There was much talk of the wedding dress and how Catherine was going to wear her hair on this special day. Having a veil and tiara and being so much in the public eye, getting everything just right was on the onus of everyone associated with the wedding.

Catherine had a number of obstacles to overcome, Catherine was going to wear a veil and tiara, but wanted the public, and her husband to see her clearly. The best way to overcome this was to take the hair at the front, off her face, this could have been done by cutting her hair, but this would not have helped Catherine in her daily management of her hair, or how Catherine would like to wear her hair on a day to day basis.

Catherine’s hair is naturally straight with possible only a slight wave to the hair, so to make her hair look good, Catherine either has to straighten her hair, or curly her hair to get the best results. From past and present photo’s of Catherine, you can see her wearing both styles.

The wedding look was created by curling the hair in almost a ringlet style, and then the front hair was pinned back around the crown area to reveal Catherine’s natural beauty.

The ringlets can be created by using heated tongs. Take small sections of the hair and wrap them around the heated tongs, use a curling or spiral wind, to do this, trap the ends of the hair in the tongs near to the hand grip and wrap the hair around the tongs. Once you have done this, use a counting method, say count to 5 then release the hair, if there is not enough curl in the hair, repeat and increase the amount of time by counting longer, do this until you have a ringlet that holds, I would recommend that you do not count for more than 10 seconds on each section as to much heat could damage the hair.

Catherine’s haircut was created by cutting a long fringe, around chin level and then shaping the outline of the haircut to blend into the back, the important part of this haircut is to keep a steep line while working from the fringe length to the back length of the hair, remember this steep line is only from the fringe to the crown to ear parting, the back of the haircut is shaped separately, from behind your client, this will leave length in the overall haircut. Do the shaping on both sides of the haircut to give you a finished result.

If you keep the hair all one length you will have created some layers by the steep angle at the sides, however you can put more layers in by either pulling the hair upwards and cutting slightly through the top sections, or you could pull your outline sections slightly away from the head, subtly graduating the hair, take the sections horizontally to give you a slight graduated long haircut. This possibly sound more complicated than it is, but I would chose the second method to slightly graduate the hair. Then dry the hair and set on large rollers, finally using the heated tongs to give you the desired result.

Enjoy your hairdressing.