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Ringlet (haircut)

Hairstyle made of artificially curled hair

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A ringlet is a type of hairstyle. Ringlets are often also known as princess hair or corkscrews. It is achieved by wrapping a lock of hair around the length of a thin curling iron. The curls can also be achieved by hair rollers. Loose ringlets can be created just by twisting wet hair as well.

Many Haredi and Hasidic Jewish men wear payot, which may be curled as ringlets.

Portrait of Countess Howe by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1834. The painting displays the ringlets fashionable in the late Regency era.
Portrait of Countess Howe by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1834. The painting displays the ringlets fashionable in the late Regency era.
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