gettin wiggy with it

the other day we had wig artist Sheema Chopra come in to give a guest lecture and a wig workshop to help us in developing our final ideas. she explained how wigs allow versatility, you can transform a person instantly and be extremely creative with it. here are some examples of her work. the first image is a bit more abstract that the other ones i have put in here, it features a blue sculpted afro with a hole in the centre of it. I love the vibrancy of this wig and the creativity that acrylic hair allows you.

the other 3 images are more tribal inspired and use more orange, brown and blonde tones to create the looks. this is a more earthy palette and can work well in my editorial shot.

seema went on to teach us the benefits of using human or acrylic hair,

HUMAN - much more of a natural look, never put and acrlic wig on somebody who is in harry potter, being filmed in HD you do not want it to look fake. Good for films close ups and natural things. Can apply heat to it. Harder to build structure. Restricted on colour, however can dye it, which takes time. Tends to be expensive.

ACRYLIC - good for striking stuff, more creative looks. Cant apply heat, will burn the plastic, melt and fall off. Can roll hair with wooden sticks and steam the hair and it would mould to shape. Can build up texture and structure. Can get any colour hair in any length, can use fabric dye, dylon. A lot cheaper.

after the lecture we proceeded to the workshop where seema taught us techniques while we practised on each other, using about a million pins, some crepe hair and alot of pulling and tugging... we produced these 

Using crepe hair is a really good way of adding colours and textures to plain hair and i will definitely be investing in some to complete at least one of my final images