Practicing a Full Elizabethan Look - Design No.1

For this lesson, I had to try to create one of my three designs on my model to see if it would actually work as a complete hairstyles. This was also to see if it needed tweaking in some places. We were told that we could use anything we liked in the hair like, ribbon, pearls, feathers or anything else you could think of. You could incorporate plaits, buns or twists within the hair & also the front had to be curled or frizzed, but it must have padding in it.

This is my creation on my partner & the stages that I took to get to my final peice;

I started by sectioning off the hair & pinning the back section of the hair into a pony tail. 

I then created a french plait in the hair, placed the padding in place & crimped the front section of the hair that would be going over the padding.

I then pinned aside the hairline bits of hair & placed the crimp section into place. I slightly backcombed the roots of the crimp because through working with my model before, I knew that she had thin hair so it needed that extra thickness & texture. In the second image, you can see how i've placed in back in three different sections & rolled the ends of the hair up & under the padding. I'm happy with this because its nice & neat.

I then added the frizzing technique to the hairline as these bits of hair are very thin & uneven. It's also to demonstrate the I can create another technique & work it into my design. 

I also added a few roll curles into the front of the hair for decoration & to also show the separation of the hairline to the padding. Looking at this now, I should have included a fifth curl in the middle of the hair so the gap wouldn't be visible.  

To finish my look off, I plaited the pony tail, flipped it up & pinned it into the padding to make it into a joined look all over. I then pulled out the plait at the sides to give it a little more volume & pinned it down either side of the base. 

I'm really pleased with how this turned out because I was able to create the look that I desired that also matched my hair chart & looked Elizabethan. I was also able to set up & complete a finished look in the 2 hour time slot. Compared to a few weeks ago when I could only do half a head!