24.02.15 Hair!

So today was scheduled in as a workshop in our timetables, so we could practice for our photographic shoot but myself and another classmate had already done our shoot so our teacher Emma Croombs told us we could work in a pair on another classmate, create a hairstyle, then test the outdoors conditions, as if we were actually on location. So we could learn what it would be like bringing the Great British elements into play!

We decided to create a big twist at the back with two victory rolls at the front. Here are our results:

Our model for the day with natural hair.

Back left view of roll

Back right view of the roll

View of victory rolls mine is the one closest to the camera.

How to create the look:

- You want to start off by brushing through your models hair.

- Preferably you would want to put a directional set in your models hair using carmen rollers... but... we didn't do this so in fact made it harder for ourselves!!

- You want to make a clean straight parting we chose to do a side parting, therefore having one victory roll bigger than the other. 

- Then using a pintail comb you want to create two sections from the ear to the parting line you just created on both sides. 

- Take whatever section you are starting with and brush through you want you hold the length of hair up and make sure your tension is tight, so you don't get any sagging! 

- Back comb the section using a postiche brush.

- Wrap the end of the hair around your fingers then roll up until you have rolled the entire length of hair. Spray with hairspray and use your pintail comb to bring in any stray hairs. 

- Carefully slip your fingers out from the roll and use both hands to tease the roll out length ways till your happy, secure the roll to the head using grips on the inside of the roll so they're not visible.

-Repeat process on the other section.

- On the back of the head it's just one big section, so is quite difficult. 

- We started off by back combing the section, the smoothing using a postiche brush.

- We swept the hair to the left then cross gripped down the length of the section so the hair is tight and clean on the head. 

- We then took crepe hair and created a long sausage shape and wrapped the hair around it, in order for our roll to not only have maximum stability to hold it's shape when on location or if it has to stay in for long periods of time. When your rolling make sure your rolling tighter and upwards slightly so you get the classic ice cream cone shape! Secure using grips- make sure they are hidden!!

- Spray with more hair spray

Lesson Evaluation:

Overall I'm really happy with the style we created especially seeing as our model has the straightest, softest hair so it literally holds nothing for long, and the fact we didn't use carmen rollers! When we went outside for 20 mins to experience what its like when your hairstyle is out in the open, I thought we did really well, we had everything we need and were able to maintain the style until we had to return. We remembered to take everything we may have needed, so we didn't get stuck at all. Really good lesson overall.