Elizabethans were known for having quite large, padded hair. After Queen Elizabeth I took reign, women's hair started to change. She enjoyed hair styles such as high hair, braids and plaits and sometimes buns.
To start off padding the hair, I crimped it all first to give extra volume to the hair. I sectioned off the hair by using my pintail comb and creating neat, small sections and crimped the hair one section at a time until the full head looked like this.
I then brushed the whole head and brush the crimping out so the hair is really big and thick. The bigger the hair, the bigger your finished padded hair will look.
I then sectioned the hair into two pieces and clipped it apart. After that, I sectioned off a section at the front of the head that would be used for the front padding and then clipped away the hair at the back.
After I had all my sections, I took the very front section and split it into two parts, one on the right side and one on the left side.
The hair at the back should be clipped back and the left section at the front too. Take the right side of the front section and take your padding and place the padding on the root of the hair and wrap the hair back so it covers the padding, you can then clip this into place with a hair grip.
You should do the same to both side and you can use a hair grip to fix any parts of the hair that need fixing or covering up until both sides of the hair are equal and look the same.
And this is what your finished result should look like. I didn't find this very hard to create and I enjoyed doing it, I did have a little trouble covering some of the hair wrapped around the padding slightly and need to work on that for next time but overall I am happy with how this turned out for my first time doing it.
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