Wedding Hair Trial

I really meant to post this earlier, but, well, this month is really busy and I’m falling behind on all blog-related activity. Enjoy now anyway!

Two weeks ago, I had my first appointment with the stylist who is going to be doing my hair for my wedding, and I thought it went quite well. Given how straight my hair is and has been all my life, I went in with very few ideas about what I wanted him to do that didn’t involve a completely contained updo and/or braiding. That didn’t matter, as it turns out, because, well, he’s extremely competent. Besides which, he said that he always makes a point of doing something different for every client he has, each one individual in some way, so even if I had brought a picture of an exact idea of what I wanted, he would have felt compelled to change it a little. He laughed at it being a superstition, and I thought it could make sense for wedding hairstyles, given how many other wedding superstitions there are, but he says he does that even with the color mixes he uses for his dye clients.

The other main thing we took was the picture of the finished dress pattern, (Vogue 1032, in case the link doesn’t work.) My mom and I made very few fit changes to it, but we did eliminate all the sequins, so now the entire dress is solid charmeuse, with some embroidered vines with seed bead flowers at the neckline. The stylist was of the opinion that for such an elegant dress, the hairstyle would really need to compliment it without covering it up too much, especially since the back is definitely a feature. He thought that a tight braided bun would make it look to unfinished, which was a thought I’d had too, though I didn’t know quite how to frame it. So he got to work on his own idea to let me see if I’d approve. Here was the process, in pictures.

I went in with it up in a cinnamon bun. (Seeing this picture from the back, I’m impressed with how good it was!) Then he let it down, with the comment, “That’s a lot of hair!”

Then he got to work.

I really have no idea how he did the next part, but it involved a lot of bobby pins.

For the final product, he went and nicked some orchids from the waiting area out front to give us an idea, saying the poor plant had been in bloom for 7 months and no one would ever miss a few blossoms. We’re going to use white ones for the actual event.

I was fairly pleased with how it turned out. He did end up using a lot of hairspray (at least in my opinion), but not nearly as much as I would have thought would be necessary to actually make my hair do that. It all came down pretty easily, too. Then again, he’s the one that took it down, so when I do it myself, I’ll likely have a festive bobby pin hunt on my hands.

I have another appointment this coming weekend, to which my mother and I have been instructed to bring the dress, too, to get the overall effect, but I’m not sure I should show pictures of that before the wedding, or it might spoil the surprise. There’s only two more weeks to wait, though, and then everyone can see all the pictures they want.