My assessment.

When I first saw my partners design on her collage and hair charts I was initially slightly worried. As I find hair really difficult! I can create what I am taught but the outcome always seems to be messy which I find frustrating. The design looked simple enough for me anyway. I was confident I could create a bun. I was also confident I could create a slight heart shape at the front of the hair due to Lotties tutorials.

Whilst creating the design I found it surprisingly easy to apply a hair doughnut in someone else’s hair than I can with my own hair. I learnt how to attach ribbon to the hair and how to hide the pins. I also learnt that fine hair is incredibly hard to make stay up without some type of padding in it. There just was not enough hair to support her design. I had to backcomb the hair, hairspray the hair then back comb it again to make it a sturdier so it could hold the shape.

If I could put my input into the design I would have suggested using padding to hold a volumized heart shape. I also would have supplied a water spray bottle to keep the loose bits of hair down; although I used hair spray it just makes the hair look a bit greasy and hard whereas water tends to dry the hair flat if brushed down. I would've chosen a lighter hairspray than silver skin as I find once it’s dried the hair goes so hard it’s no longer flexible I possibly would have used Elnett, or John Frieda.

Overall the outcome did not look as good as when I practiced it. I was extremely nervous and time conscious. I managed to do the design but maybe not as well as I planned. I did prepare for the assessment so was annoyed at myself that I did not exceed to my expectations.

 Here is my consultation form for my partner. It showed that her hair type, condition, and whether she had any scalp conditions of which she did not. Which made no contradictions to my hair assesment.

My partners design.

I practiced Hayley's hair design again with her initial idea. As she had brought the other ribbon. I really like this look and it reminds me of the union jack flag, which she could relate to the Elizabethan era Elizabeth ruling England. I found this design rather easy to do but I had some complications with the ribbon. As when I pinned the ribbon down with a curvy grip the ribbon would slip as the pin would not grip the ribbon hard enough. The grips were also hard to hide! So she decided that geisha pins would be more suitable as they help the ribbon and hair better and are a lot easier to hide. I could just slip them under the bun.

Practicing my partners hair design.

 Hayley's hair design consisted of a bun which should be chic from the back of the head, and textured and well not so chic from the front.
Hayley wanted ribbon on the bun in a cross. I found third rather easy to create yet hard to make the cross of ribbon even. As you can see its really wonky! This is a problem I y face on the assessment but will continuing practicing. I created the cross by pinning one end of the ribbon under the top of the bun, placing the ribbon to the bottom of the bun and cutting the ribbon then pinning it under the bun

 Hayley wanted the front of her hair to be quite big and textured but not too big. She also wanted the hair to replicate a heart shape like how the Elizabethan women wore their hair. I did this by crimping the hair back combing the section that was going to create the shape and simply pulled back.

The parting is also a center parting which was also on trend for that era. It is a concern of mine that the hair will not hold in that shape with no hair padding, as her hair is soo fine. I will back comb the hair as much as possible and spray the hair will and hope for the best.

The crimped part of her hair has been pulled back,puffed up and pinned into two flat pin curls. To help secure the shape yet has reference to the Elizabethan era.

The pinned curls look a tad messy I will make them neater was just simply experimenting. I will also hide the hair pins.











Overall I am confident I can create her design within the time scale. As practicing it took me 45 minutes.

Hayleys assessment.

For our assessment our partner had to create our hair design that we designed for ourselves. They had to create from our information pack that we provided. As well as practical sessions and hair charts.

Hayley practiced my hair three times, which was enough time to perfect the design. I had to show Hayley how to create my design as I found it hard to explain. I showed her how to make the hair shapes by simply wrapping the hair round your fingers to create a sort of wave/bump then pinning the bumps from underneath the hair so you could not see the pins.. Hayley looked very professional creating my design. She took into consideration hygiene using hand gel and clean brushes.
Whilst asked to analyse Hayley I think she did a good job of my hair and the hair looked as I wanted, it had shape, texture, and colour which were the three main points I wanted to cover and communicate through my design as well as it being historically correct with a modern twist.

However I would've liked the style to of been a bit bigger but my hair was so floppy due to washing it the night before. Hayley followed my instructions well, and created my hair design within good time.

 She created the shape I wanted. The correct texture, and color using the spray to represent my interpretation of a new Elizabethan.

If I was to do this design on myself I would of been more tough with my hair as I got the impression that my partner was too scared that she was going to hurt me. I probably would of used the red spray more generously so it had more of an effect in for the image.

I would of liked the hair to of been a bit bigger at the front but my hair was too silky to hold so well and kept on separating at the front. However I was pleased with the outcome.

My information pack.

Below is my information pack I provided for Hayley. It entailed of step by step instructions and images. I also supplied hair charts. We had plenty of practise and I demonstrated how to achieve the look.

Creating my final hair design.

This week I have been working extremely hard to try and complete my design. I had my texture and idea of the shape but was not quite there and felt lost at how to finalise my design.

Playing with shape.

I played around with the shape. I tried using a small banana clip this did not work on my head. I tried a long banana clip. This would not hold the thickness and length of my hair. I think these would look amazing with thinner hair.


I knew I wanted to create a mohawk type of style. I watched youtube tutorials  to get an idea. I noticed that they were using ponytails but just one which created a mohawk effect on top but not all the way down the head. So I used three ponytails starting at the top of the head and finishing at the back of the head. Started playing with shape and finally I decided on a shape.

 I tightly sectioned the front section of the hair into a ponytail. I then repeated this for the section of hair behind the ears, and at the back of the head. Making sure there were no loose bits of hair, and lumps.

Then crimped the hair for the texture.

I then backcombed the hair using the 203 comb and the Denman brush.To add extra frizzy texture it also helps shape the hair and hole the shape.

The hair was then twisted and rolled into a bun sort of shape. The hair was tucked under and pinned with geisha pins and curvy grips. Then backcombed the hair.

This created the look and shape desired which I was finally pleased with. I will spray the mohawk bit red to reference back to Elizabeth, as well as the big shape and texture.

Hair colour inspiration.

I am sat down watching television, then an advertisement appears on my screen. All I can hear is an annoying screech from an opera singer. I look to the television and I see a mountain of apples on the screen and a beautiful long haired model climbing this mountain to get to the bottle of perfume which is the only one hanging on the tree. Conveying the message it's `the ripest apple` the best perfume. The bottle is red and  round, almost duplicating an apple.





Then I thought Elizabethans valued red hair but not actual red hair its ginger hair which has an orange tone to it."red hair was popular during the reign of red-head Elizabeth I of England"(Victoria Sherrow,Hair colour,For Appearance' Sake: The Historical Encyclopedia of Good Looks, Beauty, and Grooming,March 30, 2001,Greenwood.) I began thinking that this could not only reference Elizabethan era but I could use this to add my own twist!

I then began thinking of ways of which I could apply red into my design.

• Dying my hair red semi-permanently.

Although my hair is already fairly red I did not want to dye it any redder as I am trying to grow it out, although it is only semi-permanent I did not want to risk it.

• Apply it through adornment like ribbon.

I did not like this idea as we plaiting with ribbon during seminars and I felt that it looked quite neat, and being a messy person, and being inspired by a wild hair design, I felt this would not suit my idea.

• Red pieces of hair.

I bought red strands of hair as I felt I could interpret them into the hair by plaiting them going upwards into my hair design and attaching them using pins, hiding the pins within the mohican sort of hair style.

• Red hair spray.

This I feel would be easier than my other ideas. considering I wanted to incorporate hair colour other than my own into my design this would be the possible easiest and most effective way to do so. Also the perfume bottle not only inspired the colour but also how the colour could be applied by spray! That way you can control like perfume where the colour goes and how much you want on. As it could look too much or not enough again like perfume.

power point presentation.

 On my first slide of my powerpoint I had images of the portraits and some quotes from Elizabethan literature that described the hair that inspired the texture and colour.










On my second slide I compared original Elizabethan hair to contemporary hair style. Saying how even our day to day hair styles have been inspired by that era. I also wanted to say how the big voluminous hair styles stood out for me the most, as well as the frizzy textures.

Here I spoke about my three final collages and explained what each one was and how I could've created it.

 On my fourth slide I showed some images of experiments I said what worked and what did not. I found that my design ideas and what I actually did, did not link up therefore I will develop my design further this week.









On my final slide I showed my final design which Seema helped me choose. I said why I thought she chose it and why I think I think I should use it. I also wrote how I will communicate my idea to my partner and all of the products and equipment needed to create the design.

Here is my feedback I received. I think I need to make a few last changes to my design as I feel I am not fully finished. I agree with Seemas comments and will work on sculpting the hair to complete my look.