MyTimed Assessment, Anna's Design

More pictures for my technical file

As with my make up blog I have had to upload any missing pictures for y technical file due to my email not working, I cant email the images to myself to print so I have uploaded them to here to save to my laptop and print from there. All though It will be useful to have them on my blog to show some more of the practice we have done throughout the semester.

 

 

 

The last practice of Annas hair design before my timed assessment

 



 

Half way through my first attempt at Annas hair design

 

One of my first french braids

 

Fishtail platt on my dolls head

This is the point when I finally got the technique for french braiding

 

Practicing buns

An Important post I forgot!!

This post is probably the most important one in demostrating how I came up with my final design for my hair look!! these are the two chosen images I  have decided to use and I have taken elements from each one to come up with my own creation, a blend of the two with and extra modern twist.
The first Picture is this old Elizabethan portrait of the Queen herself, with a typical Elizabethan Heart shape hairstyle. I also like the lace which is pictured running from one end of the heart to the other along the top line.

 

 

The second image I am going to use is this image of the singer Rhianna. I chose this picture because I like the way her hair colour is very Elizabethan as Queen Elizabeth the I was famously a redhead. This style is very Elizabethan with the long plat running from the top of her head around and down into one single wide plat which rests on her shoulders.

 



 

 

 

My design incorporates both a heart shape and a plat. The plat stars from just above the ar on one side and runs around the hairling all the way back to where it started with a wonky lop sided heart shape resting to one side of the head. I deliberately positioned the herat to one side to give the hair an un-symetrical look which give the style a more contemporary feel. True Elizabethan hairstyles were often symmetrical and I wated to break away fom this and create something slightly different. placed between the french plat and the heart will run a double a string of blue pearls which gives the effect of a modern day hairband, i chose to do this because Queen Eizabeth was known to be a big fan of pears and they give the style a traditional Elizabethan look whilst at the same time being blue gives them a contemporary edge. However to bring the style back to the modern day once again the plat wil be painted using Aqua colour, Pink, Purple and gold. I chose bright Barbie like pink because it is not  a colour that is associated with Elizabethan fashion, and the Purple to represent regality.

sketches of my hair designs

Annas practice of my design

Today in our Practical session Anna my partner for our timed assessments practiced my hair design on me. I think the practice went very well, Anna managed to finish the design on time and it looked pretty good, although the french braid could have been a little neater. However as it was a bit of a rushed practice Im sure Anna will be able to do this with no problems in the final assessment. I have decided to make some of my ow padding for the fnal assessment to ensurethe heart shape has a lot of volume and sits in the right shape on the head. I will also be  covering the padding with some hair extensions the same colour as my hair to keep them well hidden. Unfrtuneately I do not have any images of this practice session due to my phone breaking, I will ensure to take plenty in future sessions.

Practice, practice, practice

Yay, finally updating my hair blog!! Seems I've been paying more attention to my make up blog as of late which is a shame as I think being a hairstylist is a career I'd definitly like to persue. This being said I am going to make much more effort to keep an even balance between the two subjects and update my hair blog on a more regular basis. To start with today these are some of the practice "New Elizabethan" styles from our practical lessons and my final choice of style for my timed assessment in a few weeks.

This first style was created using curling tongs to form small curls to the width of the tong which sat neatly on their base, allowing them to be pinned into place to cool. We created curls firstly in an upward direction and then in a downward direction alternatley, starting from the side of the head at the hairline just in from of the ear, continuing this pattern of alternate curls up the head to the centre where we kept a straight centre parting as this is authentically Elizabethan.

this second style I designed after practicing the heart shape style in a previous lesson using to pieces of padding. The heart shape was a popular style throughout th Elizabethan era and I personally used it in this design as I consider it to be one of the more glamourous Elizabethan styles. I added two french plats down through the middle of each raised side to add some extra detail. As mentioned before the Elizabethans were great fans of the centre parting, however I managed to get a little carried away trying to make the french braids as neat as posible which trew the parting off centre.

This style was produced using curling tongs, a single piece of padding for volme in the centre of the head and french plats for decoration. Although this style was fun to create I do not think the end result looked very Elizabethan

This heart shape style was created using two quite large pieces of padding and a crimper to add volume to the hair and unlike my previous attempts at styling this was the first time I worked using a live model. In some ways I found it much easier to style the hair on a actual person rather than my dolls head, due to the fact that the hair was in much better condition and the length of the hair was consistent throughout the head. However at the same time I found there were also a few draw backs to using a real model, firstly because I was nervous about hurting the client I was much more gentle in styling the hair which meant I was not able to gain the same tension when pulling the hair into shape which resulted in the style being less tidy than the previous attempts usin my dolls head. I was also alot more aware of the effect of heat damange on the models hair so used applied the heated tools for a shorter period of time which mae the crimp limper and did not provide as much volume.

This is my first attempt at the final design I have chosen for my timed assessment. I have incorporated Techniques which were popular during the Elizabethan era but used them in such a wasy that gives th overall style a subtle modern twist. the hairstyle consists of a french plat fstarting at one side of the head over the top front section of hair following the hairline down to just below the ear on the opposite side, with a heart shape created using padding sitting sort of lopsided to the top left of the head. I deliberatley positioned the heart shape to one side and the plat to follow the hair line to break the rules of Elizabethan centre partings and give the style a more contemprary feel. The back section of the hair which is left over will be sectioned down the middle and pinned to either side of the head and curled to hang loose over the shoulders.