Senatorial Hairstyle

Alright, first of all, my feelings on this piece. I love it. I love the way the hair came out. I think I managed to bs my way through this at odd hours of the night to actually like what I have done. I stayed up all night the night before filming to get this done and it came out wonderfully. My only gripe is that I ran out of time to do all of the embellishment work that I wanted to do on this costume.

The details:
Each piece (there are two, the one with netting and the one without) starts with a 16 guage wire base, then aluminum wire screening was affixed atop of that, tied in place with 32 guage copper wire that I had on hand. I covered it with black fabric to smooth out the shape and then stitched and glued the hair, in sections, to the frame. Both pieces have a brown hair net stretched and stitched over the top to keep extranneous hairs in place during shooting as I was going to be wearing this for at least 12 hours. The pieces were bobby pinned to my head and stayed wonderfully.