Practice on the peer's design in the role of hairstylist

For the final  assesment we were practicing on each other the final designs. being in the role of a hairstylist, I practiced several time's my peer's design. The only difficulty I faced is that she changed the padding I was practising on her, Because on her design on the behind part she wanted a heart shape, but the paddings she did were too big for creating the heart-shape. So here is the first practice:

 For the other practice she brought smaller paddings and here is the result:

 For me creating the heart-shape was more difficult,especially because she has an asian hair and this type of hair is smooth, sleek and heavy so it is very difficult to manipulate it and to make it to stay as you want to. The hardest part to work with in her design was to fix the straight hair on the padding, because it was falling.

Step by step for the final hair design

Equipment:

• An apron
• Hot crimpers
• Kirby pins
• U-shaped pins
• Padding
• Fake hair
• Hair band
• Red/blue artificial roses
• Hair brush
• Tail-comb
• Hair spray
• Sectioning clips
• 4 small elastics

How to:

• Wash the hands before starting. 
• Ask the model to put on the apron and ask if she/he has any allergies.
• Section the hair on the top of the head approximately 4 inches wide, and take it back to just past the crown of the head.
• Using the Hot crimpers, crimp that section of the hair.
• Make two small, tight french plaits just above the ears on each side of the head and tie them with small elastics. Each plait has to be about 4 inches long.
• Divide the crimped hair into two sections horizontaly.
• Make a french plait, where the hair was sectioned, in order to be able to fix the padding.
• Fix the padding with kirby pins and cover it with the crimped hair underneath, using the U-shaped pins. 
• Then put the top part of the crimped hair  back over the poadding and fix it again with the U-shaped pins.
• Put the fake hair on the bottom of the head by fixing it to the original hair by the clips attached to the fake hair. 
• Then put it into a pony-tail and create a bun. 
• When the bun is finished, attach the roses into the bun by pushing the stem of the flowers into the bun. Making sure that they are alternating; a red rose and then a blue rose.

The inspiration and symbolism of the final hair design

My final hair design for the assesment was created being inspired by the fallowing elizabethan portait:

http://www.gogmsite.net/_Media/1592-elizabeth-ditchley-3.jpeg

The "Ditchley portrait" is the largest surviving full-length portrait of Queen Elizabeth I.. It celebrates Elizabeth's divine powers; a jeweled celestial sphere hangs from the queen's left ear, signifying her command over nature itself.  The background of this portrait appears odd - it is split between blue and sunny sky on the left, and black and stormy sky on the right. This a continue the theme of royal authority over nature.
In "Tudor Costume and Fashion"(pp.606-607), the author, Herbert Norris describes the clothing that the Queen Elizabeth is wearing in this portrai: " The custom is of "white satin diagonally cross-barred with white silk puffings, having roses superimposed with ornaments of goldsmith's work set at the Intersections. These gold ornaments vary in design, some have groups of four pearls, others oval rubies, sapphires and others rectangular again. The long-pointed sleeves and bodice are decorated in the same manner, but the hanging sleeveshave These ornaments set along the edges . The wired-out portions are the only visible parts of the veil. The headdress of crown-shape is a mass of rubies, pearls, and some spherical jewel of a brilliant red, with a pearl apex surmounting the whole structure. Other interesting details are The ropes of pearls hanging from the neck and the pearls on the wig, the pink roses Set On the ruff, the decorated brown leather gloves in the left hand, and the Chinese fans, made to open and shut, attached by a coral- colored ribband to the waist girdle. "

I described the costume present in this portrait because the small details are very important when creating a look and some of these details will be present in my design as well. But first I would like to introduce the my contemporary image that I used for my inspiration:

http://blog.nastygal.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lana-Del-Rey-Vogue-Australia.jpg

The famous singer/songwriter Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, known as Lana del Rey, is my contemporanian New Elizabethan inspiration because of the strebgh and confidence that she transmits through her look and her mysterious personality. but for this brief she inspired me the Elizabethan look thanks to her redish hair, her sophistication and the glamorous appearence.
For example,she looks very Elizabethan on the Vogue's cover photo mainly because of the hair styling and make up. The hair style created here to me is old fashioned, yet been made to look contemporary because of the untidiness. The jewels on the garment worn by Lana Del Rey remind me of the rich embroided garments worn by the Elizabethan women.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2197461/Lana-Del-Rey-smoulders-covershoot-Vogue-Australia.html

However, turning at the topic of the inspiration for my final hair design, I used a mix of twon different pictures of Lana del Rey that are the following:

http://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lana-Del-Rey-Ultraviolence-ThatGrapeJuice.jpg

   

http://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Lana-Del-Rey-Ultraviolence-ThatGrapeJuice.jpg

The reason why I've chosen two images is because from the first picture I like a lot the idea of having that kind of volume on the top of the head, while the second picture inspires me more the topic of Elizabethan. In the second image, Lana Del Rey is sitting on a throne with a tiger next to her on each side- which for me is a symbol of power and determination. In addition she has a kind of crown made of different shades of blue roses.

    I will also use roses into my hair design. I've chose to use blue roses as the sitter from the contemporanean image and also red roses which are iconic for Queen Elizabeth. The blue rose is a flower that seeks to convey a message of mystery, enchantment and a sense of the impossible. One should never forget that as a flower that is not found freely in nature, the blue rose has a certain charm and unique mystery that does not reveal itself freely. In fact if we pay attention at her appearence, listen to her music and look at the majoriy of the pictures we can notice how she evokes mystery. While the red roses are symbolic in Elizabethan portraits with a meaning of Tudor dynasty and the unity that it brought to the realm. The rose also had religious connotations, as the medieval symbol of the Virgin Mary, and was used to allude to the Virgin Queen as the secular successor to the Virgin Mary.

   

Initial ideas

    For our assesment we are asked to create a New Elizabethan hairstyle that will be suitable for ourselves. For doing that we have to apply our actual skills and of course improve our knowledge by making researches and finding new inspirations. So I've started my research by looking at Elizabethan portraits wich afascinated me most paying a particular attention to the hairstyle in those portraits.

    I started with thinking about creating a hairstyle which is influenced by the very famous Elizabethan hair design that we usually call " Heart-shape".

http://www.bottesfordhistory.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/lizpic.jpg
After that I was looking for a contemporanean design for this kind of hairstyle:

"Pinterest"- downloaded on the phone

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I think this image represents perfectly a contemporanean style of Elizabethan heart-shape haisrtyle thanks to the disordered styling of the hair, which I like a lot so I tried to create my own hairchart including another Elizabethan dettail which is the french plait:

So I wanted to create a kind of messy heart-shape on the top the head and behind on the bottom I wanted to have a horizontal french plait as I don't have a long hair and it is not enough to have it all up into the padding. After that I thought that the heart-shape won't suit me as we also had the task to create on each other a heart-shape design and I didn't really liked it for the shape of my face.

I've done other researches and I found a way of changing my hair chart saving anyway's the heart-shape, inspire bu the following picture that I found on the Pinterest:

"Pinterest"- phone download

In my hair-chart I thought to make three pads: one small in the middle and two bigger pads in the top left and right side of the head, in order to create the heartshape. As an ornament I would use Pearls arround the two pads that form the heart-shape. It is important to remember tha Queen Elizabeth loved wearing pearls, and it is very noticeable also in her portraits. The pearls were a symbol of purity,this is why she wears them as a decoration on her gown and hair. In the back part of the head I would fix the small pad that is in the middle with a pin wich would have on it a small bow and the I would devide the rest of the hair into two equal parts and I would make two french plaits.

To be honest I fell inlove with this design. I found it very Elizabethan and modern at the same time.But while trying to create this look on me,at home, with one of my peers, we foud it too difficult to make it whith my hair,because as I already said my hair is not long enough. So I couldn't reach the hight I really wanted and also it was very complicated to make the french braids as my hair on the back is much shorter than the front part so it was nearly impossible to do it.

After all these tests I decided to change my hair design again. So after looking at other Elizabethan portraits I found my inspiration in the fallowing portraits:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2E8FceYKZj2DvmyO4ssEqErUaNVS9ghJAX21KF6V_ZOL-jHElhyuNOEKjgnKgkDQ7NhyVEP8a5jiYqtLmxOj6N0R8953IklwpDOk-3DrC-zIO5MLgj7-CH4O4nAM0owUyFmpMQ9vma8/s400/1592+Queen+Elizabeth+I+1533-1603+with+a+Fan%252C+Unknown+Artist.jpg

http://www.britannia.com/history/images/elizabeth_2.jpg

http://goodmusicbrighterchildren.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Queen-Elizabeth-1.jpg

This hair chart consists of a high pad on the top of my head and two small and very tight french plaits un the left and right side of the head and on the back I would loke to have a low bun:

My final design

Practising the final design

     As we are preparing ourselves to create a nice work for the assessment we practice our designs during the hair lessons as well as at home. So during the hair lesson I tried to create the design my peer made for herself and which I'll make on the assesment day.
    When I asked her to describe her design, she told me that she wants a kind of frizzed frange and an upside-down heart shape covered with straight hait and with two plaits on it. So I frizzed the hair on the top and let it cool down, leaving the pins in the hair. Then I crimped the bottom part of the hair in order to create volume when doing the heart-shaped padding and leaving some straight hair on the top of the crimped hair. After that I devided the hair into 2 equal parts from the crown of the head. I did the padding with the crimped hair and tghen covered it with straight hair leaving out 2 small sections of hair on each part for being able to create 2 fish-tail plaits.
    Here it is the result:

Practicing an Elizabethan Hairstyle

Last week, relying on our current skills we were asked to practice on one of our peers an Elizabethan hairstyle. So I curled the front part of my models hait and then using a pad I tried to create my interpretation of Elizabethan Hairstyle:

I didn't crimp the hair of my model because her natural hair is curly and with a lot of volume, so I thought that it doesn't need to be crimped to create the shape and the volume I needed. My version of Elizabethan Hairstyle was a kind of modern Elizabethan hairstyle because the pad should be higher, while mine is lower than it had to be. Anyway I'm happy with my work even if it was difficult to curl an already curly hair

This kind of hairstyle is inspire by some of Elizabethan hairstyles sush as:

http://4206e9.medialib.glogster.com/media/6ae0a47d7da4d687c4797d347975a926a89909d95c85a243a90669d7ddfac18c/queen-elizabeth-1-kings-and-queens-9843855-1500-1650.jpg

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizaburghley.jpg

A heart-shape hairstyle

 While continuing to practice the Elizabethan hairstyles, we were asked to create a heart-shaped hairstyle relevant to the Elizabethan era. So I started my work with sectioning the hair into 2 parts, from one ear to another. I crimped the upper part and I left the bottom part straight. I devided the crimped hhair into 2 equal parts and then I put the padding in. After padding the crimped hair I made a bun on the back of the head.

I found difficult to back-comb the hair for making the bun, because my model's hair is a heavy straight kind of hair and it is also rebel. I would use a hairspray to make it easier to shape it.

  This hair style was inspired by Elizabethan designs such as:

http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz5-mainpic.jpg

http://www.blackworkarchives.com/art/ElizabethBrydges_lg.jpg