Practical - Elizabethan Hair Practice (Front of Hair)

Padding and Curls (Front of Hair) - Real Hair Practice 
Health & Safety: Always run a consultation with the client asking about their hair type, condition, coloured or natural, allergies, medication and any contraindications that may prevent you form  touching the clients hair. This should be done to lessen risk of transferal of diseases or infection.
Place a plastic wrap around the client to protect clothing. 
Products Used:

• Small Barrel Hair Curlers (with clamp)
• Small Hair Crimpers
• Kirby Grips
• Small Hair Pins
• Hair Slides
• Sectioning Comb
• Denman Brush/Paddle Brush
• Padding 

Process of Creating a Padded and Curls Hairstyle 

1. Using a sectioning comb begin by dividing the front of the hair from the ears forward and the back for heat styling. 
2. Style the front section into an even section of standing pin curls using the small barrel curlers, a comb can be used to keep the hot tongs away from the scalp if visibility is scarce.
3. Ensure all curls are even and change direction on each row from upwards to down. This should form a heart shape if done accurately. 
4. Frizz or crimp the back section of hair up towards the curled section. 
5. Taking a small section of crimped hair from between the curls and the rest of the hair, complete a french plait that follows along the scalp from right to left, finish the rest of the plait and pin back underneath the rest of the braid. This will work as an anchor point for the padding. 
6. Using small hair pins push the pins through the lining of the padding and ensure they are fully secured.
7. Pinch the pins and push them into the french plait to secure the padding to the hair.
8. Using the hair below the padding take it up over the padding, smoothing to fully cover the fabric. 
9. Secure again with small hair pins.
10. The rest of the hair can now be brought back over the padding and the curls removed and style as desired. 
11. Using the end of the sectioning comb the hair can be slightly separated and adjusted to cover any small gaps that may have appeared during styling that expose the padding.

Evaluation 

This was our first practise at creating a partial Elizabethan hairstyle on human hair, because of this there were additional challenges present than what had faced us while using our doll heads. The first challenge was creating a secure hairstyle without hurting the models scalp, for example when putting the french plait into the back of the scalp it was important to make sure the hair is secure but without hurting the model. Always reassure that the model is comfortable. In addition because of using hot tools on the models hair it is vital to check the temperature and how close the tools are to the clients skin. However by taking extra caution when practising on the doll I did not find this too challenging, the only element of this design that I found challenging was making sure the pin curls were evenly aligned across the whole head. Even curls are crucial for creating a design that is symmetrical on both sides as this is the purpose of using them for decoration. In future I hope to be able to create a design that is more symmetrical and I definitely need to work on creating styles that have minimal fly aways.