technical session: 1950's Fashion Hair

During this session we looked at creating fashion hair with a historical twist. I looked at using the 1950's as a reference era. 

Product List:

Heated Rollers
Clips and Pins for Rollers
Sectioning clips
Paddle Brush 
Pin Tail Comb
Hairspray
Pins

After choosing the 1950's as my era I began by brushing my Kate dolls hair through to take out any tangles of knots that were there. Once I had completed this I sectioned the front of the hair off and applied blue and red rollers across the front of the face. Where the blue roller meets the red roller is where I created an exaggerated parting across the head. I placed the red roller going in the different direction as I need I wanted to had to go backwards here and be clipped into place. 
Once the blue and red rollers where in place I did a typical brick work down the back of the head using the smaller, white and yellow rollers as I wanted to create curls that would stay not just volume like the blue and red ones create. I left this too cool for about 20 minutes and then took the heated rollers out, Starting with the ones I firstly placed in. 

I removed the rollers from the practice head and using my fingers slightly brushed them out to loosen the curls, I didn't want to brush as I still wanted to keep the curls in place. As this was a modern interpretation of a 50's look and something that I wanted to have a fashion twist on it, I created a style with a very big fringe and pulled this down in front of the face. I then went on to pull all the hair at the back and back comb this section ever so slightly. My inspiration for this look came from a Marilyn Monroe type of look, with the small amount of back combing I feel like it takes some inspiration from the 60's too. I sprayed the look with hairspray to finish. 

Overall I am very happy with this look and the more I look at it the more I want to recreate it for my editorial look, I think it would look lovely with a suit jacket and a beautiful clean skin make-up. I think the one issue that I feel like needs work is my roller work, I am never 100 percent happy with the turn out. I feel like this is something I will only be good at is if I practice even more.