Crimping and Frizzing

Crimping

What you will need:

• Crimpers
• Pintail Comb
• Clips

What you need to do:

1. Split the hair in half giving your model a centre parting using your pintail comb
2. Clip back one half of the hair
3. Take the section of the hair that you haven't pinned back and start from the bottom sectioning small square parts of the hair, crimping down from the roots.
4. Do this until the whole head of hair is crimped or the section that you want specifically crimped
5. Then brush it out

Rick Racking:

What you will need:

• Pintail Comb
• Grips 2 types, Pin and Grip
• Straighteners

What you need to do:

This is a very time consuming process and can be used when you want a tighter crimp or if you don't have crimpers themselves. I'd recommend doing this technique when you have smaller areas of hair that you want to crimp.

1. Take a small section of hair from where you want the crimp to be and place the hairpin in with the join at the bottom and the spikes facing away from the scalp
2. Split that section of hair in two and make a figure of 8 around the pin sides
3. Keep it very tight
4. Once the hair has been wrapped around the pin take a pair of straighteners and hold them over your plait you have created.
5. Then take out the pin and brush out

This is what the hair looks like after it has been crimped using the figure of 8 way. It is a much tighter crimp that makes the hair look more afro-like. Very good if you are creating a hair design that needs a lot of structure.

Padding and Backcombing:

There's a few ways of creating the heart shape that the Elizabethan women wore. Here we tried 2 ways, 1 backcombing and the other was padding.

On the left hand side is the padding, this created a much neater and rounder heart shape.

How it was done:

What you will need:

Padding:

• Pair of tights
• Toilet Roll/Soft Paper
• Scissors

To create the padding:

1. Cut the ends of the tights off around the length of 15-20cm for the size I have created here.
2. Fill the ends with the paper of your choice
3. Tie the ends to the tights and you have created the padding

To create the look:

What you will need:

• Pintail comb
• Grips
• Padding

What you will need to do:

1. Take half of the hair you have crimped keeping the centre parting
2. Place the padding close to the scalp under the hair so that it wraps over the padding hiding it
3. Wrap the hair over the padding and tuck the leftover hair underneath
4. Pin very tightly in place

On the right hand side was my backcombed look.

What you will need:

•  Pintail Comb
• Grips

What you will need to do:

1. Take your half of the hair or the part you wish to backcomb keeping the centre parting in place.
2. Take your pintail comb and section the hair in layers
3. Start by brushing the hair down towards the roots keeping the back comb tight to the roots to give the hair volume and structure
4. Back comb all the separate sections
5. Once everything has been backcombed you fold the hair over creating the basic heart shape
6. Adjust the hair to the height and shape you desire
7. Pin tightly into place with grips
8. Smooth the backcomb on the front by gently brushing over if wanting a neater look

Upon practicing these two techniques I found that I much preferred the backcombing as it was a lot easier to create the heart shape as you didn't have to fiddle around with the padding and you could adjust the shape and height of the heart shape a lot easier. It created a much bigger shape too which I preferred.

The heart shape using crimp then padding.

The heart shape using crimp then backcombing.

The plaiting technique to create the heart shape is the final design we learnt, this is just to make sure that there is a bit of structure behind the hair to hold it into place

What you will need:

• Hairbrush
• Pintail Comb
• Hair grips

1. Brush the hair
2. Take a section of hair that you wish to create the heart shape with
3. Clip that section of hair away as you won't need it for now, drape it over the face to keep it out of the way
4. Behind that section of hair take a smaller section of hair, this is for the plait that will keep the structure, make sure this section is very tight to the section you want the heart shape to be
5. Plait the smaller section alongside with the parting of the plait and the heart shape section you chose, so it is going the opposite direction to the rest of your hair
6. Secure that with a hair grip keeping the hair grip hidden
7. Next take your heart shape section, and back comb it from the roots up
8. Fold it over the plait and tuck the end of the section underneath itself
9. Secure with hair grips