Elizabethan hair and modern similarities

Hairstyles that are most recognised as being 'Elizabethan' tended to have volume, shape and texture. The frizz or curls would be moulded with wire and padding into rounded or heart-shaped styles, and then decorated with jewels, pearls, chains, hats, feathers, lace, veils, and more.
Typically, wealthy people would wear these styles, possibly because of how long they would take to create, and their durability would be improved compared to on a working class girl.

Here are some modern images that I felt inspired by, which had similarities with Elizabethan styles, due to the volume, heart shapes, colour, plaits and adornments. 

In class I experimented with plaiting, and I tried to do a french plait that spiralled from along the hairline into the middle of each side of the head. I quite liked how this made a subtle heart shaped out of the hair, in theme with Elizabethan styles. I left some hair at the nape of the neck as tendrils that I could curl or crimp, like in some Elizabethan portraits. I like this practiced piece, however my technique would need to be polished and the finished work neatened. I could add adornments such a ribbon woven through the plait.