Evaluation

I was really excited to start this project and it has lived up to that. I was excited to learn some new beauty style skills so that I could broaden my skills, but also as a bit of a perfectionist it was nice to learn things that can help me make a design look the best I can. I can’t really pick a certain technique I have liked the most because I have mainly enjoyed the tips and tricks mentioned by various people and practicing basics. I am really happy with my final images because they portray what I had in my head for my brand YSL. It has also been nice because I think from these images you can see how much I’ve learnt and improved with this project. It’s had its obvious ups and downs as a project but I definitely think that has enabled us all to keep pushing and trying and having confidence in our looks. If I were to do the project again I would further develop my looks but I would also like to play with creating looks for different brands too, to experiment with researching the colours and what each brand represents. Overall I have really enjoyed this project, more than anything it has given me a lot more confidence in my looks because I have achieved what I set out to do.

Technical file sign off sheet:

Final Images

Natural look

Metallic look

Strong lip look

Brow, lash and liner look

Smokey eye look

Model Choice

Only a small bit on my model choices for this one. I have chosen models that have good skin, the correct hair type for the look, the correct eye shape for the look, the correct lips for the shoot and models who I think could work the poses I would like.

Model choice is very important for me because I really do believe that the model choice can make or break a look. Being picky about my models has meant that I do just have to work to when the model can do rather than requesting a time but I hope it will be worth it!

Final Designs

Natural look

Products: 

Prep: Simply face moisturiser, Nivea lip balm, Toothbrush (to buff lips)

Make-up: Satin primer, Skin colour Supracolor, Screenface foundation, Illamasqua powder blush 'Disobey', Illamasqua cream peach blush, Benefit 'High Beam', Eyeshaddow for brows (whichever matches models brows), Urban Decay Naked 1, Illamasqua loose powder, Screenface eyeshaddow palette, MAC black kohl eyeliner, MUA black mascara, Kryolan lip palette, MAC 'Ravishing' lipstick, MAC 'Vegas Volt' lipstick

Hair: Got 2 Be styling oil, Schwarzkopft silhouette hairspray 

Metallic look

Products:

Prep: Simply face moisturiser, Nivea lip balm, Toothbrush (to buff lips) 

Make-up: Satin primer, Skin colour Supracolor, Screenface foundation, Illamasqua powder blush 'Disobey', Illamasqua cream peach blush, Benefit 'High Beam', Eyeshaddow for brows (whichever matches models brows), Urban Decay Naked 1, Illamasqua loose powder, Crown brushes 120 eyeshaddow palette, MAC black kohl pencil, MUA black mascara, Kryolan lip palette, Estee Lauder pink coral shimmer lipstick.

Hair: Got 2 Be styling oil, Schwarzkopft silhouette hairspray

Strong lip look

Products: 

Prep: Simply face moisturiser, Nivea lip balm, Toothbrush (to buff lips)

Make-up: Satin primer, Skin colour Supracolor, Screenface foundation, Illamasqua powder blush 'Disobey', Illamasqua cream peach blush, Benefit 'High Beam', Eyeshaddow for brows (whichever matches models brows), Urban Decay Naked 1, Illamasqua loose powder, MUA black mascara, Kryolan lip palette, MAC amplified 'Impassioned' lipstick

Hair: Got 2 Be styling oil, Schwarzkopft silhouette hairspray

Brow, lash and liner look

Products: 

Prep: Simply face moisturiser, Nivea lip balm, Toothbrush (to buff lips)

Make-up: Satin primer, Skin colour Supracolor, Screenface foundation, Illamasqua powder blush 'Disobey', Illamasqua cream peach blush, Benefit 'High Beam', Eyeshaddow for brows (whichever matches models brows), Urban Decay Naked 1, Illamasqua loose powder, Crown Brushes 120 eyeshaddow palette, 

Hair: Got 2 Be styling oil, Schwarzkopft silhouette hairspray, Illamasqua sealing gel, Screenface eyeshaddow palette, MAC black khol pencil, Haute Couture individual lashes and glue, MUA black mascara

Smokey eye look

Products: 

Prep: Simply face moisturiser, Nivea lip balm, Toothbrush (to buff lips)

Make-up: Satin primer, Skin colour Supracolor, Screenface foundation, Illamasqua powder blush 'Disobey', Illamasqua cream peach blush, Benefit 'High Beam', Eyeshaddow for brows (whichever matches models brows), Urban Decay Naked 1, Illamasqua loose powder, MAC black khol pencil, MUA black mascara, Kryolan lip palette 

Hair: Got 2 Be styling oil, Schwarzkopft silhouette hairspray

Initial Ideas

Storyboards

Brow, lash and liner look

Lip look

Metallic look

Natural look

Smokey eye look

Illamasqua - Timed asessment

For our timed assessment we were asked to create a look for Illamasqua, this felt quite daunting because they always have such strong concepts and merge beauty with creativity so well. 

As a starting point I decided I wanted my look to be contrasting in some way, from there I thought of a few contrasting themes of which I decided to choose Angelic/Warrior as the theme for my look. I then developed certain elements I though both fitted my theme and contrasted in some way (contrasting opposite on the same line) - 

                                             Angelic                                              Warrior

                                             - Fluffy crimped hair                          - Thick plaits        

                                             - Matte hair                                       - Dewy Skin

                                             - Pale skin                                         - Bold colour hair

                                             - White and gold colours                    - Strong/angled lines and gold leaf 

                                                                                              (to represent actual metal)

 Testing 

Mood board

Final Design 

Final Images

Evaluation - Overall I am happy with these images, I am particularly happy with how the brows, lips and crimping went. I struggled with a few things, although I tried the plaits, I just didn't have time for them in the end, so I just put 1 coming from either side. I also struggled with the white lashes because I struggled to get the white right to the base of the lash, I need more practice of this. If I had more time to develop this concept I think it would definitely improve the look, because I think it could do with further developing and refining a bit more.