Hair!

This past three weeks I learned a lot about styling hair.  And I must say, it feels really good to be able to do both hair and make-up.

First we had to work on doll heads, which was fun.  I'm glad we got to practice on those first.  If we didn't, we probably would have burned each other's faces off with Marcel curling irons.  For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you're not missing out on much.  Marcel irons are like regular curling irons, except there is no spring in them.  So instead of pushing down on the handle prong, you pull it up.  It's really difficult (and therefore dangerous), and I don't think it proves much different than a spring-loaded curling iron.  However, we had to use them.

I won't put my photos in order of when I did them, but rather in the order of period that the hairstyles come from.

1920's: Finger Waves

Here is where we left them outside to dry.

1940's: Victory Rolls

1940's Up-Do

You may have seen something similar on  Lucille Ball.

1960's: Beehive and Bouffant

This is what my partner and I did for our final project.

1970's: Afro

Even though afros were around way before the 70's, they were really popular in America in the 70's. 

First I wrapped sections of hair in a figure-8 around hair pins.

Then I flat ironed those pieces and took out the hair pins.

 Then I brushed it out.

She crimped my hair.  We were really excited, since it was my first time being crimped and her first time being afro-ed.

Lots of girls in my class got afros.

Present: Wedding Party

Left is the bride, middle is the bridesmaid, and right is the mother.

Present: Half Up

Braids

We spent an entire day doing braids.  

Since I already knew how to braid, I got to move on to fancy braids.

Future?

This was our runway project.

Now that I know how to do hair and make-up, and how to bring the two together, I'm ready for my next class: Portfolio.  In this class we get to make professional photos for our portfolio.  We get a real model and photographer.  Can't wait!

Last of Beauty 101

My first class if finally finished!  We learned a lot, and we had fun, but I'm ready to move on.  

These are the other things that we did in class that I thought were blog-worthy.

This day we picked the looks that we wanted done on ourselves.  Kelsey, my partner wanted a smokey eye, which I really needed practice at.

The next assignment, Brides, gave me more practice at smokey eye.  I think I've finally mastered it.  For this assignment, we also had a say on what was done to us.  We made up an imaginary wedding, and had our make-up artist bring our dreams to life (on our face).

On this day, we did make-up for black and white print/film.  I made my model 1930's, and my make-up artist was inspired by Audrey Hepburn. 

These next couple of looks were film/character assignments.  Here is a musician, a Twilight vampire, and Snow White.  Guess which is which.

Now I'm in Beauty 201, which is a hair class.  We're working on doll heads with real human hair for the first couple of days.  Then we can work on each other.  Here is a photo of my first blow dry with a barrel  hairbrush.  Doesn't she look like Jackie Kennedy? (Actually, she kind of looks like Brenda from Six Feet Under.)

Stay tuned for some more awesome hairstyles!