Unit 209 The art of dressing hair

Unit 209 The art of dressing hair

25-01-2021

Understand how to prepare for dressing hair

• Identify safety considerations for styling and dressing hair

• Describe communication and behavioural requirements

• Explain consultation techniques

• Explain basic science and effects that styling and heat have on the hair

How do we maintain effective and safe methods of working

• How do you keep our work area clean and tidy ?

• How do you protect your client ?

• When should you keep your work area clean and tidy ?

• How should you position your client in the chair ?

Sterilisation

• What can be used to keep tools and equipment sterlised ?

• What tools need to be sterilised prior to dressing the hair ?

How should we communicate with clients ?

Poll

How long should you spend on consultation with a client ?

• 2 minutes

• However long it takes to agree the service

• 10 minutes

• I don't bother really I know what I am doing

Questions, questions and more questions

• Identify the needs of the client

• Analyze the hair

• Identify factors that might effect the service

What visual checks should you be doing ?

• scalp & hair conditions

• Length, type, texture & density of the hair

• Partings, natural hair fall

• Face shape, facial features

• Time

Open Ended

Your client wants their hair putting up for a day at the races, list the types of questions you would ask

Commercial times

It is essential you work to schedule to prevent running late for other appointments. Test all your equipment beforehand, have your work station clean and prepared. What is the commercial time for a hair up ?

The sciencey bit

Hair is mostly composed of a hardened fibourous protein called keratin. Keratin is made up of amino acids and peptide bonds which originate in the hair follicle. These amino acids and peptide bonds form POLYPEPTIDE chains. They are held together by permanent and temporary bonds inside the cortex.

The structure of the hair

Hair can be naturally curly, wavy or straight. Your natural hair type is determined in the cortex. Hair is held in it's natural state by the permanent and temporary bonds.

Bonds

The permanent bonds are broken by chemicals, like perm solutio, this makes the naturally straight hair become curly. The permanent bonds are called DISULPHIDE bonds.

Styling hair softens the temporary bondscand temporarily changes the natural state, such as straight to curly, curly to straight. The temporary bonds are hydrogen and salt bonds.

Hydrogen bonds

• Main bonds broken down when styling

• Broken by heat or water

• Hardened by drying or cooling

• Hydrogen bonds are gives the hair strength and flexibilty

Alpha and beta keratin

Hair in it's natural state, straight, wavy or curly is decribed as been in an Alpha keratin sate, when the hair has been wetted, stretched and dried into it's new shape is is described at being in a beta keratin state

Heat from styling equipment, like tongs and straightners can also change the state from Alpha to beta keratin, when the hair is cooled it has formed a new shape.

Humidity

Hair is hygroscopic, which means it can absorb moisture from the atmosphere. The moisture absorbed from the air can also change the hair back from a Beta state back to an Alpha because the moisture softens the temporary hydrogen bonds and the hair reverts back to it's original state.

Can you give me an example of when this has happened to you ?

Multiple Choice

Permanent bonds are called ?

• Alpha

• Disulphide

• Beta

• hydrogen

Multiple Choice

Hydrogen bonds are the main bonds broken down during styling ? True or False

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The natural state of hair is described as what type of keratin ?

• Hydrogen

• Salt

• Beta

• Alpha

Multiple Select

Hair when it has formed it's new shape is described as ?

• Alpha

• Beta

• Keratin

• Salt