Final Assessment On Me

Today my partner did my final design on me and got assessed.

I was really pleased with the outcome of the design she managed to create on me. 

During the practice session she did really well and today she did just as good too. She was a little slower today I don't know why but she still finished and it was just how I wanted it. 

We used the pearls that were in my design today too, to finish off and complete the look. 

I liked every aspect of my finish design and how it was created, we both got on really well as a pair and didn't have any problems I really liked working with her.  

The only thing I didn't like was the small braids being pulled really tight but I understand they have to be tight to be neat. 

If I was to do this again I would maybe loose the two front braids and just have all the hair going back instead. So it looks best at the front and a party in the back. 

Over all, I was very happy with the outcome of my design, I liked working with my partner and I liked creating her looks on her too.

 

 

 

Final Assessment On My Parter

Today I did my final assessment on my partner using her hair design.

Firstly I went to lesson early to set up and get a camera to take my final shots of the design when I had finished. 

I set up my station with - 

- Crimpers

- Grips 

- Pins 

- Combs 

- Large tooth comb 

- Paddle brush 

- Elastic bands 

I started differently this time to how I did it on my practice session. On the practice session it was the first time I had seen the design and so I just did it in a way which was more difficult for myself. 

Today I started my crimping all of the hairs from back to front of the head with crimpers. 

I then did my sections in the hair diving the hair into two, making sections from the front to be the two braids and the back under the hair for the details at the back. 

Once I had made the sections I put the hair on each side into so big pony tails on either side of the head. 

I then did two French braids down the sides of the hair line and brought up and wrapped around the hair bobble where the pony tails were. 

The back section I split in to four and put elastic bands in bear the scalp, then I divided sections into two and put elastic bands in to make a diamond pattern shape in the hair. 

Once I had put all the elastic bands in I pinned it up and wrapped excess hair around the pony tails to hide the hair. 

Once it was secure I moved on to making the buns in the hair, sectioning the hair into 4 and back combing to get some stiffness in the hair. I then rolled the hair down and pinned on the head either side of the roll.

When all 4 sections had been gripped  I used pins to pull hair together to make it look more rounded and a bun shape. 

I make sure everything looked nice and neat from all angles, smoothing the hair so there's no strays and also making sure the two buns were the same both sides. 

This is the finished look

 

 

 

 

Reflection

I was really happy with the outcome of the hair, I loved the pictures I took too as you can really see the design.

I think the front looks really good and it suits the models face too and the back has some really cool detailing to it. 

I found the design fairly easy for me as I have experience in hair, I can braid fairly easily and so buns. The only thing I hadn't done before was the design in the back but I found that quite easy to grasp too. 

The only thing I'm not happy with us when the model puts her hear down the sectioning from the braids to the buns weren't the same and you can see that in the image where she has her head down. 

I think that's the only thing I let myself down on but the other aspects of the hair was good. 

Overall, I was really happy and pleased with the final look and the images too, I think my model picked a really good design which suits her too. If I was to do this look again I would maybe add some colour in to the hair on the back detailing so you can see it more. 

Elizabethan To Modern - Buns

Elizabethan hairstyles are used in every day life to create different looks using buns, there very moderns and they are used and worn for style and as uniform.

Modern Bun
Today we use a modern bun in all types of ways, we use them for style, as they are so easy to create when you are in a rush in the mornings. We use them for work and uniform, some airlines, beauticians, hairdressers and other professionals wear this bun to have a neat sophisticated look. And other things like ballet exams, dancing or even just keeping your children hair out of their eyes. You can use a donut on the hair to get the perfect bun shape or you can just use the class grips and pins to create a bun too.

Braided Bun
A braided bun is still very fashionable yet is was used in the Elizabethan era, is so simple to create and very easy to do. Put the hair in to a bobble and braid all the hair, then wrap it all around the bobble to create a bun shape in pin in to place. This style is great for work to keep professional and useful on your children's hair to keep it out of the face.

Twisted Bun
Twisted buns are lovely and can create a really different messy look, if you have layers the bun will be a lot easier than a on length look. Getting the bun in to a bobble, twisting all the hair and the pinning around in a bun shape. These buns i don't see that often any more but they are still very modern to wear.

Top Knot
A top knot is all the craze right now, having all the hair slick back with a 'knot' on the top of your head is very stylish and sported by some very big celebrities. It slick, fashionable and gives you a mini face lift depending on how tight you like it. I like this look as i think it suits a lot of people, but on me I don't think I would be able to pull it off.

 

Messy Bun
Messy buns are very in, very easy and quick to do when you need that quick fix in the morning. Getting a bobble and roughly putting your hair up and using grips or pulling bits of the hair out the bun to create a messy look. A lot of girls wear this look as its very versatile, wearing it for a day out, a night out or even with a nice dress can change the whole look and add some edge.

 

Half- up Top Knot
Little top knots on the top of the head are very in fashion too, grabbing the front section of the hair and twisting it in to a little bun adds a little punk to a look. A lot of girls are wearing this right now and I love it.

 


Double Top Knot
Just like the half up top knot, this is very similar apart from the hair has two buns on each side of the head as apposed to one on the top. So easy to create just like the half up top knot but it looks very much so like cat ears. Miley Cyrus has had this look and its debatable whether is fashionable or not - I guess it depends how you wear it.

 

Man Bun 
Today it is debatable if the man bun is fashionable or not. A lot of men have grown their hair to get it up in a bobble but shaved the backs and sides very short so its just long on top. The hair can be worn forwards with a cute fringe backwards to create a quiff and then scraped back in to a bobble to create the 'man bun'. I think this look suits a few men but I think this style has gone past it now and the classic mens cuts or quiffs are best.

 

Modern Braiding

Here i have practiced some modern braiding, different styles of braiding with accessories such as ribbons in the hair.

Corset braid 
I created a corset braid by separating the hair in to two sides, I did two Swedish braids going down the sides of the head starting at the front on the hair line and ending at the bottom of the hair. I made sure these were really neat and tight and I tied them at the bottom of the hair with an elastic band. I then got some ribbon and threaded it through parts of the hair starting on the top of the head just above the crown, I worked all the way down where the braids came off the head. I took both braids and used an elastic band to bring them both together in the nap of the neck, and un tied the bands at the bottom of the plaits. With the spare ribbon I have I wrapped it around the elastic band and tied in a bow.

Forehead raid 
To create a forehead braid, I firstly brushed all the hair over to one side of the head, smoothing the hair out to try make it flatter, as the hair was dried to go down wards, it lifts off the head when brushed the opposite way. I started my braid by adding hair in to the braid but only adding the hair from the side where the hair would come from. one side of the braid will have hair coming forward and one side of the braid will be sitting on a slope going across the face. The more of the braid you do, angle it more down the face moving the clients head or moving yourself more round to the front of the client. I then added in a thin ribbon to the braid, I think this gave it a nice modern look having a little colour flowing through the hair but not too much. 

Reflection 
I really like how the corset braid came out, I was very pleased with the Swedish braids as it was my first attempt at doing one. I enjoyed creating this look and incorporating ribbons in to the hair for decoration. It was a very modern twist on how children could have worn their hair in the Elizabethan era.
The only thing I didn't like about doing this hair style is the Swedish braids can get a bit complicated when you take a section the wrong way round the hair it can mess the whole braid up and you have to try fix it without loosening up the rest of the braid.
Overall, I really liked how this look came out and I would definitely recreate it again and again adding different types of ribbons and decorations for a variety of looks.

I really enjoyed creating the forehead braid too, this was also the first tie I have created this look and I was very pleased with the outcome. It a very fashion forward look being created a lot in photoshoots. I liked how the ribbon gave the hair a little edge and colour too, adding a little glam in to the hair style.
I didn't like how difficult it was at first to get the braid going, as the hair is growing and laying in one direction I was trying to pull it on the opposite so this proved a little difficult as first but once I had got going it got easier.
I really liked creating this look and I would definitely wear it on myself too! I feel it gives a quirky look to a style but it also creates that sharp braid 'hair line' going across the face, like the Elizabethans had - a strong hair line.

Overall, I loved creating these looks, I have never tried or attempted to create these looks as I have not ever heard of a corset braid or thought to being a braid across the forehead before. But I really liked both of these looks I think they would suit all most any one and they are both relatively easy to create too. 

Elizabethan to Modern - Braiding

A lot of hair styles we wear today are actually inspired from the Elizabethan era, braids are growing so much more popular, changing how they look and how you wear them every season. Braids were very popular also back in the Elizabethan times, but now style has evolved and changed into something where anything goes. You can have a plait in your hair but you can change it into so many different looks.

Crown braid -
Crown braids which are very in fashion right now, celebrities such as Beyoncé are sporting the look, on models walking down catwalks and also in high fashion and beauty magazines too. Having a crown braid uses all the hair, keeps in looking neat, tidy yet very fashionable adding accessories into it too is a lovely look.

Heart braids -
Braids that are shaped into a heart are very cute on children and for bridesmaids looks, starting the braid from the back of the partin and bringing it forward yet round and down to the back of the head. It is a tricky look to get but practice makes perfect, they can be worn in many different ways around the head and adding accessories in there too adds to the look.

Forehead braid -
These create a sharp edge/hair line going across the front of the face, Elizabethans had really striking hair lines and this creates the same look. Braid the hair from one side of the head going across the forehead but just adding hair on the side where the hair is, not adding hair into the braid on the face side. These are so cute and I really like this look, it suits a lot of different face shapes and looks. Models and cat walks are sporting the look and adding accessories in to the braids as well.

Corset braid -
This is a very effective look and perfect for bridesmaids, you do two Swedish braids down each side of the hair and you then add a ribbon going down between the braids to make a corset effect. I really like this look I think its very cute! It looks lovely on girls hair and also on women's hair too, the ribbon is the main thing in this look but the braids are very nice and neat too. I would wear this look if I was going to a special occasion or was going to a themed event.

Fish tail -
The most popular look of the past year, having fishtails coming down one side, loosely braided and long. You create a fish tail by having the hair into two sections and getting hair from one side and taking it to the other side and tucking it under the section to the 'back' of it. carry this on all the way to the bottom and pull at it to make it looser and messier in places. Celebrities such as Blake Lively are wearing a fish tail and it looks so nice! Wearing it messy is a look which can go with anything to give it some edge to the style, also models, young girls, social media people are wearing a fish tail plait in the hair in many different ways giving us inspiration on how to wear them differently.

Padding and Backcombing

In lesson we did crimping on the dolls heads and when I had completed crimping the hair I decided to see what it would look like in the traditional 'heart shaped' style. 

In the image you can see how neat the hair is around the face, soft and pulled back. The hair is prob sly wrapped around a rat to keep the shape and hold better. 

In the Elizabethan times they would see hair rats, they would be a pile of old hair shaped in to what ever shape you wanted and that was pinned on to the hair and the hair on the head brought over it. Today we have bun rings and padding which does exactly the same thing but maybe a little more hygienic. 

This is a modern bun ring which is the padding, you can also use old hair from a hair brush and mould into shape or you can put toilet roll in some feet of tights and use that too. 

What I did was, I back combed one side of the hair, making the hair stand on end giving a little stiffness to the hair. I then wrapped the hair around my fingers and rolled down onto the head making the bottom tighter than the top looser, to make the heart shape. I pinned in to place and fixed any stray hairs. 

On the other side I didn't back comb but I got a 'rat', which is a hair piece you can pin into the hair, it looks like a sausage and you can get big ones or small ones and ones in different shapes too, to wrap the hair around to create volume and stiffness. The one I was using was long like a sausage. At the back of the section of hair I took a thin section and did a French braid across the scalp, I pinned the rat on to the braid to give it a stable base for it to sit on. I then wrapped all the hair back over the rat, not backcombing it, but just adjusting the hair to the heart shape and pinned into place. 

Looking at both sides you can see the difference in them both, one looks very soft, yet still stuff and firm where are the other side looks really hard and stuck on to the head.
I preferred the side which was back combed as it looked much more natural and softer. I did like how the other side looked, but personal opinion I really liked the back combed side more. I feel that the rat makes the hair look strange and hard looking which is what Elizabethan hair looked like. 

Crimping

Elizabethan hair was very well known for its frizzy-ness, even though it was well created and looked very good, in reality it was very frizzy! 

Creating Elizabethan looks is in fact much easier now, we have so many different techniques and tools we can use to create different hair styles and relating them to the Elizabethan era. 

Braiding, creating buns and crimping the hair all links with Queen Elizabeth's signature looks. 

Crimping came back into fashion in the 80's, when the first crimper was created by Geri Cusenza it changed the whole game.

Before, people would usually braid the hair or wrap their hair in a figure of 8 around a double hair pin to create the zig zag effect in the hair. 

Crimping Using Heated Crimpers 

Using heated Crimpers are so easy to use and they are much quicker and easier to create than braiding and letting the hair dry or wrapping the hair around a double hair pin. 

1. Section off the hair in a section at the back, when crimping the hair, the width of the section should be no longer than the width of the crimper. 

2. Get the section and hold the crimper in place for a few seconds and do the same going all the way down the hair. 

3. Once you have done the section move on to the next section holding the crimper still for a few seconds and moving down the hair. 

4. You need to make sure you get as close to the scalp as you can without burning the client, this is to make sure you don't have a gap of straight hair and dipping inwards where the crimp starts. You will notice more around the front hair line if you don't get close enough. 
5. Once you have done every section of hair use a paddle brush or a wide tooth comb to create 'frizz' in the hair. It would double in size making the hair look thicker and more volumised. 

The crimping really helps with structure of the hair, when the hair is smooth and soft it is a little harder to manoeuvre the hair. But when the hair has been crimped it gives you so much more control over the hair and when you want to put it.
When its back combed it is so easy to get in the right place and pin, I really like the crimped look too because I think it adds texture, volume and control to the hair which I really like.

Crimping Using Pins and Straighteners
using pins gives a really nice effect  to the hair and when brushed out, it makes the hair so frizzy and doubles in thickness.
1. Get a square section of hair not too large and a pin that you would use in the hair
2. Start to wrap the hair around the pin in a figure of 8 starting the top of the hair near the root working down to the ends
3. Once you have wrapped all the hair up in the pin get a grip and secure the end so it doesn't un do it self and come out
4. Get some straighteners and hold them on the hair wrapped around the pin for a few sections working up and down the hair getting all the areas
5. Move on to another section whilst this one cools down and when it has cooled down take the grip out and slowly pull the pin out from the hair
6. This will give you a beautiful zig zag effect on the hair and when brushed out it will become bigger

Using pins in the hair looks quite straight forward and easy - which it is. But, getting all the hair wrapped around a pin in a figure of 8 is actually very difficult. Trying to get all the hair in and keep it wrapped around the pin was difficult at first but then I got the hand of it and it got easier.
Once I had done these in the front of the hair, I styled the rest in a traditional Elizabethan hair style and I added a little moderns twist by leaving two sections of hair down the sides crimped near the roots and straightened on the ends. 

What I did was crimped the sides of the hair like I did before and wrapped them round my fingers and pinned into the head to create a heart shape. I then left the hair smooth at the back and did a modern bun, with the bits I left out at the front I pin curled them and held them in the straight elders to get a curl, once the curl had set and cooled down, I took the grip out and place the curls going backwards over the sides. This looked like a crazy, witchy look but it was a different take on the Elizabethan look which looked quite funky. 

I really liked this look as I thought it added a little twist on the usual Elizabethan style but I didn't enjoy using the pins in the hair to get the crimped look and it was very fiddly. The hair I was working with was too long for the pins so I couldn't include all the hair around the pin anyway. It was a good technique to learn as I haven't ever been taught to crimp hair like that, but I don't think I will be using this in every day life as its too fiddly. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_crimping

Chosen Design

My chosen design is design number 2. I have picked this design because I think it is really modern yet it still has an Elizabethan feel to it.

The make up which I thought for it is still what I am going to do, a pefects base, soft dewy skin, mascara, defined eye brows and some lip gloss on the lips to give them some shine too.

I have picked this one because its my favourite design, it has an edge to the look which I really like. The two buns at the back with the braids going up the back are very quirky yet very modern and the front of the hair is all back and it has a huge quiff in the look too which is what Elizabeth liked. 

I also have added pearls in to the design to add a little bit of 'wealth' in to the look too.
I have practiced this on my dolls head and I was really pleased with the outcome of the look and so I have decided this is my chosen design which I will use on my assessment.

Design 1

For my first design I produced a look which I feel is very contemporary but it also has an Elizabethan feel to it too. I wanted it to look Elizabethan still but with a modern edge.

The front of the hair would be plaited across the front of the hair line and down the sides but the plaits would look like they cross over at the front by starting one behind the other. The ends of the plait will then be brought round the back and pinned across the back of the head. The top of the head would have a lift to it but not a huge one, it will be rolled backwards and pinned on the top of the head so it gives the slight lift.

The back of the hair would have the plaits coming from the front, which would be pinned on to the back of the head and the rest of the hair will be braided down the back of the head and down to the ends of the hair. The main braid will have a ribbon going through the braid too.

I feel like this design is very modern yet Elizabethan with the braid going down the back of the neck and the bouffant on the top of the head. The braids at the front of the hair make it look more contemporary giving a little more to the look.

This hair design is very simple it has a few techniques in it though. I want to have all the make up natural keeping the attention on the hair. I want a perfect base with highlighted dewy skin and mascara, defined brows and some gloss on the lips too.

My inspiration for this look was me looking at the simple braid at the back and how it can be adapted in to something Elizabethan. I really like the look with the braid going down the back with a bouffant on the top of the head. I think its a very flattering and simple look to produce.