SECOND HAIR DESIGN. . . .

21st March

Following on from my previous hair design practise, I have continued to research different techniques and styles for my avant-garde hair designs for my photo-shoots. I have collected all these images on a Pinterest board, which I have attached in another post to show clearly, and precisely the different styles I have looked into. I decided to practise more of a simple style and then see how it went to develop it more at the end. By crimping the hair and sectioning it, I then rolled the hair into ball-like shapes and secured using bobby pins, the positioning of the hair in a brick like manner created an interesting result. With the front of the hair tightly scraped back,it almost reminded me of a chic/bridal hairstyle. I think after doing this style, this overall look will be quite elegant as with all the hair off the face and shoulders, this will bring more attention to the face. Or in contrast I could counteract the elegant hair with dramatised makeup to bring the look together.

After I completed the style and look photos to document my hair design process, I pushed this forward to try something new by really focusing on the edges and defying the shapes of the hair that I had created.Although I was happy with the original style of the hair, I thought by doing something a little extra it will really stand out more, especially being complimented by make-up. By using my pintail comb and straighteners, I pulled up the hair using the pin and straightened to create a web effect, this technique was also used to create solid edges. With the final result being still ball-like sections of hair but with the edges more precise.

These final images show the hair before and after 

edited onPhotoshop. These pictures were taken by my iPhone but I wanted to try differentediting options to see what effects these create. This was also good practicefor the time comes for when I need to edit my final images, as I will knowexactly what tools to use to bring out the best of the hair in each image. I feelthat in the images on the right, it clearly shows the progression from the originalimages from Photoshop, using the blending and blur tool to darken the root ofeach edge and web, and highlighting certain sections and the tips to make themseem higher. This also gives the hair a professional looking finish as I statedin my proposal that I want all my images to be highly post-produced to givethem a non realistic feel – an overly perfect sense of beauty in a way. As wellas research and designing purposes, practising my hair designs always builds myconfidence and helps me feel 100% certain that ill be ready to do the hair whenit comes down to my final shoots as I will know exactly what products I willneed and how long each look takes me time wise.

This second hair design was a follow up from a similar practise I did with my model Nina the previous week, as seen above in this post. As I was doing the original practise, I was inspired to create something not as structured and to experiment with layering ball like shapes to create an elegant look but still demonstrating my skills to create an interesting concept. The original idea was to section the hair into 3, and for each section to be in a hair net, then moulded into shape and with the use of straighteners, wave and pinned into place. One of the best things I have learnt about practising these styles is that it doesn’t always work out how I originally intend, as with the specific hairnets that I bought, it turned out that they melt when heat is applied so I couldn’t follow through with the original style I had in mind. But nether the less, as I had already prepped the hair and sectioned it all, I continued to have a play and developed the design into what you can see in the image on the left. Quite pleased with the outcome as I learnt many things a long the way and I am definitely going to do this design for my final avant garde shoots.