Technical File

The Assessment And Final Shoot.

 I have successfully completed my makeup assessment on the New Elizabethans and I have photographs to show.

Evaluation:

I am very happy with the outcome of my final piece completely finished. I feel that it brings out some basic features of Queen Elizabeth but looking very edgy and high fashion modern, high fashion is the look I was going for to make something modern to me I want to really push the barrier and go to the next level even if it is just practically a basic makeup.

I completed my own design on my own model, I didn’t get a chance to get another makeup artist to complete my makeup look that I wanted to achieve during the assessment because of personal reason, and I feel that this gave me an advantage to the project and regret missing out, but I am happier with the outcome now than when my partner did the look on me.

I changed up my final look a little from my practice run because it was a different model and I thought during the assessment she would have not looked as good if I completed it exactly as I did on the previous model. I don’t feel that I changed too much to the whole look, I kept the skin pale, strong brows, contouring with pink and highlighting with the same pigment as I used over the eyes. I just changed the intensity around and used slightly different colours, and changed the lips to an all over colour. I am very happy with the final outcome and I wouldn’t change anything.  

Final design

After researching Elizabeth, her in the past and a modern version of her I have come up with my final design. 

Unfortunately I'm not able to upload a drawing of my final design, but I do have a practice shot of the makeup I will be doing during my assessment. 

These are my final designs, I want it to be a very fresh by keeping the skin pale and only using pinky shimmers, pinks, and whites. I also rebelled against having blocked out eye brows by making them bold, that is my big modern twist on the whole thing, keeping the brows but making them more dramatic by really filling them in. Brows were a hug fashion statement last year, a lot of designers or even in magazine spreads were a basic face and then strong brows, so I really want to keep a good modern brown game in my end design.

Instead of just using blush on the apples of the cheeks like Elizabeth had, I contoured the face using 3 different shades of pink blush, the deepest colour at the hollows of the cheek bone and then fading it up with the medium to the lightest. I also highlighted the cheeks with a pigment shimmery pinkish eye shadow that I also used all over the lids. On the eyes I did a strong wash of white eye shadow followed by using the pigment again, I then finished the eyes with a little bit of mascara on the top lashes to really tie the whole look together.

On the lips I used a pink based purple lipstick and lightly dabbed it in the center of the lip and fading out, this gave it a real old style feel to the completed look that I really liked.

Using colours.

I have made a makeup look just using one colour and using all the tones of that colour to complete a whole look. 
The colour I chose was red, I love the colour red but it can be very harsh to use, so here I experimented with the different tones of red, mostly dark. 
I used a light red in the crease, and the darkened the eye look with a bright red to show under the darkest colour and then I went in and deepened the whole look with a very dark red eye-shadow, the eye-shadow is almost black but under it has a red tone to it all.
I also use a very dark red lipstick, again almost black red and then set it with the darkest colour red I used on the lid for a very Gothic look.  
I finally did my photo-shoot using a red dress I made and I'm very happy with my whole makeup look, the pictures and the colour I decided to chose.

Makeup done by me

Hair done by me

Photography done by me

Outfit made by me

Model- Maisie Watkinson

Colour charts

There are 3 different types of colour wheels, the primary, the secondary, and the tertiary.

The primary colour wheel is made up with 3 different colours:

-Red
-Blue
-Yellow

The secondary colour wheel is made up with 6 different colours:

-Red
-Orange 
-Yellow
-Green 
-Blue
-Purple

And the tertiary colour wheel is made up of 12 different colours, all these colours are mixers of:

-Red
-Orange
-Yellow
-Green
-Blue
-Purple

These colours are in 2 different shades, so red will be in 2 different shades of the colour and so on with all the other colours.





Colour wheels, and being able to use colours were very important, colours can compliment each other by using the colours opposite each other like, red and green, purple and yellow, blue and orange etc.
This can help with applying eye shadow by the colour eye, so if you have blue eyes and you want to make them stand out you'll use a orange/ copper eye shadow and so on. 
You can also use the colours to counteract curtain things such as acne/redness in the skin by using a green underneath and using a salmon-ish colour to cover up under eyes.

Being able to use a colour wheel is very important as a makeup artist, all colours from foundation to eye-shadow to lipstick all have these as bases, a colour from here can be lightened and darkened by adding white to lighten and black to darken. As an example foundations normally have 2 different tones is, either a yellow based for yellow based skins and then a pink tone for pink toned skin, as a makeup artist you have to be able to look at a colour and see what base colour it is to then mix and counteract to apply a perfect finished makeup look. 

Beyonce... The Queen?

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As a modern day superstar is beyonce really the un-named queen?

She is very strong, powerful, well loved but does she make a good modern day Elizabeth? In class a lot of people have spoke about, or even chosen there final project on Beyonce and here I'm going to debate it. 

She is an amazing musician, and an even more amazing person. She has the confident to be a queen and no one can deny in these pictures she doesn't look beautiful enough to be a queen, saying so I personal don't think she could be, I look at these pictures and I see her but I see under it all and threw the beautiful clothing and amazing makeup, she isn't my inspiration because I want my inspiration to come from a strong woman, all the way threw. It's sometimes not just the makeup, it's how you hold it all, it's how you hold yourself that brings it all together. That is why my inspiration is coming from models, the models used for fashion shows and photo-shoots, with out this sounding condescending models are constantly criticized, constantly picked at but in photographs they hold the look with such strength, the strength only a queen would hold.