Lottie Tech File - Hair

This tech file includes:

• The Perfect Blow Dry
• 60's hair
• Accessories
• Advanced plaiting
• Beach hair
• Sleek ponytail
• French Pleat 

1st Lesson

Creating the Perfect Blow Dry

This was our first lesson back and Lottie eased us in with creating a nice bouncy blow dry and a sleek into the face blow dry. 

First we created the sleek blow dry directions below.

1. Wash Hair
2. Part dry
3. Add products e.g heat deffence all over and salt spay mid length to ends. Also sugar spay is great to create texture and give light to the hair also.
4. Create  a section and pin back the rest of the hair.
5. Get first section and round brush and hold the hairdryer against the hair and work from under and the over and repeat.
6. Curling the hair round the brush and then pulling gently out at the end creates a polished natural curl.
7. If you want this to set just pin into place and then undo at the end. 

My Blow Dry

2nd Lesson

60's Hair

In this lesson we were asked to create either a 50's, 60's or 70's hair style. I chose to do a cutie 60's look, as you can see from my inspiration image below. It is light and bouncy. Looks very innocent with the bow. 

We where to do each look with heated rollers. I don't like them as I always seem to burn my fingers and cant seem to get the clips to hold, however, I tried my best this time and it came out really lovely. I even think I will do this look in my own hair!




Hair inspiration

Here is how I created this look with heated rollers

• I sectioned the hair starting with the front where I did the 'quiff' I sectioned this as far back to the crown of the head and applied hot 'Red' rollers (which are the Large ones)
• I then sectioned the sides and put 'Red' rollers on the top fading into 'Blue' rollers from the top of the head back to just behind the ears, on both sides. 
• With the back section I used 'Blue' rollers all the way down in the 'Brick work' method. 
• I then left these to cool. 
• I gave the hair a light spray of hair spray, and shine spray. 
• I then took out the curlers.
• With my fingers I pulled the curls through and then with a paddle brush, over the top with the brush then smooth with the hand, then under with the brush and smooth with the hand until curls are blended nicely. 
• To style like my inspiration image I got a little ribbon and section off the front section of hair and tied in place.
• Pulling the hair a little to give it more volume on top.
• And the look is complete.

3rd Lesson

In this lesson we where looking at chignon hairstyles with accessories. I wanted to create something cutie sophisticated and then also something altogether different but just using hair accessories. 

The first style I did was a chignon with plaits at the side. To me it looks edwardian, but I think that just may be because of the plaits. If I where to redo this I think I would scrap the plaits and just gently twirl them around into the bun and having bits of hair fall down. 

How I created the look.

1. I started by straigterning the hair all over to get a nice smooth texture. I then applied some coconut oil to the hair as it was a bit dry at the ends. 
2. I then sectioned the hair from the front of the head back and inch and a half and to just behind the ear. (pinned this in place for the end)
3. With the back of the head I used my pinnated comb and pulled this all together, as smooth as possible, into a low ponytail. 
4. With two hair pins I pinned the ponytail down.
5. I then gently backcombed the hair.
6. I then rolled onto place and pinned wither side.
7. to create the neat dome, I used an open ended pin and pulled the open ends into the head so it formed that neat bum.
8. With the front sections, I plaited and pinned into place in the bun. 
9. With the accessories I used a bug necklace from H & M and pinned into place.
10. The look is complete.

Hippy look with just straight hair and gold floral hair piece.

I sectioned the hair down the back into half, then into four. I told two from one side and started to wrap it together and pinned at the top and did the same. I then added flowers to the hair so it looked like vines! 

 Inspiration below!

4th Lesson

Advance Plaiting 

Advanced plaiting is the hardest thing to explain but I will give it a go, if it doesn't make sense watch the video!

How to 

1. Brush and detangle the hair.
2. Separate the hair sections into 5 equal sections.
3. Use fingers to separate the hair by splitting the hair into two sections and then breaking them down to smaller sections.
4. Use both hands to hold all the strands, also helps to not mix them up.
5. Always hold two in one hand and three in the other, thought the whole process this should always happen after you have plaited.
6. Weave the leftmost strand over to the right side.
7. Allow strand 1 (the new middle section of hair) to hang freely in the centre of the hair sections.
8. While braiding, you will need to be ready to use all your fingers, including your pinkies, to hold and move sections of hair.
9. The order of your hair strands should now be 2, 3, 1, 4, 5.
10. Weave the rightmost strand over to the left side.
11. Now with your hair strands in the 2, 3, 1, 4, 5 order, move strand 5 (the rightmost hair strand) over strand 4 and under strand 1. The new strand order will be 2, 3, 5, 4, 1. Allow the middle strand (strand 5) to hang freely in the middle.
12. After each left to right and right to left movement, hold onto the four strands in your hands and pull them away from each other to tighten the braid a bit.
13. This tightening will help keep the strands distinct and taut so you can braid them easier.
14. Continue this weaving process to braid the rest of your hair.
15. Secure your braid.

Here is my example below, I found this very easy after getting the rhythm of it. We also did dutch braids which I adore!

Dutch Braid

• You basically do a french braid but instead of going over you pass the strands under all the way down. 
• At the end I tied them off and the pulled out all of the plait to look thicker.

5th Lesson

Beach Hair

I really love the beach wave look as it is such a simple but effective look that is timeless and beautiful. All you need for this look is hair and sea salt spray or even sugar spray. The one that I use is Tony and Guy Sea Salt spray, but there are many out there that are great have give the same affect.

1. Twist your hair into chunks. (keeping in mind the smaller the chunk, the tighter the twist, the curlier the wave.)
2. Gather them at the top above your head.
3. Now take your sea salt and spray!
4. Scoop all your hair together and then all at once, twist into a bun. Use an over-stretched elastic so as not to crease your curl, and mist your bun with a final pump of salt spray.
5. Now we wait. And let it marinate. 
6. Once your hair is completely dry, undo your topknot and comb through the curls with your fingers. 
7. Voila! Total sand babe. 

6th Lesson

Sleek high ponytail

So how do you create a sleek ponytail that doesn't have those annoying little loops and the hair just won't go right! 

• So to start with you section the top of the hair off from just behind the ear, to where you want to have the ponytail sit, which is just below the crown of the head. 
• You then pin that section in place.
• With the bottom hair you spray salt spay all over the bottom half and start brushing upward to where you want the ponytail.
• once all smooth gt two grips attached to a hairband and pin one side into the position where you want it to sit. Then with the other side start to wrap around the hair in your hand and once you can't wrap anymore pin into the pony. 
• With the top section spray some more salt spray into the hair and brush through. 
• then start moulding it into the pony with a pintail comb. 
• With a section from the bottom of the pony wrap round the hair band to hide it. and pin in place.
• Then do the same as the bottom with the clip hair band trick and the look is complete 

French pleat

What you will need:

• Hairspray
• Back combing brush
• Pins (tip: use pins that match your hair colour)

1. I always start with a little curl in the hair but you can keep it straight.
2. Take small sections of hair and start back combing. The more you back comb, the bigger you can get the hair!
3. Keep working through the hair from the forehead to the nape. Back combing is your friend for this style!
4. Smooth the top of the hair with the back coming brush and spray.
5. Brush the hair over to the side. (Brush it over to the opposite side to your dominant hand i.e. I’m right handed so I brush it over to the left.)
6.  Hold the hair in place and grip from the nape of the neck
7. Create a zig-zag formation interlocking the grips
8. Don’t be scared with the spray at this point and smooth!
9. Comb it over to the middle.
10. Curve the hair in on itself and cover the zig zag.
11. Start pinning from the bottom to the top. Make sure as you pin, you get your pins under the zig zag of grips to make sure it holds.
12. Don’t let the hair go at this point. (Keep pinning!)
13. Try to make sure that you can’t see the pins.
14. Neaten up the circle at the top. (This is where that little curl in the hair helps.)
15. Spray!!!!
16. There might be little short pieces that don’t fit in the pleat. You may want to leave them out and give them a little curl for a softer look.
17. Alternatively comb them in and spray in place.

Finger Waves

So last term I feel like I became a pro at finger waves I did them on a synthetic wig and natural hair here are the images belong. The natural hair was done with a small curling wand and manipulated with my fingers and pinned in place. And the other was done wet and manipulated with my fingers and the set.

Wet and Gel wig:

Soft and pinned Wig:

Natural hair tongs and pinned: