My Final Assessment

Review of Final Assessment:
One problem I found with the design was the curls on the sides of the head. I practiced these but still felt that the one on the left side didn't turn out the way I wanted it to but I really liked the one on the left side. If I was to do the assessment again I would definitely practice these more to get the effect that my partner wanted. It may also have been a good idea to use a padding for the front of the hair as my partner wanted it to be really big at the front and it didn't stay as big for the photos. I feel like we both worked really well together and explained what we wanted well. I feel like the design she did on me turned out better than I'd imagined it as well.

Assessment: Having my Design Done on me

This was the final result when of having my design done on me:

I felt that the design turned out even better than I imagined it and was really happy with it.

Assessment Design and Practice

This was my partners final design idea that I would have to do on her for our assessment:

She wanted the front half of the head crimped and backcombed so that it would be really big at the front with one pinned in curl on each side of the head and then the rest of the hair curled at the bottom. Here are some images of my practice of my partners design.

I had to practice these designs at home due to the fact that my partner was ill for the technical sessions.

Final Design Idea and Inspiration for Design

For my final design idea I decided on the heart shape for the front of the hair.

I sectioned off the front of the hair, crimped it and then backcombed it on both sides. I then twisted the hair on each side and pinned it into place. I thought about leaving two bits down on the sides to curl like in my previous design but decided against it as I wanted the style to look more contemporary and felt that this made it look a little old fashioned.

I then plaited the hair left at the back of the head, twisted and pinned into place.

 I also tried the style out with the bun on more towards on side but preferred the way it looked in the centre.

My design also differed on the Kate head as I have a fringe. Me and my partner decided for the final design idea that I would leave my fringe down to make the hairstyle look more contemporary and due to the fact that, as it is quite short, it was hard to disguise in the heart shape style.

My design as heavily inspired by Chanel's 2010 Spring/Summer catwalk as a lot of the models had big, heart-shaped hairstyles:

Above is a picture of the back of the hairstyle the first time my partner practiced it.


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Design Idea 2

For my second design I decided to do something that incorporated crimping and curling. I really liked the idea of big hair that had been crimped and backcombed and wanted to experiment with different shapes so designed a rounded hairstyle.

To do this I sectioned off the front of the hair and crimped it using crimpers. I then backcombed it using a pin tail comb but left two small sections above the ears. I pinned the hair into place at the back of the head to create the round shape. I the used curling tongs to curl the two sections of hair i left above the ears.

I then put the rest of the hair in a pony tail and put it in a twist bun, using kirby grips to pin it into place.

I really liked the volume that the crimping and backcombing gave to the hair and decided i would definitely use this in my final design. I did, however, prefer the heart shape that I had practiced in earlier sessions rather than a round hair style.

Design Idea 1

For my first design idea, I wanted to try something with buns on the sides of the head and a bun at the back.

 I started by sectioning off hair on both sides at the front of the head. I then plaited these and twisted them around into buns. I sectioned off more hair behind the buns and then french-plaited behind them and then brought the plaits back and tied them in a low ponytail with the rest of the hair.  I then created a twist bun with the hair in the pony tail.

After I tried out this design on the Kate head I decided that I did not want to use it for my final design. This was because i personally felt that it looked a bit boring and wanted to use crimping and back combing in my final design.

Technical File: Fashion/Catwalk Design

During this session we got to decide in pairs whether to design a contemporary hairstyle for either a wedding or a catwalk show that had Elizabethan elements. I decided to do the catwalk design. I wanted to do something that as quite big and dramatic so I crimped all of my partners hair using crimpers.

I then backcombed the hair at the front and pinned it in place to create a big heart shape. This worked well with her hair as it's black and red and added to the heart effect.

I decided to leave the rest of the hair down but backcombed a little bit and then backcombed the front of the hair more to give a messy effect. I really liked the outcome and would like to try it out again but make the front of the hair bigger. This is something that I would like to incorporate into my final hair design.

Technical File: First Attempt at an Elizabethan Hairstyle

Elizabethan Hairstyle

Prior to this session, we were told that we would be working on others in the class rather than our Kate heads for the first time and that we were to do an Elizabethan hairstyle that had to be curled or frizzy at the front with a bun at the back. For mine, I decided to go with a heart shape at the front of the head. To do this I sectioned off the hair at the front of the head and then crimped it, splitting the hair into a middle parting. I really liked the way this turned out as I felt that it did look very Elizabethan and I found it quite easy to do.

I then backcombed it in sections, twisted and then pushed it up and pinned it on each side to create the shape of the heart.  For the back of the hair I decided to do a plait bun so I put the hair up in a ponytail, plaited it and then twisted it and secured it in place by pinning it with Kirby grips.

As there was still hair that was crimped being pulled into the plait I decided to undo the bun and redo it as it looked a bit strange due the different textures of the hair with some of it being straight and some of it being crimped. I decided to plait the crimped pieces of hair and pull them back into the bun. I much preferred the way that this looked and I really enjoyed this session as it was different to work on another person and it was interesting to be able to come up with our own designs for a whole hairstyles.

Elizabethan and Modern Hair Shapes

Heart- Shaped

These Elizabethan portraits  (the first is Elizabeth I, second is Lettice Knollys, the wife of Robert Dudley and the last one Elizabeth Brydges, a noblewoman) show some heart-shapes hair styles.The "heart-shape arrangement of the hair over wire frames or pads which as fashionable during the 1570's and 1580's continued to be popluar until the end of the century." (De Courtais, 2006, Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles, New York: Dover Publications Inc.)

These modern hairstyles, one from the 2010 Spring/Summer Chanel catwalk and one of Vivienne Westwood, show some heart-shaped styles although these appear more extreme that the Elizabethan portraits and are quite a lot bigger. The hair in the Chanel image is also straight and smooth whereas it tends to be curly or frizzy in the portraits. The Vivienne Westwood image appears to be exactly like a typical Elizabethan hairstyle. This is also because of the decoration as pearls and gems were often used in the hair in Elizabethan times to show wealth in portraits. Here is an example of this:

We can see a lot of this is modern hairstyles as well:

These images from one of Chanel's 2012 catwalks shows pearls being used in the hair.

Round Hair 

These images show rounded hairstyles from the Elizabethan period, the first is of an unknown Elizabethan women but the second two are of Elizabeth.

                                                     

I found it more difficult to gather modern images of rounded hair-styles although one I did find shows the style to be much more subtle and with smooth/straight hair.

I also found some modern hairstyles that are big and rounded, although the rest of the hair is worn down so differs from the Elizabethan style. The shape on the top of the head does seem similar to an Elizabethan hair style. 

I felt that this image looked quite Elizabeth not only because of the shape but also because of the plait.

De Courtais, 2006, Women's Hats, Headdresses and Hairstyles, New York: Dover Publications Inc.

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