Behind the scenes, preparing to shoot

I put an element of my preparation on the main blog too, but I thought it was important to mention on here as it needed to be done before we could shoot the tutorial.  Meg my model doesn't get her hair done very often, she's a student and like many others can't really afford it.  I didn't even think to check when I asked her to model as her hair is dark.  As soon as she took it down she had massive roots and no shape whatsoever.  I knew this would look terrible on camera.  I had to colour her roots first using 1/2 3/0 & 1/2 4/0 colour touch by Wella with 3% peroxide.  I refreshed the ends for the last 10 mins.  Finally we cut layers and a long fringe layer to give shape and definition when curling.  It wasn't until we finished that I realised how damaged and flyaway Meg's hair was.  It was very to hard to style and didn't hold very well at all.  I thought about using a different model but I feel it's important to show all hair types, skin types etc.   My readers will want to know that they can all achieve the looks (where possible).  I will make sure to always use a good variation of models for my tutorials. 

Megs before shot with uneven colour 

Me applying Megs hair colour

Me shaping Megs hair with layers

Cutting the long fridge layer to create definition around the face