creating Elizabethan hairstyles

creating Elizabethan hairstyles

I started to create an Elizabethan hairstyle using techniques learnt from previous lessons such as crimping and curling on real hair rather than synthetic. It was different to work on real hair, I was more cautious of burning the client with heated appliances.

Firstly I sectioned the hair into two . I crimped the front section of hair, the sections started from the front of the hairline and finish just behind the ear, in order to make sure each section I crimped was even I sectioned each piece of hair using a sectioning comb . Next I tightly plaited the hair where the section finished and secured the plait in place using hair pins , the plait will act as an anchor and hold the rats in place. Next I secured the rats to the plaits on either side of the head taking note whether they were symmetrical, I then pierced the rats and then anchored them to the plaits using several hair pins. Using the crimped section of hair I overlaid it over the rats and tucked the ends of the hair under the rats this made the hairstyle look neater I then secured the hair in place using several hair pins.

The remaining section of hair, I curled using the curlers, in order to avoid burning the client and in order to make the style look neat I section each piece of hair before curling it and made sure the ends of the hair were also secured around the curlers. In order to maintain tight curls I wiggled the curlers out of the hair slowly. Once I curled the remaining piece of hair this created a finished look to my Elizabethan style.

This was my first attempt at an Elizabethan hairstyle  after speaking to Lottie about the outcome of the overall decided I decided that in order to make the style look overall more secure and more Elizabethan I decided to move the rats higher to give more volume to the hair.

This is my second attempt at an Elizabethan hairstyle . I like how the padding is higher and more secure but prefer the how neat and the style of the back of the hair is in my first attempt.

Another attempt at an Elizabethan hairstyle was creating a heart shape at the front of the head using rats, focusing mainly on the symmetry , completing the hairstyle with a simple bun .

Firstly  i began sectioning the hair into two halves of the head. Next using my sectioning comb I section smaller sections of the hair which I would then crimp, I carried out this process for both halves of the head. Next i considered how high I wanted my padding to be placed. Once I had a rough idea on where i wanted the rats to be fitted to the head I took a small section of hair and plaited the hair, using hair pins i secured the plait in place using several hair pins, due to my model having long hair i had to fold the plait and secure it using hair pins several times, I then carried out this process again on the other side of the head.

 Once both plaits were secured to the head, I then pierced the rats using several hair pins and anchored the rats into the plaits in order to secure them.

Next the crimped piece of hair surrounding the rats I then used to overlay and cover the rats, i then secured the hair using several hair pins. I carried this out on both sides of the head.

Finally I creating a simple bun using a technique learnt from one of our previous lessons which was creating a bun without a donut, I tied the models hair back and sectioned the ponytail into four sections I then backcombed each section and secured in place using several hair pins once all sections were secured an rounded shape was create.

When creating my Elizabethan hairstyle I found it difficult making the hairstyle look neat once i had applied the once I applied the padding to the hair. I also found it difficult to create a bun without a donut due to the models hair being long, i had to roll the hair several times under in order for it to create a bun shape, also due to the hair being quite heavy i found it hard securing the bun into the hair without it dropping or falling out

I felt my completed Elizabethan look was good effort but perhaps I need to work on making the hairstyle overall more neater particularly when overlaying the crimped section of hair over the rats.

 The side view of my final design slightly shows the rats which are secured to the hair i need to work on covering the rats and making them look neater in the hair.

During my first attempt I was unhappy with the result of how the rats looked in the hair i felt  the rats were to low and didn't look very secure in the hair I also didn't cover the rats very well during my first attempt .