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.

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.

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:

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.

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:

Analogous, Complementary & Monochromatic face charts design

Analogous:



Complementary:

Yellow and purple

Monochromatic:

Yellow (and white, which is a non-colour)