Technical - Ageing Hair

Health and Safety: If using a model place apron around the neck to protect clothing. 

Always ensure to run a client consultation to check for any infections, allergies or contraindications.

Wash hands before touching the clients skin. 

Products Used:

- Supracolour (White & Blue)

- Dry Shampoo

- Disposable Mascara Wand

Process of Creation:

- If greying out the whole head of hair, spray dry shampoo (Batiste works best for this) onto the head building up the layers until level of greying is achieved. 

1. For ageing hair on fine areas such as the eyebrows, side burns or facial hair a more detailed technique would be beneficial. 

2. Mix a small amount of blue and black supra colour into white until the colour resembles a grey tone. 

3. Taking a disposable mascara wand, roll the wand into the colour.

4. Begin combing the colour through the areas of hair that require ageing. 

5. Taking a clean disposable wand work then colour through again to ensure the hair is fully saturated. 

6. Repeat for eyebrows using a similar method. 

Evaluation

Unfortunately during class there was a shortage of dry shampoo therefore I was unable to show the effects of using Batiste on the hair to create an ageing effect, however because of this I decided it would be beneficial to demonstrate ageing using the supracolour technique. In regards to using the technique of male facial hair I felt that it was highly successful and created an effective image of aged hair, this technique works best in sync with theatrical ageing makeup to create an authentic effect. When applying supracolour to the hair I found it was crucial to ensure that the makeup was fully blended into the hair, this was not achieved by simply combing the colour through once but was much improved through repetitive combing of the colour using another clean mascara wand. Although this technique was successful for male facial hair I think that for longer hair it would be challenging using this method unless it was for a pop of colour/highlight. Therefore dependant on the clients hair type, the most appropriate application would be required. Overall I was very pleased with how this technique turned out and if given the opportunity to produce a male character of age I will definitely be using this technique.