and the combination was curled, waved, or frizzed. It was piled high on the head and once the style was finished, the hair was powdered before decorations were added. Of this fashion Mary Frampton, an English diarist and botanist, provided a description in her journal in 1780:

Shows a man inspecting his hair powder license. Titled “A Guinea-Pig,” published by Bowles & Carver after Robert Dighton and dated between 1790-1799. Courtesy of British Museum.For a more defined texture, apply the powder to your palms, and work it into your hair to create the style you want. If any maker of hair-powder, or dealer in hair-powder, shall mix any powder of alabaster, plaister of Paris, or other materials (rice made into starch, and sweet scents excepted) with any starch or powder for hair-power, and shall make any hair-powder with any other materials, and sue use, or offer to fell any hair-powder so mixed, he shall forfeit all the hair-powder so mixed, and 20 l.” [15] W. Chambers and R. Chambers, Chambers’s Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People v. 5 (London: W. and R. Chambers, 1876), p. 192. A. Bernays, A New English-German and German-English Dictionary: Containing All the Words in General Use (Philadelphia: G.W. Mentz and Son, 1835), p. 394. M. Frampton and H.G.F. Mundy, The Journal of Mary Frampton (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885), p. 2–3.

Powder-bag: This term was used in a 1789 document in the following manner. “Unfortunately the hair-dresser’s wife had applied a cast-off powder-bag of her husband’s to the use of holding flower for her puddings and pies.” [8]Are you looking for a light lift, or do you prefer a lion's mane fullness? Wherever your taste lies, you should find a hair texture powder that'll give you just the right amount of volume. One of the benefits of hair powders is that most of the current formulas on the market are buildable, so you can customize your look with just one product. Your Hair Color This print by James Gillray shows the wig being applied and is titled “Progress of the Toilet. – The Wig. – Plate 2.” Courtesy of the British Museum.

Powderbox: Dr. Samuel Johnson defined it in his dictionary as, “A box in which powder for the hair is kept.” [11] Beginning in 1795, those who used hair powder in England had to buy a certificate from the local Justice of the Peace after Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger decided to impose an annual tax on hair powder. The tax was one guinea and assessed “on all persons who should in the future wear hair powder.” [17] The law essentially stated: L’Etoile … relates that in the year one thousand five hundred and ninety-three, the Nuns walked the streets of Paris curled and powdered; from that time the custom of powdering has become so common, that in most places of Europe, but especially in France, it is used by both sexes, and by people of all ages, ranks, and conditions.” [2]

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Made for men who aspire to look fresh, its matte finish looks and feels undetectable. Its medium to strong hold helps you to create texture with added staying power. And most importantly, our powder helps your style and individuality to remain unique. Powdering: “The act of reducing to powder, the act of sprinkling with powder, the powder applied by sprinkling.” [12] Americans similarly embraced the fad. Although no royalty roamed the streets, upper class and middle class people were all powdered. This was mentioned in The American Monthly Magazine related to dress and hair fashions in 1792: For those willing to pay the tax, such as barristers or physicians, the Whigs began calling them “guinea pigs” because of the guinea that was assessed for the hair powder. This name calling in turn resulted in the London Times satirizing the closely cropped Whigs. Our Hair Powder is our best-selling product for a reason; the texturising formula is like no one else’s on the market.