Prepping Athena's hair style

To begin creating the designed style for Athena hair I needed to cut the wig to mid length as it was a very long wig. I then used the frizzing technique in all the hair ends, I only used this technique in the ends of the hair because I wanted to keep the hair straight at the roots. The frizzing technique means wrapping a small section of hair in the figure of 8 around a hair pin and then using grips to hold the hair in place. I left the fringe section out of the frizzing as I created a bohemian style braid in the front which would wrap around the head.

Using the frizzing technique which I learnt in my second year of study allowed me to create this look easily, however I spent all day in the studios prepping the wig as it took me 7 hours to wrap the hair around the pins. It was really difficult to use this technique on a synthetic wig as the hair kept slipping and I had to hold the hair really tightly to keep it in place.

Once the wig was all prepped I used a steamer to set the hair. Once the hair was cry I brushed it out and wrapped the braid around the head and began dressing out the bottoms of the hair. I had left this small section at the front of the hair as i wasn't sure if I was going to need it or not for the braid. Once i had created the braid in the front section i realised that i didn't need it so also used the frizzing technique for this small section.

Once this section had also set i then brushed the hair out and pinned it in place to cover the stitching of the wig. I really enjoyed creating this style in this wig because it allowed me to learn the best way to deal with the technique in synthetic hair. Im also really excited to be able to use this for a shoot.