Back combing and Wiggle Plait

Back combing:

Back combing is a huge technique  if your trying to get height or body into the hair for your design. In the start of the session our lecturer wanted to show us how to back comb properly without damaging the hair and making it easy to brush out, this will be the correct way to back comb. In the first demonstration it was back combing if your trying to cover padding and want the hair thick or you want the back comb to be kind of messy. You take your pin tail comb and hold the piece of hair up and back comb on the front of hair from the roots to the ends. If your wanting back combing for beehive, structure and root height and and want the top neat, back comb from the roots and push the hair down the roots to give volume, then smooth the front with a comb to neaten up any hairs. Another technique for volume would be to gather a piece of hair, crimp it at the roots, cover it with another piece of hair and back comb from the roots, the back combing and the crimping will give the hair lovely height and body.

Wiggle plait demo:

When arriving into the studio we saw this wonderful elaborate wig. It detail and curves in the hair made it look like it took hours to do. However when our lecturer told us creating the patter and technique the ‘wiggle plait’ it was very easy. She did the demonstration on a doll head so we can all see the technique. You start with grabbing a section of the hair, the section you grab has to be where you want the wiggle plait at because the placement is very important. You then take the piece of hair you section off and split it into 3 sections and then plait like normal. The plait has to be quite loose and easy to move because next when you get to the end of the plait where two strands are on one side and one on the other, you want to hold the single strand down, grab the two on the other side and push the two strands upwards. This then creates the wiggle plait, if you have some hair left at the end plait and again and repeat the same process to make the whole piece of hair a wiggle plait and then grip it into the hair to hold it in place.











Photos taken in studio session