The Final!

Ladies And Gentlemen The Final look!!,
Designed by Shahana Hanif
Styled by Rachel Rock (me!)
I was happy with how my final hair look turned out as i had practised allot
I started of by creating two padding's made of yak hair and hair nets which was much easier to form into the shape of my choice
I separated the hair in two parts back and front and started work on the front I made two plaits in the middle of the hair and pinned to the scalp for the padding to be placed on I then sectioned the front of the hair in two using one side I took a section of hair and backcombed it and laid the hair over the padding so it was fully covered and also adding the extra thickness that was required for this hairstyle,
using the same technique I applied the other padding to the other side but moving the padding more towards the middle so it would look slanted.

Using hairspray I smoothed the hair over the padding and pinning at the back.

I then began to curl the left over hair in the front taking small section, using a  curler i would wrap each piece of hair over the curlers for no longer than 4 seconds.

The back could have been done so much better because you can still see some of the padding coming through.
At the back of the head I parted the hair in two with one side I began to twist the hair starting from the back of the ear working down when I got to the the middle I pinned it and twist the rest all the way down,
 I then wrapped the twist around itself and pinned to the head then repeated to the other side and pinned together.

finally adding the finishing piece i used a pearl necklace and placed over the top of the head and pinned at the back

My Final Design

My final Design
Styled by Shahana hanif

I was super pleased with the way Shahana executed my hair design it was exactly how imagined it to be.

shahana's hair design

shahanas hair design consist of two paddings in the front of the head that are pinned together at a slanted position with long small curls falling at the front side of her head.

At the back of her head are two twist curled up and pinned together finishing with pearls along the front of the head

final test run

This was the first attempt at Shahana's hair design which went better than i though it would i used curlers, two hair padding made of yak hair and hair nets

also a pearl necklace placed over the top of the head

At the back we experimented with different ideas from a bun to a twist, a wiggle plait pinned into itself and finally she cam to the decision of having two twist wrapped in a circler motion.

wiggle plait

I started of with a normal 3 way plait but at the end of the plait i held one section of the plait and slide upwards sliding the other two sections with it creating a wiggle plait and repeating the same technique with 4 other plaits and pinning them together 

My Hair Designs

I designed 3 different hair designs as my potential final.
looking back at my research really helped inspire my designs and how I would modernise them.


The first design consist of crimping the hair for extra frizz and using padding forming a heart shape, at the back would be two large long curls with little pearls scattered around the hair

The second idea I thought of was using again the heart shape but having large twirled curls around the front of the head and two small twist or plaits either side starting from the middle to the back of the head and finishing with a bun at the back.

The last idea I thought of was using a really big exaggerated padding in the front of the head covered in small sized curls. at the back would be a long fishtail plait with white ribbon weaved into the plait.

my inspiration for these designs came from these pictures i had come across of contemporary elizabethan hairstyles whilst doing my research i picked the parts i liked most in the these hair designs and tried to incorporate them into my ideas 

Ribbons and plaits

For this hair look I started of with a fishtale plait and wove a ribbon into the plait when it was finished

This look was slightly more difficult I began by separating the hair in two, I applied a twist around the front of the forehead and another at the back of the head so the two would connect I then wove the ribbon into the twist and finished with a bow at the end 

New Elizabethans

This hairstyle really stood out to me because it's still in keeping with the elizabethan heart shape but the large plaits in the front adds a modern twist to it which I like 

Also this hairstyle caught my attention having the front slightly crimped and in a high quif but what I like about this is that the jewels is only at the side of the head and at the back wich is different to how Elizabethans normally have it just going around the front of the head 

Elizabethan hair

In the elizabethan era hair was wore down to represent innocene and purity

Women who wore there hair up were usually married.

Elizabethans had unique hairstyles that required padding or wire to hold a certain shape or even wearing wigs.

Queen Elizabeth made red frizzy hair very fashionable at that time.

Wealthy females would wear jewels or pearls in the hair or a type of small cap made of what looks like lace and jewels at the back of the head 

Elizabethan hairstyles

http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/pearly-queen 

Looking at portraits of elizabethan women really helped inspire me looking at the different shaped hairstyles they had and also hair accessories.

I chose this certain painting 

(Portrait of an Unknown Lady

By Marcus Gheeraerts II)

I really like the shape of the hair and that you can see the hair is not straight but has a frizzy texture to it I love the decoration in the hair the purls and jewels adds a sense of wealth and power to her 

Heart shaped padding

I started by crimping the whole head so it would be easier to cover the padding and also because the texture looked better 

I then separated the hair through the middle from ear to ear and clipped the back 

With the front I parted the hair into two and using a small section of hair I applied two small plaits in the middle and pinned to the scalp so the there is something for the padding to grip on to, using bobby pins I pined the padding the plaits and made sure it was stable, with the first half of the head I began covering the padding with hair and pining the hair at the back, I then repeated the same technique with the other half of the hair which gave me an heart Shaped  hair style I really loved.

Crimps and curls

I began by combing and Sectioning the hair and depending on the quality of hair I would set the crimpers to a certain degree of heat, with each section I applied the crimpers for 5 seconds each time moving my way down until I got to the end of the hair, I then slightly combed out the crimps for a frizzy look.

I enjoyed using the crimpers especially as inspiration for my Elizabethan themed hair making straight flat hair more thick and frizzy it becomes much more easier to style and in my opinion looks great.

Curling the hair (for me) was a much more difficult thing to do as the are many different ways of curling the hair to achieve different types of curls with these types of curls I started Sectioning the hair into mediam size parts starting from the ends of the hair I would roll the curlers towards the scalp, after each curl for a better result I would pin the curls to keep in place then remove the pins at the end

Fish tales and buns

I began by separating the hair in two and taking a small piece of hair from one side and adding it above the other and repeating the same technique with the other side of hair again and again until the plait is finished
for my first attempt at a fish tale plait i thought it went ok but still needs work to be neater and more even

The bun was a much more simpler process i started by putting half the hair in a high pony tail then separating that into four even parts slightly backcombing each part i then pinned the ends underneath and with a comb made all sides look evenly spread