- Crimper
- Paddle brush
- Tail comb
- Grips and pins
- Section clips
Step by steps:
- Crimp and or curl hair for texture and structure and also decoration
- Part hair into a center parting and create a section on each side at the front of the head and secure with a section clip to keep it out of the way
- Behind each section create a small french plait, this will be used to pin the padding to. Once you have plaited the length of the piece of hair, take it and wrap it around in a long spiral shape and pin, it should be roughly the length of your padding for the best security.
- Take your desired padding and attach to the plait with grips. You can use tights stuffed with tissue for padding.
- Once you have crimped/curled the front of the hair, lift it over the padding and secure with grips and pins at the back. For best outcome use padding roughly the same colour as the hair, and if there is still padding showing through you can backcomb the hair for more thickness to help disguise this.
- If you have curled some of the front of the hair you can arrange these how you wish and pin over then padding.
- With the remaining hair you can put into an Elizabethan style such as a bun.
My first attempt at an Elizabethan hair style wasn't very successful as I struggled with hair styling at the beginning of the project a lot and find hair quite difficult to work with. For my first attempt I used applying padding to the hair to create a base for the heart shape we see in most of Queen Elizabeth I portraits. I curled the front and used this to cover over the padding and for decoration and put the back into a bun. Although this was one of the easier and less detailed Elizabethan designs as it was my first attempt I found it difficult and wasn't very pleased with the outcome.
My second attempt I was a lot more pleased with as the heart shape was more defined, the parting was more central and the curls were much more carefully placed and I used curled hair at the back to make pin curled to hide the pins at the back of the padding which I thought was quite effective. Instead of making a regular bun for the back I plaited the hair and then twisted it into a bun and pinned it.
The picture above shows the anchor I made out of a plait pinned to the head which I used to anchor my padding to with pins.
This gave me a confidence boost as it showed how I have improve through practise and using the skills I have been taught already which I can incorporate into my designs and help me pull off my partners in the timed assessments.
Here are some portraits images I found on the internet which show the Elizabethan heart shape and also the use of padding for height and shape.
http://www.bottesfordhistory.org.uk/images/uploaded/scaled/lizpic.jpg
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/418764465325701516/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/495184921499638269/
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/152137293636842297/
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c6/0e/a2/c60ea2f22c710f8cab50597a3b4a09c6.jpg
http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/01/04/2/192/1922153/656cd56d9a847401_Chanel-Haute-Couture-Spring-Summer-2010.jpg
http://englishhistory.net/tudor/monarchs/eliz5-mainpic.jpg
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