Final Assessment - Me as Make-up Artist, Toby Oldfield as Designer

Here is the final outcome of my assessment with Toby carrying out his design that he gave me. We had practised twice in lesson and even though we had not practised as much as I wanted to, I felt confident that my skills that I had learnt in class could be applied to his design. I felt that Toby incorporated his contemporary design with traditional Elizabethan make-up using the violet colours and adapted his original design to his own face. We added the violet colour to his beard and sideburns and were impressed with the outcome. I think in future more preparation and commitment to the design could be carried out, arranging practices and communicating the design idea to the makeup artist well to ensure that his design idea is reflected in the way that he wishes. It was hard at times to figure out exactly was was expected of me as a makeup artist and I would have liked to have communicated alot more. Overall I feel that more preparation was needed and more communication also.

smokin' baby!

I've been having a look recently at smokey eyes and how to create that really intense black smokey eye that so many makeup artists and celebrities use as a must have in their day to day looks and evening looks too! I found a couple of pictures of the look that I wanted to recreate!

Here's my attempt! 

I used mac 'blacktrack' fluidline all over the lid to get that intense black effect and then worked mac 'carbon' eyeshadow into the lid and partly into the crease. Then taking it below the lower lashes I worked in the colour and used my topshop black liner in my waterline. I used mac 'saddle' eyeshadow and buffed this into the crease to get a nice diffused gradient of colour and took this below the lashes too.To finish I applied 'eyelure 155 lashes' and then dabbed a tiny bit of mac 'suntweaked' eyeshadow into the tearduct and brow bone! what do you think?! 

New Elizabethan Make-up Design Influences

When looking for my final make-up design ideas I decided to take a book from the library to find some inspiration and found several images that incorporated elizabethan styling and influences. These were the images that caught my attention.

All of these images inspired me for different reasons, they all feature strong pale skin but the contemporary influences can clearly be seen from the strong dark eyes and lips in the first image to the strong cerise contour in the final image although this image looks more a little more like it was inspired by french revolution with subtle hints of the Elizabethan era. I like how all images exude power and wealth and I drew inspiration from the first image for one of my final design ideas. Here is my face chart that I created: 

The second look I created was inspired by an image I found online that showed both contemporary and traditional elizabethan make-up ideas. 

The angular white lines are very contemporary as well as the lip colour a it is quite intense however the brows have been blanked out as Elizabethans would and the white pale skin made me instantly think of Elizabethans. The rest of the skin is kept at it's natural skin colour with soft contouring and a natural colour on the eyes. I took inspiration from this for one of my designs and used a cerise pink instead to show wealth and nobility. 

Image found at: www.riimini.com

This is an image I found when researching for my final design. When researching looks in which the artists have blanked out the eyebrows I noticed that a lot of the looks have extended eye designs to give the forehead more length as Elizabethans did and to give more space on the eye for a more in depth design. Several images inspired this idea for me. This image of Kate Moss really stood out to me as being Elizabethan inspired. 

Ive decided to use dark eyes and a skin coloured base with dark contour and lips for my design. I tried out this design idea in class on my partner but quite simply focusing on the base, brows, contour and lips. 

I was pleased with how the base turned out but may use a lighter lip, possibly an ombre effect with a dark cerise colour. The contour needs to be a little stronger and better positioned but I worked effectively in the time we were given. The eyebrows need to have another layer of soap applied to make them less visible and have less texture as I will be applying a darker colour on top to give the effect of a larger eye.