Competition time....

So i got through to the final of my college competition, the brief was to create a day or night look using whatever inspiration we wanted. So as you can see from my previous blogs I have a love for retro styles, so I chose the theme of retro glamor for my look. I looked to celebrities like Amber Heard, Scarlet Johanson and Katy Perry who have all been working the retro look on the red caret recently.

I love the shapes involved in retro hair and there is something so sexy about a bit of red lippie too! so with all that in mind i set off to create my look!

I decided to create a quiff at the front as big hair is always good in retro hair as well as quiffs being one of the big trends in s/s 2012, so i back brushed the top section of the hair and then smoothed it all back and secured it at the back of the head with some grips.

I then created curls using the traditional pin curling technique, i didn't just want to create uniform curls i like the look of the organic curl you get when using the pin curling technique. Plus it is authentic to the era i was trying to create as I'm sure they would us GHD's back then!

Next I created a bow (see earlier blog for how to create one) I added the bow as retro hair tends to contain some form of structure but i wanted to keep this look more up to date and with people like GaGa wearing bows i felt it was the perfect combination of the retro structure and the modern twist i was looking for.

I styled the look with a leopard pencil skirt (classic skirt cut plus the sexiness of the print) a white shirt tied at the wait (50's style) black gloves for some elegance and huge shades and red lippie to create the retro glamour look.

There was 18 of us competing so the competition was pretty tough, and although i didn't win i had lots of fun preparing my model for the catwalk and it was a great experience should i chose to compete in hair competitions later on in my career.