Miss Havisham's Hair development

While talking to seema this lesson I realised that I should achieve a characterisation through 'contemporary' features meaning not to contemporise the look but to create a new Miss Havisham something using the ideals and elements we have in our head and create the shape and texture through our visualisations using what we've leanert in class (Victorian elements) as a base to build our visualisations onto. 

This got me thinking about the design i created last week, my reaserch and the development of this below are some elements i wanted to change;

-Larger structure 
-No holes

-Build texture 
-Decay/ pull apart 
-To add leafs and flowers to represent Miss Havisham's delicacy and my interpretation of her character within the veins in the skin mirroring those in the leafs and flowers.

I went and brought some flowers from ikea i found some very good fake ones with vein like patterns through the leafs i plan to decay these by painting them and using tea bags to die the colour. I used fake flowers as to make sure when recreating Miss Havisham i they will look the exact same.

I further began taking all my elements i wanted to change and experimented with my friends hair to see the different effects. The first design i did below i loved, i structure and shapes formed using padding to create hight and a larger shape i felt was effective i also using a crimping technique to add texture as when back combed it created a lovely fluffy texture of which i used to create a fluffy layer over the top of the whole structure i further added talc to give the dusty old effect. Although this worked very well on my friends hair i am not used to my partners hair as i remember it to be very thin, short and furthermore blonde so the whole look could have a very different effect i will have to assess this when i practise on her hair and if the same effect is not portrayed i will develop the design around this.

I experimented with pinning a lace top i had to create a veil at the back of the head to represent the day Miss Havisham will never let go of i like the positioning of the veil as it docent interfere with the hair style. I would like to use this in my final interpretation of the character i will collect a some material and decay the veil discolouring it and adding holes and ladders to create the effect of passing of time.

Below i drew out some hair charts to use as reference when i practise this design onto my partner.