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Peer review

My partner for this assessment was Taylor Painting. I found working with her a bit complicated at te beginning, because of the language barrier, but as I improved my english everything went really well and we could clearly communicate what we want from each other. She was very well organized with her design work, as she bought me from the start every extra product I needed and the clear instructions to help me create her design.  She was really understanding when I've made something wrong and really patient to explain me several times which helped me a lot.
Taylor was really professional when working and met all the health and safety requirements, putting the gown around me everytime so my clother won't get dirty, having her kit cleaned everytime and taking every health aspect into consideration, like creating me consultation notes, always asking me if I was feeling ok when she applied my make-up. She laid all her products in a very well organized manner and she asked me for extra tools when needed to create the best outcome possible.
Considering that Taylor hasn't got a make-up course before and this is her first time creating such a complicated design, I can say that she exceeded my expectations. She showed me that she wants to create the design exactly as I wanted, and I am really hard to please, but she did it. She worked really hard at this project and I really appreciate the effort that she put in practicing over and over again the whole design on me and on her friends, in her own time.Blending on two layered cream products that formed the base, applying the most super extra matte base with Supracolor and facepaint and setting with baby powder, and still achieveing a neat base is not easy, but she did a great job. However, even if she's at the beginning she still has to improve how much it takes her to do a full make-up and her lip defining skills, but I am sure that with time she will master these. One point to mention is that she helped me with some ideas, like the eyeliner that I've put in the design at the end, which was really helpful.
Overall I think that we've worked really good as a team and my partner did a great job doing my desingn. I am pleased by the final outcome although I wanted the final pictures at a better quality, but next time we'll take precaution measures.
Considering all of the above and the grading criteria I think that I would mark Taylor with an A3 - A4.

Critical evaluation of the project

When I started this semester I had no idea how I'm going to make everything work, because I didn't even know how to research properly. I've had another schooling system background and this project helped me to develop new personal skills as well as make-up skills. I've learnt how to be an independent learner, by going into the library and selecting the necessary information and by browsing the internet effectively. Also, I've realised that constant workig is necessary for a good result, but this only at the end of the semester. I wasn't so much into developing my own creative designs and actually doing research about make-up and the meaning behind it but more focused into developing practical skills, but now I know how important is to create a background when doing a new make-up so you know exactly why and how you transmit what you want to the public. Furthermore, drawing facecharts was a new concept to me, as I didn't draw one before. I found them really useful because now I can have a clear image of what I want and save a lot of time when working. 

Creating a modern interpretation of a historical character was not easy for me, but I really tried my best. When I haven't found what I needed on the market, I've done it myself, like the accesories (the crown was handmade by me, the feahter eyebrows, the necklace).I have researched a lot about the meaning of certain colours, the meaning of certain accesories, so I could translate the moral features of my character into it's pshysical ones.  I didn't found working to a brief really easy, as this restricted my imagination a lot, but also made me see new ways of creating something original from something that was done in the past. Also, working to other make-up artist design was really inconfortable at first, because I was used to use my imagination in everythig I did and now I had just to create what somebody else told me, but I got used to it. Maybe this was because at first I was afraid in working only with cream products, as I wasn't that good at cream contouring, but now I feel more confident about this and I feel like I've learnt more than I thought from this experience.

Overall, I am really pleased by how my design looked like in the end. Maybe next time I'll try to plan my practice, research and personal life time better, because I really struggle with time management.

Final photos of Taylor's design done by me

Unfortunately we had to wait a while until we took the pictures and because Taylor's design was completely cream-based, it obviously creased under the eyes. This didn't happen before because we took pictures right after the application, not waiting about 20 mins like we did on the assessment day. 

Final photos of my design done by Taylor

I will put here three photos of my design because Taylor had a problem with the pictures when sending them and I was unable to get them at a good quality, so the picture I wanted as a front shot needed to be cropped and lost, again, of its quality and size. So to be able to see my full design, I'll put a photo with the front and the accessories, one with a close-up front shot and one with a three quarter side

Lia's 3 brushes challenge on me

Lia is such a talented girl! She did a pretty amazing job when doing the 3 brushes challenge on me. She managed to do this beautiful make-up only with three brushes and I really like the result. This was a super exciting task as we were free to choose our partner and finally did some beauty make-up.

Technical folder sign off sheet

Happy day today! Sue marked my technical folder sign of sheed complete from the start and I haven't got to complete it later haha

3 brushes challenge - my analogous design

Still can't believe that I did this with only 3 brushes: a blusher/contouring Kryolan brush (natural hair, medium/small), a synthethic lip brush (which is actually a flat synthetic square brush) and a fluffy blending brush Parisax 44. I also used the beautyblender original and micro mini to blend creamy products and to apply powder.

When Pop Culture and superheroes meet the Elizabethans

The excellent Super Flemish project of French photographer Sacha Goldberger, who transports the Pop Culture and superheroes into classical Flemish painting and fashion of the Elizabethan era… Some gorgeous retro versions of Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Darth Vader, Hulk and so on!

References:

• When pop culture and superheroes meet classical Flemish painting (2014) Available at: http://www.ufunk.net/en/photos/super-flemish/ (Accessed: 29 November 2015).

Final evaluation

At the beginning both me and Taylor were a bit afraid that this wouldn't work, but I trusted her and she got better and better everyday. She wasn't so confident in her skills when we first tried to do my design and that's why it was hard to work but with practice she gained confidence and she did it flawless. I know that she didn't do a make-up school/course before and I tried to help her as much as possible to go beyond her limits. She had some blending problems at the beginning, but that's maybe because I didn't know how to explain her better how to realize my design. With time, practice and lots of communication we understood what we want from each other and everything went very well.
I am really pleased of the outcome and how everything turned up. I can say that it was better than I expected considering my crazy design ideas and that Taylor did a great job doing my design. We worked together as a real team and we did our best to meet each other's make-up goals. We have learnt a lot from each other and I feel like this semester not only that improved my make-up skills, but also improved me as a person and my personal skills. Trying to do other's design and pleasing them is not easy but we overcame this and I think that the outcome speaks for itself. Taylor worked really hard do perfect her make-up skills and we met each other to practice my design three times before the assessment. I know that she also did a lot of practice at home and this can be seen through her results. I am very satisfied by how we collaborated and how we worked as a team and I would love to work with her again in the future.

Timed assessment - in the role of the designer/assessor

I'm so glad that assessments are finally over! Today was really good, except the fact that I had to rush to had my pictures taken...which happened everytime and which I didn't like, because everyone was queuing to take photographs and everyone was stressed. I hope that next time won't be the same and that we'll have enough time to take beautiful pictures of the design we worked, both make-up artist and designer, so hard. Yep, that was the only part of the assessment that really bothered me. I hope I won't have to get used to it and that something will be done regarding this...

Taylor did a wonderful job. She practiced my design before like crazy, we met third times before to practice and I know that she practiced at home a lot on her friends an on herself. She even bought the products that I had extra for my look so she could recreate it entirely at home. I am really proud of her progress and she really showed me that if she wants to go over her limits, she can! I am really pleased by our collaboration so far, and by the result of the assessment as well. She was really professionally, dressed all in black, with her hair tied back and without dangling jewelry. She took all the health and safety measures and always asked me if I feel ok during the assessment, just as usually. She finished in time and she also helped me to do my hair quickly before we took photos. We were a bit stressed over this but during it we relaxed, thanks to Sue who put us awesome music. It didn't really feel like an assessment which, for me, was great, because back in my country assessments, exams etc are VERY very stressful and teachers put a lot of pressure on us, which I believe is terribly wrong.

Overall, as the designer and assessor, I am happy with the result and I can't wait to see the final pictures and how teachers will react to what I did. I feel really proud of Taylor's work, of how we got better together a a team and as individual human beings and artists :)) and... of me. Because I really love what we did! (Although I slept only 3 hours last night because I had to do my handmade crown...and to make sure I am prepared for everything... everything was perfect in the end. I stressed more over Taylor's assessment rather than about mine, I don't know why. Maybe because it was my design and I really wanted everything to be perfect.)

Me and Taylor after the stress was over

Me and my uni best friend, Lia, the new Elizabethans :))

And here a couple of selfies.

Third practice of my design

taylor third practice photos

Today was a really good day. I am so excided about the final result and really pleased by Taylor's improvement. Everything went good and we also timed ourselves to know if we are in time and it was ok. Taylor also suggested an idea for improving the eyeliner which was great and so we did.

Step by step to achieve the look, products and ustensils used:


1. Cleanse and tone the face, and then put just a bit of moisturizer on your hands and gently rub it into the skin;
2. Using a flat foundation brush, spread white Supracolor all over the face. Make sure you don’t have any patches on the face and that the product is distributed evenly, blend with the same brush where necessary;
3. Blend the product that remained on the brush on the neck and ears;
4. With a clean, flat, natural hair brush, blend the product in the eye area, up towards the lower and the upper eyelid;
5. Using another flat foundation brush, sink it in a little bit of water and then apply white facepaint all over the face, excepting the eye area. There you just have to blend a little so it won’t be a harsh line of facepaint;
6. With the same brush, cover the outer ends of the eyebrows with facepaint and then blend a little on the edges, so they’ll be completely covered;
7. Using a puff, set everywhere with a lot of baby powder, excepting the eye area that needs to be unset so you can blend the green Supracolor;
8. With a small black fluffy brush, apply green Supracolor, blending it with a clean brown fluffy brush without extending it too much;
9. Put loose powder underneath the eyes to prevent any fall out, using a medium fan brush;
10.  With a flat brush, set the green Supracolor with dark teal-green eyeshadow all over the mobile eyelid and underneath;
11.  Brush out the loose powder underneath with the medium fan brush;
12.  Blend with clean blending brush the dark teal green around the eyes;
13.  Blend around the dark teal-green with the lighter shade of green without pressing too much on the blending brush, so you could create a nice transition between the colors;
14.  Blend with the light yellow the edges, really soft, without pressing, using a clean blending brush (you can clean the same brush you have used already and continue with it);
15.  Put green Supracolor on the middle of the eyelids using a flat brush and then put the glitter with a small blue brush-concealer brush and then blend the glitter a bit at the edges;
16.  Add the messy black eyeliner, let me line my waterline first;
17.  Add a bit of blended red on the inner corners of the eyebrows with a fluffy blending brush, so you can help the gems to look not so harsh;
18.  Put a bit of latex on the back of the gem with the metal spatula, let it dry a few seconds, and then place it in the inner corner of the brow, inclined a bit;
19. Apply the green little gems under the eyes;
20.  Add Kryolan blusher on the apples of the cheeks, without making it too harsh - use your blusher blush to add color and my blusher brush to blend the edges;
21.  Do the lips with dark red Supracolor and a flat synthetic brush and then create an ombre by adding black Supracolor in the outer corners of the lips. Try to overdraw the lips pretty much and to correct them with white where necessary so they will be really nice and defined. After you have done the lips, the look is complete.

Timed assessment - in the role of the make-up artist

I feel like Taylor's design was quite a challenge for me even if I did a make-up course of 4 months before and I've done make-up on many people before, because this time I couldn't use powders to set the base. Everything was cream based and it wasn't that easy for me because I wasn't used with cream contour, especially on blending it on a white base. Also I was skeptical when it came to use vaseline on the top of what I've done with make-up as Taylor said because I thought that the make-up underneath will move and will cause patches. I am happy that I didn't use vaseline to achieve the sweaty look because I truly believe that it would ruin everything and instead I opted for a dewy finish face spray by NYX who did it's job. Everything went well except at the end when I had to wait too much to take pictures of my work and the make-up, not being setted with powder, creased. But I don't really think that this was y fault because I did everything what was necessary... you just can't stop cream products to crease after a whort amount of time of you don't set them with powder.
Anyway I am pleased of how my timed assessment went and I hope that everything will be fine in the end.

Second practice of Taylor's design

This time I really improved my cream contouring skills and I made the contour lighter, just as Taylor wished to (I hope). She seemed to be very pleased by the result because we followed all the steps for her design, including adding the extra things. I felt like the design looked better this time and the hickeys were smaller and more realistic too. The only thing which I didn't really liked was that Taylor incorporated vaseline in her design, to give a sweaty finish, but I thought that spraying dewy setting spray would be enough, because I was afraid that I will ruin the whole look if I'll try to add vaseline with the kabuki brush or with the fingers over a cream based base without any powder setting. What I was afraid of really happened - everything was perfectly fine until I added the vaseline, which caused the Illamasqua skin base foundation with the max strobe cream to move and it appeared patches on the skin... I'm not so sure if I'm going to add vaseline at the assessment as it is really tricky and can ruin the whole look in just one second.
Overall the good thing was that it didn't took me as much time as it took me before and everything seemed to be easier to follow because I already knew what's going to come next.

Unfortunately I only took one picture, where the hickeys can't really be seen, because I was in a hurry:

Recreating my complementary design for a collaboration

My complementary face chart

Today I had to recreate the complementary design I have done for my colour theory homework and it was great! I had the opportunity to help a second year Fashion Journalism student, whose name is Andruta Nicoleta Mihai, to do her "behind the scenes" short video and it was aaaaamazing!

I am super exhausted but I still have the energy left to write a few words about today's work...

I wanted to create a graphic cat eye look, which had complementary colours, so the contrast will make the make-up pop. This look is not a wearable everyday look but a fashion, editorial make-up, which doesn't really suit every eye shape, because it needs a quite big arcade and a crease. But fortunately I had a beautiful, patient model and everything turned up well. To make the eye make-up even bolder, I added some glitter and I felt it looked better than without. 

The overall finish of the complexion was dewy and tanned, because the lemon-yellow that I choosed made me think about warm, summer days, and I think that this worked best. In the end, I have up using purple in the upper corner of the nasal bridge and on the chin, because I felt like it was too much when applied on the model. On the facechart looks good, but I didn't like how it would look on the model. I've chosen to keep the eyebrows nice and clean, making them as I would usually do them for a beauty make-up, because the model's eyebrows were pretty thick and I just couldn't style them the way I wanted.

All in all, my design was about strong complementary colours, emphasized contouring, dewy and tanned skin and of course, graphic cat eyes!

I am excited about the result and I can't wait to see more of the video that Andruta made!

Second practice of my design

This time I loved the result. Taylor definitely improved her skills and did the make-up way better than the first time. We tried to achieve a scmoother but not so smooth white base on the other side of the face and it worked better than on th first side that we've tried so we did only one side of the face, the good one. I am really pleased by how this turned up and I feel that Taylor gained more confidence and that's really good.

Historical Elizabethan make-up application - Studio

Last week, my partner Taylor, had practiced the historical Elizabethan make-up, and today it was my turn. 

I started by creating a consultation sheet and by consulting my model:

After this step, I started the cleansing, toning and moisturizing process.

After the face was properly prepared, I started my historical Elizabethan make-up application:

1. Applied the Illamasqua skin base foundation in white with a kabuki brush and blended it out a bit (because for the traditional make-up we were told that we should achieve more like a "flaky and chalky" base, because Elizabethans haven't hot proper ustensils and products like we do, to achieve a smooth and even base);
2. Blocked out the eyebrows with white Kryolan Supracolor and a mascara wand;
3. Heavy powdered the face with a puff and Ben Nye neutral setting powder;
4. Applied Kryolan blush from the blusher palette on the apples of the cheeks, in a dabbing motion (I asked my model to smile for me) with a blusher brush from Real Techniques;
5. Applied White Supracolour on the upper and lower eyelashes using a disposable mascara wand, in a zig zag motion;
6. Applied colour on the lips using my fingers, as a traditional Elizabethan would do.

Photos of my final result:

I am pretty pleased with my outcome and I really enjoyed applying the Elizabethan make-up in a traditional way.

Taylor's first practice of my design

Today was the first time when me and Taylor met outside of the timetable to practice my design.
We worked a lot and stayed in the studio until it was closed... we worked from 4.30 to 8.30 to manage somehow to make it right. After this practice session I felt a bit sad because I thought that I gave Taylor a design that just cannot be done in 1 h 30, as we need for the assessment, but then she told me that she'll practice more at home and she won't give up so I trusted her. She didn't do a make-up course before neither did make-up on many people so she could be used to it, and I could see that it was a bit hard for her now, because she is at the beginning. But I tried my best to give her the best explanations possible, and in the end it went well. We also haven't got enough time to finish the whole look, as I've practiced hers first, and mine really needed a bit more time, but we tried the base and the eye make-up, along with the blusher. I didn't test more times at home, just a few days before, once, but for me it worked and I did it good from the first time, and I didn't realize that for somebody else would take more time to do it. Also, I don't really know if my indications were so good and I think I'll have to go through them one more time, so everything will be better next time. I'm seriously considering simplifying the design to take less time.
Anyway I see that Taylor really wants to improve her skills and to help me achieve the best outcome from my design and I believe that she will do this with more practice!

My indications:

First practice of Taylor's design

Today was my first attempt in creating Taylor's design of Anne Vavasour. It was a really hard day because we had to stay late in the studio to practice but after this practice session I feel  more confident about the assessment that is going to come.
At first I really didn't know how to start although Taylor was well prepared and bought me her facecharts and two sheets of printed indications. Maybe it was because I wasn't used with the products as I couldn't order my Illamasqua kit and she had some extra products added for her design.
But it got better after she explained literally every step that I had to do.
I am pleased by how my design turned up although I didn't really like the contour that much because I felt that I made it a little bit too harsh. I could work next time at reducing the time too, because this time it took me really long to finish the make-up. We forgot a few steps as well, but it wasn't a major change in the design. We'll try those steps next time when we'll practice.
I had a lot of fun doing the hickeys as I didn't do these before! It was really interesting to learn how to do them and what tools and products should I use. I feel like I know more things about make-up from today's practice session and that's a really good thing!


This is Taylor's final face chart, which I had to recreate:

Here are the indications for her design, which were annotated by me with the new changes and everything:

And here are the pictures from my first practice session:

Example of my final look done by me at home

The facechart:

When I first tried to create my design on me, I didn't include the eyeliner strokes in the eye make-up because this idea came up during the process when Taylor did it on me.

I tried to achieve the whitest white possible just using Supracolour but it didn't work, so in my mind came the idea to use facepaint on the Supracolor. It worked, and to set everything and to achieve a deeper white, I've used baby powder. This was for the base. For making the eyebrows dissapear, I tried to block them with latex and tissue, but I realised that I don't really know how to do this properly and when I blended the eyeshadow it didn't look good so I left the other eyebrow simple, covering it with a feather. Everything else went well, but I noticed that in order to create fine blusher, not a harsh one, I needed to put more powder on so it can be blended better. I hope that when I'll first practice this with Taylor to work better.

 This was my initial example of the final look: