Everything Hair : Time Assessment

On the morning of the assessment, Jay gave me a sketch that was placed on the mirror of my workstation, along with other notes, of where she wanted the pearls & the front of her hair. Even though I knew how to do this, and was confident at it, we still had to put up images & notes to show that we had prepared our work & it was something to look at if I needed any help as we weren't allowed to discuss any of the work with our designers.

This is the hair chart that she sent me;

This was our very first assessment at Solent University, I was the stylist & Jay was the designer. I'm over the moon with how well the assessment went. I managed to get the times just right so it was completely finished with time to take photos, & also take it all out afterwards. My partner wrote out all the notes & brought in the pictures that were needed for the assessment to show our tutor, Lottie, that we were organised & prepared for the task at hand. Before we started, I set up the workstation professionally, laid everything out that we needed neatly & pinned up the notes. Jay brought in any other extra accessories that were needed. I followed the instructions that she wrote out carefully & created my partners contemporary Elizabethan design.

A few hours before that assessment, Jay slightly changed her design because she thought it felt to historical for her liking. She decided to have the frizzing in the fringe still but not brushed out & positioned in three consecutive lines over the padding instead. I liked this because it made it look like lightning bolts over the padding, very contemporary. She also decided to lose the pearls at the front of the hair and just place them around the back at the back instead, again because she felt it was to historical. These weren't big changes so I was happy to do them. As she spoke to me before the assessment, I knew exactly what to do to change these minor things, so my partner had a lot of confidence in me.

I believe the padding came out looking even to one another and looked professional all over. The bun looked neat & again even & the placement of all the pearls looked accurate to the hair chart. Overall, I am very pleased with what I had created, I over came any obstacles that I came across when it came to my partners hair & adapted to it. One thing that I didn't realise until we took the photos, was that the hair at the bottom of the padding wasn't exactly equal. However, my partner didn't notice this either.