Day 7 Paul Mitchell (roller placement)

ROLLER PLACEMENT
This is a lot like doing pincurls in regards to base, stem and curl/circle.  The advantage to doing rollers over pin curls are:

• Ability to use more hair (faster than pin curling)
• Can create more tension (tighter curls)
• Variety (shapes, sizes, texture of roller- basically anything you can wrap your hair around)

Curl Placement

Volume-base curls

• on base
• used to get lift/volume
• bring curl farther back on base when placing (slightly overdirected)

On-base curls

• on base
• good for volume but not as high as volume-base curls
• good for cow-licks or growth patterns

Half-base curls

• stem is half on
• not as much volume
• produces flat then curl look
• medium volume
• great on longer hair

Off-base curls

• curl is off base
• produces curl at ends look

Your base: (can be shaped in rectangle, square, or triangle)
     should be same width and length of roller

Stem:
     part of hair that starts to come up over the roller from the scalp

Curl or circle:
     the roller determines size of wave or curl

We were also instructed on the various degrees in which to pull the hair to create more volume if desired.  For instance if you were curling the hair forward you would comb the hair back at a 45 degree angle and pin on base. 

SECTIONING

Our instructor taught us how to section off the hair and do little top knots (she had another name for them but I cannot remember).

 

 There end up being a total of 9 sections: 3 down the middle and 3 on each side.

From there we rolled the front middle (above forehead) section on back (like a mohawk).  We then rolled the side middle, then the bottom portion and finished with the front section by the face.

We get to unroll them tomorrow to see how they turned out.  I am excited!