Week 5 Reflection - HNC

After the half term, we returned to college about to get a head start on setting some wigs that we will be dressing and using for assignments next term. I decided to start with a regency/romantic era style wigs from the early 1800's. Thankfully due to my consistent practice working on wigs at home, this was a breeze to me and I thankfully got a full look completed before the unit was officially delivered.

I started out by firstly looking at the step by step images from the book at college. Firstly pinning the wig to the block, before parting the hair down the centre and pinning a square at the top of the head using galloon. Following this, I then set the rest of the head in rollers in a inline formation from the front hairline to the crown of the head followed by others in a brick formation - I did not need to be so precise as the hair woudl later be pulled up into a bun.

After letting this all set in the wig oven, I then took out all the rollers out and started to dress the hair. I used a wooden dowel to coil the quintessential regency curls at the front of the face, curling towards the face.

Now moving to the back of the head I wanted to see how the ponytail bun was done, hence I headed back to the step by step book and looked at how it was done. All of the curls at the back were combed out before then being pulled into a ponytail and tied up mid height on the back of the head. Due to this wig being well worn, there were patches in the wig where the foundation of the wig had given out. To combat this, I made sure to try and leave certain areas more slack before then laying the looser hair over the thinner areas of the foundation. After this I then took sections of the ponytail and then curled it around my finger before then pinning it down and spreading out the coiled up hair to make a section of the bun - repeating this until a full bun was completed.

After this as I had time I decided to mainly focus on doing a simple makeup application of a regency style (taking inspiration from the original book used throughout this whole styling and dressing process). I mainly focused on simple eye makeup with minimal product, a little blush and a red lip. I then completed the look with a period accurate lemon dress and a pearl necklace.