Rachel's Wedding Hair

My First Real Hairdressing Job

So a few months back I had the opportunity to create a wedding hairstyle for the lovely Rachel on her big day.

Myself and Anna (makeup partner in crime) rocked up to the wedding venue to begin our transformation, but to be honest Rachel was such a great blank canvas and had lovely long thick hair, both our jobs were made easy.

Rachel decided to have her hair half up/ half down which is a favoured style for weddings, and because her dress had a gorgeous sweetheart neckline, this style flattered her perfectly.

Here are some pictures of the finished look.

The lovely Rachel and finished look

Anna finishing the lipstick

The back of Rachel's hair with ornamentation detail and rose bud twist

To create the look:

• I applied curling and volumising mousse (I like Percy and Reed) to wet hair and spritzed some Tecni Art Pli from L'Oreal through the mid lengths and ends
• Dried this into the hair until nearly dry
• Sectioned the hair in the desired style you want to achieve, then place the babyliss heated rollers into the hair using over directing where more volume is desired
• Leave rollers to cool
• Take the rollers out and run your fingers through the curls gently
• Then style as desired, I used some back combing through the crown area to give lift, and plaited two seperate sections back from each side of the parting and pinned up
• Then finished with the tiara and gem grips
• Finish with hairspray! You can never have too much hairspray, but don't overload in one go, make sure you layer it up.

As a first official job where I wasn't doing a friend's hair, it went incredibly smoothly and Rachel was on time for her groom and calm, serene and looking beautiful.

I hope you like the style. Let me know your favourite wedding styles! 

Rachel's hair - showing the lovely tiara and plaiting details

My first Photoshoot!

Hi all,

Welcome to my blog! I am Laura, 31 (for my sins) and a part-time hairdresser in my spare time, which mainly consists of weekends and evenings.
I wanted to start my own little blog to show off my hair styling creations and to basically build up a internet portfolio. So here it is! Hopefully I will be able to help some of you with hair issues or just show you how to achieve certain styles, or if all else fails just look at the pictures (that is what I normally do).

This first post is about my first photo shoot, very exciting stuff let me tell you. My friend for many years Anna was finishing her make up course and asked me if I would come along to one of her sessions and style the model's hair for her make up shoot.

The theme was bridal but with a twist, so after discussing it with Anna I created a modern 1920's hair style with some gorgeous ornamentation which was kindly lent to us by a bridal shop in Didsbury (I really must remember the name).

We had a fantastic model to work with called Tabatha, who had luscious thick hair, so I was really lucky!

Here is the look:

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The lovely Tabatha 

My instagram pics

The professional pics