Swapping Designs
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This would be the first time that we had to swap our designs. Before I gave Sophia my design, I asked her how comfortable she was with plaits. She answered honestly and said that she wasn't that confident but she'd try her best. This made it easy to pick what design I was going to give her as I wasn't completely sure what design I was going to use.
On my hair chart, I had noticed very different working styles. I may not be the best person in the world at drawing hair but I had made up for this with annotations of my design. Just to be clear as to what I wanted. Comparing our designs? It meant I was going to have to ask a whole lot of questions to find out what she wanted.
I was quite excited to see how well she'd do my design justice. I suggested that the best crimper would be the larger plated ones. It would save time and I personally prefer the look of the bigger crimper. My hair is quite thick, but most of my layers have grown out. So I thought this would make it easier to put it up into the rats.
I became aware that timing might be an issue for Sophia. The top half of my hair needed to be crimped and the underneath needed to be rick-racked. Both of these are fairly time consuming. Unfortunately Sophia had missed the lessons on how to do this technique, so I was trying to explain it to her from the chair. Luckily, Lottie swooped in and helped out.
I also had to explain how to use a rat/prop because she also had missed this technical. It's hard to explain this without showing it to someone, so I did my best. Placement of the rats were off. Which meant my design didn't look right. Instead of them being sat on my crown they were placed almost behind my ears. The back didn't look great either. So there was a lot of work to be done.
I wanted the bottom later to have curls at the bottom of the rick-racking. We tried this and it didn't work. So I decided to scratch this out of my design. I had also decided that the two tendrils that I left out at the front were to be curled.
I think that Sophia will need to practice lots. It'll become easier the more she does it I had to bear in mind that it was the first time that she had used new techniques and that it could quite a scary venture trying out someone's design. I just think she needs to become more confident in what she's doing and she'll nail it.
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