C-Shapes and Finger Waves

Another long day and I'm glad to be snuggling up in bed!

Today was another no-theory day, so we spent the entire four hours in practical class. At the beginning of class, we each set up our stations with a mannequin and get ready to observe a demonstration. As much as I dislike the mannequins in general, I've already grown attached to the head I used last class. She's got olive skin and a beauty mark above her lip and I've named her Wanda. Wanda has pretty good hair for a mannequin and she isn't too creepy looking!

The first technique we learned today was C-shaping. It is exactly what it sounds like, combing and manipulating the hair into a C-shape. The hair has to be wet and slathered with an ungodly amount of gel to do this . As much I would like to be an instant expert on everything, C-shaping does not come easily to me. Since I'm left handed, I'm having a hard time flipping some of the demonstrations in my head so that I can visualize how I need to do it.

My first couple tries were total failures and I couldn't find a way to work section by section without messing up what I had already done. I kept getting "betters," but I desperately wanted a "good," which I did end up getting about thirty minutes later!

C-shapes are the base for finger waves, which we worked on again today. We mostly watched video and live-demonstration of finger waves yesterday, and some of us got to try out the technique on our instructor's mannequin. Once we started working on them again today, I really got into what I was doing and finished my whole head in about fifteen minutes! I don't quite understand why I'm terrible at C-shaping, yet good at finger waves, but I'm not complaining!

This is one of the fingerwaving sections I did today on Wanda. I think it's a good look for her :)