Evaluation

For this project I am genuinely happy with progress throughout, although when first getting this project and finding out that I would be creating a design that another student would be creating on me, I was slightly worried incase they didn't see the angle that I was coming from with my design, however the partner I was given did my designs pretty much how I wanted them. Also my partner and I communicated a lot both in our practical lessons, asking as many questions as we needed as this helped us with both creating each others designs and instructing the other in creating our own design. We also communicated outside of our timetabled lessons by chatting on facebook to arrange to meet up after lessons to practise our designs. After all that I feel a lot more confident at creating a design that I have been given, and to be able to create it in a certain amount of time without getting too panicky.

Throughout our timetabled lessons I have learnt new skills with the techniques that we have been taught, as well as working on all different hair types, I feel like this has made more confident in doing hair.

For my final Redheads and Royalty design I feel like I have designed a look that combined with both historical and modern concepts, with having a heart shape within the hair with the use of crepe hair for the padding. This project has definitely helped me for future projects and hair styles with the wide variety of techniques that I have learnt.

Timed Assessments

 Here are the photos from both my partner and I's timed assessment. When it came to my turn to do the timed assessment with my partners design I found it fairly easy due to the amount I practised. The only thing that had changed was the plaits on either side of the head instead of them being a french plait where you only pick up hair from one side, they were just normal french plaits.

 

 

 

 

Below is photos of my design, my partner created on myself.

 

 

 

Practises for Timed Assessments

               
                    These photos are my first attempt at creating my partners idea, at first I thought it would have been fairly easy, as it was just plaits, a bit of crimping and adding in some padding. But when I came to sectioning her hair, I found it quite difficult as her hair is long and heavy, which made it a bit difficult to section and keep in the sectioning clips, due to this I had to keep adding in more clips down the sections to keep any flyaway hairs out of the way.The first technique that I had to do was these two plaits that went down both sides of the head. They were fairly easy to do after I got the hang of it, as these plaits were like french plaits but inside of collecting hair every time I crossed over a strand of hair, instead I would have to collect hair from one side. When I came to do the second plait I found this a lot easier but I think is due to the fact that there was more in the second plait than in the first one. Once once side was done it was a lot more easier to do the other side as I knew how much hair needed to go in each section to create these plaits. For the rest of the hair the top half was crimped with some padding underneath, which I found easy as I had practised a lot in class as well at home. For the rest of the hair my partner still wasn't sure what to do with the rest of her hair, in which we came to the conclusion that the section that has been crimped will only be crimped halfway down and the rest to be plaited as normal. And the rest of the hair will be plaited and then straightened which will make the hair a slight wavy.

            

These photos above are my second practise of my partners design, when creating her hairstyle again I found it really easy as I had practiced the plaits quite a lot as I have never done them before. Also because I had done this design the week before and the fact that we had talked about it quite a lot made it a lot easier for especially on the day. 

            

    Below are photos of my design that my partner has created on my hair, I think she did really well with how I wanted it to look like, at first i wanted it have bits hanging down over the bun making it messy, we did try this but due to the fact that my hair isn't that thick made the crepe hair show through, and the section that was meant to hang down didn't really work.

 

                                               

Hair Design for Final Look

 This is my final and third design for my contemporary new Elizabethan, I choose to go with this one as in my previous designs I liked the bun and it being messy but instead of it being a messy bun I designed it to have crepe hair at the back of the head so then hair will cover it and effectively create a heart sort of shape at the back of the head instead of it being traditional and on top of the head. I still wanted to incorporate plaits into my designs, although it isn't the normal plait, or a french or fish plait, its a new technique I've recently learnt to do.  Below is an example of the recent technique I learnt, where you plait the hair as normal leaving it a bit loose, then once at the bottom leaving it with one hand having one strand in it and the other hand having two strands in it, pushing that hand up, causing the plait to bunch up creating this effect.                                      

Inspiration on Final Look

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After I experimented with plaits and found out that I didn't want to do that, but I still wanted to incorporate plaits in my final idea, I found another technique of plaiting of where you plait as normal and once at the end having two stands in one hand and a single strand in the other. Pushing up the hand with the two strands, making a swirl up the hair. After looking into more inspiration I came across the photos above which I found I wanted to do my work more like, as I wanted to go for a messy look.
From the first photo I like the way the hair falls and they have used curlers to get this technique. Its a simple and elegant look that I like to incorporate in my work but instead of having it neatly placed I want the curls to be back combed making it frizzy and all over the place. I still want

Alexander McQueen

In 2007 Alexander McQueen did a collection for Spring/Summer, the style that he wanted for hair reminds me a lot like an Elizabethan style, as it has the heart shape, although it has a modern interpretation as it is messy and off shape, but the fact that he has chosen a model with blonde hair also makes me think of a deliberate Elizabethan style. Even the make up with the paleness of the face and clothings suggests of an 16th century hint to it, with the lace dress and black blazer and skirt which symbolized wealth.

I first came across this when looking into modern Elizabethan styles, I enjoyed looking through these photos as I like style of them and from then on I knew I wanted to base my contemporary look on these, with the messy and off styled look.

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Hair Designs for Assessment Ideas

Here are two of my designs that I have considered for my contemporary design. Although I do like these designs I also felt like it didn't really reflect much of the era as I think it looks too much like a wedding hairstyle especially the second one, and that it just looked liked a plait around the front of the head, with a messy bun at the back. However I have still used some of these aspects in my final look idea, even if they are used in a different way. Another factor that I need to take into account is that these designs will be done on my head, so the mains things to think about is the fact that I don't have as much hair to be able to do the first design.

 

Val Garland

Reference: US Vogue, 2012 - Photographer: Tim Walker - Makeup: Val Garland. 

Whilst researching on the internet for contemporary Elizabethan hairstyles, I came across this photo there are various aspects of this photo that I feel that came from the Elizabethan era such as the colour of the hair, as it's yellow, and back in the 16th century wealthy people would have a colour of this sort maybe not so bright.

In this photo I really like the hair as its frizzy and curly as well, I also felt like this was a modern concept of the era due to the shape as well as height to it. 

Below is my example of a hairstyle that included frizz, I quite enjoyed doing this as I might consider doing it for my final look.

Inspiration for Assessment

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For my first design I knew I wanted to incorporate plaits into my look.
The first thing I did was research into plaiting and different types, whether it was just a normal plait or french plait or a fish tail, I then looked into where to position it on the head. At first I wanted to do a plait where it starts at one side of the head and then comes around and drapes over the shoulder, just like the photo of Rihanna. But I knew that would not be practical as I don't have the longest hair. My second thought was to have just a plait at the front of the hair, then having a simple bun at the back, which had been crimped and curled to create a fizz effect, which would have lead to a messy bun.
For another look I still wanted to go for a plait in the front, which lead on me on to researching further into different plaits, where I came across the last photo where there is still a plait at the front but it has more of a twist to it and ends up in a simple bun, but where the bun is in that photo I would want it  higher up and for it to be more messy as I feel this is too smooth for how I want it to look.

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Experimenting with Plaits

French Plaits:

Evaluation:

When doing this technique, I found it really easy as I already knew how to plait, although there is always room to improve,as there was a little bit of drag on my first plait. After practicing a few more times, my french plaits have improved a lot but there is still room for improvement on them. At first I just did a plain french plait that went straight down the head, after that I tried to do a french plait that started at the side of the head and went around, then finished the plait off and went back on itself,and pinned it in. I think it went pretty well, however it isn't that smooth at the back of the head, which is where I feel like I need to improve the most.

Fish Tail Plaits:

Evaluation:

Evaluation

For this style of plaiting I have always found it difficult to start it off, as I find it goes all loose and seem to drop some of the sections of hair, but once I get into the swing of it goes fine, as on this photo you can see at the top that its a bit loose, but to sort this out I gently pulled on each side of the plait making it all loser, which I feel made it look better but there is still a little bit of improvement to happen.

Elizabethan Hair

 
              

This women who is from the Elizabethan era, is quite clearly from the upper class, by the fact that her face is pale white, hardly any eyebrows and a massive forehead, she is also covered in gems and jewels, which shows that she wealth and status. She has one of the classic heart shape hair style, which looks like it's been adorned with pearls, and rubies as well as flowers. There seems to be some lace that runs along the top of the heart shape.

Above are more portraits from the Elizabethan era, where the women wore their hair in heart shaped styles.


















Here is an example of my work I had done in class, using the above photo as my inspiration.