Bridal Elizabeth On A Person
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So I'd missed the previous lesson, and being completely useless I made use of the 2 hour break in between my morning seminar and my hair lesson in the library trawling through Pintrest. I found a few designs and I was ready to deliver. I really love renaissance styled hair. I think it's timeless. The basic characteristics of a renaissance are a mixture of intricate and chunky plaits, normally half up and curls/ringlets. I looked to this as an inspiration for a wedding design.
I'll be entirely honest, I didn't draw out a design for this one. I had an idea that I wanted the end design to look like and I knew what basic techniques I needed to use to get there.
I've noticed that with some bridal hair ups that depending on the dress, it will dictate how the hair is styled. Most of the time in bridal photography for editorial or even shop advertisements, to showcase the dress. Whereas brides who are getting married and are not selling their gowns there is a common theme of a half up/half down which makes the bride look more like a princess.
I'm a massive fan of the waterfall braid that seems to have taken over the internet via the mediums of Buzzfeed and Pintrest. So wanted this to be the skeleton of my design. I started by brushing all of Georgia's hair. I began working from left to right. The whole principle technique of a 'Waterfall braid' is dropping a section instead of adding another one in. I do this all the way around and tuck the end of the plait into the braid I've already done. At the nape of the neck, I decided to do a French plait up towards the crown. With the left over hair, I fishtail it because it just looks really delicate and I think that would be a nice touch to the overall look.
I take a thin section underneath the waterfall braid and begin to curl it in half inch sections. I then pin these up and into the braid above. It then looks like the hair is spilling out. I'm now left with two bottom sections either side of the French plait. I wanted this to have an Elizabethan twist so what I did to accomplish this was simple taking sections of of the hair and twisting it. Then taking the smaller fine pins, I would pin it into place. The inspiration behind this was how Elizabeth I signed her name.
I left her fringe as it was because I thought doing anything to it would have been too much for the overall look.
Challenges:
I'm pretty sure that Georgia has 2 crowns. So the hair that was left at the top looked out of place. While I did a consultation with Georgia about her hair she told me that her hair falls out. This meant there was a 3-4cm bald patch just below the center of of crown. I didn't know how to cover this, so I just pinned some of the curls around it. I really liked the overall hairstyle. I think it matched up to the inspirations I'd looked at, a plait intricate renaissance hairstyle. I would make me sectioning sharper and not have sections bleeding into each other.
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