Creating Frosty looking hair

For my editorial look I want my model to have hair that looks like its covered in frost!

I found it a little difficult to create the look of frosty hair through drawing, this is the best I could do!

I went on to experiment with some sugar, fake snow and beads, using PVA glue as an adhesive.

Beading

This was pretty time consuming but I was very pleased with the results and definitely want to include this for the final piece. I'm going to have to buy a wig and bead the hair before hand otherwise I wont have enough time to shoot my image!

Starting with the thicker beads and moving down to smaller creates a lovely icicle effect.

Fake Snow

Putting the PVA on my fingers I lightly applied it to the tips of the hair and then poured the fake snow over the top.

I was quite happy with this effect, I wish the white was a little stronger but the texture works very well.

Sugar

I achieved this the same way I did with the Fake Snow

I'm SO happy with this effect. Definitely going to using all 3 techniques. I love how the sugar clings to a single hair, I think it looks exactly like frosty hair. However, I'm not entirely sure I want my final look to have black hair. I feel like going in the opposite direction and using blond hair will be more contemporary and unexpected. If the beads don't show up as much on the blond hair, I'm going to experiment with painting them with nail varnish!