Today instead of using my kate head to practice on we were able to use each other to practice different techniques that we have learnt over the past few weeks. It was very different working on someone else there was a lot of different things you had to take into account. For example:
- Hair length.
- Thickness of the hair.
- Putting heat on the hair and not getting too close to the scalp that it will burn their head.
- The hair is not an even thickness all the way around, so i had to consider how i was going to create the same look all the way round even though some part of the hair were a lot thinner than others.
- Being over all a lot more gentle with the hair.
For this look i did on liv, i wanted to incorporate the fact she has long hair, i didn’t want to put it all up.
I sectioned off at the ear to create the front section and crimped and backcombed so i was able to create the volume to do the roll at the front of the head. This was difficult to get even as the front of liv’s hair was very thin compared to the rest of her hair.
I then created a middle parting and made a horizontal section just below the ear so that i could leave some hair down at the back. I created 2 french plaits on the left and right side and then twisted the ends of the plaits into a pair bun where the french plaits ended.
The rest of the hair i curled using a clamp curler. I held the clamp vertically to the head to create loose waves. I split the back section into 2 and then made sure the clamp was on the outside of the different sections so that the hair was curled away from the face.
I think this look went well seen as it was my first time on another student and not using the dolls head. My timing was good and i never felt rushed to finish. I got a bit scared that the crimpers were too hot and were uncomfortable for Liv, as i didn’t want to burn her. I think with more practice i will get used to using heat on the hair. Once i got into it i was less anxious about doing it.
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