A Few Styles

My friends are going to get sick of me in class! I hound them every Saturday to let me do their hair!

The lovely Kelsey....

We Have a Winner!!

So I finally figured out what I'm going to do for my school's Salon Fair.  As I said in my last post, my model Mollie's hair was less than accepting of curl.  I originally wanted to do a full fingerwave look on her, but every time I tried the product would either not hold, or the style would flop from the weight of whatever lotion I used.

Then I tried a fingerwave in the front, pincurl in the back look.  Same result, and it just looked disconnected with the fingerwaves not brushed out.

As a last effort, I pincurled her bangs to create a pomp-curl look, and used white perm rods to wrap the rest of her hair in a rectangle wrap.  I stuck her under the dryer for 45 minutes (she was not pleased! She cannot sit still!) and low and behold, it worked!  I just used water for the perm rod wrapped hair and used a little setting lotion for the pincurls.

After brushing it out, she got kind of an ice cream sunday look to her bangs, and I poofed out the rest of the curls to give it a "gothic lolita" doll-ish look.  That's what we decided to go with. 

For the final look, we're going to make everything bolder and give her some nice fake eyelashes for her upper and lower lids, to really make her eyes pop.

All together, I'm extremely pleased and I can't wait to get the entire look put together next Wednesday!!! I'll post pictures!

Fingerwave Test

So I've been testing hairstyles on my model for a salon fair I've entered at school for a few weeks now.  I want to give her fingerwaves and some major poof in the back of her hair for a fantasy look but I've had no end of trouble with her hair.  It's super fine and bleached white/blonde, so it resists curl like there's no tomorrow.  I've been trying different waving lotions to use with her hair and so far, almost everything I've used either doesn't have enough hold or has enough hold but is too heavy for her hair, so when I brush it out, the waves just go limp.

I'm planning on letting the front stay unbrushed for the most part, to keep the dramatic wave, but I may end up having to scrap the idea and figure something else out if it doesn't work on our next test...

I was pretty lazy with the pincurls in the back, so I know I have to make those smaller, tighter and more uniform to get the volume I want for the end result.

I didn't get a picture of the end result, because it flopped after I brushed it out.  Hopefully next time will be a success!



~In other news..~

I got the best candle on the planet!

I'm in heaven <3

Success!

A few weeks ago in class, a friend of mine let me try out some finger waves in her hair.  It was pretty exciting because I'd only ever done them on mannequines and never on a live person.  I was extremely pleased with how they turned out!  Her hair was the perfect texture; the only problem was finding a product that would hold the wave.  I ended up using Hardwear by Redken and for the most part it worked really well.  It held great and her hair dried very fast under the hooded dryer.  The only downside was how flaky it got after combing the waves out, so I finished off the style with some oil spray from Design Essentials.  I pincurled the hair that was left past the waves and I love the stacked look it gave due to how her hair was cut.  All in all I think it was a success! 

 She also let me do her makeup which was an ordeal in itself.  She wanted the classic cat eye look to go with her hair and it ended up taking me about 3 tries for her left eye and probably 4 or 5 for her right.  I have the worst time matching the lines on both eyes.  I used a pen tip liquid eyeliner and I just couldn't get the wings to match or the thickness of the line on her eyelids to look right.  I finally got it though and finished her off with some shimmery white eyeshadow, some cheek color and my favorite cherry red lip gloss!

Thank you Gina for being a trooper!