Early Victorian Hairstyles

Equipment needed:

• Pin tail comb
• Curlers
• Hair grips
• Sectioning clips

Bun with curls

• Comb the hair back and use the end of a pintail comb like a pencil to draw a line down the middle (using the nose as a guide and looking in a mirror)
• Separate each side from the top of the head to the back of the ear and clip out of the way

• Create a high bun with the remaining hair at the back (Victorian's had high buns and not low buns). This may be by twisting the hair and then gripping it into place (if this is difficult, try using a hairband to tie the hair up first)
• Let down one of the sections at the front/side. Take a long, thin section and create a ringlet using fairly thin tongs

• Remember the tongs should always be facing upwards, and the curls should be coming in towards the face. Also, using a comb, tuck the end of the hair into the tongs, so that this has a nice end to the curl, rather than a kink

You do not want this kink

• Gently release the curl by using a comb to slide the hair off of the barrel

Continue doing this is small sections with the remaining hair on each side

Final look

 I think this style worked very well and would be well-suited to the era. In order to improve it and make it look like the portrait at the top, I would use thinner sections of hair when curling. 

Bun with plaits

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• Repeat the same process as above, where you section the hair and put it into a bun
• With the sections at the side/front, bring the hair slightly forward, and starting just above the ear, plait the section of hair
• Bring this plait round the side of the head, looping it up and in to the bun and grip it into place (in Victorian times, most women would've had much longer hair than this doll, allowing you to be more experimental when you link it to the bun)
  
  Overall, I was fairly satisfied with how both of these looks came out and I did not find them too difficult to create. I am looking forward to learning how to create more Victorian hairstyles, and I am also looking forward to incorporating these styles into longer hair, so that I can be more experimental.
  
  

Theatrical Ageing & Creping Of The Skin

Products/equipment required:

• Moisturiser
• A base (e.g. foundation)
• Supracolor palette
• Small fine brushes
• Stipple sponge
• Disposable mascara wand
• Tooth Enamel
• Old Age Stipple
• Hairdryer

Ageing the skin

•  Ensure you moisturise the face - you want to be able to blend the products
• Apply a base to the face, lips and neck (this should be a shade lighter than the model's skin)
• Get your model to smile/frown and pull very 'silly' faces to enable you to be able to see where any lines and wrinkles appear on the forehead, around the eyes, nose, etc. Also hollow out the cheeks slightly
• Mix a brown/grey colour using the supracolor palette 
• Using a fine brush, apply this colour into all of the wrinkles and lines and remember to blend out (using your fingers works well to blend)
• You may want to start with a lighter colour and then build up and apply darker colours on top to blend effectively
• Highlight any desired areas on the face
• Using a mascara wand, apply a grey colour (from the supracolor palette) into the eyebrows 
• Finally, gently use a stippling sponge and a red colour (from supracolor) to create broken veins on the skin

Before Ageing

Left-hand side of the face has been aged

Overall, I was quite pleased with the look that I created considering that it was my first time doing something like this. At first I found it quite difficult (especially on the forehead) because my model did not have many creases and wrinkles when she scrunched her face up. However, as I was carrying out the process, I began to learn where the wrinkles looked natural and where they needed to be more prominent or toned down. I think I need to practice on a few different faces and perhaps do some further research in order to develop and improve my technical skills. 

Tooth Enamel 

• Dry the desired tooth with a tissue, and keep the mouth open
• Use a babybud to apply the product to the teeth
• Ensure the model keeps their mouth open until it is dry 

(This is not my work, just an example of the products)

Creping Of The Skin

• Apply a barrier mouse to the area of the skin you are going to be working on
• Stretch out the area of the skin as much as possible 
• Using a sponge, stipple the Old Age Stipple to the stretched area of skin (so you don't get hard edges)
• Using a hairdryer on cool (test this on your neck), dry this layer keeping the skin stretched
• Squeeze and move the skin back into place to see how effective it looks 
• When the layer is completely dry, add another layer
• Repeat this process until the skin looks as desired 
• You would then go over this with make-up ensuring that the skin colour matched the rest of the face and body

I was actually very surprised as to how well this technique turned out - at first, I could not see much changing, but as you applied more and more layers, you began to see the wrinkles appear quite prominently. Unfortunately, we had to do this very quickly, but if I had to do this again, I would blend the edges out over the whole of the hand and ensure there was no harsh edge, and apply make-up over it to make the skin colour match the latex.