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.