Red Heads and Royalty - Assessment Practice - Me as Stylist

In today's lesson with Helen I had the opportunity to work with my assessment partner Toby and practised his final design idea as I haven't been able to practised in previous lessons. 

Toby's design incorporates padding, crimping and curling which are all Elizabethan inspired techniques. 

Firstly, I took a small section at the front of the head and clipped it out of the way to curl later. 

I then sectioned the hair down the middle and created a small plait within each section for the two padding pieces to attach to. Once so had secure the padding to the plaits with grips I then continued to wrap the hair around the padding backcombing when needed to make the hair swell in order to cover the padding. 

Finally I curled the front section in small sections and pinned the curls back onto the head and padding using pins and attached two blue feathers that Toby had added to his design recently to the back of the head with grips.

I found it quite difficult today practising as I hadn't had much time to practise Toby's design but made the most out of the time we had. The left hand side of this picture looks slightly different as I hadn't used the backcombing technique until Lottie advised me to do so. This really have the hair more volume and the hair started to swell enough to cover the padding underneath. The padding on the right hand side is how I plan on creating the shape for my assessment.