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.

Lesson with Mirijana Vasovic

Practicing bases, brows and lips with MUA Mirijana Vasovic, here is what I did on the day:

I learnt some really useful tips and really enjoyed her lesson.

Plaiting

We had a more advanced lesson on plaiting this term, We practiced raised plaits, waterfall plaits and some other ones too. I generally find anything other plait than a normal plait pretty hard but I tried to get my head around these, these are my attempts:

        Raised plait                                                                                                 Small waterfall plait

Raised plait around head

I also decided to borrow Dolly from uni just to practice hair in general as well as trial a few ideas for this project, these are the outcomes:

    

Testing - Lips

I did a few tests of some of the ideas I had for lips for this project, I tried out a light pink shimmer lips, purple and gold lips and a bright pink lip:

I like the pink shimmer because                                     Although I like how vivid this is I
fits the YSL colours and is subtle                                  think it is a bit too bright for YSL.
so could go well with a strong                                       But I would like to use a brighter
eye look.                                                                      colour for the lip look so it pops.

                     
                             I generally just don't really like                                       The colour of this purple is a bit
                             this look, I think it is to blue                                           nicer I think and the gold glitter
                             purple not red purple and the                                         is a lot more effective than the
                             gold eyeshaddow has not                                              eyeshaddow. However I don't
                             worked how I wanted it to.                                           think the glitter fits the brand so
                                                                                                                 I think I'll have to find an
                                                                                                                 alternative.

Treated myself...

Due to my recent blusher incident I decided to treat myself to one of the very popular Urban Decay Naked eye shadow palette. Since starting this project I have wanted to start practicing and perfecting how to achieve natural complementary beauty looks so the palette seemed a good start. There are 3 of the Naked palettes out at the moment and although contain some similar colours are pretty different. I decided on 1 because 3 seemed too pink and 2 seemed a bit too dark for me for now. I'm very happy with my purchase and can't wait to use it on both my self and for this project.

Broken blusher...

I arrived at a shoot the other day to discover my favourite blusher (a brand new Illamasqua pressed powder blusher in 'Tremble') had somehow not survived the walk and had completely shattered at the bottom of my kit! Only make-up people will understand how sad this moment was but I just had to share, haha.

Fashion show hair

I was recently park of the hair team for a fashion show showcasing up and coming designers at 'The Looking Glass' cocktail club in Shoreditch, London, put on by East London Fashion Shows. I have decided to post about it here because it was actually unintentionally really useful for this project! The look that was decided for most of the models was a very slicked back high ponytail with hair wrapped around the top, this is a look that I think I might like to use for one of my looks so it was a good chance to practice this hairstyle. To create this look first we brushed through the models hair thoroughly, applied some styling oil to the ends of the hair then blow dried the end with a brush to both moisturize them and make sure they were straight, next we neatly slicked the hair back into a high pony, wrapped a small amount of hair from the pony around the top (where the band is) and pinned discreetly into place. Lastly we sprayed hairspray onto our hands and slicked over the hair and ponytail to secure and whispy bits etc, maintaining as much shine to the hair as we could.

Illamasqua demo

We had another visit from the lovely Spob O'brien and Charlotte Gabriella from Illamasqua, which as always was very interesting and inspiring! They talked through a few things and also did a demo of a look they had created for Sorapol at London Fashion Week this year. this a photo of the look from the actual show:

 ...and this is the same look demo'd for us on Kristie.

It was really interesting to see how this look was created, what products where used and learn various tips along the way!

Complementary and contrasting

We have been asked to find 2 images of contrasting hair and make-up and 2 of complementary hair and make-up, these are my two sets of images:

I chose the first image because of the obvious contrast in colour, but also because of the contrast with the lips being emphasized and the eyes being covered. The second image I chose because of the contrast between the messy hair and the polished makeup, this contrast is tied in however because the whole look has a very soft, pastel colour scheme.

The first image I chose because I felt the curves of the hair, eye shadow and lips all complemented eachother, they all helped to sculpt and accentuate the curves of the face. The second image I chose because all aspects of the look complement both each other and the models natural face shape/features etc. The placing and colours of the make-up suits the face and its features, for example using browny eye shadows to complement blue eyes and gloss on the center of the lips to accentuate them.

YSL colour research

I decided  to research further the colours and colour themes of YSL to help inspire the colours for my looks and make sure they fitted with the currant colour trends for YSL Beauty. I went to a YSL beauty counter and tried to take a range of swatches the stand had of both lipsticks and eyeshaddows. 

I found that their lipsticks (right photo) were mainly pinks, corals and purples and predominantly mid to darker tones. They was a mixture of shine, shimmer and more matte finishes.

The eyeshaddows were again both shimmer and matte and colours included lots of golds, pinks, greys and blacks.

They are known for both bold colours as well as many smokey eye looks so I think it has definitely been valuable looking at the actual colours they sell/use so that I can further build upon my knowledge of what they're about.