1960's Research

Hair styles in the 60's were very polished and clean. They had a lot of height, as well as fringes which were full or parted to the sides. Style icons of this era include Twiggy and Bridget Bardot. The styles that were mainly worn were beehives and bouffants as well as short and slicked back bobs. Looking at footage of Twiggy, she liked to wear headscarf's and flick the sides round near her face, with her hair and make-up she really was a style icon.

Images used: 

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Sketches: Richard Corson, Fashions in Hair - the last 5000 years

Video: https://youtu.be/0SbQrNtMFeI

1960s

In this lesson we created a 60's beehive style. Personally for some reason I really struggled with this hairstyle and creating volume. I'm not sure if the hair was too soft or I had just set it wrong but I know for some reason it had not quite turned out the way I had hoped. 

• Firstly we began by setting the hair in heated rollers. We were asked to set it in a brickwork formation so we could practice and perfect this technique. This was interesting because I feel like every time I do brick work with heated rollers it comes out differently and not always in a good way! I feel like I will eventually get better at this over time but for now I believe more practising is in order.
• Moving on, I then waited for the rollers to cool and then took out the pins and brushed the curls out. 
• I then began to style out the curls by taking sections starting at the top of the head and back combing strongly to create my desired shape.
• Once I had created the volume I needed it was then a case of pinning the hair up to create a twist.
• Using grips I pulled all the hair to one side and criss cross gripped it in place.
• I then twisted it back onto its self and pinned it into place.
• I then took the fringe area and pinned this into place.

1970's hair research

In the 70's the hair was big and curved out away from the face, normally with a central parting. Blonde was a favourable colour as many of the icons such as Farrah Fawcett wore their hair this way. Using a blow dryer, and big rounded brushes and hair mousse they created these looks.They also had certain kits made to sell to the public so they could achieve these looks easily.

 Farrah Fawcett

Look at other means of research, I came across a book by Richard Corson about hairstyles over the last 5000 years.

Images mentioned: 

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1980's hair research

After looking into 1980's hairstyles in lessons I wanted to research how these were created and what tools and products they used as they didn't necessarily have the same products as us 30 years ago. Different to the 70's the hair was bigger and and more colourful, the make up followed the colourful trend as well. There was a few different styles which were popular for men and women, they involved tiny pony tails, mullets, spikes, back combing with high fringes as well as highlighted curls. Pony tails preferably to the side and finished with bows or big scrunchies.

The main style icons of the 80's were Madonna and Cindy Lauper. They used bright colours and hair accessories to create their looks. The tools they used to create their looks were crimper's and banana clips as well as bendy rollers and a lot of hairspray.

I came across a book by Richard Corson which looks at different hairstyles from the last 5000 years. Here are a few sketches of styles from the 1980s section.

Book Images: Richard Corson, Fashions in Hair - The Last 5000 years

Images on Moodboard: 

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1970's Hairstyles

For this lesson we looked at 1970's hairstyles..

• We began by looking at images on Google of what we wanted to create and some inspiration from this era.
• We parted the hair from the front, ear to ear and kept the front section separate. 
• We then began to curl the hair with a heated tong and set these into place. We did this in a brick work style again to practice and perfect this technique. 
• Once this was set and cooled we took this out and brushed it out to create volume more than curl.
• Using a paddle brush, we brushed the front of a section and the back to create a smoothed out finish.
• Then finished with hairspray.

This is my finished look, a voluminous, hairspray covered hair style.

This was a lot of fun and actually not as hard as I had imagined. I do believe that this would be harder to achieve on longer hair as the curls would not have created as much volume. I think I would have to back comb more to create this look on longer hair.

Looking at and applying hair pieces

In this lesson we had a chance to look at hair pieces and facial hair pieces that had been used on professional shows and productions. This was really interesting to me because this is what I would like to eventually perhaps do but more along the lines of knotting and weaving the pieces then styling and applying the pieces and wigs. 

Firstly we were shown how to apply a Victorian looking hairpiece and the hairstyle to go along with it.  

Knotting Lace - This is used to knot the hairs through, it comes in different colours to match the models/actors skin tone. The better quality lace is thinner and more delicate, this is so HD cameras and lighting on stage do not pick it up and make it look unrealistic. 

Lace Wig - This is normally a high quality wig and is normally very expensive, these can be thousands of pounds. The whole cap that the hair is attached to is created with lace and this is to make it look more realistic. This one is created with different tones of blonde hair and has had each hair individually knotted through.

These are different facial hair pieces, moustache and beard.

side burns

These are all different sized hair pieces 

Hair used to create pieces

A malleable head used to attach pieces or wigs to it for either knotting or styling.

1980's Big Hair

In this weeks practical lesson we looked at styling 80's hair. We did two different techniques of brushed out curls using a big barrelled tong and then scrunching.

First Look - Big Curls

• I began by sectioning the hair and prepping it by brushing it out making sure that there was no knots or tangles.
• Using a tong, I then started from the top in a brick work style curling it down and pinning it in to place to allow it to cool.
• This is then dressed out with a paddle brush to create a voluminous look. We only did this to half of the head as we were going to scrunch the other half.
• Here is some pictures of the looks we had to create.

Second Look - Scrunching

• For this look we had to firstly wet the hair and apply lashings of strong hold mousse. 
• We then used a diffuser attachment and blow dried the hair to create a scrunched look, I loved the look of this.
• We then finished with hairspray.
• Here are some pictures of the look.

Once we had done the scrunching technique, we were asked to add hair accessories to complete this 80's look. I used a piece of red material and created a big bow. I used images of Madonna for ideas and inspiration.

After this we were asked to create one final look..

This was an up do, we went created a pulled back look, this could also be achieved with a banana clip, an accessories that was used frequently in the 80's.

I really enjoyed learning this era, it was fun and I think I will research further and see if this will be something I use in my final designs and assessment.