Padding Hair

Padding

With padding you can achieve the typical heart and round shape you can see a lot in Elizabethan hairtstyles. To make your own padding just cut off a piece from some cheap tights and fill it with couch roll. If you want to create a heart shape make sure the padding are the same size. Elizabethan hairstyles were symmetrical so try to do everything you do on one side, on the other side as well.

You will need:

• Hair pins
• sectioning gribs
• kirby gribs
• pin tail comb
• brush
• hair crimper
• barrel tong
• padding

Just a quick note, I only did half of the head in our first lesson about padding but as I said just do the same you did on one side on the other one as well and you will get the heart shape. If you want a round shape use a bigger padding and place place it over the head(like you would wear an Alice band) Before you start think about the hair color you are working with so you can match your padding. After brushing the hair part it in the middle. Then prepare 2 sections on each side. One smaller one at the forehead for the curls and behind it a bigger one for the crimping. I started with crimping first. Make sure you crimp enough hair to cover the padding later. When you are done with crimping do a small plait (normal or french)behind the crimped section. Secure it tightly because now you will place the padding on it and secure the padding tightly on the plait. You don't want it to move when you place the crimped hair over it. Secure the padding on the plait with a kirby grib in the middle, top and bottom of it. Cover the padding with the crimped hair and tuck leftover hair neatly under the padding. To secure the hair use mostly hair pins and kirby gribs if needed.

Curl the hair in the front(as you can see in the pictures above) and leave the kirby gribs in until curls have cooled down. Then take out the kirby gribs and place the curls over the padding. But you can do different variations like leave some curls tight and fix them at the front.

As you can see in the pictures I took the outer curls and placed them over the padding and left the middle ones tight and secured them in the front. But it does look a bit boring , so either you do 2 rows of curling or if you didn't like me, separate every curl into two and put the second layer over the padding and with the first row do tight curls. That will male it look more Elizabethan.

       You can see that the 2 layers now make already a difference compared to only having one row.

 And some close ups of the curls