Induction Week

Induction Week

The start of the beginning I suppose you could say... I have met some really lovely girls on my course on induction week who I think I will get on with extremely well! 

For our induction week we were given some orientation tasks to complete as groups, one of them being taking a trip into Southampton centre and visiting the makeup counters of MAC, Smashbox, Benefit, Laura Mercier and Bobbi Brown to find out what there 'hero product' is and there bestsellers on each counter and also take pictures, so we headed into John Lewis at West Quay Shopping Centre to the make up counters.

MAC Store

MAC's new Ccollection with Brooke Shields

Bobbi Brown Top 10 Bestsellers

The second task we were set through our induction week was to produce a character of who we see our selves to be and look like in 5 years time, sort of bring our mood boards to life in a character by using a brown paper bag, once we had finished our designs we where then asked to go out around Southampton and get a picture taken of us wearing our paper bags in public.

My graduation inspired paper bag looking slightly dishevelled.

Illamasqua Seminar & Activity

Further on into our Induction week we were lucky enough to be given a talk and demo from some of the team at the Illamasqua brand; Head of Professional Development, Spob. The International Brand Ambassador, Charlotte and also there Events Manager Josephine. 

Charlotte provided us with a demo of the recent catwalk look that Illamasqua did on the Sorapol SS15 catwalk show, she talked us through the look and some of the key products and tools that were used, to name a few; 

Hydra Veil

Highlighting Brush 

Eye Pencils in Honour and Navy 

The overall outcome of the look was stunning

Charlotte giving the demo 

After the demo we were asked to split off into groups to create our own fantasy character using only limited products that the Illamasqua team provided us with and give a short pitch of what our final look was aiming for and was about. We decided to try and create a reincarnated look of a 1920's female with the paled out skin and light contouring with a dark lip, this look was very simple but closely focused on the colouring to the skin. The products we used where 'Skin Base Foundation in 6' to neutralise the skin and give it one all over colour and then went onto build the face up with 'Transluscent Loose Powder in 010' to try to build the effect of paled out hollow skin, for the lips we chose the shade 'Howl' which is a deep matte red lipstick which isn't too bright and kept within the theme of the 1920's idea we were trying to go for. 

Charles Fox Seminar

Towards the end of Induction Week we had a visit from some of the team at Charles Fox who introduced us to the brand and gave us an insight into who and what the brand is. There store is based in Covent Garden, London and is solely owned by the brand Kryolan. I felt this talk was extremely helpful by the way they talked through many different products that they offer and examples of what each can be used for, such as the certain products that they use in TV, Film, Theatre and Special Effects, and to see the vast amount of products for each was amazing! I have previously worked with some Kryolan products before but I felt like this talk has really helped me understand the products in a lot more detail. We where also informed that other large make up brands such as Daniel Sandler, Becca and Illamasqua use Kryolan based products. We were also given some advice by the team on the best ways to expand our kits when the time comes and to not think about what products we would personally want  but to always think about the professional side and what do you actually need in your kits. 

Kryolan/Charles Fox Products