Thursday, 27 November 2014

Paco Peregrin

I found this designer/makeup/hair artist while looking for influential images for my Club culture design. His imagery and styling of hair is so amazing and how I would love my design to turn out. 
Below are a few pictures that really appealed to me. The first on I like how he's created an earring using hair. The texture he used on the hair is fascinating it almost doesn't even look like hair but fluff instead. 

Peter Olexa. (2011). Daily Inspiration no. 99. Available: http://www.cruzine.com/2011/02/04/daily-inspirations-99/. Last accessed 27th November 2014.




Seb Cha. (2011). Inspiration: Paco Peregrin. Available: http://www.curiocity.fr/hello/?p=3691. Last accessed 27th November 2014.


Miss Cakehead. (2014). Paco Peregrin. Available: https://cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/paco-peregrin/. Last accessed 27th November 2014.







Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Glitter!

Since this project I've been obsessed with glitter. I've bought many glitters just to find the right one for my design and what will work the best.


(left to right)
Silver- this glitter is small particles and only one colour it does reflect the light well though.
Gold- This glitter is a mixture of gold and holographic medium hexagon this works well at covering large areas.
Pink- This glitter is finely milled and is like typical fairy dust using this would take time to cover an area but would look good in spots just to add colour and a different dimension.
Gold- This glitter is just gold and sometimes just looks flat again a perfect consistency for covering a large area.
Holographic- This is fine holographic glitter my favourite! I love what the light does to this mixed with the first glitter this would work well at covering large spaces.
Gel Glitter- This is a wet formulation and if applied too much goes bitty and clumpy. not good for large spaces put ace for creating sharp glitter lines.

I then went crazy (haha) and added all the glitter together to see whether this would look good for my final design.


I love it,  however I don't think I will included the gold into my design as I want it to be more silver.
I'm so excited now to do my design and finally see all the pieces come together.

Working on final makeup look

I needed to test the makeup out on the model and incorporate the comments I was given in my feedback. I wanted to test these out and see how it went.




The eyeshadow extended up does give it more definition, and shows the look off more. I think however I need to blend it out a bit so it doesn't look like two circles on her face. I am going to add white in the waterline as well as adding lashes to give them a longer length. I much prefer the lips like this its interesting and gives that element of glamour still to the look. I've also decided to bring the glitter from the ear up into the hairline. LOTS OF GLITTER!!

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Fashion Shows With Glitter Necks

I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at makeup designs for fashion shows that included a glitter neck in their design and how they have gone about it. 



Juliana Forge at the Myer Spring/Summer 2010



I like how this one is brought up into the hair line i will try this.



Model:Jessica Bloom Makeup: Cassie wilson















            Fred Sathal, Sathal Haute, Fall 2014, Couture     
This fine glitter is just beautiful  how finely milled it is and how  gorgeous it looks in the light. 

Monday, 24 November 2014

Lips Lips Lips!!!

When I did my presentation I was told to think about the lips more and create a different design. My first step PINTEREST!
I had a look and found a few designs then based mine around them.

I then drew a few ideas before I practiced.




My favourite from just practising is the wonky top lip one (top middle). It reminds me of surrealism which was a big movement in the 1920's. I will practice this these lips on my final design

Presentation Feedback

Overall everyone seemed to like the concept behind my design and how the hair will be made to loo like a fur collar.

A few pointers were given to me which I need to work on.

- Make sure the look stays extreme. (this is based on my makeup work as it may turn out looking too pretty)
- Stronger Lips
- Extend eyeshadow up, lets see it more!!
- Try different eyebrow looks (make them stronger and going out more. )



Sunday, 23 November 2014

Practising Final Design





Practising Hair Charts

The first look I tried out was the Anita Berber one. I did one side frizzy around grips the other side I did in pin curls. As you can see the bottom two pictures are the pin curls they just didn't work very well. As soon as i was the frizz one I thought of FUR. in my scene sally is wearing a fur coat this would look so good and work as a fur collar. 





I tried the aqua colours on the hair it was hard to do that may have just been because i was doing it by myself.  I didn't like the result after I finished. (please excuse my awful face!) I think with what I want to do with the makeup this would just be too much. 





Initial Hair Charts

I created these hair charts with a mind of some images I had already seen and ones that inspired me.

 My first design was incorporating finger waves, I thought have the hair straight on the bottom would be a dramatic difference however I don't like how it's turned out. It reminds me of a man with no hair on the top of his head!

This look was a modern slick pony tail but bring in the 1920's element with the Marcel waves at the front of the hair. I want to paint this on using aqua colours.

This hair style is a longer version of Anita Berbers hairstyle however I don't know how tight I want to do the curls so this is something I need to test.

Saturday, 22 November 2014

Tutorial With Sharon - Marilyn Minter

Yesterday I had a one on one with Sharon to discuss my design, when I showed her my ear design she was over the moon and shouted out a name Marilyn Minter! she told me I need to research and look at her designs some more.

I'm so glad she did I'm so blown away with her work and this is exactly what I was thinking my Sally Bowles would be like. The dirty feet with amazing heels is Sally all over! glitter eyes and pearls in the mouth wow! I love it.



These have really inspired me for the final Image of Sally Bowles. To make her dirty glamour.

Practising Facecharts

 This was my first design I like the use of colours. I just feel the eyebrows could have been blocked out more however this is something I don't really know how to do. I feel the V's on the forehead make the design look alien like.

I love the lips and eyes here I just don't know if it's a bit too dark for Sally Bowles I will try this look again but with green eyeshadow.


After doing these face charts I realised with the ear and the hair I don't want the makeup being really over the top as well it will just be too much going on. Instead i'm going to extended the ear piece all the way down the neck added gems and glitter to make it look like a necklace. I'm still unsure yet what I want with the makeup so i need to play around. I was inspired to do a necklace glitter piece down the neck by a book I saw in lesson while practising my designs.


First Initial Face Charts

I knew I wanted to do my ear piece so included this into all of my designs. I tried to keep them all glamorous as I was inspired by the song in Party Monster - Money Success Fame Glamour. As I could imagine this being a song Sally Bowles would listen to a lot as thats what she wanted. This is how I got the idea of the jewels on her ear.


You can't tell very well on this picture but Her eyelids are glossy glitter wet. I wanted to add a sultry eye but give it a little twist. This image I could imagine Sally apply makeup on top of each layer and getting thicker and thicker and her eyes are just swimming in grease.
 I added the V of diamonds to included the glamour onto her face I'm not sure how this will turn out. I've done the eyebrows thin and with and in purple as that is the colour for wealth. The colours on the eyes are to represent the historical Sally the blue for the colour the shows girls wear on their eyelids and green as that was Sallys' colour.
This is my glitter look with over the top eyebrows and big eyelashes underneath (these are with the fake eyelashes I tried in a previous post). I chose to just outline where the shadow would go to make it more contemporary.


There is elements from each design I like however I'm not sure how they will work I need to test them out.




Timed assessment in role of makeup artist

My partner was Daisy, I asked her if I could practice my design before the assessment so we arranged a day with the model where I could we discussed the face charts and I asked her any questions we I need too. I was glad we practiced before as there she hadn't written down the exact colours I needed to use on some of the directions. He step by step was really precise and was helpful on the day of the assessment. On the day of the assessment I felt relaxed and organised I knew what I was doing. One thing I really liked about her design was the curl on the boys hair that she added, it was a good touch to show the feminine side of the Emcee. One thing she could improve on was writing the actual names of colours down so it's easier. She had some moves ready that she wanted her model to do, she just needed to push him so she got the shot we wanted. Overall Daisy was well prepared for me to do her makeup look and had explained what scene she was doing and the idea behind her look and outfit, I hope she got the look she was looking for for the Emcee.

Friday, 21 November 2014

Makeup Ideas

With hair I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I'm finding it hard with makeup I just can't picture anything right now. I know I want to add a design on the ears so i'm going to start with that first.

As the scene I have picked sally has just been shopping with Lothar and bought a fur coat. I could imagine her to be covered in jewels too. One idea I had was instead of earrings was to either cover her ear in glitter or diamonds all on her ear. This is something I will need to try out. The best way to do this would be applying eyelash glue then the glitter or stones.





I prefer the first image when there is less glitter. In the second image I tried adding a different colour of glitter into the deep parts of the ear to give it a contrast. However doing it on myself didn't work very well. I will test this out again on a model. and use a darker glitter?

So I tried my ear design again on a model so it was easier to do these were some pictures.

At first I just added the glitter like I did to my own ear, then had the idea of adding gems somewhere on the ear.

I filled the whole top of the ear with pearls however I will probably end up doing this with gems.

I then made the glitter a lot thick so you couldn't really see the skin.

I tried adding darker glitter into the inner part of the ear. However I didn't like it, I thought it looked dirty the glitter was chunky and just didn't work. 

I cleaned all the glitter out the middle of the ear. I really like how this looks it reminds me more of a jewellery piece. 

I wanted to see what it would look like with white on the inside of the ear however I feel like you loose the whole look of the glitter ear. 


Another idea I had was to do with eyelashes I knew some how I wanted to draw or place eyelashes big on the bottom lashes. My first idea was painting the lashes on the bottom so I gave that a go


As you can see it didn't work. It just reminds me of kiss makeup. I had to scrap this one and try another way.
I chose to chop up some eyelashes and stick them on individually.

I like how this turned out however I wanted to try and see if this works with feathers or string to give a more contemporary club culture twist.