Hair, French pleat...

French Pleat...

• It always easier to style this hairstyle when working with 2-3 day old hair rather than freshly washed hair.
• Dry shampoo the roots of the hair, which adds extra volume.
• Section from behind the ear on each side of the head using sectioning clips.
• Select a piece of hair from the top of the back, top of the head. Backcomb (pull hair down is opposite direction using a comb then slowly push that backcombed piece of hair down to the root.)
• Tong the piece of hair from the top rolling towards the root of the head. This helps direct the hair making it easier to shape and control.
• Tong down the rest of the back of the head in one line down to the nape of the neck in a brick formation.
• Pin the curls as you tong down the back of the head. This will help set them to enhance volume.
• Unpin all the set curls and comb loosely through in one direction, brushing the hair into one main direction making easier to fold as one.
• Pull all the hair over to the right then apply pins down the middle of the head, locking one on top of another. This will act as a structure enabling the hair style to stay in place.
• Now bring the hair back onto itself in the opposite direction so it covers the pins. Wrap the hair around your hand so it all twists into large curl that you can then pin using large grips. slowly push the grips into the wall of grips that was created earlier. This will enable the it to stay sturdy and not move.

• You can now choose to either tong the two sectioned pieces and bring them back to create a bigger structure with more height or you can simply just backcomb and then grip then the back.

Product list;

Dry Shampoo.
Hair protector.
Sectioning clips.
Pin tail comb.
Hair tong.
Grips and wide set pins.

This was Seema's demonstration of how to create the hairstyle. I have to say it looked much easier than it actually is to create. There are a lot of steps in between that you realise are very important in order to establish this end result.

                                     Model: Megan Edwards

This was my partners attempt of doing the hairstyle on me. It was quite difficult to style as my hair is pretty long making it slightly harder to shape and grip.

Creating hair based on the French pleat...

 Since I had no time to try the creating the style during the seminar I practised on a friend in my own time. I'd definitely say it takes a lot of practise to accomplish a perfect finish similar to Seema's. My models hair was freshly washed which definitely made it more difficult to create and pin the shape across the head. The hair at the nape of the head hung to low due to the hair slipping. More dry shampoo used in the hair at the beginning would have helped secure the hair and its shape. The image above shows the hair tightly twisted across the back of the head helping create height where as my image before shows the hair has dropped due me poorly securing it.

Model: Emma Pinchen

Emma's hair is in good condition, it has been previously died and is mid-length.

I also added some flowers to hair to create a more romantic hairstyle. Most of the Romantic images that I added to my Pinterest include flowers, a prop that commonly makes a hairstyle more Romantic.