Evaluation

Evaluation

I am really happy with the way my design turned out, although I feel Daniela could have maybe applied the blusher slightly darker to give off more effect on camera but other than that I am pleased with how it turned out.

As for me and Daniela being paired up with each other for our makeup assessment’s I am really happy with this choice and surprisingly glad I didn't get to pick my own partner as I feel Daniela is a very creative person and thinks 'out of the box' a lot which has helped me come out of my shell bit more and push myself when it came to applying her design. I have also realised and learnt that practice makes perfect and the more I practise the better I will become. For the makeup i'd like to think I gave Daniela all the guidance and breakdown she needed to complete my design confidently and without worrying that she didn't understand certain elements.

Daniela provided all the relevant breakdown that I needed and was in continuous communication with me in and outside of University to make sure I was happy with the design and everything that was going into it, which helped put me at ease with the understanding that if there was an issue she was happy to help to me. Overall I am happy with the outcome of our designs and I would happily work with Daniela again.

3 Brush Challenge

3 Brush Challenge

This week we were asked to create a face chart design of a makeup look of our choice and only complete this look using 3 selected brushes of our choice and see how well we could work just using 3 brushes and what the outcome of the makeup design would be like. This was something fun for us to do and I really enjoyed the idea of just only being able to use 3 brushes and also proved to me that as a makeup artist you don't actually need hundreds and hundreds of brushes and that you can rely on a select few to do many different technique's with them.

For my design I choose to do I subtle evening/party look if you like as we are getting into the party season with christmas just around the corner. So i went for warm brown and gold colours with a nude shimmer lip colour.

The brushes I selected to use for this look were:

Small Round Blending Brush

Fluffy Powder Brush

Whitetip Buffing Brush

I feel the overall look turned out quite well considering we were only using 3 brushes and I am happy I chose to work with these three brushes as I think the powder brush and buffing brush are very versatile so can be used for base foundation and concealer and then for contouring, blusher and also lightly blending away any edges to the eye colour or excess product that had fallen from the eyes to the cheeks. 

I love the small rounded blending brush we get in our kits as this is also very versatile as you can use this for lip colour application, eye shadows and to blend away any harsh edges that may be visible but also specifically with the eyes you can also use this to smudge in any kohl pencil or dark eyeliner colour you are using to really help smudge in and blend around the eye area.

Here is the outcome of my design using only my 3 selected brushes. I feel I could have added my contouring and blush colour to the cheeks to give the whole look a little more warmth but overall I am pleased with how this turned out.

My Timed Makeup Assessment

My Elizabethan Makeup Assessment

So today I did my makeup assessment and carried out Daniela's design on her. I like to think the final outcome was a success and went well within the time frame we had, considering I hadn't had as much practise at the design as I would have hoped but Daniela did provide me with lots of information and a breakdown of the design incase I did need anything to refresh my mind whilst carrying out the makeup application. 

I do feel I could have possibly applied to colour to be more of a stronger outcome of colour, as on the images it does look slightly lighter than anticipated due to the brightness of the flash. I did enjoy carrying out Daniel's design as I thought it was very different to my design and pushed the boundaries more of what "contemporary" means and she really wanted it to be individual and unique and I hope that I managed to reflect that with my application. 

Here are some of the final images from today's assessment.

My Partner's Elizabethan Makeup Assessment

Partner Elizabethan Makeup Assessment 

On Monday my partner had her actual timed assessment on my Contemporary Elizabethan makeup design that I produced. 

I genuinely think this went really well for her and I could see how much effort and hard work Daniela had put into the assessment as she wanted the outcome to be perfect and do it justice as it was a subtle design to begin with. Daniela has been working hard on trying to perfect blocking the eyebrows out using the soap and water technique, which she has been doing really well on that last few times we have practised, however, on assessment day we had to bring in our on bars of soap which turned out to be a different soap to what we have normally used and as the soap began to dry it began to crack slightly around the edges. As for the smoothness and blocking out the colour she did a really good job as they were barely visible. 

The overall final outcome of the makeup looked really good and I am happy with how it turned out and it looked exactly how I wanted it to, I am aware that the design was very subtle but I think that's what made it look more contemporary as it focused on the subtle colour of the contoured cheeks and the gold lips.

Designer- Rebecca Gould

Makeup Artist- Daniela Yordanova

Photographer- Daniela Yordanova

My Practise of My Partner's Design

Practise Session of My Partner's Design

Over the past month or so me and my partner have been practising our final makeup designs on each other ready for the lead up to the final timed assessment's. Daniela's final design is very different to my design and she has gone at it from a completely different angle of the design process. Practising Daniela's design to start off was slightly confusing as her design was drawn out rather than designed on a face chart using the relevant products so I was slightly confused as to how she wanted to overall outcome to look but this was soon overcome as we sat and discussed what she wanted to the outcome to be and I gave her my input on what I think would work well and together we had the image in mind. 

Here are some images of the practise sessions of working on Daniela's design. I do really like the bottom image of Daniela's design as I feel I could really see the design process coming together and the makeup really coming to life.

Design Inspiration

Design Inspirations

For my final contemporary Elizabethan makeup design I have researched into high fashion catwalks that have taken the Contemporary Elizabethan style to the runway.

Pat McGrath- Alexander McQueen A/W 14

The image on the right of this picture that was for Alexander Macqueen's A/W 14 show by Pat McGrath. To me is a clear sign of Elizabethan inspiration using the technique of hiding eyebrows with what appears to be bleaching instead of blocking and gives an immediately different effect to the look and the face. In my design I decided to have the eyebrows blocked as this would show a key sign of Elizabethan history but on a contemporary scale to fit in with the rest of my design.

http://www.nikkietutorials.com/site/2014/03/2014s-10-best-aw-fashion-week-beauty-looks/

John Galliano A/W 2007 

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/507006870521634551/

Makeup- Pat McGrath

Designer- John Galliano A/W 2007

I particularly love this makeup look that is another fab piece from Pat McGrath and I think this is the image that gave me the most inspiration when it came to contouring, as you can see in my other blog post for my designs I have blusher in three different shades mixed together to lightly build up a contoured effect to the cheekbones and around the temple area, the reason I used blusher instead of shader was because the shade of red is a key sign of Elizabethan and was seen as a royal colour and expensive so would only be worn by the higher class society. I also think the blusher contour on my design immediately sets off the gold lips that I have incorporated into my design. 

The look that Pat has brought to life in this image is beautiful and there seems to be something so sophisticated about it but has a clash of innocence with the paled out skin for the base. 

Practise Final Makeup- My Partner

My Partner- Practising My Final Design

This week in our makeup sessions we were paired up with our partners to practise our final makeup designs for assessments in the new 2 weeks. 

Daniella my partner practised my makeup look twice this week on me as she will be going first on the real timed assessments and I will be doing mine the following week. 

As you can see in my previous post I want my eyebrows blocking out and the face quite white but mixed with some natural foundation so its not ghostly white. 

I feel the makeup Daniella produced was pretty much how I was imagining it to look and although there wasn't anything too complicated on my design this means that she need to have the final outcome of the look perfectly done and even all over the face. 

My partner did a fantastic job on blocking my eyebrows out with soap and water and covering them up which I think she was also very happy with as well, they were very smooth and evenly flattened which helped when she began covering with the makeup as you could barely see them at all!!

As for the rest on the makeup she did produce a really good cover on the base, however the only thing I would like is for her to add more natural coloured foundation to the white so it gives a more washed out tone to the face, therefore being slightly more contemporary, and to add more blusher and build on it so it contours more of the cheekbone and is slightly more visible to the front of the face, which she did do on her second attempt as we both discussed and thought it would look better this way. 

My partners first attempt at the full final makeup look

Her second attempt at the full makeup look- as you can see the blusher contour is stronger and the eyebrows are completely covered and barely visible.