Hair Ideas

Early Victorian Wedding Hair
I decided to research into Victorian wedding hair to see if it differentiates from their normal every hair styles. From looking at the images I can tell that they didn't differentiate much - middle parting, hair slicked back, mid to low bun. This was mainly to incorporate the use of a veil and flowers in the top part of their hair.

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http://www.weddingdressesgallery.com/
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For my final look I want to be able to use a veil with flowers attached to the top of the veil, (simular to queen Victoria)  however these flowers will be ripped and destroyed to create the illusion of them being aged, as well as the veil. This veil will be attached to the top of the bun and I may decide to put the flowers else where rather than with the veil but I will have to see when it comes to it.

This is the hair chart of my designs below:

IDEA 1 -

I feel like as majority of the hair is covered by the veil I don't want it to be too difficult to create, as well as recreate especially as you wont see most of it.

IDEA 2 -

When designing this design I had my model in mind; her hair is really long and I could see it really suiting this style, the only issue is is that there is more detail at the back which will be covered by the veil so maybe it wouldn't be the best suited design. I tried it on my dolls head to see how I'd go about making the plait bun - this turned out to be a bit of an issue mainly because the dolls heads hair was a lot shorter and a lot thinner than my models but I'll include the images anyway.

I really don't like how  it has turned out on the dolls head so am not so confident in trying to recreate it on my model even though I know it would look 10 times better than it does here.

IDEA 3 -