Practising my Partners Design

My partner for the final assessment is Terri-Anne. For her final design, Terri-Anne wanted to create a mohican hairstyle, with the sides completely slicked down and then frizz her hair up into the mohican hairstyle. When Terri-Anne first showed me her design I was a little apprehensive, as I am not very confident with hair and her style appeared quite difficult and complicated. Once she talked me through it and demonstrated it for me however, I felt much more confident in creating it. 

We first practiced the hair style in the studio with Lottie. I really struggled at first with slicking the hair up and keeping it in place on top of her head, as she had originally suggested I use hair grips to secure the hair, as it was what had worked for her when she practised her design. However, her hair is very thick and quite heavy, so we found the best way to secure the hair would be to seperate the hair into three ponytails down the centre of her head. This worked a lot better, and actually helped the sides look a lot more sleek. I then used hair pins to grip the hair over any gaps that were created and pin in any fly away hairs. Once this was done, I crimped the hair that was in the pony tails, and then proceeded to brush out the crimp, and backcomb the hair to create huge, textured hair. This worked really well with Terri-Anne's hair, as it is so thick and long, and I really feel she chose a design that worked really well with her hair. Once all the hair was backcombed I then gathered it along the sides and pinned it inwards to finish off the shape.

For the final design, Terri-Anne had glued pearls onto hair slides which she wanted me to pin along the sides of the mohawk to finish off the look. She also had purple hairspray which she wanted sprayed on the top of the mohawk to add a furthur contemporary twist.

All in all I found this look easy enough to create, especially after my initial doubts, and I was quite pleased with the way it turned out in the practice. I timed myself doing it as well, and found it took about 40 minutes in total to create without crimping the hair, and we both agreed that the hair would be crimped prior to the day of the assessment. I went over to Terri-Anne's the night before the assessment and crimped it for her ready for the next day.