Hair shape, structured hair up

For this hair style we were looking at hair shape and silhouettes in creating a more slick styled hair look called the pleat. To create the hair style we started off by sectioning the hair from the temples back to the crown, creating a half up half down style leaving the hair at the side of the face down for later so it can cover the hair that will be crimped for volume. Starting with the top section of the hair we used crimper's, crimping at the root of the hair making sure you don’t burn your models head and checking there ok this will add volume for the style later on. If the model you’re using has hair that has a curl or kink in the front of it this will need to be straightened out so that the style can be done perfectly without the hair parting at the front then backcomb to close the gap the kink or curl would usually leave. After the hair has been crimped backcomb the back of the piece of hair to the crimp line, the section then left at the front UN crimped can be smoothed back over the hair covering the crimped bits using a dressing out comb to come over creating a quiff like style, After this you want to twist the top section of the hair back and grip. Moving onto the bottom section of the hair you want to section this into two parts with one section being slightly bigger than the other, the bigger section needs to be on the opposite side off the head to which the hair was twisted around on top to. Pull the bigger section created around the head and cross grip this into place, then pull the smaller section round to meet this trying to keep it central and tuck and twist any loose left over hair as you twist this into place then cross grip this also into place. Once the pleat is completed spray hairspray onto your hands and finely go over the hair with your hands sticking and smoothing any stray hairs down.