Studio: Textured/Natural Beach Hair

Equipment needed:

- Water spray

- Mousse

- Sea salt spray

- Hair dryer

- Hair dryer diffuser

How to create Natural/Textured Hair:

- Begin by dampening the hair with a water spray and put some mousse through your model's hair.

- Spritz the hair with sea salt spray.

NOTE: If your model has naturally curly hair, just use the sea salt spray.

- Use a hair dryer with a diffuser and hold it under the ends of the hair to dry it and create texture.

- Thoroughly dry your model's hair and finish by bringing their hair back off of their face.

Textured/Natural beach hair.

Having created the natural hair look, we were then asked to create a chignon and plaits with this texture of hair.

A messy, textured chignon.

Waterfall plait on textured hair.

Evaluation:

I found the natural beach hair fairly easy to create, and I think it helped that my model had naturally curly hair.  Creating the messy chignon with this texture of hair was simple too, as I just pulled my model's hair back and pinned it in a rough chignon, finishing by bringing the front pieces of hair to twist around the chignon.  The waterfall plait I created to practice, and I found it a lot easier than the last time I tried.  This time I managed to get my head around where to drop and pick up the sections of hair.  This textured look would be good for my beach look.