Experimentation Extreme

I wanted to experiment with the hair pastels, hair lace and lace roses. How this would work and the effectiveness of the product and technique to be used on shoot day.

I chose the colour bluey/green to use within this design as considering the colour of my wig (very dark brown) i didn't want the colours to clash, originally i had pictured pink but i feel that this colour with the wig colour would have looked tacky and i wanted the style to look elegant. I further feel pink is too obvious a colour associated with females and femininity i wanted to portray that aspect through other elements such as the hair lace and roses. I have looked at colours on my Pintrest board below for colour inspiration.

Johns, M. (no date b) Pintrest. Available at: http://uk.pinterest.com/milliejohns/pin-up/ (Accessed: 2 December 2014).

My original idea what to use the hair lace for the roses after experimenting with the hair lace and manipulating it into a rose shape i felt that the shape was quite high and messy. I fell that underneath the layer of hair lace over the structure it will make the overall structure look messy and not clear. I then  just experimented with the pastel hair pin curling straight this worked a lot better! I feel this will look more effective underneath the hair lace and was a much easier way to secure into the rolls.

 To create the pin curl roses i will pre make them rolling the hair and sewing it tightly then sewing a thin much smaller pin that pictures on to the rose shape. This will then be very easy to pin into the rolls after covering them with my models own hair.

The colour of the pin curl roses i further wanted to explore previous to exploring the texture of the hair lace as roses i had pre dyed the hair as i was planning on incorporating the colours together to add depth. As the hair rose are using straight hair i didn't want the colours to look separate to i looked at mixing the colours i like this effect, i will make a mixture of mixed pin curls using green and blue and singular pin curls using only blue. 

I further created my hair lace covering, after dying the hair i back combed in sections then manipulated the hair to sit exactly how i wanted it after hair spraying throughly i ironed the hair (extensions are real human hair) I love the effect of this, i love the fading out of the colour through the shape although i had planned to clip the end of the strip at the back of the last roll i feel the shape of the hair lace works best on the side. I will talk to Lottie tomorrow to figure out how i could secure this hiding the strip and allowing the cover to sit on top of the structure while leaving a gap.

I have further decided that i will also pre make the rolls sewing extensions onto a prop and creating a pin curl shape at each end to cover the prop. I will then use the models hair to blend in.