Sunday 25 October 2015

Hair Practical - Elizabethan Hair Design

Here is my design for a Elizabethan Hairstyle where the front must be curled or frizzed and it can be heart shaped or round and padding can be used if required. Also the back can be a plait or a twist must be in the shape of a bun and ribbons/hair adornments can be used.
When trying this hairstyle I was unable to crimp the front section of the hair like I wanted to as I didn't have crimping tools at home with me. However I was still able to see what the hairstyle would be like and was pleased about how it worked out.
Looking back at my first practise of this hairstyle i'm not sure about the sides as it looks a bit strange to me but when I tried it out in the practical lesson on my partner/model it looked a lot better an I was able to make it look better on the sides. Also as the hair on my model was longer than the mannequin head I was able to make a bigger heart in the back of the hair which made the look better and more visible. 
When trying this hairstyle out again on a model in our practical it worked out a lot better as the models hair was longer than the mannequin's and isn't layered which meant that clipping and manipulating the hair was a lot easier as all of the hair stayed up. However looking back a bit of hairspray was needed as the model had a lot of baby hairs that wouldn't stay clipped up.
Also when I finished this hairstyle I made the decision to use one of the other hair adornments that comes over the front of the hair as I felt if was necessary with the amount of volume that was created as it looked quite bare and some of the Elizabethan images I looked at, had hair adornments on top of the hair which seems to complete the look and makes it more decorative.
However when trying this hairstyle out on the model I struggled to clip all of the hair up due to it being much longer than the mannequins hair. But it ended up helping as I was able to clip the hair up higher making the hairstyle look better than I planned.

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