I designed this hairstyle to go with this headdress. There are four hairpieces as well as Dianna mid length hair.
Top curls hairpiece
The top curl hairpiece starts with a portion of 1/2 wig of synthetic hair. This is what it looked like from the back.
This is what it looked like from the right side.
I pinned it to a chignon base for styling. You can find a pattern to make a chignon base in the free downloadable pattern section of my site.
I used a new type of bobby pin which looks more like the smaller ones with bends in the upper part. Love them!
The first thing to do with the hair piece was to divide all the hair in the hairpiece into smaller sections and clip them off.
Then using a 1″ bore curling iron cool I rolled each section towards the outside of the hairpiece.
Carefully slipped out the curling iron and pinned them down with the large bobby pins.
I just took one section at a time and did the same.
I worked with the front section first then the top then the back ones.
I unpinned it and covered my chignon base with foil and then pinned it down again. I put it in a large steamer on the stove (already steaming) for 1 min. and then tossed it into the freezer for 5 min.
If you do not have a large enough steamer then you can use a steam iron or hand held steamer and steam it section by section and toss it into the freezer then repeat with another section.
This is what it looked like when I was done with it.
Clip-in individual long curls
I took some 4″ links of weft and folded it on itself, sewed that together. Then, stitched it onto a toupee clip. Rolled the lengths onto a long flexible curler then covered it with a strip of tissue paper which was spiraled onto the curler.
These were also steamed with the hairpiece and tossed into the freezer to set the curl.
When I took them off the curlers they looked like this.
Putting it all together
On the day of the photoshoot I divided Diana’s hair into 4 sections. I started with a center part then parted from that down to the ears on each side, I clipped those off. I also, clipped the rest of her hair (purple clip). Then I added two long switches up near the top center near the part (slightly darker hair in back over her hair.
I pinned the curled hairpiece at the top of her hair. I twisted the switches together and then made a chignon out of them right behind the hairpiece. Then separated the remainder of her own hair into two pony tails.
I twisted some of her own hair which I then looped up. The rest of it I twisted half of the length and brushed the rest into sausage curls. If you look at the bottom of the page there is a picture you can see the looped twist on her left side and the sausage curls on the right.
The last thing to do was to clip the faux sausage curls half way to the base of her hair. Her own hair (the twist and the sausage curls) cover the upper part of the faux hair clips. The very last thing was to clip in some faux curls on the sides (you can see those in the profile photo below) and we set some of her own hair in pin curls (see photo to the left.
The flower and bows headdress was made to match the Bustle era fan. Thanks to Diana H. from Renaissance Fabrics for modeling the fan and headdress for me.
