Curling

    Session two and it's curling! We learned how to curl hair using two techniques which can completely transform hair in completely different ways. The finish product would of been a whole head of hair curled but one half would be barrel curls, and the other half would be sideway curls.

    To achieve barrel curls, (which is what I started off with) start by:

1. Sectioning the hair into half or wherever you're planning on curling the hair and start with small thin sections and splitting it in half, or quarters depending on how big the section of hair stretches too. 
2. Next after sectioning the hair, gather the hair and place the curler at the end of the hair while clipping the end onto the curler and curl upwards till you reach the base of the head.
3. Hold for a few seconds then pin into place at the base of the head. 

    The second method of curling is the sideways curl and to achieve this you start with:

1. Start the other side as if we was about to barrel curl but instead of curling upward, place the wand straight up and curl either left or right alternating with each curl.
2. After curl is complete pin to the base of the head and leave to set. 

Here is the finished product from both sides of the head. As you can see the side with barrel curls (right) has so much more volume and height, but it has also made the hair appear much shorter than it naturally is. However, the side with the sideway curls (left) hasn't got much volume but has kept that length unlike the barrel curls. After I shook the manikins head out, the hair started to sit a lot nicer and started to create a look, rather them sitting how they was pinned to the head. In reality if I was doing this on a person I would of backcombed the hair and started to try and style this which is what I go to next with brick laying barrel curls.

Even though I only worked on a small section of hair, the effect the brick layering gave was so much nicer compared to my first go at curling.

1. Sectioning a part of hair at the back of the head, start gathering sections like the first two curling methods.
2. Carry on curling the hair in barrel curls in the pattern pictured above until section is complete and set.
3. Lastly after taking the curls out, shake the hair out and comb though the hair until you're happy with the final look.