During
this unit I have thoroughly enjoyed myself, there's been highs and lows of the
last couple of months and my strengths and patience have been tested but after
all the hard work I have some really good images, a wig and moustache that I am
proud of. I enjoyed all of the different topics but I mostly enjoyed the
knotting, this was the technique I took the unit to learn and now I have and I
know that one day I will be able to make bigger pieces such as wigs and hair
pieces and not just facial hair pieces.
In
my Historical assessment I chose to put rollers into the wig to create volume
and curls. I needed to create a very high front/fringe to the wig which was
done but using large rollers and placing them across the front of the wig. The
curls I created with smaller rollers and had these rolled in sideways instead
of rolled over because I wanted to create maximum curl and minimum volume. I
then went on to steam the whole wig twice and then let it set and dry for just
under a week. I was very happy with how setting and steaming went and how the
final look turned out, everything from start to finish went very smoothly, especially
the styling of it. If I could have changed something from the setting stage it
would be to cut more of the length off because I had to clip a lot of it to
create a faux bob to create my volume. Moving on to styling this is where I
wanted to get it perfect and really give a true representation of the 80's. I
used images of singer and actress Madonna from a film called 'Desperately seeking
Susan' and her album covers from this decade. I think using these as inspiration
pictures really helped me to style this correctly. When it came to the
application stage this was the bit I was most worried about, I felt like I hadn't practised enough wrapping and pinning the hair but fortunately it went really
well when on the day and I think that was the flattest I had managed to pin my
models hair down before. Overall my images for my Historical part of this unit
came out really well. I finished the look with 80's bright make up and now have
images I am proud of.
For
the contemporary part of the assessment I created a very similar look but I changed
them to more modern techniques. I took ideas from an 80's afro look and frizzed
the wig with pins and a straightener to create a frizzed look, I thought this
would be a nice contrast against the historical curls used. To create modern
look I used yellow crepe hair to create the bow this time as again I thought it
was a nice contrast and something slightly more challenging then using a
typical piece of material. If I could change one thing about the contemporary
assessment I would have frizzed it differently and pinned it differently to me
it didn't sit on the head just right because the way I had manipulated it but it
could just be me nit picking and being a perfectionist.
Overall
I am very happy with my chosen decade, I think the 1980's was an exciting and
colourful era to pick and something fun to research into. Even though I think
my contemporary wig came out well in my opinion it was the most challenging to
come up an initial idea because obviously it is my own interpretation and I'm
not just copying an image like the Historical one. Looking into designers such
as Marc Jacobs helped me come up with my contemporary designs, which featured
in his catwalk shows. If I was to do this again I would perhaps change to a
different decade maybe something I found more challenging like the 1960's or
1940's. I've learnt from this unit I do think I may need to challenge myself
further with hair and styling of hair.
