Stage Hair?

Hello Beauties!

Long time no type? Well I've been super busy with my show this weekened which has been going quite well, but i thought i would talk about hair? I realized that I do also like creating cool hairstyles for the stage and styling wigs. I've done hair for shows like Spring Awakening and Alice and Wonderland two very different shows, but being able to let my creativity show through each style has been an awesome experience! I'm also helping with hair in my current production of "Sugar" where every girl in the show is in a blonde wig and every guy is in a old man wig. I'm the only one without one. Each wig really has its own personality with the different colors and styles. Our guy Andy who actually styled the wigs comes in every now and then to touch them up but while he's not there, I do his job. I really do like making the wigs look cleaned up and polished because sometimes they can get very out of control in a matter of minutes.

Here's my hair and makeup for my show today, ill have a darker lipcolor for the show I usually put that on last. but my hair is basically two big sausage like curls with pin curls in the back. Everyone calls it my "Johnny Bravo" hair, you know like the cartoon from the 90's. Since I dont wear a wig in the show i created this hairstyle. It changed throughout the course of the show's run from being just pin curls to this. I like this waaaay more than what i was doing before! It adds volume to the head and makes the face slimmer. Also conturing the face helps.

Here is a picture of one of the girls who sports a blonde wig in the show.

    Jessica Ellithorpe as "Sugar Kane" in Sugar

Here is a picture of another wig on its stand.

This is one of the longer wigs that fellow castmate Amanda Vogel wears in the show.

And heres a overview shot of all the girls wigs. 

You can see the different styles used in the show some short, some long. 

I usually touch them up with my Tangle Teaser. 

This product comes from the UK and is the best hairbrush I've ever used! It gets the nastiest tangles out of the most unruly hair, I used to detangle the wigs since they do get pretty out of control during the course of the show. Then I smooth it out with a fine toothed comb and set it with hairspray. 

Well I hope you enjoyed reading about hair and if you have any question please feel free to ask! 

Stay pretty my friends! 

Cheers,
Christine