Design 3

Design 3

Hair: Fashion And Fantasy by Laurent Philippon Page 74-75
Photo- Barry Lategan/ Vogue
The Conde Nast Publications Ltd
Publication - Vogue UK July 1972

The photo on above is the picture which inspire me to complete my design 3. The reason I choose it is because I found it very unique as the idea of the hairstyle create contrasts within two different hair texture and after I've looked at this image, it makes me understand the idea of how to create a modern and stylish hairstyle which links to the Elizabethans and also how to make a hairstyle more creative and dramatic. The contemporary image that I've chosen links to 'The Armada Portrait' because the use of frizzy curly hair at the front. The plaits also links to the Elizabethans as plaiting is one of the hairstyles that they used at that time. On my design, I have inspired by the contemporary image that I've chosen on above by using the big frizzy curly hairstyle at the front, while it also inspired me to use two different hair texture, so on my design, I have made the hair at the back all crimped first and it will give patterns in the middle before I use French braid braiding around the head. The use of pearls pinning on the French braid around links to 'The Armada Portrait' as Elizabeth uses a lot of pearls to show purity and wealth.

 

Equipments:

• Sectioning clips
• Hair clips
• Hair pins
• U-shape hair pins
• Pearls pins
• A hair straightener
• A hair crimper 

On above, I have experimented the hairstyle on my practice head to see the look of my design and I like the frizzy curls effects at the front which was created by using U-shape hair pins while doing a zic zag curls, after that I have secured it with hair pins and use a hair straightener to crimp the hair. By adding the pearls around the French braid, it makes the whole look more elegant and interesting. I also like how the back of the head ( the crimping, the pearls and French braid) looks like a caul that upper class Elizabethan women wore. During the Elizabethan era, the caul was elaborately decorated with expensive jewels, the more the caul was decorated, the more wealthy the person who wore it and on my design I have used pearls to show wealth. I think the frizzy textures at the front looks good and I'm happy about the result that I've done on this design.