Nail work....

I found these images of nails on google, which gave me inspriation to create my own. These nails represent tribalism they are all very colourful and have lots of different patterns and shapes on them. 

I create the images of the nails above, by using fake nails and using the OPI nail varnish brand. I used
different colours and different patterns to create shapes which I thought resembled tribalism.

Hair trials...

This is the hair pulled back with the into the chicken wire, i sectioned the hair so there was enough hair to come over the chicken wire. I used pins in between the chicken wire so that the pins stayed in place of the middle of the hair. I then pulled the hair back into the chicken wire and clipped it down with grip clips. 

This is the final look of my hair after I put the hair up, I added the twigs into the top part of the hair and added the feathers into as well, I threaded the feathers through the little gaps of the chicken wire which held in place quite well.  

This is the hair wrapped in the chicken wire, with the feathers and twigs coming out of it. Before I wrapped the blonde hair extensions around it.

This is a close up of the final hair, with the extensions wrapped around the hair and the hair  up in the chicken wire with feathers and twigs coming out of it. 

Experimenting with hair...

I sectioned the hair into three different section's.  With the back of the hair i sleeked it all so it was smooth
and brought it over to one side. I then rolled the hair by wrapping it round my fingers and then I pined it down with grips and pins. with the sides of the hair I french plaited the sides of the hair and then brought them together and created a knot. With the front of the hair i section it into two and rolled the hair up an then pined the hair down with grips and pins. I liked this look, however my models hair was very thick so i found it very hard to keep the front of the hair staying in place. The style of the hair created a nice and different shape. 

With this hair trial, I pined the hair back into a bun and put a doughnut in the hair. I then wrapped the rest
of the hair around the doughnut. I left  strands of her hair out at the front and pulled it back into the bun. Then I added the twigs into the bun. I did not like this hair style because the plait's don't look neat from the from as it looks like they are being pulled back into the hair. 

With this hair style,  I pined sectioned the hair and pined the front of the hair up into a ponytail.I put a twigs through the hair to hold the hair up. I spilt the ponytail into two sections and wrapped it around the twigs. I then add the leaves through the hair. And i wrapped some material around the bottom part of the hair to cover up the hairband and to add colour to the hair. With the back of the hair i pulled the hair all back and tied it into a fish tale plaite. 

Hair up & wigs....

I experimented with putting the hair up, i used a sausage to put the hair up
and give it a bit a volume. I then added a polystyrene ball into the hair and wrapped the
hair around it. I also wrapped the hair around the ponytail I made. I hide the hair-band i used crepe hair.
I then repeated the process then wrapped the left over hair with crepe hair. To have
made the hair more sturdy, I could have used a knitting pin, and pierce  it through the polystyrene balls to make it stand up straighter.

Another image of my hair up...

This is an other close up of the top part of the hair, I wrapped the crepe hair around the left over
hair at the top. 

This is a close up of the hair from the front. 

Here is the hair-up from the back. As you can see I didn't spread the hair around
properly there are gaps between the hair.

Preparing the hair for a wig- sectioning the hair to pin curl it up. When pin curling
the hair, you have to pull the hair backwards to make sure that
it is all off the face.  

The hair all pin curled.

A close up of the hair all pin-curled.  As you can see you
have to put to clips through the hair one through each side so that it
hold the hair down properly.

After pin-curling the hair you have to put a stocking on top, this because
with a wig on the hair will sweat. So it the stocking stops it from smelling. 

Here is one of the wigs we put on! it's so colourful...

This is the other wig we put on..a lot more calmer. 

Hair drawings...

Here I have drawn a headpiece, on the top it has feathers and on the top of the colourful hairband.
The hair band has bright colours which give it that tribal effect. I have also stuck down
real feathers but you can't really see them. If i was to make this headpiece I would also have the beads coming down the sides. With the hair I would fish tail plate the hair on both sides and make them quite messy.

In this image I wanted to pull the hair back into a ponytail and use crepe hair to cover the elastic of the
hairband. I wanted to quiff the front of the hair to add a bit of volume to the hair. and on both sides of the hair i wanted to use red and yellow crepe hair and twist it into the hair. 

On the sides of the hair I am going to french plate the side and have red crepe hair in there to to add colour
to the hair. On the top of the hair I am going to section the hair into two and roll the hair into rolls and pin it down with pins and grips. With the back of the hair I am going to sleek the hair down and roll it bac. 

With this design, I would pin all the hair back into a bun and put green a red crepe hair through  it
to add tribal colours to it. at the front of the hair I would make three separate plates and cross them
over the head so that they make an X shape. 

Here i have french  the top of the hair and bent it round to hold it up I am going to use
chicken wire so it is more firm. In the ponytail I am also going to do a loose fishtail palite. I am going to wrap crepe hair around the hair bands as well, this will add more colour to the look. 

For this image,I would crimp all of the models hair and left it fall naturally and then
I would french plait her hair around the fringe. 

This is my final hair look,  I am going to crimp all of the hair and pin it up  into the
chicken wire, which I shaped around a plant pot. I am going to weve the hair and blonde extensions
into the chicken wire so it adds colour to the hair. I am also going to wrap the hair around the bottom of the chicken wire in a plaite front of the hair. on the top of the hair I am going to use feathers and twigs to 
add to the tribal effect. 

This is the same image as the image above, however this is what it would look like with
the feathers and twigs. 

Body and hair templates....

Here i used rice, to create patterns this is an example of scarification, this is the
pattern that i am going to do on my models chest. 

 

Here I have drawn a head pieces, that i want to make i want to use.
a hair band and use blue yellow and red colours on it so it stands out. I am going to
stick feathers on to the hairband.

In this image, I would use a sausage to make the hair bigger . Then with the remaining hair
I would pull it up into a high ponytail and then wrap the hair around the ball. I will then tie the hair up
and use a smaller ball. Where the hairband is showing i will use crepe hair to wrap it around the hairband.
With the top part of the hair I will bend it backwards and mix the crepe hair with it. 

With this hairstyle, i am going to crimp the hair and put it up in a sausage, this will give the hair a lot
of height and volume. I will then add feathers into the hair. With hair extensions I am going to do tight plaits and wrap it around the front parts of the hair. 

Again with this hairstyle I am going to put the hair up in a sausage.  I am going to put crepe hair through it to
brighten the hair up with colours. I am also going to make a feathered hair-band to put around the front of the hair.

Experimenting with extension...

Adding in the extensions

Before clipping in the extensions, i had to back comb the hair where i was going to attach the
extensions.

I tied the top part of the hair into a pony, then added another pony on top of that 

Here I wrapped the extensions around the ponytail, I also used pins
to make sure that the hair stayed in place.  

Here I started adding the polystyrene balls into the hair and worked my way up,
the further i went up i used smaller polystyrene balls.

All the polystyrene balls are in place.

I added in the crepe hair, to add colour and make it look more tribal.

The hair from behind.