Assessment - Historical

Today we had to create our historical hair look in lesson. This was with our synthetic wigs that we chose ourselves. Due to my historical idea being very time consuming, I started creating my look out of lesson in my free time so when it came to the actual lesson, I could do the last minute bits.

 

I chose PUNK for my look and for the historical side to it, I decided to create a straight up mohawk. This was so much harder than I thought it would be! There was alot of hair on my wigs head, so that means that it would all need to mould into an upwards motion. Most mohawks that were created in the 70s/80s would have shaved sides of the head so the hair in the middle would be a lot sleeker and straight up. This was not possible at all with a wig.

 

As I did majority of the work out of lesson, there wasn't much to do in lesson other than place my partners hair into pin curls, put on a wig cap and also finish off the wig itself, just the finishing touches and making it neater.  Here are a few photos of how it went;

 

 

As you can see, I did the pin curls & wig cap tightly against the head to secure steady anchors of hair. I had to leave hair down at the sides by the temples until I placed the wig onto the models head. I could then see how much slack I needed so it wouldn't show the wig as obviously. I then had to remove all the grips that were securing my hair in place over night. Once taking them out, I then sprayed the whole head with hairspray and smoothed it up with my hands to get a sleeker finish. Although I found out this wasn't too easy as it's hard to create a smooth finish with so much backcombing in the hair to keep it up. I then did the model with pale skin, dark liner & dark lips to resemble a punk like look.

 

Overall, I'm really pleased with how this look came out. It's held up it's shape well and didn't slack much at all. I did get slightly frustrated as the wig doesn't fit my model 100% and you can slightly see the cap but it looked good in the end. The white background photos came out clearer to see the full aspect of the hair along with volume and height, but the black background images gave an all over better quality image.