LocksSmiths busy at work again

I think I'm just going to officially call my and ezabella's hair endeavors "The LocksSmiths".  Since she already posted her awesome button hair-do on her journal from Coronation weekend, I figured I'd post shots of all of the hair taping I did.  Dame Angele contacted me before coronation and asked me if I'd help her then Highness with her hair on the day of coronation.  She wanted a long braid down her back and some softness around her face. 

After she came over to my house for a consultation with me and ezabella and to show us the fake hair she had purchased for the long braid, she decided on the two part twist for the softness around the face coming down and working into a four part braid for the large braid down the back.  I showed her some of my hair jewelry (those modern ones that look like little springs with jewels on top), and offered that I could sew ribbon to match her coronation dress through the hair and put the jewelry in the braid.  Sewing the ribbon through would also help to secure the fake hair to her real hair and ensure it wouldn't fall out during coronation... 'cause yeah.. that'd be a bad thing! O_o

I did the basic two part twist that I always do for hair taping by splitting the hair down a center part and then working it from her temples down to the nape.  I tried to position it a little higher and thicker at her temples than normal too so that it would help cushion the crown.  Once both sides were twisted, I simply fed each tail through the top of the fake hair braid and pinned it on the opposite side of the head after tucking the ends in.  Then I sewed ribbon through the whole affair and put the lovely roses and rhinestone hair jewelry she'd found in the alternating hair parts of the braid.  The four part braid turned out really nice as it's a good wide flat braid and has kind of a rope effect in the center as you always end up crossing the middle in the same direction.  Here you can see it with ezabella 's lovely coronet on for sizing before second court.

After coronation, while hanging out in the bar (I love this event site... lol) people were getting rather toasty (both heat wise and other) as the air conditioner can't quite handle the amount of people that show up for coronation.  I had several people ask me about how I did her Majesty's hair and I went ahead and demo'd while putting up several people's hair to help cool them off.