Up-Style and Plaits

In this lesson we were able to either go over some style we were not comfotable with eg blowdry, curly blowdry or hot rollers or else move on. I am pretty confident with what we've learnt in the first term therefore I chose to move on. Kanika told me to try out an Up-Syle and incorporate some sort of plait.

< I found this look and I loved it. Therefore I wanted to do something of this sort with the 3 plaits and then Include an upstyle.

I started off by washing my dolly's hair. I then blowdried it fairly straight in a quick way using larg sections and a paddle brush. Once I did that, I started to plait. My class mate Rosa showed me how to create a cornrow plait. I then tried it out muself on my doll. I think they turned out quite good for a first try. I love plaits however I had never done this type of plait before and I found it quite hard.

After I secured the plaits, I backcombed the front left of her hair to give it some volume followed by brushing it all back straight. I then played along and tried to create some sort of Up-Style without knowing where it was going. I came up with this style shown below.

Overall I am pretty pleased with the way it turned out. I am not used to doing Up-Styles at all and I find them quite hard to keep them neat and tight, however I tried my best. I dont like the way that she still has some hairs sticking out as it makes it look messy and that wasn't the look I was going for.

More Plaits

In our next lesson we were able to create a fashion style with plaits. Since i'm not really good with plaits I decided to go for quite a simple look as I wanted it to look more professional.

I washed and Blowdried my Dolly's hair to give it a clean look. I the parted her hair and used some wax to keep all the fly aways down. I put each equal side up in pig tails. I then wrapped up a small part of her hair around the pig tail to cover the hair band. I also parted each pig tail into two. I braided one of them on each sides into a fish tail plait which took quite a while as it was my first time learning it and I was taking very small sections to great a tight look. Once I finished and secured it, I took the other section and parted it into two, I then used the fishtail plait as the final third section and I braided all three. I am happy with the turn out look as I feel like I managed to make it look neat and professional whilst fashionable. I've seen this similar look on the run way and it caught my eye. However, Next lesson I would definitely like to experiment more and create a more challenging fashionable runway look.

Sources accessed on 14/01/16

https://www.pinterest.com/JessicaMaryx13/prom/