Historical Punk Prep

For the historical aspect of this assessment, I chose to do a typical, central full head mohawk. Obviously with there being a lot of hair, I had to do some before prep so I had enough time in lesson. Back in the 70s, people would shave the sides of their heads off so it would just be a line in the middle of the head. Working with a wig, you can't really do that for obvious reasons.

 

I started creating this by placing 3 different sized plastic rollers on to the head in the desired position to create the right roll and then steam them with a whole pot of steam until wet. You then need to leave it to dry and set for a couple of days. I placed the orange rollers, the smallest, down the centre of the head in a line and it was rolled away from the face to create an uplift momentum. This is be the main height of the mohawk. The pink rollers were going horizontally down the line of orange and are rolled in towards the orange rollers. The red rollers are the largest and I didn't want to use too many as them bits of the hair didn't need to be rolled, but I needed the momentum of the curl to get the hair to lift in the right way.

 

 

Once everything was dry, I had to take out all the rollers. I was so happy to see that my wig actually curled properly! I was so scared it wasn't going to! Once all the hair was out, it looked like this;

 

 

I loved these curls and didn't want to brush them out, but I had to. Once brushing it, you could see that the hair took well to the curls and manipulated in the right manner. You could also see the cut that I did on my wig too. I was proud of this because it's something I've never done before, I picked it up quickly and really enjoyed doing it. After this, I noticed that the hair created a shape similar to the Marcel Wave, 1920/1930. So within this, I learnt how to create another technique.

 

 

After all that, I had to create the main height to the hair, this was done with a lot of backcombing and nearly a whole tin of hairspray! Here the process of how it looked;

 

 

As you can see as it goes on, it's going more from a square point shape to a straighter fan shape. I then had to gradually add more hair to the point in the middle by backcombing and hairspray again whilst using my hands in an upwards motion. This started to get really hard as gravity kicked in and started to way down the hair the more I added into it.

 

 

I supported the hair in place with grips at the ends to hold together the smaller side parts. Looking at the hair now, I can see that the bottom section of the hair is dropping too much, but I believe this is something that I sorted out in the actual assessment.