My assessment - Dil's final look

I was really pleased with how I styled Dil's hair for this assessment. I used a larger, black hair rat filled with hair which made it much easier to mould, and gave the hair more height. I backcombed the hair at the front of Dil's hair a lot, hairspraying each section as I went, and found this made the hair easier to shape too. When pinning into place, I hid the pins underneath the central section of hair, as pictured. I also used pins with small pearls on them for any parts of the hair that needed holding down where the pins would be harder to hide, keeping the hair neat and also Elizabethan. I used a lot of spray to hold down flyaways, tucking them down with a pintail comb. Dil had decided to change her design so that no tendrils would be left hanging at the sides, and so that the ribbon would only cover the elastic of the ponytail, rather than sit along her whole hairline. She also wanted to add feathers, which she provided. Having not practised with these, I was very happy with how I added them to the style, again using pearled pins to hold them in place.

I felt that I worked efficiently and safely, in constant communication with Dil, who was also very happy with the finished look.