Timed Hair Assessment

Monday 24th November- Hair Designer: Me, Hair stylist: Beth-

This was the final design that Beth created on me. We have been working on this design and developing it over the past through weeks, I gathered inspiration from designers and artists to create this final design. On the day of the assessment Beth set up her work station and I brought along my drawing of the final design a mood board of photos, step by step instructions and equipment list. I also brought with me the padding to create the heart shape beehive and the pearls to go in the hair.

 Once we set up and was ready Beth started on the hair design. Before hand we were aloud to come in and prep the hair to save time on creating the design as we had a certain amount of time to complete this design. Beth crimped my whole head before hand which took around 40 minutes to do, this definitely saved time and let Beth concentrated on the rest of the hair design.  Once starting on the hair she starting with all the braiding first and then moved onto the heart beehive, the bun and then the placement of the pearls. Overall Beth did an amazing job at completing my design, in the timed assessment she completed it in just over an hour. Lesson Before the assessment Beth practised this design in many ways trying different ways to create it and finding her best way to create it. When I threw the design at Beth she immediately looked at the design and created it beautifully from then onward she practised to perfect the design. I feel Beth worked to my design wonderfully and completed to hair design to high standards, the hair design was neat, very secure, tidy and even throughout the whole design. Previous feedback Beth received creating the design was to work on tidying up the plaits and making sure each side on the middle of the beehive was symmetrical. Beth practised it one more time and got it spot on, I'm very happy with my design and it was a pleasure working with Beth. I felt we worked well together because we listened to each others ideas, helped and gave each other fair feedback and we both attended every lesson. 

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My hair design drawing

My Hair Mood board

Monday 1st December- Hair stylist: Me, Hair Designer: Beth 

This was my final design that I created on my partner. My partner Beth on the day brought a drawing of what the design should look like and a step to step guide of how to create the hair design. Prior to this lesson me and Beth worked together for a few weeks getting familiar with each others hair and practising our design. We developed our designs together so this gave us a great understanding of each others design and I was able to practise the techniques as we developed along. Working with Beth was a pleasure as she always came to every lesson like I did so we never missed any practical sessions and was happy to stay behind together and work on each others designs. I've averagely practised this design around 3-4 however during the process we would add in new techniques and I feel I would improve each time. Last week I created the full hair design however I created it in around 1 hour and 35 minutes, I felt like I needed to cut down on the timing a little more by around 15 minutes. Everything in my practise session went to plan except I needed to speed up the design if everything was going to fit in. 


On the day of the assessment I was confident with creating the design however I was worrying about the timing as I hoping everything would go to plan and not slow down the design. The fact also that I couldn't prep any of the hair was a little frustrating as my whole design had to be completed in lesson time as other got to get a head start on there design. When I arrived to lesson the starting time was 3 pm, I was completely set up and ready to create the design by 3.10 pm, I started off with creating the beehive which normally takes me around 50 minutes to complete however in the assessment it only took me 40 minutes to finish the beehive which was the main timing issue. The rest of the design took me through until 4.30 pm and then I took my photos between 4.30-4.45 and we had 15 minutes to take the hair design out and pack away. Overall timing went perfectly to plan as I was very happy with the time I achieved for such an elaborate design. I feel I worked to Beths design plan well as we adapted our ideas together and always tried to help and improve each others design I feel this is how we made a strong team by criticising each others work and developing our ideas together. On the day all I needed to bring was the padding, Beth brought in her design and instructions of how to create the hair, black pins (all sizes) and the pearls which I previously gave her in the Practise session. Overall I'm extremely happy with how the design came out and I'm so pleased with what Iv'e achieved throughout the hair lesson I feel I really developed in my skills and timing of creating a full hair design. 

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Beths Instructions for the assessment

Beths drawn hair design 

Front drawing of the hair design

Designer Hairstyle

We've been told we have to create a hairstyle for a new up and coming hair designer. This will be worn by the models in the winter collection catwalk show. The designer has told us that the collection has some bold patterns and colours. They would like the hair to be big and bold to compliment the clothes. I can use any of the techniques that I have learnt this semester, but it has to be big!

My hair design-

Since the brief was big I knew I wanted to incorporate crimping and back combing into my design. I wanted to top part flat so it gives a dramatic effect between the big hair and sleek.

I started with working my way up the hair in sections crimping each part. I started at the bottom and clipped the rest of the hair up and starting crimping until I worked my way to the top. After the complete side of the head was crimped I brushed the crimped hair out and used a comb to start back combing the hair to give it a messy volume look. Once the hair was all back combed I combed the top part down (which I didn't crimp). Then I sectioned the hair into a middle parting and picked up the front part of the hair and started creating a plait. I then pulled the plait over where it separated the hair between the bottom crimped section and the top flat section. I pulled it across and gripped it into the hair. 

Overall I feel I stuck with quite simple design however It works well and looks very fashionable ready for a catwalk. The hair design contain elements of techniques we've learnt over the past few weeks which is back combing, crimping and plaits. I feel the style suits the brief well and contain big hair for a catwalk. Unfortunately I couldn't finish the other side of the head in time so I think If I could work on something I could work on my time management creating the design, If I could improve this design I would maybe time French plaiting round the head instead of just bringing a normal plait round.