Technical Evaluation

Over the past 10 weeks I have learnt essential skills and techniques to start gaining a knowledge on creating different hairstyles along with working to an industry standard of hygiene and following strict health and safety rules. Although I have studied hair for two years prior to this course I believe that my skills have still improved considerably. The things that I believe have been the most successful during these technical sessions is how I have developed the skill of looking at a hair design, and be able to break the design down into manageable easy sections instead of getting overwhelmed at something that simply looks complex. I have really struggled however getting to grips with braiding as this is something that has always made me panic and I usually avoid them at all costs. After these 10 weeks I am now a lot more confident to try more elaborate hairstyles with braids and buns ect, as I really believe having strong hair skills will benefit my portfolio greatly.

Evaluation

The main way I overcame problems with my design was working with my partner to find ways that I could create the design on my hair, I had to reel back some of my ideas during this assignment as sometimes my ideas were too extravagant and would not work on my hair length and type and also would not be applicable for my current skillset.

The way I developed my research was through looking at portraiture and reading books about Elizabethan hair, this was my main way of getting genuine historical research, then I went on to looking at secondary sources like films.

I really enjoyed working to my partners hair brief, although it was simple It was really effective and she was a fantastic partner to work with in the way of cooperativeness and communication.

Overall I found the project really challenging in the sense that we were not allowed to create our own designs, and also the fact that we had to create something to someone else's standards,  it was hard to break out of my own habits to create someone else's vision, and to in some sense swallow my pride and do some things completely different to how I would do it personally. I really think this was a great learning curve for me because in industry this would be the case, as I will in my career work under a makeup designer or creative director and this will influence how I work.

The thing I enjoyed the most about this brief was finding links between Elizabethan hairstyles and contemporary runway/ fashion editorial, I enjoyed this so much because it was surprising how many things could be referenced as Elizabethan, this unit has given me the confidence to analyse fashion images and speak confidently about how I believe the hairstyle can be linked to the Elizabethans.

Timed Assessment - In the Role of the Designer/ Model

Makeup/ Hair Artist - Jennifer Barry

Model/ Designer - Bronya Leavesley

 

 

 

 

PEER EVALUATION

These are the final images from my partners hair timed assessment, she has executed my design really well and has been fantastic at overcoming problems that we encountered with my design. We had lots of problems trying to get the roses from the design right, my initial idea was too ambitious and could not be created on my hair type or length, so we changed the hair design so the roses were only on the hairline, my partner was fantastic for trying loads of different things to get the roses correct, and she took direction really well, the roses nearest to the ear are fantastic and exactly how I wanted them, you can see the clear difference in textures and this is a really strong aspect of the look. There is a few aspects of this look that I believe could be improved on, I think the roses at the top of the hair could be neater, and also I think the back of the hair could be neater too, with the frizzing brushed out and also the hair slicked down more, however these are really minor things, and overall the look comes together as a whole. Overall my partner has been fantastic, she has shown a lot of patience for my design and has also put in a lot of effort trying to get her interpretation to match my vision, the only thing she would need to improve on is her time management skills, as towards the end we began to get rushed.





Timed Assessment - In the Role of the Makeup/ Hair Artist

Designer/ Model - Jennifer Barry

Makeup Artist - Bronya Leavesley 

SELF EVALUATION

These are my final images of my application of Jennifer's hair design. I am overall really happy with how the look has turned out in the end, I believe that I have effectively worked with the designer to create a look that she is happy with and that reflected her design and idea for the overall look. The two things which were really successful in my assessment were my use of backcombing and also my time management skills, in the practice sessions Jennifer expressed to me that she wanted the hair to be wild and frizzy, to create a clear contrast between the straight part at the top so I took this advice and went with it, and she was really happy with it. I found my time management skills to be good because overall the hair took me 1hour 15mins and i even had time to so a quick 15min makeup to tie the look in. The one thing in the assessment that went wrong was at the back, due to a lack of concentration I crimped the hair too high, I think this was a result of me getting to overconfident with the design and i slipped up, the hair would look a lot more effective if it was all straight at the top. From this I have learnt to always be on the ball when doing hair, because my models hair was so long, I started crimping on autopilot and this is where I slipped up.