During the reign of the Stuarts long hair was the vogue—with "love-locks" and "heart breakers."
"A long love-lock on his left shoulder plight,
Like to a woman's hair, well showed a woman's sprite."
"His beard was ruddy hue, and from his head
A wanton lock itself did down dispread
Upon his back; to which, while he did live,
Th' ambiguous name of Elf-lock he did give."
The Great Oyer.
The absurd fashion of painting and patching the face, much ridiculed by the satirists, began in the reign of Elizabeth.
"Whers the Devill?
He's got a boxe of women's paint—
Where pride is, thers the Divell too."
Quips upon Questions, 1600.
"This is an Embleame for those painted faces,
Where devine beautie rests her for awhile,
Filling their browes with stormes and great disgraces,
That on the pained soule yeelds not a smile,
But puts true love into perpetuall exile;
Hard-hearted Soule, such fortune light on thee
That thou maist be transform'd as well as he."
Chester's Love's Martyr, 1601.