Working On Human Hair

On Thursday, 6th November, we had our first taste of working on human hair. For some people in my class, this was nothing new but for me & some other girls, this is completely new! At the end of the session, I realised how much easier it is to work on my Kate Head compared to a human head! The hair is so easy to control on Kate. One thing that I did learn from this, was that I actually had a very gentle touch when it came to creating the look & using the techniques. This surprised me because I was actually rather rough when working on Kate but obviously, you can be as rough as you like with her! 

We had to incorporate some of the techniques that we had learnt in previous lessons. So this could include;

Frizzing

Curling

Crimping

Plaiting

Buns

and we had to include padding

From these sections, I chose to use padding, crimping, curling & plaiting. 

This is what I created;

As you can see, I didn't have enough time to finish off my look so I had to stop half way through because we ran out of time. This showed me that I had a lot of practice to do when it came to my time management! I think for a first attempt on human hair, it didn't go horribly but obviously could have gone ALOT better. I didn't use enough hair at the front of the head to cover the padding so you can see it through the hair. Also, I crimped the whole head when I didn't actually need to... Lesson learnt! I wasn't 100% sure what to do with the back of the hair so I started to play around with doing some french plaits. I think it looked okay but I wasn't over the moon about it.