Final review

    "Wig Work and Postiche" is the unit that I definitely enjoyed during this term. I feel that I have improved my skills in working with hair and even more, I have learned new abilities that have helped me to enlarge my horizons in this sphere.
    I have always had the passion for hair and make-up and the desire to learn as much as possible especially on the hair has started since I was a child. Now, every time I go to beauty salon, I am very attentive to every movement that the "master" does; I try to learn everything, that is possible and even impossible. I am literally in love with my own hair and this is where the infinite passion for it comes from. My passion was the thing that made me choose this option, and I can honestly confirm that I haven't regretted it, not even for a second.
    Yes, I have encountered difficulties on this path, but not everything can be perfect. The difficulties were mostly when it came time to work with the acrylic wig. It got to a point where I thought I can not do it and instead, although the result was just right, I managed to create the look I wanted.
     Overall, I happy and thankful for the new skill and the new amount of information that I have received on this unit. Now I feel even more confident in working with hair and the most important things I have learned how to take care of different types of hair, how to apply different types of wigs, how to use different appliances and how to behave with hair in different situations for different looks

Final look (Assessment)- contemporary version

        

 

       

 

    The final look that I have created for a contemporary version of the 80's Punk hairstyles, I found to be to be a lot easier to recreate than the historical look.  I am actually happy with the result, even though I wanted the hair in the centre to be even higher up. It was really hard to make it stay high because the hair was soft and even if it was backcombed really gently though, it wasn't rigid enough to make it stay in the right position. I tried to maintain the light curls and not to make it too messy. The structure of the hair was actually important for my design.  Also the centre part was a hairpiece that I have added to give it more the idea of punk hairstyle. Although I could've made some changes, overall I was happy with the way it looks: the detail of the side of the head is intricate and interesting and turned up how I intended it to.
    In the end, I am glad that I have learned how to work with acrylic hair, how to style an acrylic wig and also how to put an acrylic wig on. Unfortunately the wig was quite small and hard to put it on in order to hide the natural hair, but the result is better that what i have expected.

Historical hairstyle (Assessment)

    The styling of the acrylic wig in a historical way seemed very difficult to me. It is very hard to style an acrylic wig, especially when it already is styled and the hair lines are very rigid. It is also hard to create slick sides and you have to hide the wig's base. Backcombing is also different than natural hair, it is more rebel and is hard to make it stay as you want. In this case the hairspray is not something that helps, you can only apply it when already styled. In my case, when I wanted to apply it to help me to fix the backcombing it only made it harder because it was wetting the hair and making it softer.
    I also used coloured hairspray to finalise the look, and to give it a more the idea of punk. They used to colour their hair with different colours, this was an aspect that made them be different from others, this is another thing that was/is characterising them:

The look is quite messy, and it is not exactly as I imagined it to be. I wanted the sides to be slicker and less messy. I actually wanted a very tidy look, but it was too hard to create it with an acrylic wig. Even though I think it looks good on the camera and reflects very well the decade chosen by me.