Creating a ‘decaying’ vertical roll for Miss Havisham

To begin putting the practical skills that I have learnt into practice with the Great Expectations brief, working with Miss Havisham I have decided to begin developing the vertical roll hairstyle. To create a hairstyle which is more appropriate for Miss Havisham I used my decaying hair style image that I found on Pinterest which is on a previous post to change the vertical roll.

Here are some images and some notes of what I created on a dolls head of a hairstyle that is my interpretation of Miss Havisham.

The final outcome of my frizzed 'decaying'
hairstyle for Miss Havisham.

To create this hairstyle I worked with the 'frizzing' technique which I learnt last semester. I choose to use this technique because it give a lot of texture to the hair. My vision of Miss Havisham is to be very wild and ragged looking. To show this through my design ideas of Miss Havisham I believe that her hair should be very messy.

Here is the link to my previous hair blog which I worked on last semester. This specific blog post is describing how to create the frizzing in the hair which I have used for this specific hair design for Miss Havisham on the right.

Click here to view a step by step of how to frizz the hair!

Below are some more images of this final hairstyle and a development of how I created this hairstyle after I had created the vertical roll in the back section of the hair.

In the process of 'frizzing' the front section of the hair

Once the hair pins had been removed from the hair.

The finished hairstyle with lots of texture at the front.

The texture of this hairstyle is something that I would definitely like to keep for my final look for Miss Havisham for the assessment. 

Now that I have a basis of what I may what my final designs for Miss Havisham to look like I needed to develop this design further. I began looking back on some of my research of how the Victorians wore their hair. In a lesson I had to think more about creating a strong silhouette for Miss Havisham through hair design. I also wanted to add some Victorian hair styling traits to this developed idea.

The basis of my strong silhouette shape 

Here are some images and notes of the hair style I created for a more Victorian like hairstyle for Miss Havisham.

I began by creating the strong silhouette shape at the back of the head. I wanted to keep the decaying look so I did this by heavily back combing the two front sections. Once I thought I had enough texture and height within the front section i began to brush it back over and place into the vertical roll.

To keep some Victorian reference to this hair design I used some heated curling irons to create two curls by the ears of either side of the face.

Below are some images of the final outcome of this hairstyle.

Before developing this Victorian vertical roll
into a 'decaying' hairstyle.

The final outcome of my 'decaying' hairstyle
appropriate for Miss Havisham.

During the lesson I was advised to take a picture of my finished hairstyle that I had created for Miss Havisham and edit it into black and white to see what it looked like.

I think this gave a better visual understanding of what the sillouette of this hairstyle would look like.

If I was to choose to create a hairstyle based around a vertical roll for Miss Havisham for my assessment i think I would need to conjoin the vertical roll in with the decaying front section of the hair to make it flow more.

I do like this hairstyle which I have created for my Miss Havisham. However I would like to create something which is more challenging for myself.