Final Assessment

This is the final hairstyle I created from my partner's hair chart. I had 45 minuted to create the hairstyle and managed to complete the hairstyle in time but didn't take the pins out for the photos as that is what we originally wanted to do. When we took the pins out after the curls weren't tight enough to stay still if we originally took the photos like that. Overall I'm happy with results and think the assessment went really well.

This is the final hairstyle I designed made up by my partner. She managed to finish the hairstyle in time and I think the results came out really well. I wish the curls showed more in the photos though! Love the french plait with the pearls - I'm so pleased they came out so well. Overall I was happy with the final looks we made.

Final Hair Style

This is the chart of my final hair design. It was hard to explain my thoughts of this design into a drawing. The design is a development from the collage I made of the hair being flipped to mostly one side and a french plait on the other side. In the collage it was originally just curly hair but after learning all the different techniques of making an Elizabethan hair style I wanted to combine them all. The hair style will be full crimps and loose curls along with plaits and certain sections hair sprayed red. Originally the french plait was going to be lots of plaits twisted together but after experimenting I really didn't like it and felt like it was too much. Instead the french plait looks alot cleaner and matches the hairstyle more. I wanted to add an accessory to the hair and so there are pearls going along the centre of the plait.

The 1940s Interpretation

I thought it'd be interesting to research an old Elizabethan film and how people would accessorize their Queen Elizabeth in their time. This film was made in the 1940s and Elizabeth was played by Flora Robson. I love how there are just as much accessories added as there are in the most recent Queen Elizabeth film.

Contemporary Hair

I love how unique this Elizabethan hairstyle is! It has such a twist with the colours and accessories added to it. I also like that neck accessories match the hair accessories along with the makeup too.

Frizzing

In my Week 6 session with Seema I learnt the technique on how to frizz hair. First you weave a section of hair in a geysher grip. Put a normal hair grip down the middle of the geysher grip to keep the section stay in place. Use straighteners to heat the section to stay in place. Leave to cool for a while. Once cooled take the grips out and then use an afro comb to make the section frizz out. In the image, the right hair section is in the state after taking the grips out. The section on the left is what it looks like when its mildy combed through and the middle section is the result of the full technique. I love this hair style when it's complete on a full head! If the final assessment for my project was more than an hour I'd use this technique for sure!

3rd Design

This is my 3rd hair design for the contemporary Elizabethan styles. For this style the fringe is smooth over the forehead and tucked behind the ear (depending on length). There are two rows of pin curls and a beehive shape behind the curls. The beehive is to signify the big hair Elizabethans would have. This is my favourite design that I have made out of the 3 and as I now know that my final design needs to suit to me I think this design would suit me the most. I'm looking foward to experimenting with this design this week!

Fish Plaits

During my lesson I learnt how to make a fish plait. This is an image of the plait I made. I think this the plait I find easiest to make and find the most interesting. I'm hoping to use this method in my hairstyles in the future.

Blow Drying

I've learnt the first simple steps of hair inn how to wash and blow dry it. These images are of my first blow dry and what I found most challenging was how to grip the hair onto the brush using the hairdryer and keeping the grip tight. I felt that as I went along drying the hair through each layer I was getting better and improving much more. The only thing I needed to be more aware of was drying the ends of the hair properly so they didn't look frizzed. Overall I'm happy with this result of my first blow dry and I hope I can improve more on how to dry the ends properly.

My 2nd Contemporary Elizabethan Look

This is my 2nd Contemporary Elizabethan image which I decided to collage. I found wavy and curly bits of red hair in magazines and shaped them into a wavy one sided look. I then cut out red hair plaits and stuck them onto the other side of the hair line. This represents a french plaits on one side of the head. It will go round the back and join the rest of the hair on the other side. I also want to combine pearls into the plaits and so have stuck pearls onto the plait side.

Ideas For Contemporary Elizabethan Styles

 I need to creat 2 more images of Contemporary Elizabethan styles on my Modern/Chic images. I want to combine some of my favourite elements of these styles together. These will be the red hair, plaits and jewellery as accessories.

Quote and Modern Combined

This week I had to combine a photo from my Modern looks and my quote together by painting, drawing my quote idea over the Modern image. I decided to paint the hairstyle onto the image with different tones of brown and red for the bow. I think the result of this looks quite good and definitely gives a clearer idea of what I want this look to be like than the collage I tried to make.

Assignment Brief: Red Heads and Royalty!

For this project I am to research the hairstyles of the Elizabethan Era as well the trends of their fashion, symbolism and much more! Once I have done enough research I must pick out different elements that have interested me and use them to create a makeup design. I am then to give another colleague in my course my design and they will give me theirs and we have to create eachother's designs for a photoshoot.
I am expecting to find a great amount of ideas to inspire me throughout this project so that my final design will be exactly what I want. I need to gather as much research as I can to help spring my ideas to life!

Interpretation of Quote

In my seminar I had to interpret how I imagined the hairstyle of the Elizabethan quote in my head into a collage. I didn't manage to finish my collage and ran out of hair but I think it would would pretty good once I've translated it onto real hair.

Elizabethan Hair Quote

"She has brown hair and speaks small like a woman"

 
My interpretation of this Elizabethan quote would be of a woman with short brown hair. Sounds simple but I also thought that the interesting part is that she has bunches and a bow in her hair because people that have small voices are usually thought of as quite innocent. To me an innocent sweet look would be bunches and a bow. To have these bunches her hair load need to be shoulder length to fit in with the short hair length of course.

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Plaits and Buns

  

Clearly the type of plaits I like are mostly messy! I can't even explain why. I can only think that I love how messy hair with a plait goes so well together in my opinion and Blake Lively (top photo) has made her messy plait have touch of elegance with a flower hair accessory. Other than a messy plait I think fish plaits are pretty cool too and love the twist that's been added to the 2nd image above.

I do appreciate a bun that has a unique twist to it! These 4 bun hairstyles all have an individual look to them. If I had to choose one style to try out I think I'd choose Lauren Conrad's bun (2nd image). I'm fascinated in how the french plait is so perfectly twisted into the bun!

Elizabethan Hair Accessories

One of my favourite elements of the Elizabethan styles is the accessories! She would always have such amazing jewels, hats, crowns, pearls place on her head and in her hair. It's beautiful and inspiring to me as I love hair accessories and want to push the boundaries in this project to apply accessories to the hair.

Elizabethan Hair Trends

During Queen Elizabeth I's reign the general fashion would involve twists of plaits, braids that were also combined in some styles. Waves and curls were also a trend. They would use marcel irons to curl their hair!
Blonde hair was a much more popular trend over black hair. Black hair just didn't cut it.
The Elizabethans went from put padding in their hair to wired frames as that was a much more hygienic option (even though the hygiene was awful back in those days as they only washed their hair twice a year..lovely!) and they could have more of  variety of different shapes with these frames. Wigs were also used if you could afford that luxury.
Height was an important role in the style - they would use wax to hold it in place.

Elizabethan Hairstyles

 Elizabeth I In Her Coronation Robes 1559
Up until Elizabeth's coronation ceremony her hair was always loose and long showing that she is a young woman. I also feel like this symbolises how carefree she is as a princess as being a queen holds a lot more responsibility.

 The Pheonix Portrait 1675
Elizabeth's hairstyles were iconic for her firey red curls! I think this is one of my favourite elements to her styles and want to take that further into my project.These curls were so precisely placed and she had so many of them! She would have beautiful little ringlets going over her head in a round shape.

The Ermine Portrait 1585
Elizabeth's style would start to develop throughout her reigning years into this heartshape. The heartshape still continues to be style with curly hair. These high up hairstyles she always had were to make her look more intimidating and strong. Although I feel that she still looks feminine with this style, a lot of other people would disagree and think that by having high hair her forehead looked larger and altogether made her look more masculine.

Chic and Modern

To me Modern Hair means the most up to date trend of hairstyles! These hairstyles happen to be short and I have found a variety of short hair styles that have been manipulated in so many different ways! It's so crazy when you realise just how much you can do to hair and that the possibilities are endless!

When I think of Chic Hair I think of hair that has sleek, individual and amazing style within! I admire Blake Lively's sense of style when it comes to hair as she comes up with so many different ways to make it look incredible and beeautiful!

 

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Elizabethan Hair Styles

 

I love the firey red curls of the Elizabethan hairstyles! It's fascinating to look at and wonder how the curls were set high above her head.

I also love this contemporary interpretation of the Elizabethan hairstyles from one of Alexander McQueen's catwalk shows!

Hairstyles like this make me want to explore and learn how to make them!