Lan Nguyen make up inspiration for my final major project,,,

Lan Nguyen

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Born in Ireland from a Vietnamese origin; Lan has become an established in the fashion and beauty industry. She originally came from an art background and studied fashion at Central St.Martins University in London. Self taught in make up she pursued her career to heading and designing key shows and is a name at London Fashion Week. She has contributed to many editorials such as; Russian Vogue, Vanity Fair, Elle UK, Glamour & Grazia (2. Lan-makeup.com, 2015). She has collaborated with photographers such as Rankin and David Bailey, and singers such as Paloma Faith and the Sugar babes.

For me her journey really inspires me she worked her way up and her talent is incredible. The reason I picked her as inspiration for this project is for her use of colour and texture in her make up - it's amazing! Below are some of my favourite works by Lan;

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I love these colours together the died silk headscarf in the same colours looks so good paired with it too! That's something I hadn't considered matching the hair to the headdress!

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Love the contrast of black and white in this image I think it works so well, part of my mask is black and white and part really colourful, so I would love to bring be able to create a happy medium between the two.

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Her use of diamontes here is amazing! The pairing with the glitter base and the amazing bead head piece is so inspiring, A key with her worl is she has a amazing ability to link all aspects of her designs. 

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I love the stencil effect of this mask and the discreet use of diamonds, which then link to the beautiful necklace. The brows are amazing too.

References:

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Marie Claire October 2012 Dia De Los Muertos make up editorial....

Dia De Los Muertos editorial Marie Claire 2008

This editorial is a beautiful example of taking a well known concept and evolving it to fit in the fashion world. The make up is clean and beautiful, and the accessories used really bring the theme to life.

It really highlights exactly why I chose to do this theme I want to take a well known look, and recreate it whilst keeping some of the traditional aspects. I think this is a really difficult thing to do and quite daring, but I want to rise to the challenge, and test my creativity. 

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I love how the outfit on the model matches the colour of the background in al of the shots, It really ties everything together, this is definitely a technique ill be considering when it comes to styling. 

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I adore the use of contrasting colours it works so well! The orange against the deep blue wall works so well! This is definitely something I want to consider when styling my shoot. 

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I love the hair in this picture and the use of one earring, This hairsty;e is definitely one I will be considering, but as my model has very short, thin hair I would have to use extensions to create the plaits.

Make up practice with my model...

Make-up practice...

Products used:

- face and body moisturiser

- Kryolan white iridescent Aqua colour 

- Matte bronzer

- Revolution colour shadow palette

- White compact highlighter from MUA

- Make up Forever colour flash palette

- Vaseline

- Kryolan purple iridescent aqua colour

- Kryolan peach iridescent aqua colour

Make up products

started off by moisturising my models skin well, I only need to do this as prep as my model had just got out of the shower.

I did the eye make up first; using my make up revolution colour shadow palette using a mixture of small and medium round eye brushes, I did a base layer of white full coverage cream foundation from make up forever, this really helps the bright colours to pop. Once I had applied the shadows I dabbed over Vaseline to give the eyes a lovely sheen. I cleaned up the droppage and moved onto the base;

I used a white full coverage cream foundation from make up forever and applied to the face using a bronzer brush, I love this brush for really buffing in a base, it creates a beautiful streak free finish.  I took the white down the neck and onto the shoulders. I then used a sponge to apply Kryolan peach iridescent aqua colour underneath the white blending in to one another so the transition didn't look too stiff, next I went in with Kryolan purple aqua colour beneath the peach doing the same. I have been contemplating what I want to do on the body, I was thinking doing gradual colours matching my head piece and eye make up colours, but after doing it today, I feel as if it's too much colour, and the look becomes distracted and loses it's focus. So I think ill be going back to the drawing board with that one. 

I then used a powder brush to apply the peach highlight all over the face and body.

I created the ombre lip using my make up forever colour flash palette, shades hot pink, peach and white, bring the lightest colours into the centre of the lip, I want my design to have a focus and the onlookers eye to be drawn to the centre, with my mask and the ombre lip I think this really achieves that!

I will be using spirit gum and concealer on the brows to give a bleached effect, I didn't have my spirit gum with me today so I had to leave out the brows, I just put a little concealer through them to lighten them up!

Below are photos of the look I created today; 

Ombre lip

Problem solving:

The eyes were a real issue today; when I placed Vaseline over the shadows it made them bleed into one another and it really creased up! Which meant I had to go back in with shadows, but the Vaseline made them claggy and gave them the inability to be able to blend! This means in the assessment that I'd either have to apply the Vaseline at the last minute or risk my design being ruined! Looking back at the photos I've actually decided to ditch the Vaseline all together I feel by using a highlighter all the face and body the eyes don't need to be highlighted as well! 

The Kryolan white iridescent aqua colour didnt sit well on my models face; despote moisturising it went all seperated as if she had really dry skin which she didn't so I think I'm going to use a white full coverage foundation instead! 

Overall I'm happy with how this practice went! I'm really happy with how my design idea went in the flesh, there are just a couple of minor tweaks that I have to make to ensure it's completely perfect!

make-up practice 2...

Make-up Practice...

So I decided to do another practice, this time implementing the changes I wanted to make after the previous run through;

Instead of using Kryolan white iridescent aqua colour on the face and body, I used Make up Forever white full coverage cream foundation from my flash palette. I found it so much better on the skin, the application was far easier and far less product was needed. It made my model look washed out, but for my model in the assessment it will look great as she has bleach blonde hair! Using loose Vanilla pigment over the white foundation looked amazing much better in person, I will definitely being using this over the compact highlighter. 

To make her eyebrows bleach I used a spool dipped in spirit gum then brushed through the brows, I let them dry then, applied D32 on the brow using a small angle brush,I applied D32 as my model had really dark brows, and the D32 brings the colour to neutral, so the light concealer shade I used next wouldn't appear grey. 

Finished look

Finished look

My models brows after I had 'bleached' them 

A puple I custom mixed using my Make up Forever flash palette, with MAC Vanilla pigment over the top

Spirit gum I used to set brows

My La Maquillage concealer palette I used to 'bleach' the brows

Using latex to stick my mask to the face

Sticking my mask using spirit gum

I tried out different products that could stick my mask down; the first product I tried was spirit gum, and found that it pulled far too much on the skin, as it wasn't strong enough! As you can see in the image above!

So I then tried liquid latex, using my finger I placed latex on both the part of the mask I wanted to stick and on the section of the face I wanted to stick it to, I let the product become tacky, then stuck it down holding it firmly in place. As you can see from my other photo it worked far better than the spirit gum, so this is the product I will be using.

Make up and hair catwalk trends inspiration

Hair & Make up Catwalk Trends

For my hair and make-up design I want to create something avant garde and high fashion, as well as still having some traditional elements from Day of the Dead.

I have put together a hair and make up mood board of runway shows, that I love and will be using as inspiration for my final design. 

Make up mood board:

Right from the start I knew that I wanted to create a beautiful flawless white iridescent skin, taking the white colour right down to the chest, then changing the colour to brighter ones as I got further down such as pinks and purples. 
Having a look at present and past catwalk trends, I now know that I want the eyes to be the biggest statement, along with the lips. As you can see in the mood board above; embellishments on the eyes have been both recent and past trends, along with bright colours, I like the idea of creating texture. Ombre lips are trending at the moment, and I would love to use the technique in my final design, I quite like the idea of incorporating glitter into them as well.
I also want to block out the eye brows or a bleached effect.
I love the concept of freckles seen at Preen SS15, I would like to incorporate this into my design but on a smaller scale, such as a dusting across the nose.

Hair Mood Board:

Due to having a large headpiece as part of my mask, you wont be able to see the hair from the front, so in sticking with my idea of creating a really clean, high fashion design, I have decided on a wet look for the hair, as it's on trend this year as you can see above and I think it would compliment my design idea really well. My model has very short hair so I would like to incorporate extension in to give extra length and body to her hair. I would like to have the wet look on the top sections of the hair, with the ends dry and straight.

I love the idea of creating contrast in my design; clean white skin mixed with textured eyes and lips. Wet slick hair graduating into, dry straight hair. 

References;

Make up mood board:

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Hair mood board:

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4. Cosmouk.cdnds.net, (2015). [online] Available at: http://cosmouk.cdnds.net/14/37/480x721/amanda-wakeley-ss15.jpg [Accessed 10 May 2015].

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7. Cosmouk.cdnds.net, (2015). [online] Available at: http://cosmouk.cdnds.net/14/39/480x721/vaccarello-clp-rs15-0327_1.jpg [Accessed 10 May 2015].

Makeup workshop 21.04.15 class and homework

So today we had to get into pairs and assess make-up and hair design pictures given to us by our teacher Branka; annotating with how we thought the make up look was achieved, products used etc...

The picture we were given was;

Our Image

Our annotations

We decided that we thought the foundation was a white cream stick foundation (its in the picture!)

The lip colour we thought a mineral lipstick with no liner as it has a sheen to it.

The eye shadow we thought was a cream/gel shadow as it has a wet look.

The sequins on the temple area we thought may be pre made piece as it would have taken ages to create otherwise, but the black sequins on the eye lid we decided would have been applied one by one, as well as strip lashes

We thought the highlight was , maybe MAC vanilla pigment and the contour a natural powder contour shade.

The brows look like they have been lightly filled in then gel applied over the top to achieve a wet look.

We then presented our opinions and thoughts to the class.

Our teacher Branka then gave us homework to make a pre made piece for the face using wig lace; wig lace is an extremely thin netting, which when placed on the skin appears invisible, which is why it's great, it saves so much time.

She gave us each a small piece of wig lace, this is what i created.

Pack of coloured speckled feathers 

Piece of wig lace

My final piece

Products used:

- Feathers

- Wig lace

- Hydra spirit gum to stick feathers and apply to face

I decided to make a piece for the eyes, I bought a mixed colour bag of speckled feathers to create this eye piece.

I started by placing the wig lace over my eye to establish where I needed to cut it in order for it to sit nicely around my eye.

Onece I had cut my shape I arranged feathers without sticking to get the shape I wanted.

I then started sticking the feathers to the lace using Hydra spirit gum (unlike normal spirit gum, you can wash off with water).

Once I was finished I placed hydra glue onto my face in the area where I wanted to stick the piece.

I then carefully stuck the piece onto my face holding it down until I was completely sure it was secure.

Overall I was pretty happy with the outcome, although as you can see in the photo above some feathers got to wet and sticky so went all thin, therefore creating patches, it was a shame but for a first time I thought it's an ok attempt.

Andrew Gallimore inspiration for my final major project

Andrew Gallimore

1. Andrew Gallimore

He is one of the industry;s top makeup artists, and for me his high fashion avant garde designs are like no other. I adore his use of colour, his creativity and innovative ideas. I really want my make-up design to be clean and edgy, to go outside the box. I also want to show off all the new techniques I have learnt this year, to really show how my skills have improved since the start of this course.

Here are some of my favourite looks created by the legend Andrew Gallimore;

2. Andrew Gallimore photographed by Rankin

3. Andrew Gallimore's Sketch photographed by Rankin

I love the 2 monochrome designs above, the way they look like a drawing is so clever, the way he has used 2-D products and used them in a way they appear 3-D is amazing!! 

4. UV skull 

5. Skulls created using coloured string

I love his take on different skulls in a project he did about day of the dead. It was actually amazing to look at for me giving that's what I'm doing my own project on. Every single one of his designs were faultless! I really hope I can excel in my make-up design and create something original and something I can be proud of.

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7. Bead skull

8. I love this design in particular the layers of colours on the lips, this is something I'm going to think about doing for my final design.

References:
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