Crimping
In our
next session, we worked on different ways of crimping the hair. For the first
way, I used fine pins and wrapped small sections of hair around them, in a
figure of eight motion. I then held the hair in place using Kirby grips until
I’d finished using all of the sections of hair at the front of the head that I
wanted to crimp. Then I held hair straighteners on each of the sections of hair
before letting go and taking out all the pins. This created a crimped piece of
hair that I decided to brush through to create frizzy hair at the front of the
head, much like the Elizabethans would have. I personally preferred this method
to using the crimper as I felt the crimps in the hair created a better frizz to
the hair than the crimper did.
After
this I crimped the hair using a crimper. This was done by sectioning off hair
that wasn’t currently being used and taking smaller sections of hair to hold
the crimper on down the length of the hair. I started at the nape of the neck and
the underneath of the hair on the sides of the head first, before finishing at
the top in a centre parting. After all the hair was crimped, I shook it out and
then brushed through lightly with a paddle brush, like with the pins, to create
a frizz through the hair. We were then told to create a heart shape hairstyle
at the front of the head so tried out two different techniques to do this. For
the first one I sectioned off part of the hair at the front of the head and
then backcombed in smaller sections from the parting and down the side of the
head. I then brought all the hair together, twisted it around and pinned it at
the back of the section of hair to create the bun at the front of the head. For
the other side of the head I used a rat (tights stuffed ith either tissue, fabric or cotton wool) and rolled it around a section
of hair at the front of the head and then pinned it into place. Another was of doing this is to make a small french plait underneath where the rat will be placed and then to pin the rat into place using kirby grips and the plait. I personally
preferred the side that had been backcombed as I found it a bit more difficult
with the rat as it was difficult to disguise under the hair. I feel that
if I were to do something similar for my assessment I would probably use
backcombing.
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