Practising Hair design

I wanted to practise my hair design so I could figure out the steps I need to do for the timed assessment. 

As I am doing a male character, my model's hair is a lot shorter than Katie's so I sectioned off the hair from the crown downwards and tied it into a ponytail so that I could focus on the shorter sections of her hair. I then did a deep side part on her head and curled the hair in small sections - curling the hair underneath. Initially I did use a slightly thicker curling iron than I should have, which meant that although the hair did have a lot of lift, there wasn't much curl in the ends. As a result of this I changed to a much thinner curling iron, which will be the perfect size for my model's hair as it is so short, it did mean that I had to do more sections as the tong couldn't hold as much hair. This will be the first step that I will do in the timed assessment so that the hair can have time to set into place. 

After the hair was set I took the curls down, combing through the sections to mess up the hair slightly. Then in order to maintain the slick parting that was typical of Victorian men, I sprayed hairspray onto the parting and combed it through to make sure that it stayed in place. Making sure that I get the parting in exactly the same place each time I do the look will be the important element of continuity, so I will use my model's facial markers and natural parting to help. 

When Helen was checking, she did say that I was pulling the hair sections away from the hair slightly rather than holding it parallel with the face as I was curling. I need to make sure that I don't do this during the assessment as it will cause a line in the hair. Furthermore I did go slightly overboard with the amount of hairspray that I put on the hair, so I just need to make sure that I don't suffocate my model during the assessment.