Styling the modern version

Styling the modern version of the 80's look was much easier. It was easier because after being washed the hair was less rebel and easier to style.
My inspiration for the hairstyle were some images that I have seen on internet:

So after finding my inspiration, I started to style my wig, creating my own design:

Very pleased with the result, but I also thought that it doesn't show the Punk spirit as much as I wanted, because the sides are not slicked. This is the reason why I though that the middle part has to be higher up to give more an idea of a punk style. 

To create this look I Backcombed the middle part off the head, leaving the sides to cover the wig base and the backcombed part or the hair. After I finished with the middle section, I started to take small sections of each side and gently bringing them towards the centre and pun them carefully under the backcombed sections that I curled and pinned. I left some ends of the side sections to create this fluffy centre. On the actual day of the assessment I added some hairpieces to make the centre part higher in order to make it reflect more the style.

Inspiration for the historical hairstyle

      Punk hairstyle is a way of showing the rebel soul that is hiding inside of lots of people. This  is a way to show yourself. Why did I choose this decade?
  Well,  hairstyle and hair colour is a way to express myself as well. There is a Russian saying that says: "When a woman wants to change something in her life, she always starts with her hair." This is a saying that mirrors myself. I have always changed colours of my hair and had also different haircuts and as it's known every colour and every type of haircut says something about the person, the way someone feels. This is another language, a non-verbal one.
    I think that this style reflects exactly my personality: at first sight I am a silent, shy person but with a strong character that not everyone discovers.
    I was looking also at different pictures that shows Modern punk hairstyles and I realised that there are a lot of times when unconsciously I style my hair in a kind of Modern twist of the Punk style:

Even the hairstyle created last year for the Elizabethan project in my point of view has a Punk twist in it. Braided sides create the illusion of slick sides and the high padding in the middle of the hair gives the idea of that hight that is characteristic to the punk hairstyles:

Similar hairstyles to it:

              

 

Fashion designers inspired by the 80's Punk hairstyles

“It is surprising, the longevity and the power of that clothing and the haircut. It hasn’t died yet.”

Vivienne Westwood Punk revolutionised the trend in the 70s and 80s by making it mainstream blackberries and still continues to create outlandish garments That are unique. Throughout her Both men's and woman's range, Westwood still features strongly in her punk fashion designs.Menswear in particular shows strong influences from the punk era. Today’s collections feature trousers with chequered prints and a skin-tight fit, tops with graffiti style prints. Skulls, lips and button up Fred Perry polo shirts and coats feature the familiar check print as well as duffel coats complete with badges and pins.

The famous couturier, Karl Lagerfeld has launched a capsule collection that is directly inspired by the style of the original punk rockers.

While the real-life punks loitering in Tompkins Square Park might scowl and toss expletives at the idea of their subculture on display, no one can deny that the visuals of fringe culture have become powerful symbol — which is exactly why it’s catnip for designers. But while the exhibit cribs from punk’s style, curator Andrew Bolton admits that it’s a surface-only look at the movement: “Rather than looking at punk as an attitude, [the exhibit] looks at punk as an esthetic,” Bolton said at a press event.

Gareth Pugh started his fashion career early on, working as a costume designer for the English National Youth Theatre before achieving his fashion degree at Central Saint Martins in 2003. Through features with Dazed & Confused magazine and word of mouth, Pugh debuted his first collection during London’s Fall 2006 fashion week. Drawing comparisons to Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, Pugh employs his unique aesthetic, exploring different shapes and volumes with materials like mink, parachute silk and synthetic hair.

Reference:

PUNK! Influence on fashion today - Peter Mack, London - StylehunterMAN.com StylehunterMAN.com. 2015. PUNK! Influence on fashion today - Peter Mack, London - StylehunterMAN.com StylehunterMAN.com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://stylehunterman.com/punk-influence-on-fashion-today/.

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Decade chosen

The chosen by me decade is: 80'S PUNK !!!

The punk subculture was born near the mid-70s and was greatly expanded in the 80s. It was a subculture reactionary against the values ​​of society, with tendencies as liberalism and was a fashion anti-fashion, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-military, and anarchist-vegetarian. The punk tends to impress with abundant tattoos and a dramatic use of clothing, jewellery and hairstyles bizarre. One of the most popular was the hair completely shaved the neck and sides of the head and a strip of long hair on the top of the head, as style Mohawk. The English footballer David Beckham has used this style for a long time. During the 1980s skinheads -in top of their birth -, they were under the influence of punk hairstyle. After 1980 all these haircuts have become popular, freeing the original power of their social and political messages, and converted to simple hairstyles used by anyone, no matter what ideology they had.

There were dark times and the punk army invaded the realm of the perfect hairstyle. Punks wore proud regrowth, happy to create clutter that distinguished them from the dullness and boredom. Just to bother the Mavericks, the didn't even wait for the regrowth : dyed their hair until 2 cm from the skin and, like magic, the regrowth was already there. Punks showed regrowth mighty proud that supported with their strength ridges that towered to the sky. 

How to set an acrylic wig using rollers and steam.

    I would never thought that setting an acrylic wig is going to be that hard. A lot of patience is required!!!
  With acrylic fibres, care has to be taken not to damage them with heated, electric styling tools. This is why steam is used to style them. This is the only way you can style the wig in the way you want but still keeping their structure.
    In my case I needed to style the wig in 80's Punk style, so I used rollers to fix the direction I want the hair to be and then steamed it. In this way, the direction that the hair will have already will help me to create the desired look:

This is the way I have divided the hair  in sections: The middle part for which I used small rollers directed backwards and then the sides for which I used bidder rollers and directed them towards the middle (towards the yellow rollers)

After I have applied all the rollers I steamed the hair. Make sure you steam it very well, go round for at least couple of times. Leave to cool down (dry) before you start styling it.

Putting on a lace fronted wig

     A lace fronted wig is usually more fragile and more gentle than a normal acrylic wig. This is the reason why we need to be much more careful when applying them. The principle of applying the front lace wigs is still the same as for the acrylic wigs, the only difference when applying them is that after you applied the wig you need to make disappear the lace from the front.

Tools:

• Hair brush
• Tail comb
• Kirby pins
• A wig cap
• The wig 
• spirit gum
• Sponge

How to:

• If the model has medium or long hair, you can either take small square sequences of hair and twist them around the 2 fingers and then pin the with kirby pins making an X shape, or you can make a french plait . It is important that you gather all the hair, especially at the edges.
• Then put the wig cap on the head. Make sure you leave the ears and outside the cap
• With the tail comb try to put under the cap all the hairpieces you have left outside.
• Try also to arrange the cap in a way that the edger are still a bit seen, because you don't want it to be seen under the actual wig.

After that by using the spirit gum, apply gently on the edges of the lace in order to stick (block) the lace on the skin. In this way it becomes invisible. It depends also what kind of lace has that wig, its colour and thickness. If the lace wig is used for films then you'll have to cut the lace really close to the hairline.

With the sponge you take of and blend the excess of the glue.

Introduction to the unit

    In this unit we are going to learn how to behave, stile and even how to knot different types of wigs.
In Fashion, Film and Theatre industry wigs are very often used to change the look of a certain character, to create something different, or a certain image that is required. Very often, a performer has to change his/her appearance more time during the same performance or catwalk, and wigs and postiche make it possible!
    We have to choose a decade from the last 100 years, research it and find out what social and cultural aspects influenced on how people wore their hair at the time. 
   This project is divided in two parts: for the first part, we need to create a historical hairstyle on synthetic wigs. We also need to explain  why have we chosen to style in that certain decade.
The second part of the project is to create a modern, fashion hairstyle based on the decade we have chosen.
    I am very excited to learn as much as possible about hair, styling and improve my skills. Giving us the opportunity to create a modern and fashion hairstyle allows us to free our rebel souls and express ourselves through our creativity.

40's Hairstyles

The 1940’s retro hairstyles are glamorous and womanly, reminiscent of war brides looking their most beautiful to welcome home husbands from the war.  Hair in the 1940’s was done in the most elaborate ways. Here is an eample of a 40's hairstyle, including the step by step

Products:

• Wig
• Paddle brush
• Tail comb
• Hairspray
• Hot rollers
• Curling tongs
• Kirby pins

How to:

• After you fixed the wig on the block, brush the hair gently.
• Section the hair as if it was from ear to ear
•  Pin the back hair that you have sectioned, so that it ease your work with the front section.
• When the hot rollers are hot enough apply the on the front section directing as you want to keep the parting (preferably close to the middle). The parts next to the ears has to be directed backwards.
• Using the curling tongs, curl the hair at the back (Brick work). Use thick tongs, in order to create more kind of waves than small curls.
• When the front cool down, the rollers,
• Brush through them gently and fallowing the hair with your hands, so that you can keep te structure.
• By rolling them around your fingers, create the rolls and style them in the front.
• Pin them with the Kirby pins as you would pin a Bun
• Brush the back side but still keeping the structure.

Fashionable post-war hairstyles are back!!!

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Throw plates straightening products, hair fashion wants sinuous waves and voluminous curls to show off at the shoulders. For the new season back in fact the retro look typical of the '50s, those in the golden years of Hollywood divas and unattainable as Rita Heyworth, Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe.
Take back your curlers because to simulate a perfect hairstyle pin-up do not accept shortcuts, such as curling irons and brushes thermal, but you should aim for a preparation old style, just like our grandmothers did.
And it is her grandmother who was inspired by the 25 year-old English Laura Hollowell, who wanted to keep alive the tradition of Victory Rolls, the two big curls stopped firmly against the top of the head and separated by a central parting, typical of the post-war period.
For Hollowell, the true originality lies in its redo the hairstyle with the meager means of the past, like brush, curlers, beaks goose and strips of cloth, definitively banishing all those modern tools that could achieve the same result in a few minutes thanks to electricity.
But Laura for the authenticity of creation is part of the thrill and especially the end result, "If you do a curl pin up the old way you feel even more part of that world," said the girl, despite the singularity of the company isHe managed to create quite a following among young experimenters ladies and nostalgic beauty Agee.
The incredible success of his technique led Hollowell to use as a shed outside his home, where daily hordes of clients undergoing treatment for hours at nearly 70 years old.
What you would not do to look like a diva!

Reference:

THEHISTORYOFTHEHAIRSWORLD.COM

I CAPELLI NEL XX SECOLO

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The trend of really short hair

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  The double-edged hair is the trend that all they want and it is characterized by shaving the hair on one side, on both, or at the bottom of the neck. This hairlook conquered hordes of fans, becoming the most popular in beauty salons worldwide. But who is right this particular cut? Before grabbing the machine take a look here:

Delicate features
The razor cut laterally highlights those features that are normally hidden by a medium-long hair, such as the neck, chin, the shape of the face, ears and nose, so this cut is perfect for those with delicate features or very regular, and for those who is not afraid to explore certain parts of the body, such as ears or jaw a little 'pronounced.

Face particular
The double-edged haircut, however, should not be absolute prerogative of those who have a perfect face, but it can give character to the special features, thanks to the volumes produced by the play of colors and shades that will often match. If you wear your hair casually tied, a razor cut will not make much difference, indeed, maybe able to emphasize those qualities (almond-shaped eyes, prominent cheekbones) with a classic cut that go unnoticed.  

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Strong personality
"This type of cut you must know how to bring!" say the hairdressers, and not wrong, as even the character does its part: it is a perfect look for someone who has a strong personality, a soul extroverted, vaguely arty, or a spirit rock.

Reference:
http://www.pianetadonna.it/bellezza/capelli/

MAGAZINEDELLEDONNE.IT

Capelli corti: i tagli dell'estate 2015

In-text: (Magazinedelledonne.it, 2015)

Bibliografia: Magazinedelledonne.it, (2015). Capelli corti: i tagli dell'estate 2015. [online] Available at: http://magazinedelledonne.it/capelli/content/2000784-capelli-corti-i-tagli-dell-estate-2015

The 60's hairstyles in our modern world

We know that the '60s are still a reference point for all fans of fashion, from real professionals to amateurs, so it's no surprise that the trend of the legendary sixties return periodically in vogue. And 'the case this time of the hairstyles that have returned strongly on the catwalks and you begin to see even on the street.
A new trend is shaking England and America from north to south and you are literally forcing, it is the BEEHIVE!

The star chose a new way to try to get noticed: enough with drugs and alcohol or shabbily dressed, the real distinction is made by the hair! Precisely for this reason it seems to be resurfaced a hairstyle that looked almost gone and that in any case it is very difficult to bring the legendary beehive or flavor 60s!

As the name suggests it is a really impressive hairdo. The hair is in fact buds and pulled upwards, creating a form quite similar to that of an onion. Typically for a touch of grace to the beehive it may help you or a saucy bangs or a small tape, maybe with glitter, to be worn as a headband!

Among the stars who stood out because of this hairstyle the most recent being the cheerful Cheryl Cole, but the beehive is much more prevalent than you might think among young divas. Previously already Scarlett Johansson had raised with elegance and is certainly among the hairstyles favorite Kelly Osbourne who loves the look sixties. Even the super star Angelina Jolie has lagged behind and has opted too for the legendary beehive hairdo!