Off Your Head: Timed Assessment - In the role of the designer evaluation

In my final assessment I really wanted a heart shape design with padding because I feel it is very Elizabethan but yet still modern. I made my design contemporary by having loose curls dangling at the back rather than the tight curls which they had back in the Elizabethan times and I feel the loose curls made it look like a bridesmaid. I also chose to use a modernised big bun at the back of the head.

Unfortunately my partner Bethany was absent in the time we all got to practice our designs so she didn’t actually get a chance to practice the design on me before the assessment. However I did give her clear instructions with a step by step guide, images of me practising the design and drawings which I created on the hair charts and I feel this helped her a lot.

I feel Bethany struggled a bit when creating the heart shape as she was finding it slightly hard to pin the padding into the plaits properly to keep them in place. Also I would have liked my heart shape design to have been slightly bigger in height.

What I did like about the design is the way Bethany created my modernised bun at the back as I feel she sectioned it and back combed it really well making it look very full. I also liked the curls she created which dangled down at the back.

Overall I feel Bethany did a good job because although she didn’t get the chance to practice on me due to her absence, she did pull it off and the look she created was very close to my design.