Practical - Elizabethan Hair Practice (Thick Hair)

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
• Two Pieces of Padding

Process of Creating a Padded Hairstyle

1. Take a sectioning comb and begin by dividing the front of the hair from the ears forward and the back for heat styling.
2. Take a small section from the bottom half of the head and smooth into a tight ponytail. 
3. Style the front section into an even section of standing pin curls using the small barrel curlers.
4. Frizz or crimp the back section from the nape of the neck upwards towards the curled section. 
5. Taking a small section of crimped hair from between the curls and the rest of the hair and complete a french  plait on each side of the head that follows along the scalp from right to left, finish the rest of the plait and pin back underneath the rest of the braid. 
6. By creating two anchor points this should work as a base for the two pieces of padding.
7. Using small hair pins push the pins through the lining of the padding.
8. Pinch the pins and push them into the french plait to secure the padding to the plaited anchor point of the hair.
9. Using the hair below the padding take it up over the padding, smoothing to fully cover the fabric. 
10. Secure again with small hair pins.
11. Bring the rest of the frizzed hair from the front section back over the padding.
12. The curls can now be removed and styled as desired. 
13. Now that the top of the hair has been styled accordingly the bottom ponytail can be placed into a bun. 
14. 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 definitely not my best attempt at an Elizabethan hairstyle and much of this was too do with my time management abilities and the models own hair. The hair of this model in particular was much thicker than the hair I had previously worked on and therefore I would need to work much quicker in future to complete the design on time, in addition to this it was my first experience whereby the situation was presenting challenges. During the preparation for this hair design my model did actually fall asleep a few times while curling her hair, this not only presented dangers as if I hadn't of been paying attention I could have potentially burnt her but it also meant the whole curling process took much longer than it should of. Because of my lack of time it meant that for the final design I was unable to pin the curls back properly over the padding to create a decorative style. Instead the curls were left hanging loosely which was more reflective of a ‘Pride and Prejudice’ hairstyle than that of 16th century. I feel that if i had 5 minutes more time or even if the model hadn't of fallen asleep I would have been able to pin the curls back into the desired style and create a far more polished and historically accurate final look. Finally due to the lack of time that I had remaining for the hair design the bun was also less polished and shaped than I would have liked.