Studio: Hammer Horror Inspired Hair

When creating Hammer Horror inspired hair in class we used heated rollers.  Below are instructions on how to use heated rollers and how I used them to create my chosen Hammer Horror style.

Equipment needed:

- Pintail comb

- Heated rollers

- ‘Grabbies’ (roller clips)

How to:

- Firstly turn on the roller pack to 2

REMEMBER: Think of the direction that you want to curls to go in, and set the rollers in that direction

- Keeping your sections clean, take a section at a time and wrap the ends of the hair around the roller

- Roll the roller down towards the scalp, ensuring that you keep the hair tight around the roller

- Make sure that there is no overhang of hair, and then secure the roller to the head with a grabbie

When I was creating my Hammer Horror inspired hair, I began by sectioning the top of the hair in a horseshoe shape.  To curl this section, I used heated rollers and worked from the back of the head toward the front.  I didn’t want a parting for this hairstyle, so I rolled all the hair in this section in a backwards direction.  Then for the rest of the hair I used medium sized curling tongs.  I curled the hair with the tongs so that the curls would sit down from the scalp and I curled the sections of hair by the face away from the face to make it appear bigger.  To hold these curls, I used hairgrips to pin them close to the scalp until they cooled down.  Once all the hair had cooled down I took out the curls, beginning with the tonged sections and then the rollered section.  I then pulled the curls out a bit using my pintail comb and backcombed the roots of the hair to make it more volumised.

Evaluation:

I enjoyed this task, and feel that it helped me to improve my roller techniques a bit.  During this task I felt more confident when using the rollers and found that I managed to keep the hair tighter on the roller.  However my problem this week was the sectioning.  I think that this was partly because I was working on a dolls head, which is quite small and with less hair than should have been used for the bigger rollers.  I think that the final outcome of my Hammer Horror was quite good and I am happy with how it looked.