Hair Practice

Hair Practices and Making the Props

For the hair for my catwalk image I want to incorporate two different techniques that I haven't used before in a shoot and that I am not very confident with but I want to try and use these techniques to push myself as a hair stylist.

The two Techniques I'm going to use are

• French Plaits
• Props in the hair

I have always struggled with french plaits so I am going to have the revise the technique before going to the shoot. Here's some photos of my practices

Props I've made

My inspiration for the props I made are from the photo below, In my initial ideas I said I wanted to use the round rings that the Surma Tribe wear in their mouth and I wasn't sure how to incorporate this but then from looking at my research into avant garde hair and tribes I thought I could mix the two and use the round shape in my props for the hair. 

Inspiration for my hair

Inspiration for my hair

Heres the Prop i made, I got help and inspiration from wig maker, Seema Chopra. I ordered lots of different crepe hair and then I cut out 2 discs out of cardboard and stuck them together and threaded through the crepe hair until it was fully covered. I then used clips to fasten the hair at the back, the added little plaits then on top of the crepe hair to add some more texture as I felt it was abit boring and flat. 

All the Crepe Hair I ordered