Historical Elizabethan hairstyle - Week 4

Today was a big day for me because it was the first time when I got to work on a real person's hair rather than on Kate head. My model was Fatima, who was brave enough to let me do her hair, even if I have warned her that it's my first time. Our theme was recreating an Elizabethan hairstyle using the techniques we have learnt last week (padding, frizzing, curling, backcombing etc).

 I wasn't so conscientious and I didn't do my design at home (I wanted to be but I had so much work to do this weekend) but I have improvised something considering Fatima's beautiful, long hair and that's what happened:

I am pretty pleased by my last-minute design, except the fact that I should have covered the holes I have created in her hair with something. I actually wanted to do so but I haven't got any idea of how could I do this so I just left it like that. 

Working on person felt quite uncomfortable at the beginning, but as I got used to it, it felt way better than I expected. I was surprised that, even if I'm a slow person, I have finished everything in just about 1 hour... maybe that's because I was really inspired by the pictures and portraits I have researched so far.

Our tutor, Helen, told me that she hasn't seen so many Elizabethan portraits where the sitter had plaits on the edges and this looks more modern than classic and that the hair color of the model helps me to achieve this look, but that's also fine and I shouldn't worry.

I think that next time I'll try to change a bit my design or draw it at home so I'll avoid any mistakes that can appear because I didn't think properly about the construction of the look.
Overall, everything went good today, even if I couldn't attend Sharon's seminar. In the morning I was feeling really bad because I have worked all the weekend and I couldn't get out of bed... I was upsed that I didn't attend even if I wanted to, but I will ask my colleagues and I hope I will catch up.

When I got home after the session I drew the historical design, so my work could be complete.