Practice of Hair Design

I really liked the hair design that I got given by my partner, Ellie. At first I thought the hair design looked far too simple and easy but when it actually came to practicing it, I found it a lot harder as it was the little details that needed to be perfected which made it tricky.

For the hair design Ellie wanted three clear sections to the head so what I first did was separate the hair into the sections I wanted. This was actually quite a hard thing to do as you had to work out the perfect size of the sections so that later on I could join all the different parts up. I then crimped the top two sections of the head that would create the heart shape and then back combed those sections and used padding to create the heart shape. This was fine as I had done this in previous lessons. 

Then it was time to tackle the bottom section, this I found a bit more difficult. I crimped the bottom half of the hair and then divided that section into two for the padding to go in later on. I started with the left hand side and used the padding, I found it a lot more harder doing the bottom half of the head as it felt like everything was the opposite way round, how you roll it up ad have to pin it. Actually placing the grips in the hair in a way that would secure the padding was quite difficult as it was hard to get my fingers in without ruining the hair. 

Then I did the right hand side and joined the two together to create one big roll at the back of the head, this was quite simple as I just had to take my pintail comb and tease the hair together covering any gaps. 

The next step I found super difficult and that was going the top part of the heart shape to the bottom part of the heart shape on the sides of the head as Ellie wanted them all to be connected. There was quite a large gap in between the two and not as much hair to cover it so I had to work with it a fair bit with my pintail comb to pull the parts together, the hair became a bit loose at this point also so i had to try and pin it all up. In the end though it did come together with a little bit of frustration!

The last part of the hair design was just to add individual pearls into the hair, the pearls were pins so it was easy to slip them in and make sure they would stay. Ellie wanted the pearls to be symmetrical which made it a little bit harder because in some cases there was more hair on one half of the head than there was on the other so sometimes the hair pins would go in well one side but just fall out on the other side. 

All in all I a very happy with the amount I have practiced this design and how far its come together, it looks very simple but it was actually pretty difficult and challenged my practical skills in a good way which I am grateful for.