Technical File- Beach Hair

Beach hair and texture

Lottie 25/2/15

Diffuser Method

You will need:

Paddle brush

salt spray

mousse

a diffusier attatchment for your hair dier

Wash the hair or wet it down using the water spray.

Apply plenty mousse and salt spray through the mid lengths and ends of the hair and brush the hair with a paddle brush.

Blast the hair with a hair dryer so that it is not completely wet.

Use a diffuser attatched to the hairdryer to dry the hair.

Put the hair in the diffusier and hold it near the scalp. Make sure the roots are completely dry before you move on to drying the rest of the hair.

You can hold the diffuser quite close to he scalp and in one place as long as the heat from the hairdrier is not too hot.

If the hair is very thin or damaged you may need to use a lower heat setting on the hair drier but you should still be able to use a high power setting.

Curling Method

You will need:

heat defense product

pin tail comb

Curling tongs

Apply heat defense product to the hair and brush the hair with a paddle brush.

Section the hair so that you can work on the hair at the bottom of the head.

Use a curling tong to curl the hair, curling large sections at a time. Use the tong upside down and wrap the hair around it like you would if you were using a curling wand.The reason you need to use a tong rather than a wand is because the wand gets smaller towards the end of the barrell where as the tong is the same width along the whole barrell.

The only times you would curl the hair in smaller sections would be if the hair was very short or very thin.

When curling the sections of hair, stop curling at least an intch before the end of the section of hair.

This will make the curls look more natural when the style is completed.

Hold the tong in place for -12 seconds then remove the tong and leave the section to cool.

You can do the curls in whichever direction you choose, towards the face, away from the face or a combinatiobn of the two, whichever looks the best for he style you want to create.

When the hair has had time to completely cool use your fingers to break up the curls to create a more relaxed, natural looking style.

Then rub the ends that were not curled to create texture and to make it look more natural.

The photographs on the top row are from when I just curled the hair and the photographs on the bottom row are after I broke the curls up slightly to make the look softer and appear more natural.

Twist Method

You will need:

heat defence products

paddle brush

pintail comb

hair straighteners

Apply heat defence product to the hair, brush it through and blast it with a hairdrier to make sure the
product is dry.

Section the hair and start with the hair at the bottom of the head. Take two sections and twist both sections.

Then twist both the twisted sections around each other and hold them at the bottom.

Then straighten the twisted hair. If there is a lot of product on the hair then gently straighten the hair untill the product has evaporated and then press down with the straighteners more firmly.

Let the hair cool and repeat the method untill all of the hair is twisted and straightened.

When all of the hair is completely cooled, unravel the twists and use yur fingers to break the twists
up.

Then rub the ends of the hair with your fingers to give them texture.

When you have created any of the three looks you can use them as a base for different hairstyles. For example you can put plaits of a chignon into the hair.

The photographs below show before and after I used the twisting method.

The photograph on the left is before I twisted the hair and the other two photographs are after.

I did half of the head using the twisting method and half using the curling method which can be seen in the photographs above.


Evaluation
I enjoyed creating these looks as once I got used to the methods it was quite straight forward to style the rest of the hair in the same way. I found curling the easiest method and I like the look it created as the hair did not go frizzy where as with the diffuser it did go a bit frizzy. The twisting method was the hardest to get used to as holding the sections of hair for the twists was a bit awkward at first.

Technical File- Sleek Ponytail and French Pleat

Lottie 3^rd March 2016

Sleek Ponytail

You will need:

Salt spray

Hair dryer

Pin tail comb

Hair bungee

Paddle brush

Sectioning clips

Hairspray

Hair grips

Hair straighteners

Method:

Brush all of the hair back using a paddle brush and apply salt spray to the front of the hair at the hair line.

Use a hair drier with a nozzle attachment to dry the hair with the salt spray in using a paddle brush to brush the hair backwards.

Use a pin tail comb to section off the hair at the top of the head between the temples, bringing the section into a point. Clip this section out of the way.

Spray salt spray all over the rest of the hair and then use a denman brush to brush the hair into a ponytail, ask the model to tilt their head back as you do this so that the hair at the bottom of the ponytail stay tight to the scalp when the model puts their head upright.

Secure the ponytail using a hair bungee, place the first hook into the hair usually at the side or top works best, then wrap the bungee tightly around the hair and place the other grip in the hair. If you do not have a normal hair bungee you can use a hair band with two Kirby grips attached to it.

The take the sectioned off top section, comb in back over the ponytail and use another hair bungee around the ponytail so that the top section is now part of the ponytail.

Then take a small section from the ponytail, put hairspray in it, wrap it around the hair bungee to hide it and secure it with Kirby grips.

Then straighten the hair in the ponytail.

Without the quiff

Quiff:

If you want to you can put a quiff in the top section of hair instead of it being flat.

To do this backcomb the whole of the section of hair.

Then smooth the hair backwards and shape it into the shape you want the quiff to be.

Use a Kirby grip to hold it in place.

Then put then add the section into the ponytail following the same method as before.

With a quiff

Evaluation:

Completing the ponytail without the quiff went well as the only thing that took me a bit of time to get right was making sure the hair going into the ponytail was completely smooth and that there were no bumps. For the ponytail with a quiff it was a bit difficult to shape the hair evenly whilst still keeping the volume of the quiff. I think I could of backcombed the hair more to create more height in the quiff as mine was very low.

French Pleat

You will need:

Paddle brush

Pin tail comb

Kirby grips

Bun pins

Tongs or rollers

Mousse

Heat defence spray

Hairspray

Use either heated rollers or tongs to set the hair. Curl the hair at the sides of the head backwards, putting the rollers in or tonging the hair vertically and curl the hair on top of the head backwards by putting the rollers in or tonging the hair horizontally.

When the hair is completely cool and set then remove the rollers and gentle brush the curls out.

Section off the hair at the top of the head and square it off at the back.

Backcomb the section then twist the section and pin using a Kirby grips.

Backcomb the hair at the sides if you need to in order to add volume.

Brush the hair back and pin using grips just off centre. Put the grips vertically going up towards the top of the head, you can cross the grips over each other if you want to. Then put a grip in the top of the hair going downwards to keep all of the hair in place.

Then twist the hair up to create the pleat, secure it using bun pins to begin with but do not fully push them into the hair until you get the shape you want so you can remove them easily if you need to. Use bun pins because they are easier to remove from the hair than kirby grips so you will not ruin the hairstyle.

When you are happy with the shape, push the bun pins fully into the hair and use Kirby grips to completely secure the hair.

Finish with hairspray.

Alternately you can have the top section out of the pleat. Therefore complete the pleat how you would do normally just skip the steps where you twist the top section. After you have completed the pleat style the top section. You can backcomb it, curl it, twist it or style it however you choose to create different looks.

The photographs above show how you would complete the pleat if you were not incorporating the top section into it.

I used mouse and heat defence spray on the top section of hair before curling it with tongs to help the curls keep a strong structure and stay in place. I then positioned them how I wanted before using hairspray to keep them in place. In the second look I changed the curls position and softened some of them by using by fingers to break them up a bit just to create a slightly softer look.

 Evaluation:
At first I found creating the pleat shape without it being uneven quite difficult as I wasn't twisting the hair correctly. However I found this easier after taking the pleat out and trying again a couple more times. Also I found that the hair stayed in place a lot better when the grips in the pleat were crossed over each other. When I curled the top section of hair the curls stayed in place quite well because I prepared the hair with product but next time I would use small pins to attach the curls to the rest of the hair so they stayed in exactly the right place.

Photography lesson 3

Photography Simon 29^th February 2016 whiteout background and gels

Whiteout- the background is completely white with no changes in tone or shadows.

There are two different flash heads that are usually used in the studio which are the 1000DX light and the 500DX light.

The 1000 gives out more light and is good for bounce lighting or when using a soft box, however it is heavier than the 500.

The 500 is less powerful but is lighter than the 1000.

When using a softbox attach the flash head to the softbox before putting the flash head on the stand. 

The 1000 is the best flash head to use with a soft box especially if the soft box is big, in which case you will also need to use a larger stand.

Always use a light metre to create a whiteout making sure the flash setting is on C and the ISO is 100. For whiteout you want the aperture to be F8.

To create whiteout you will need a softbox light which will be the key light and two smaller lights with spill kill attachments on them.

Set up the softbox light as you normally would, pointing towards the backdrop and towards the model. Have the other two lights, one either side of the model but slightly behind the model and pointing at the backdrop, these two lights can be 500 instead of 1000.To check the angle is right make sure that the model cannot see the silver inside of the two smaller lights from where they are sitting so that you know there will be no spill on them. If they can see if the either change the angle of the lights or ask the model to move forward.

If the aperture on the camera is 8 then you need to put the other two lights one level higher which is 11. If you are shooting at 5.6 one level brighter is 8.

The cell button on the camera needs to be on for both of the two smaller lights so that they flash at the same time as the key light.

Make sure the two smaller lights are not too close to the background so that the background is lit evenly. As a last resort if the model is still getting lit from the two lights than put foam boards between them and the light.

 During our lesson we worked in groups to take the following photographs:

In the photographs above we tried to create a completely white background. In some of the photographs there re areas of grey so we moved the lights to try and stop this happening.

 Gels and gradients

In the photographs above we used blue and red gels and tried to achieve different amounts and shades of the different colours. We also tried them against different background colours. When using gels a good background to use is grey as you can use any gel on it. As the power of the light increases the colour of the light from the gel is paler. If you want the background to be evenly one colour then move the light with the gel on further away from the background. If you want there to be a hotspot of colour then move the gel light closer to the background. The gels can be attached using bulldog clips. Press the spill kill attachment into the back of the gel holder and open the barn doors of the attachment.