Hair Designs Practice & Technique

You will need...

• Sectioning clips
• Hairspray
• Tail Comb
• Water 

1. Crimp or frizz the hair up to ear height
2. Pin the hair down along the crimp line
3. Using water dampen the top of the hair down with a rat tail comb.
4. Spray this with hairspray and set with the hairdryer until the hair is flat.
5. Remove clips and the hair will have formed a kink.
6. Apply adornments

I really enjoyed creating this hair design and I feel that it would have looked really striking with adornments. I experimented with getting the hair as straight and flat to the head as I could and I found the best was to wet the hair, spray it with hairspray and then to set it with a hairdryer, this created a lovely kink that separated the two textures of  the hair which I really liked. I do not want to use this hairstyle as my final design however as I do not think it demonstrates enough techniques.

1. Crimp all of the hair.
2. Section from ear to ear and section this bit off into a middle parting and leave to the side.
3. Take different sections of the hair, backcomb and pin these to the head, these need to be random for an Avant garde effect but it also needs to be symmetrical.
4. Continue down the head creating downwards rolls that are large in shape.
5. Backcomb the front of the hair and pin this at the nape of the neck.
6. Spray to set.

I have tried out this design on my Katie head to see how effective this hairstyle would be, I really like how it has turned out, the first set of three pictures shows how I initially designed and created the hairstyle, however in the second set of pictures I decided to add a French braid to the front of the hair as this makes it more Elizabethan. The reason that I have not chose to create this design is the fact that my hair is too short, this is the highest I could get the volume on my Katie head, and my hair is about the same length. I do not want to use hair rats in my design as I think they are fiddly and time consuming.

**HEALTH AND SAFETY**

• Do not crimp the wet hair.
• Make sure all electrical items are PAT tested.