Practical - Reverse Heart Shape with Braid

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
• Hairspray

Process of Creating Reverse Braided Heart

1. Divide the hair into two sections with the bottom section being a triangular shape coming from the bottom of the ears upwards. 
2. Crimp the whole front section of hair ensuring to get the crimpers as close as possible to the root of the hair without burning the scalp or causing discomfort.
3. Split the crimped front section of the hair into 1/3rds and separate the front section from the back two to create a larger and thinner half. 
4. Create two french plaits on either side of the head between the front split sections to create an anchor point for the padding to sit on, twist he ends of the plait round and pin into place. 
5. Taking two small, oval pieces of padding pin them onto each plait so they sit roughly above each eyebrow but allowing for a small gap in between.
6. They should form a rough heart shape at this point. 
7. Taking the back section of the crimped hair, backcomb at the root and bring it over the padding to the front and pin into place. 
8. Using the end of the sectioning comb position the hair so the padding is covered as much as possible. 
9. Tease the roots of the front section of hair and bring the hair backwards and pin into place.
10. Smooth over with the comb to create two fully rounded sections of hair. 
11. Now using the bottom section of hair that had been left out bring the hair create a reverse french plait from the nape of the neck upwards towards the top of the hair.
12. Continue the plait into a regular plait and pin between the two pieces of padding to divide the heart shape. 
13. Finish with hairspray. 

Evaluation 
From previous practices at placing padding into the hair, crimping and finishing a hairstyle I felt that this process went much more smoothly than previous attempts however there is still always room for development. For example my crimping technique still required improvement as some of the pieces of hair did not meet up as symmetrically as I would have liked, because of this it made the overall look a little uneven and scruffy. Even on a modern couture look it would still be essentially for the hair to be crimped evenly. Perhaps my favourite feature of the whole look was that of the reverse french plait as I feel it created a unique contemporary flare to the otherwise plain heart shaped design, I actually expected this element of the hair design to be the most challenging but this was infact the easiest piece to complete because of my practise with plaits in the past. My areas to improve on our definitely my crimping technique and finishing off the hair to remove any flyways and polish the overall final look, however I was pleased with the outcome of the plait which remained relatively tidy.