Purity and such a time

"It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin"

(Queen Elizabeth I to parliamentary delegation)

The task this week was to interpret a quote and create a hair look that we thought met this interpretation. The quote chosen to interpret was, 'It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.' (Queen Elizabeth I to parliamentary delegation) The image we got from this quote was a sense of purity, as marble is smooth and has this look of freshness about it but also because of the use of the word Virgin; which is pure. 

So the idea was to create a look based around certain words from the quote; we used the idea of the marble and the word virgin. These words lead to the idea of using long ringlet hair which was popular at the time. We had to use materials like paper and old hair to create the look, basically showing that in the industry you have to be able to create something with what you have available to you. We then decided to put red ribbon through the hair to show the Elizabethan aspect of the hair style. The colour red was also used to show wealth. We then also put netting over half the face and intertwined this into the hair to make the hairstyle more contemporary. 

Above is the image that i created from the interpretation given to me, I curled paper with scissors to create the ringlet look, and also put the red ribbon throughout the hair. The netting was placed over the left side of the face where most of the hair was. I parted the hair to the side to give the image a more contemporary look. 

Above are the words used to create the look by.

The bottom image of the two, was created by my peer who also had the same brief to work by. She used real hair that was already curled and intertwined the netting through the hair, and added red ribbon to show the wealth. We didn't look at each others work until told to do so, but the images we created were quite similar although we both used different materials to make the look.

This task really showed me what it would be like to work in the industry and how important it is to use what you have around you to fullfill a brief.