Studio hair -What we do in class and how to do it!

 

 

 

 

 

As our current project is to make-up an Elizabethan character we are learning how to do lots of different hair techniques that reference Elizabethan hair.
This is a normal plait.


How to achieve this look and what I did:
Take one section of hair, divide this into 3 equal sections.
overlap each layer over the other, for example,  bring the right over the centre piece and to the left then bring the left over to the right and so on so fourth. Put a hair tie at the end to hold all the hair together.

This look is known as ''The fish tail'' because well, it looks like a fish tail.
This is a slightly more difficult one to do but one you get it its not to hard to overcome. To do the fish tail you get one section of hair divide it into two equal sections and just like the plait you over lap each section taking a small amount of hair from each section each time you overlap. It takes quite awhile so I wouldn't recommend doing it if you are in a hurry!
I need to practice mine a lot more as this is the first time I have attempted a fish tail plait. Another technique that you can do is pull the fish tail apart and make it really kinda crazy looking or you can make it look really vintage and lose by pulling the hair out and having a more messy look so there is quite a bit you can do from this hair style.

This look is known as a French  Plait. This was actually the hardest for me to achieve. To do this look You start out the same as your normal plait with three small equal sections of hair and then you had hair to the middle section and then plait as normal. So for every time you plait the hair you add a bit to the centre piece of hair and then finish off plaiting as normal.
You can do a tight French plait or you can do a more lose one which ever style you prefer .

This is a bun done without using a ''donut'' . This would have been how the Elizabethans would of done their hair into a bun as they wouldn't have had the donut to use at the time.
To achieve this look you put the hair in a pony tail , then you separate the hair out into 4 equal sections. You then take one section at a time rolling the hair into the middle of the head and pinning the roll at the base near the pony tail to hold the hair from moving. You then can take a hair grip ir brush and gently pull the hair to make it more thick and full looking. If you have someone with very fine or think hair, you can gently back comb the hair sections that will be in the bun just to make them a small bit more dense and full looking. You repeat the same producer for each section and then join the hair together by pulling the sections apart to make it look like a bun . You can do this with the top section of the hair as I have done here or with the whole head if the person had very long hair and you wanted all of it in a bun.

This technique that you see here is done with hair padding or wadding. This was a very difficult style to get correct but it was very interesting and fun to do.
The first thing you do to achieve this look is put the hair into a section. I did mine from the hair up so basically the whole front side section. You then take the hair in smaller section and curl it with a hot tongs. I wanted the curls to be very tight curls like the judge wigs that you see in movies etc. When I was taking the hair from the curler, I just loosened the hair and then pulled it from the tong being carful not to burn your hands. I then put a clip into the curl very gently to hold it while it cooled down. Once I had all of the hair curled and had cool set I put in a plate in the hair where I wanted the ''rat'' to sit this was to secure the rat in place and stop it from moving. you then take grips and clip the rat to the plait. Once this is done. You take the curls and pull the hair over the rat and adjust the hair if needed to cover the rat completely. You can make some really interesting shapes in the hair using this. When I first did it I forgot to do the plait so the rat was not secure and kept falling out of the hair so its really important to have something to secure it to the head so it doesn't fall out as this is the base of the entire look and if its not done correctly, the look just wont work.


 Crimping



I really enjoyed this look a lot, To crimp the hair you just hold the hair up right and place a hot crimper on it, the time you leave it on will vary depending on the type of hair you have and the thickness of the sections.
  This gave me a lot of ideas to use in my designs for my final looks for my assessments