Second Practice of Partners Design

In our second practice I found I was more comfortable with Becky’s design and felt a little mote confident and was able to complete more of it in the 2 hour period. Prior to this Practice Becky had decided that to help solidify some of the elements of her design, mostly the plaits and padding she would get me to crimp the front sections of the hair, leaving the back section which will form the bun straight. 

Crimping the front section of the design, 

I then sectioned the hair as before, I find sectioning is a skill I'm very confident with even in long hair

Front sections from above

Here you can see Ive taken the process further and go on to continue the central french plait down the centre of the head in to two conventional plaits which will later be wrapped around the bun.

                                                   

Left side padding included

When it got to the stage where i needed to add padding to the hair I began to struggle. Creating the rat and securing the padding in place was fine but because of the length of Becky's hair i just found placing it around the padding incredibly difficult. As you can see in the picture above my first attempt is very messy and even messier beneath. I found that I struggled to roll beck's hair and pin in under the padding and became frustrated quickly. Overall the process of covering the padding with hair took a long time and in this practice i only finished one side. Overall I went away from this practice feeling very down hearted and very worried about my ability to complete the design.