Changes to Cinderella Hair

Because I was very unhappy with how the hair turned out I changed the hair design of the Cinderella look. In included making the chignon a plaited bun instead of incorporating it into the rest of the hair. This will make the hair easier to style separately and means a lot of the work is done prior to starting the makeup on the day so it saves time. I used the chignon I had already made for this look and plaited it, before expanding the plait outwards to look like the whole bun. This also makes it more in keeping with the other hair and makeups as they all have expanded, backcombed plaits.

To see if it worked I then quickly tried it in my models hair, roughly following the style I would be making for the shoot.

This is what the chignon looked like when placed in the hair with pinning the very front section of the hair back to look like a half up half down. I was happy with how natural the chignon looked by both the placing and the colour matching of the piece. For the shoot I will put the hair in rollers first to get large curls then backcomb them slightly and add small plaits throughout. I will also do a more structured pinning of the front back and possibly use that hair to make a small nest to pin the chignon too as my model has very smooth hair that doesn't hold pins too well. Additionally I will also curl some small hairs at the very front of the style in-keeping with hairstyles of the period (1810-1820) I am much happier with the look of this hair and think it looks a lot more relevant to the period style and inkeeping with the theme of my project and the rest of the makeups.