In my most recent hair session with Helen, she demonstrated how to recreate a late Victorian hairstyle commonly worn by Victorian women. I really enjoyed this session and felt the sideshow Helen had shown us was also really informative and helpful. I had already done some independent research before hand this session, looking at men and women's hairstyles and grooming habits but this session was more particular with historical dates and influences that changed Victorian hair etc the world war. After Helen guided us through the powerpoint and gave us further information we could explore further, we began to learn how to create the Late Victorian hairstyle.
Helen began by brushing out the hair and then creating three clean partings, (one middle parting separating the front section of the hair and then one section at the back which held the most hair).
After parting the hair she began to create some curls in the front section were we made the centre parting, we used hot rollers this session which were pre-heating whilst we were watching the demo.Gradually taking small sections of the hair from the front parting, we rolled the hair in the hot rollers, I ended up having to put at least 4 rollers in the hair on both sides on the front section. After we had applied all the rollers to the front section of the hair (facing away from the face), I began to start forming the back of the hair. Taking the back section I had created at the beginning, I parted it once again creating two more sections, this makes the hair look as if it is in a half up half down style. Making sure to keep the middle section of the back in a ponytail, I began to curl all the ponytail hair and loose back section of hair. Once I completed curling all of the hair, I began to undo the front curls from the rollers. After the hair was free at the front, I lightly brushed out the curls and then began to bobby pin the front curls so that they formed into the curled ponytail of hair at the back of the head. I styled this carefully making sure the hair looked soft and neat. Completing the rest of this look was quite easy as I just began to form the hair making it look elegant and pretty and making sure the curls I had created fell nicely. I feel that the only thing I struggled with when creating this hairstyle was parting the hair as precisely and neatly as I wanted to. Working on a models hair instead of a dolls head is very different and I feel that my partings are cleaner when I am working on a real models hair.
I really enjoyed this session and found that my attempt was successful and was better than I expected it to be. Although, I am disappointed that I can't practice or use this hairstyle more as my Gothic Horror character is male, I still found the session really interesting and it showed me how much effort and time Victorian Men and Women dedicated to looking groomed and smart.
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