Hair Practice 1

 

This is my partners hair design that I have been given to create on her. In todays session she talked me through her ideas for her final hair.

 

My model has really long straight dark brown hair, so there is a lot of hair to play with, the hair feels in good condition, but is a little bit on the thin side, however this will thicken up through the use of crimping.

 

The look that she wants me to achieve is a clean middle parting that is straight down until the ears. There will be two waterfall braids either side of the head that will be fastened at the back with a broach. Then after this the hair will be crimped and backcombed.

 

 

 For my first practice I was just getting to grips with creating a waterfall braid as I have never done one of these before, these pictures show my first, second and third attempt at trying to create these, it was hard but you can see me getting progressively better throughout the photos. I did not have time to practice any of the rest of the hair design because I ran out of time. Next time I do this hair design I need to allocate myself sufficient time to see if I can actually do the hairstyle in the 2 hours that we are given for our timed assessments. Overall this practice hasn't given me much confidence because I really struggled getting the braids right, panicked and ran out of times, however it was good because I am now more familiar with the techniques.