From my designs I knew to create my derider effect and texture I was going to have to curl the hair with heat. I practiced with various curling techniques on the practice dolls head using hot rods, heated rollers, hair straighteners and different sized curling wands. I found the technique which worked most effective was the smallest curling wand as it created a tight curl, which when sprayed with hair spray left to dry then brushed out created volume and tight curled ends. It was also the easiest method to style the horse hair as it was very thick and coarse so the heat settings helped as I was able to increase the temperature of the heat. 

To create a rats tailed effect curl in the hair I tried using a few different products and techniques to style the hair and found that tightly twisting the hair then wrapping it around the curling wand created the twisted rat curl with a crude Im perfected effect representing my research. This process worked best when small sections of hair were used. 

The curls created volume but I wanted to created even an even more wild and thick appearance within the hair to resemble the research I found into witches with the association they "perserve their power of silence..are in habit of hiding some superstitious objects in their clothes or hair" So tried out volume products