Final Evaluation

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.