My first practice of my partners design

I started by looking whether my partner has dry, normal or oily skin. My partners skin appeared to be more on the normal to dry skin type, her skin was not sensitive and did not react to any of the products that I have used which made the application much easier, however I have noticed that my partner has sensitive/watery eyes if anything gets into them, so I was very careful while applying make up around her eyes to avoid discomfort for her as well as the make up smudging. While I was trying to recreate my partner's design, my partner talked me through and explained the different applications that I could do and also the specific products and colors that she wants me to use for her design. While I was applying supercolor around the eyes I have noticed that it started creasing very easy as it was creamy and not powder based, also much more difficult to work with, so we both decided that instead of supercolor I'll use eye shadow which was much easier alternative.
I was pleased with the outcome of my first practice of her design as I thought I was able to recreate the design that she wanted pretty well, I still needed practice to become more comfortable and be able to do it on time.

My partner's first practice of my design

My make up design:-

Products used for my make up design:-

- Illamasqua skin base foundation
- Illamasqua loose powder
- White supercolor (for the eyes) and red supercolor (for the lips)
- Illamasqua black eye shadow (for the eyes, contour)
- Illamasqua white pigment glitter (for the eyes, lips)

Brushes used for my make up design:-

- Kabuki buffing brush (to blend out the skin base foundation)
- Flat foundation brush(to apply skin base foundation)
- Powder sponge (to apply loose powder)
- Small angled brush (to apply supercolor on the lips)
- Small flat eye shadow brush (to apply black eye shadow, white supercolor)
- Small brush (to apply glitter)
-Big blending brush (to contour)
-Stippling brush (to remove excess powder)



Before letting my partner have her first practice of my design, I made sure that I was able to create the design myself, and help to explain in more detail the application and different techniques. I was guiding my partner step by step explaining the products I used to create this design. The main detail of this look was glitter, I wanted it to stand out the most. While practicing the make up look of this design my partner told me that she was struggling with applying black supercolour because it is very hard to correct the mistake, so I have decided to change it to the black eye shadow instead, my partner was happy with the decision and was able to recreate the design better than using the black supercolor. At first I wasn't sure that I wanted glitter on my lips, but after we tried both looks glitter and without, the glitter lips appeared more appealing as I wanted pretty dramatic make up look. After my partner finished her first practice of my design I was quite happy with the result, the only thing missing for me was more blended eye make up edges however I was still pleased with the outcome.

Technical make up lesson - Elizabethan make up

Products that I have used:-

- Illamasqua skin base

-Illamasqua loose powder

- Supercolour
-Krylon lip palette
- Blush palette

Brushes that I have used:-

- Big buffing brush

- Small angled brush

- Disposable mascara wand

-Big blusher brush

-Flat foundation brush

-Powder sponge

For the white base I started by using Illamsqua skin base foundation, covering her face, neck and ears. After I applied the skin base, I took some loose powder and applied it using the sponge, covering all the areas where I applied the skin base especially eye area because it tends to crease the easiest. After I finished using powder, I started applying the blush, I wanted to only focus on the apples of the cheeks as I noticed that's how Tudor women wore their blush, by taking big rounded blusher brush I packed on red blush only on the apples of the cheeks. For the lips I wanted them to be red but not too bright as I noticed that Tudor women did not were very bright lipsticks more neutral reds, so using small angled brush I applied the desired lip color. Finally for the eye lashes and the eye brows I used disposable mascara wand to apply the white supercolor.

 

Technical make up lesson - Eyes, lips and eyebrows

Products that I have used:-
- MAC Cool Neutral eyeshadow palette
- Mascara
- Kryolan lip palette

Brushes that I have used:-

- Disposable mascara wand
- Small rounded brush
- Small flat brush
- Angled brush



For the eye make up I used MAC Cool Neutral palette, I took a lighter color and applied all over the lid using small flat brush, because my partner's eye lid is not very big I wanted to use a lighter color to open up the eyes and not make them even smaller using dark color. To define the crease in the lid I used angled brush and applied a darker color. To blend in the colors and make sure there are no harsh lines I took rounded brush and blended it all out. I also applied black mascara on her eye lashes using disposable mascara wand.
For the eye brows I used one of the colors from MAC Cool Neutral palette closest to her natural eye brow color which is medium brown. I used small angled brush to be more precise and make sure I don't over line her natural eyebrow shape.



 

For the lips I used Kryolan lip palette, I mixed two colors which were orange and more  brown to create more of a neutral color. To apply the mixture I used small angled brush for more precision.

 

Sugar skull make-up

I enjoyed creating a sugar skull make up, some parts of the make up was hard to achieve as you have to be very precise to create neat, defined lines and shapes. I chose to mostly use black and white with some blue as I thought that those color look good together. I wanted the middle part of the eyes to be blue to bring most of the attention to them and then try to blend them into the black edges. I wanted to create a spider web on the forget because it was close to Halloween day and I wanted to represent it in my sugar skull design. For the white base I used Illamasqua skin base color in white, for the ornaments and other details I used supecolour black and blue.

Peer Assesment

After doing peer assessment, I was feeling a lot more stressed and still had a few blog posts to do to be up to date with all the work. I was feeling very concerned as I thought that my time management skills were not as great as I thought they were, so I had to think in my head how can I improve my time management skills and create less stress for myself by being up to date with all my work. Partly I feel this happened due to me starting this cause a little bit later than everyone else, while everyone got to know each other and are up to date with work from day 1 I felt like I was falling behind, and extra pressure from getting to know everyone was also affecting my work. My partner willingly showed me her work and explained to me a few things that I was unsure of, this helped me to feel more confident that I can catch up with everyone else and feel less stressed about falling behind. To help my work progress i decided to start attending drop in one on one sessions with the lecturers, I think it will help me a lot towards my work and assessments.

Technical make-up lesson - contouring

Products that I have used:-

- Kryolan foundation palette
- Kryolan powder foundation palette

- Kryoal blush pallete
- Illamasqua loose powder

Brushes that I have used:-

- Kabuki buffing brush
- Foundation brush
- Small rounded brush
- Loose powder puff
- Stippling brush 

I started by cleansing m partners face making sure there is no make up residue, then I toned and moisturized it. After this I applied foundation evenly on the face to even out the skin tone, and applying Illamasqua loose powder to set all the make up so it does not crease and makes the contour/highlight application easier.. Firstly I started to highlight the face, placing the product in the middle of the forehead, down the bridge of the nose, on the cupid bone, on the chin and on the cheekbones. After I highlighted it was time to start contouring with a darker color. Firstly i started by feeling my partners face and finding where her cheek bones are so I know where to place the color. Once I contoured her cheekbones I moved on to her temples and lightly contoured there to create a slimmer forehead appearance, then I started to contour the nose to make it appear slimmer by darkening the edges of the nose, also applied some of the darer color to the eye crease to slightly contour the eyes and created deeper eye look and lastly contouring the jaw line to reduce appearance of the double chin. Overall I was happy with the finished look, it was not too dramatic or over the top, it looked very natural and wearable for every day look.

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After:-