Ringlet (haircut)

The Empress Eugenie Surrounded by Her Ladies in Waiting by Franz Winterhalter. Several of the women are wearing their hair in ringlets

A ringlet is a type of hairstyle. It is achieved by wrapping a lock of hair around the length of a thin curling iron or can be sported naturally by people with sufficiently tightly curled hair. Ringlets are often also known as tube curls or corkscrew curls.

Examples of people with the ringlet hairstyle

• During the Flavian dynasty in ancient Rome, aristocratic women wore the ringlet hairstyle.
• Canadian actress Mary Pickford's emblematic hairstyle was ringlets before she cut her hair into a bob style.
• Child actress Shirley Temple was famous for her ringlet hair, styled every day by her mother.
• The Veruca Salt character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has her hair styled in (oversized) ringlets on the day of the chocolate factory tour.
• Karin Kanzuki (from Street Fighter Alpha series) has her hair as ringlets, as does Nanette Manoir of the Angela Anaconda TV series.
• Touko Matsudaira (from Maria-sama ga Miteru) and Amy Sorel (from Soul series) wears her hair as pigtails with ringlets.