In our lesson with Lottie, we each selected our own lace wig that we wanted to work on, mine was long and ginger in colour. I decided to chose this wig because it's something that I haven't worked on before, when it comes to length and colour. I knew working with longer hair would be tricky because it takes a longer time and also its about manipulating the hair in the way that you want and it actually going that way.
We first started by placing the front of the hair in heated rollers with an off centre parting. This was similar to Hollywood hair that we created, I needed to put three rollers on one side of the head and another one the other side of the parting all along the hairline. I then had to place two more rollers with the hair going away from the face on either side of the head. I clipped and pinned these in place to let them cool down. I then went onto barrel curl the back of the hair with a curler and pin in place. I had to then wait for it to all cool down.
Once it had all cooled down, I then had to take out the rollers from the front. This made the hair look lovely, but I needed to brush it out to create the victory roll. I've never done this before so it was exciting for me to try out.
I tried for about 20 minutes to get this victory roll right for me, there are a few different ways to do it. You can either have the rolls really blending with the hair as a curl or sometimes they can look more like horns. I wanted it too look more blended. Here are my attempts until I was happy with it.
As you can see, my first attempt, I believe was too loose looking, almost like it's sagging down and not in place properly. So I then made it tighter and moved it up slightly. I preferred this, however, you can't see the back as I forgot to take a photo of it, but it just wouldn't sit right. I then did it again but this time, I took some hair out of the front and it made it sit a lot better. I then went on to take the barrel curls out the back of the hair.
The next step from here was to brush out the hair with the paddle brush and then place it on my model. Obviously to do this, I had to put her hair up into pin curls and flatten the hair to the head and then place the cap over top. The difference between a lace wig and a synthetic wig is that you glue a lace wig down to the face. It's used more for theatrical work.
Up close, you can really see the lace but once it was stuck down with the spirit gum, you could hardly see it. I really enjoyed doing this, as did we all. We all got an experience of changing our entire looks just from putting on a wig. It really changes your whole overall look and skin tones and colours. I've been blonde before myself, so it wasn't a big shock and I believe I suited it rather well, but this wasn't the case with the ginger wig. I don't think I had the right facial tones for this to work on me. We all looked so different!
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