Beach Hair

Preparing the hair is the most important step to creating beach hair! It is also about the person's natural hair type.

Equipment:
-Spray bottle with water
-Hair mousse
-Sea salt spray
-Hair dryer with diffuser head
-Pin tail comb
-Curling tongs
-Straighteners
-Hair grips

Technique 1
Step by step:

1. Spray the hair with water.

2. Apply some hair mousse and run it through the hair with your fingers.

3. Spray some sea salt spray into the hair. 

4. Use a hair dryer with a diffuser (you can put the hair dryer close to the scalp because it doesn't get too hot.) and scrunch the hair together whilst drying it. Do this to the root first and then work your way to the ends. Have the hair dryer on full power but have it on middle heat if it is damaged.

5. Put the ends in the hair dryer and scrunch them to create a natural curl. 

6. Once the hair is dry, you can create any hair style you want.

 7. I decided to incorporate a technique I had leant in my previous lessons to create a hair style. I did two small dutch braids running parallel to each other on one side of the head and flipped the hair all over to the other side.

I really like how this techniques works because it adds a lot of volume to the hair and emphasises the hair's natural texture. My model has quite thin hair which meant the hair was very lightweight, meaning I could create volume quite easily without it falling. I found this technique very quick and easy and I love the textured, tousled, beach hair it achieved. I did some dutch braids along one side of her face to practice the technique I had learned previously.  I am really happy with how the top braid came out, because it looks very neat and straight; however I don't like how the bottom one turned out as the plait seems to dip towards the end which it not the look I had in mind. I will need to make sure I make sections before plaiting next time to make sure the plaits go as planned.

Technique 2

Step by step:

1. Take a section of hair along the parting.

2. Hold the curling ton upside down, curl the hair away from the face and leave the ends put. (Ask if the client wants the hair going towards or away from the face, but do some alternate curls to give the hair more body).

3. Take the hair out and leave it to cool to make it last longer.

4. Once the hair has cooled, scrunch the hair, run through it with your fingers and rub the ends together to give a more natural wave.

5. Style the hair as you want.

I kept the dutch braids that I had done on my model before for this look. I like that this gives a more wavy look because if your hair didn't have a natural wave to it then you would have to put some waves in artificially, meaning the method above wouldn't work. I like that I didn't curl right to the ends because I think it would have given too much of a polished look and not a natural wavy look. I think this technique would make the hair last longer because heat was used on it, whereas I think with the technique above, the hair would be more likely to fall.

Technique 3
Step by step:

1. Take a medium section of hair and twist it, take another section and twist the hair. Then twist these twisted sections of hair together. 

2. Use straighteners all the way down the twisted hair to heat it up so it curls. (The larger the sections of hair, the less curly the hair will turned out.

3. Leave these twists to cool down, then undo the twists and scrunch the hair. 

This was my least favourite technique because I didn't feel like it gave beachy waves, but instead it looked more frizzy and crimped. To make the hair look more beachy I think I should have used bigger sections when twisting to make the waves looser and more natural looking. I found this technique gave the least volume and I would have to add more product to give it the volume I would want.