Conclusion.

Overall i have really enjoyed this first project. I feel my practical and theoretical skills have grown and developed throughout this semester. As having no previous hair experience i am happy in my progression in this area particularly. I feel i have used various resources for research and pleased with my designs development over the weeks. In future i aim to widen my research even more though. I was really happy with the final outcome for my design and the outcome of my partners design that i created.
Looking back now at my design i feel the make up needed to be a bit more extreme to show better in the photographs, and too experiment with other textures and perhaps lashes. I was really happy with how my hair design turned out and am glad my skills and potential was pushed further by my tutor as i feel a lot more confident now.

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Inspiration.

After speaking with my tutor recently about finding inspiration and more visual references from my own life, I have already started looking differently at what’s around me. I think it’s important to try to unpack my daily activities and personal interests, in order to investigate what I find inspiring. Rather than just using the internet as my only source of research, I am excited to start exploring the things that sub-consciously influence my practice. I will attempt to do this by documenting what catches my eye through photography and blogging.

Today I assisted my sister with a Christmas stall for a BA Fine Art degree show fundraiser in the main building. I really took interest in an image of Frida Kahlo that was designed for a Christmas card. I like the simplicity of the monochromatic palette chosen to depict her features. I was particularly drawn to what appeared to be a floral crown, which I feel ties in with the Elizabethans, with their use of embellishments and hair accessories. This has made me think of other ways which the Elizabethan Era could be interpreted and contemporised.

Over the Christmas period I intend on watching a couple of films that I think will inspire my creativity. Two of these will be, Black Swan and Anna Karenina, both of which include a lot of stage make up design.

Next semester I will continue to pay specific attention to what it is exactly that inspires me and hope that this more varied documentation will feed into my practice.

Outcome of final assessment (My design.)

These are the images from the outcome of my design that my partner Millie created from the final assessment. I am really pleased with the result.

Final face chart for my design.

After creating my final face charts and experimenting with them, i still didn't feel like i had the design i wanted for my final look. I decided to take aspects of them. I have said before that i only wanted one thing to be the focus, as the hair is quite big i didn't want it too look too much. So either lip or eye. I really liked the purple lip in one of my face charts so i have decided to use that. I also really like the subtleness of the pinks round the eyes, cheeks and forehead on another of my face charts so wanted to combine that with the purple lip. However i still feel that that isn't enough. I wanted more on the eye but not too much to overpower the lip. So i have chosen to use purple contact lenses just to really bring out the eye more and tie in with my lip (Purple because it was a royal colour in the Elizabethan era). I feel using purple contact lenses, this will contemporaries my look even more and give it more futuristic vibe.

These are the contact lenses i have purchased. 

Practice for final assessment.

My partner Millie and I tested different things to use for the white on my face. My skin is very dry and in previous practices the white base came out very patchy due to my skin. After i had exfoliated and moisturised well we tried the Illamasqua white foundation and then the white screenface. We decided that the Illamasqua worked better and to use that mixed in with primer on the final assessment.

 The light in the picture above is bad, accros the forehead is the screenface and the illamasqua accros the nose.

My partners practice of my design.

Today Millie practiced my final design for my look.  We will meet again and practice the look before her timed assessment. I was pleased with how the practice went. However i have extremely dry skin, and the foundation was going very patchy and the dry patches were coming through very clearly making the foundation look really uneven. Even though it was applied correctly. I am going to exfoliate my skin well and then when Millie and I meet up to practice, we are going to try again with the Illamasqua white foundation but adding primer into it too. And we will also experiment with other white colours like our screen face supra colour white too see if that sits better on my skin.
Here our the results:

I am pleased with the result today. I feel like it works well together. However i feel the edges of the brows and line under the eye needs to be blended slightly more but we will practice again to get the look perfect.

Make up step by steps.

Equipment:

• Cleanser, toner, moisturisers (provided)
• Illamsqua satin primer.
• Illamasqua white foundation.
• Illamasqua translucent powder
• Illamasqua blush- ambition.
• Mac white liner.
• Mac blue and red lip mix.
• Duo adhesive glue
• Eyelashes (provided)
• Brushes.

Step by steps.

1. Cleanse, tone, moisturise and prime the face.
2. Apply Illamasqua white foundation and buff over face, neck and ears.
3. Using Illamasqua foundation make eyebrows white using disposable mascara wand.
4. Powder well.
5. Apply blush to checks, and contour with it on corners of forehead.
6. Apply blush on corners of inside of eye, down the nose slightly and up to eyebrow.
7. Apply blush. on outside edges of upper lid.
8. Make lashes white using white foundation and white mascara provided.
9. Add white liner to under lower lashes and blend well. 
10. Add false lashes to bottom corners of lashes.
11. Using the lip mix, create a dark purple colour and line lips. Then fill in outside corners but leaving it lighter in the middle.
12. Also add a slight but of purple to the brows. 

Evaluation of my final timed assessment.

Overall i feel my final outcome of my partner Millie's design came out really well. I feel that i took her direction of how to create the look all on board and did the best i could in creating this during the hour and a half that we had. At first when Millie showed me her design, i was worried that it wasn't going to be achievable. There were lots of different components, e.g. head band, the french plait at the back, props in the sides etc. However Millie was excellent at explaining at how the look would be done, step by step, and was very precise at how she envisaged it too look. After talking through will Millie i felt a lot more confident that i would be able to create it. As she would make the head band and by a clip in fringe for the front section. At first i was worried mainly about the french plait that would go in a circle at the back, having only just learnt it at uni in previous weeks, but with lots of practice and practice on Millie i was really happy with the outcome in the final assessment. The overall look i was really pleased with and i feel Millie was happy with the outcome too. She communicated her ideas really well to me, and i feel this is a main aspect as to why the look came out just as she planned. I was pleased with the make up application, the wool on the brows went particularly well and i had a nice even coverage on the base. However i still feel i could have gone heavier with the blush so it showed in the photographs more. My time management during the assessment was good, i finished the look 15 minutes early which gave me time to go over things and make sure everything was exactly right. To conclude i was really pleased on a whole with the assessment, managing to create well even the things i was concerned about. I am glad my practical skills were pushed as it has made me a lot more confident now.

Timed assessment outcome.

These are the images from my timed assessment of me creating my partners design.

Practices for Final assessment.

My partner Millie and I met up to practice her design. I was worried about the eyebrows having wool all along and not being able to achieve this in the time limit given. After this practice though i felt a lot more confident and that it was definitely achievable.

Reflection of partners design.

This week i was asked to time myself whilst creating my partners look. Here are some photographs:

I feel my first practice of this look went well. I followed my partner’s instructions well. My timing was over though.  I struggled in getting the purple lines the same shade, size and shape, and feel this is something I will be practising before my timed assessments. Also looking back at the photos I definitely think everything needs to be heavier to show up on photographs more. As the lips were much darker than what they are showing. Same with the cheeks and contour, which you can hardly see in the photos. So for my assessments I will make sure everything is a bit more extreme. I like the base and feel I got a good even coverage. I was asked for it not too be too thick and feel I did this correct. I am worried that if my partner decides to add string or wool to the eyebrows how much time I will have to do this, but I will make sure we meet and practice this and make sure I can complete it within the time. Also after looking back I need to make sure I get right down to the root on the lashes with the white. I feel this is a good contemporary design of a traditional Elizabethan look as it has aspects of Elizabethan, e.g. white pale skin, and is showing it in other ways like symbolism though colour choices. 

So for my final timed assessments I will make sure to keep practising this look on myself and timing it and then practise on my partner too. I defiantly felt added pressure due to the time limit that was there and felt myself rushing almost and must remember not to do this on the day, just to get on with the look calmly.