Hair Assessment: Stylist
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I packed and repacked my hair kit for my assessment today. It's the first assessment I've done since starting the course. Nervous is the biggest understatement. I've made sure that my black clothes are freshly washed and I look professional. My hair is tied up off my face and I've put my antibacterial hand wash in my kit, I'm the worlds worst person for touching my face or anything other than what I'm working on so I thought this would be a good counter measure for hygiene.
I've practiced quiet a few times and I'm not really feeling any more confident. I try and think positive otherwise I'll stress myself out. On my mirror, I've printed out all the technical blogs I've done for the techniques I'll be using during this assessment. I've also stuck up the pictures from the practice sessions and well as the hair design itself. I've circle the areas that I struggled with on the photos so I know that's where I need to pay extra attention.
I've already crimped the hair in my prep session previous to this. It's already apparent that Sophia's broken baby hairs aren't going cooperate. I really take my time with my pin tail comb making sure that I've got really clean sectioning. Lottie has said this time and time again that you can't go back and fix bad sectioning after you've finished the look. I know from my own experiences that when I've been unhappy with the sectioning on a finished look, I feel as though it ruins the entire look.
It's only know that I've noticed the hair is a lot thicker on one side. I think this might be due to the breakage of Sophia's hair. She does straighten it every day. I try not to panic and begin sliding sectioning clips in. I take a nice clean section and do a french plait horizontally to act as the anchor. I'm so proud of this plait. It's really tight, each section is even and it looks good. I plait the way down the section and use slightly shorter fine pins that I've bought to pin it in place.
I back comb the remaining section feeling really pleased with how it's going so far. I pin the rat on the plait, and I realise after I comb the hair over it that it's too far down the back of the head. Feeling really disheartened, I take out the plait and all the pins and leave this section loose. I make another section above this one and repeat the plaiting process. I'm all fingers and thumbs at this point so I feel like I'm messing up. I have to grab a minute to calm myself before I continue. I'm not as happy with the second attempt of the French plait so I do the same on the other side.
I really struggle trying to roll the hair onto the rat, I struggle with tucking the hair onto the rat. There just seems to be too much. Thinking fast, I take a thin section of the back combed hair and make a finger roll the same width as the rat I'm using, and I pin this in front of it. I then use the remaining hair to pull over the new roll and the rat and pin it into place. Ross taught me this cool little trick with fine pins, if you behind one of the legs back itself, it becomes great at holding hair into place that isn't on the scalp. I'm completely relying on this.
We have a heart shape. Kind of. It's really getting me down because I really struggled with this. I used so much hairspray on the front of her hair to try and keep the broke hairs down.
I then kanerow the middle section, she wanted a plait going along the section. This was simple enough. With the left over part of this plait I tuck it into the rat that had the thinner section of hair.
Not a lot of time left! I've a bit of a speed demon when it comes to curling. I make sure the curlers aren't too hot, and wrapping the hair around the tongs and curl. I alternate the direction as practiced otherwise all of the curls would merge together.
Finally ready to photograph. I'm not happy and I think it shows in my facial experession. I'm already ripping my own work apart with critique. I can't cover the rats, it's not even etc.
What I would have done differently:
I would have liked to have maybe used rick-racking instead of crimping. It might have made it easier to create a heart shape instead of using rats. Rats are great on the katie head, on someone's hair? Something I don't feel overly comfortable.
Spent more time trying to get the two halves the same height. It's obvious in the photos that they aren't.
Try and smooth over the smaller hairs at the front.
I would have liked a more detailed design. Maybe even tear sheets, or even some photos on a phone that gave her inspiration, There were no annotation, no notes or anything. I didn't mind working with someone else's design though, I quite like the idea of doing this as sometimes it's more stressful designing a hairstyle than actually doing it. I did try and ask for what inspired the design so I could do some more research on it, but the answers I received were not the most detailed. I thought it was a good call using the different type of fine pins. They were slightly shorter so easier to use when pinning the plaits in place. I'm not at all happy with my final outcome. After hearing a comment from a fellow classmate who said they wouldn't have been happy if I had been the partner really put me in the dumps. The only positive I can find in this is that I'm actually reasonably quick at curling and this was a life saver as I was nearly out of time.
Here are the JPEGS of my finished look.
I've practiced quiet a few times and I'm not really feeling any more confident. I try and think positive otherwise I'll stress myself out. On my mirror, I've printed out all the technical blogs I've done for the techniques I'll be using during this assessment. I've also stuck up the pictures from the practice sessions and well as the hair design itself. I've circle the areas that I struggled with on the photos so I know that's where I need to pay extra attention.
I've already crimped the hair in my prep session previous to this. It's already apparent that Sophia's broken baby hairs aren't going cooperate. I really take my time with my pin tail comb making sure that I've got really clean sectioning. Lottie has said this time and time again that you can't go back and fix bad sectioning after you've finished the look. I know from my own experiences that when I've been unhappy with the sectioning on a finished look, I feel as though it ruins the entire look.
It's only know that I've noticed the hair is a lot thicker on one side. I think this might be due to the breakage of Sophia's hair. She does straighten it every day. I try not to panic and begin sliding sectioning clips in. I take a nice clean section and do a french plait horizontally to act as the anchor. I'm so proud of this plait. It's really tight, each section is even and it looks good. I plait the way down the section and use slightly shorter fine pins that I've bought to pin it in place.
I back comb the remaining section feeling really pleased with how it's going so far. I pin the rat on the plait, and I realise after I comb the hair over it that it's too far down the back of the head. Feeling really disheartened, I take out the plait and all the pins and leave this section loose. I make another section above this one and repeat the plaiting process. I'm all fingers and thumbs at this point so I feel like I'm messing up. I have to grab a minute to calm myself before I continue. I'm not as happy with the second attempt of the French plait so I do the same on the other side.
I really struggle trying to roll the hair onto the rat, I struggle with tucking the hair onto the rat. There just seems to be too much. Thinking fast, I take a thin section of the back combed hair and make a finger roll the same width as the rat I'm using, and I pin this in front of it. I then use the remaining hair to pull over the new roll and the rat and pin it into place. Ross taught me this cool little trick with fine pins, if you behind one of the legs back itself, it becomes great at holding hair into place that isn't on the scalp. I'm completely relying on this.
We have a heart shape. Kind of. It's really getting me down because I really struggled with this. I used so much hairspray on the front of her hair to try and keep the broke hairs down.
I then kanerow the middle section, she wanted a plait going along the section. This was simple enough. With the left over part of this plait I tuck it into the rat that had the thinner section of hair.
Not a lot of time left! I've a bit of a speed demon when it comes to curling. I make sure the curlers aren't too hot, and wrapping the hair around the tongs and curl. I alternate the direction as practiced otherwise all of the curls would merge together.
Finally ready to photograph. I'm not happy and I think it shows in my facial experession. I'm already ripping my own work apart with critique. I can't cover the rats, it's not even etc.
What I would have done differently:
I would have liked to have maybe used rick-racking instead of crimping. It might have made it easier to create a heart shape instead of using rats. Rats are great on the katie head, on someone's hair? Something I don't feel overly comfortable.
Spent more time trying to get the two halves the same height. It's obvious in the photos that they aren't.
Try and smooth over the smaller hairs at the front.
I would have liked a more detailed design. Maybe even tear sheets, or even some photos on a phone that gave her inspiration, There were no annotation, no notes or anything. I didn't mind working with someone else's design though, I quite like the idea of doing this as sometimes it's more stressful designing a hairstyle than actually doing it. I did try and ask for what inspired the design so I could do some more research on it, but the answers I received were not the most detailed. I thought it was a good call using the different type of fine pins. They were slightly shorter so easier to use when pinning the plaits in place. I'm not at all happy with my final outcome. After hearing a comment from a fellow classmate who said they wouldn't have been happy if I had been the partner really put me in the dumps. The only positive I can find in this is that I'm actually reasonably quick at curling and this was a life saver as I was nearly out of time.
Here are the JPEGS of my finished look.
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