Avant Garde help!

[Kikilou]

Hi geeks.
Has anybody ever tried anything like this before?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJr1Kv6Dtc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Apparantly you can use sugar and water or hairspray to mould hair??
I've also heard of someone moulding hair onto a balloon, and then popping it? All sounds complicated to me and wondered if anyone had ever attempted it themselves?
Thanks!!

 

[sarah_clancy]

I haven't but it looks soooo good, I'd love to have a go at this!!xx

 

[faerififi]

Ive done hair matting, but instead of cutting it into tiny pieces i felted it instead (look up felting techniques on youtube) and it made a more flexible piece of hair that i could bend into any shape.

 

[AcidPerm]

Sugar and water solutions were used extensively during the 70's punk rock era to create Mohicans etc. Waxes and moulding pastes were almost non-existent back then.

I also had lots of fun with food dyes as these were easily accessible.

It was a bugger when it rained though...!

 

[spikeyfaerie]

Seen it done with hair clippings and hairspray on BBC Young Hairdresser of the Year.

 

[Kikilou]

Could anyone advise me on where to start?! I'm pretty clueless.. Do you suggest short hair cuttings or longer shards of hair?
I had a look at felting on you tube.. Couldn't really find anything.. Could you tell me more about it please.
Thank you!

 

[faerififi]

Well i was told to try short clippings but i found it was bulky and just looked a bit disgusting to be honest. Instead i took longer pieces of hair (maybe 3 inches or so) and pulled them apart with fingers and brush to fluff them up and provide more surface area then laid them first this way = then || like that on top of each other. Do a few layers like this then spray liberally with hairspray and use a slow hot setting on the dryer to make it stick. (slow is important because otherwise the hair can blow away before its stuck properly). Make a sheet and then when its finished you can mould it and bend it into any shape you like and stick with hair spray.
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...930915845_532260844_11228960_1531320711_n.jpg this is a sheet i made and sprayed with gold and blue
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hpho...420040845_532260844_11267465_1344863658_n.jpg then used on hair up

 

[Kikilou]

That looks amazing, well done. I will give that a whirl next week. Thanks 💇