Week 4: Plaiting For Fashion

Looking at plaits in fashion, different styles and techniques also how to make a plait or any hair style look messy/fly aways used a lot in editorial fashion.

Equipment:

Hair Ties 

Clips 

Sliver Long Clips 

Products: 

Dry Shampoo 

Hair Spray

1- Wiggle Plait

Plait the hair as normal take one strand of the three strand plait and push up the other two strands to gather the hair. Tie into place or pin depending on the style.

2- Waterfall Plait 

The model will have to help with this plait to hold the strands in place to keep the style very neat. 

French plait (plait, plait) then drop the underneath strand get the model to hold this strand and (plait, plait) again. Repeat this plait off to secure it. 

If you want to do this style from each side of the head, then join in the middle. 

3- Ladder Plait 

After you have completed the waterfall plait this is the start to the ladder plait, using the french plait technique pick up the dropped strands and include these into the plait but only these. 

4- Slip Tie Knot 

These plait you'll have to get your model to help hold the strands, separate the section into two and knot, place in between the models ring finger and middle finger. Do this to one more section again placing in your models fingers. 

Section the hair again and bring in the front knotted section into the section and knot then move up the hair placed in the fingers and repeat. 

To finish you can either carry on knotting or plait and tuck under and pin.

5- Five Strand Knot 

Taking five sections, bring the right hand side furthest section over under and stop, repeat this on the other side, over under stop and repeat over again.

 6- Duch Braid
Using the french plait tenchnique plait underneath.