Wednesday, 3 December 2014

Peer Assessment - Me as Stylist, Sylwia Mazur as Designer

This morning we had our hair assessment for our final designs. We faced a problem this morning as my partner Toby didn't turn up for me to carry out his design so to solve the problem, Sylwia and I went together and I used her design. Not having seen the design before I was worried that I may not be able to do it to the best of my ability but decided to use the time effectively and apply the skills that I had learnt in class to style the hair.
I really liked Sywlia's design as I felt she had thought well about her contemporary/ traditional look and how the two ideas could work together to create a final original look. She incorporated padding, plaiting and also added a small white bow which was very traditional in the Elizabethan era.
As Sywlia didn't get the time she wanted with her previous partner or her partner afterwards it was hard for her to communicate her idea fully to me on the day of the assessment but I feel like we had a good chat before the assessment so I could figure out what the basics of the design were and how she wanted the finished look to be. I could tell that she had put alot of time and effort into the design with a detailed hairchart (back and front) and also a step by step of the look which really helped me. The only thing that I would have considered was a more detailed explanation of how the back of the hair should have been, as this would have helped me better understand how to manipulate the hair but as I said we did not have enough time as we would have liked.









Tuesday, 2 December 2014

Contemporary Hair Inspiration


I found this picture on Pinterest and this hair design really inspired the frizzing part of my final design. The colour and style really reminded me of the traditional frizzy effect used back in Elizabethan times. You can see the plait that's warped around head aswell. 


This was another image I found that screamed Elizabethan to me. The almost heart shaped hairstyle made out of plaits and also white ruffles inspired one of my three hair designs where I was going use pinned plaits on top of the head.