Evaluation

From the first lesson to the last, I have loved every wig lesson I have been to. Over the past year, and up until now, I have really gained a love for hair and everything about it. When I first started uni, my passion was special effects but I have grown and with that, my tastes and preferences have changed too. I'm truly over the moon that I got a place on this course this year. 

 I believe I have gained a lot of new skills from doing this sub-section course as it's something that's become a passion to me. I've learnt how to knot a moustache and how to create other facial features such as eyebrows, beards and sideburns. When signing up for this course, I was lead to believe that we would be making a full wig, so obviously I was naturally disappointed when we were told otherwise. However, after knotting, cutting, curling and styling one moustache, I've so glad and really understand as to why we didn't! Other skills I have gained include era hair techniques, how to work with synthetic and lace wigs, and also how to do a basic hair trim cut.  

Obviously there is always going to be room for improvements. However, I really believe that hair has been my strong point this year and I don't think I made many mistakes, without sounding big headed! I have learnt how to manipulate hair in a better way, to work quicker, and to also achieve a better outcome. The areas that I'm lacking in I think the most is learning to be firmer with the hair. I have been told I have gentle hands. 

Overall, I have enjoyed every aspect of this course. There has been nothing that I've not liked! Which is a first! I really feel comfortable working with hair and I can see myself following a career path in this area of work. Although I'm still not sure what I want to do with hair yet, this course has really helped me to decided. 

Contemporary Evaluation

Friday just gone, I completed my contemporary part of my unit. Overall, I believe it actually went really well. I think that doing the styling of the wig straight before placing it on my models hair helped with keeping the height, shape and volume of the mohawk at the desired way that I wanted it. Because it wasn't as elaborate as my historical wig, it didn't need as much product so the hair looked softer. 

I'm so pleased with how well my hair help up with the height over a wider base, going into a slight point at the top. The curls came out so close to perfect and I believe I created the plait neatly. Although you couldn't see them, the pin curls were tight against the head and anchored well for the grips when holding the wig in place. Here is a short video of my wig when on the head stand. 

Assessment - Contemporary

Today was the contemporary part of my assessment for the wig unit. So I decided to incorporate curls and plaits into my hair, as you can see from the prep work that I did. Obviously this time for the assessment, I created the look in the lesson instead of doing the styling out of lesson. So I found that I gave myself a lot less time to get the wig on my models head and sort it all out to also have time to fit in make-up too. 

Here are a few images of the process of putting the wig on the model and last minute styling bits;

Like you always do when placing a wig on someone's head, you put the whole head in pin curls and then place a wig cap over top and then secure that in place with grips. Unfortunately, I forgot to get pictures of this, but I can assure you that it was as tight as what I normally do. With this look, I was able to create it all on my head stand so I could put it straight on my model and then shoot, unlike my historical where I had to leave some down so I could measure it up properly when it was on my models head. This made it all a quicker process for me. I then went on to do my models make-up with dark lips and slightly pale face. I found that I didn't have enough time to spend trying to get the eye liner on point and the same as eachother so I decided not to do it at all to save me some stress. 

Overall, I'm so happy with how this look came out. It had volume and height in the front, just like I wanted it to and it curled perfectly. Like always, there were a few time where I started to get frustrated when styling the wig but whatever came in my way, I managed to tackle it and sort it out. Here are the final outcome look of my contemporary wig assessment;

Contemporary Punk Prep

For the contemporary aspect of this assessment, I chose to create a mohawk-plait hybrid hairstyle. Again, like my historical hairstyle, I had to do all the prep work before the actual lesson. I was able to style the wig in lesson, but the steaming and rollers had to be done before so I had enough time for it to set and dry completely before lesson.  

I started setting my wig by placing in the rollers to the hair. I sectioned off the hair with a pin tail comb, so you could see where the mohawk was going to go. Unlike my historical style, I used more than just one roller going down the middle. I actually split it in to two next to eachother so it could have a larger and fuller front. I also used two different sized rollers in the mohawk section to make it fuller in random areas so it wasn't neat. This was also due to the fact that I want to incorporate curls more into this look, and this will help to get the curls. 

As I wanted only the mohawk part of the hair in rollers, I needed to straighten the rest of the hair. Obviously a wig can only take up to a certain degree of heat, and most straighteners, you can't adjust the heat. This meant that I had to straighten the hair on the sides of my wig with a brush and the steamer. As you can guess, this was a long and repetitive process but it think it worked well. 

Once everything was dry, I was able to take the rollers out. This is what I did in lesson. I started on my wig by sectioning away the side parts of the wig so I could concentrate on just the mohawk section of the hair. 

Mohawks are all about height, obviously, so this is what I worked on next. Unfortunately, I forgot to take pictures when doing this, as I was concentrating so much! So I can't show my process of this part of the hair. However, I can still tell you. I started by removing all the rollers from the wig and backcombing at the roots to get a good strong hold for the mohawk. Where there were two rollers at the front of the wig, I grouped them together and backcombed them as one so it blended better. I only did this with the top section so it could hold the height to resemble a mohawk. For the back section of the mohawk, I entwined the bottom half and also the straight side sections of the hair. I started this by pulling the side hair tight inwards towards the mohawk and pinned it in place. I then went on to French plait the rest of the hair into it at the bottom. 

When I looked at the work that I created, I thought there was something that wasn't just right with this hairstyle. I think it was because you could see the hair band and end of the hair at the bottom of the French plait. So I decided to take it up and turn it on itself, and I much preferred the outcome of it. 

Contemporary Hair Chart

As I said before, I was unsure as to which hair chart idea to create for my contemporary assessment for this unit. After talking to Lottie about which out of the three before that I wanted to create, we decided that none were really suitable. My first idea, like I previously said, wouldn't look good on a wig as you would see all the connections. My second and third idea looked good and would work, however, Lottie and myself both believed that they look more like contemporary Victory Rolls compared to contemporary Punk. So I was back to square one.

After looking around on the internet a bit, I happened to come across this picture...

This was exactly what I wanted to create! So I made my own hair chart with this image as the inspiration, there were a few things I wanted to change..

This is my hair chart for my contemporary Punk hair chart. I really like it as you can see the modern aspects in it. I Can't wait to make this creation and see how it turns out.


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