First Shoot

I used a model with long dark brown hair which I like as the make up wasn't necessarily glamorous the hair could help to give this effect.

These are the photos from my first shoot.

I found this shoot quite hard, I didn't realise how steady my hand would need to be for the drips under the eye, I think this really let me down with the quality of make up. The eyebrow was also tricky because she had them quite thick, my first attempt I was unhappy with, but I tried again doing a thinner black squiggle which I then thought looked a lot better. I put all of her hair in rollers before starting the make up to give love thick curls and waves, I believe I should have chosen a better hair design as the top of the hair looks quite flat. My images haven't turned out how I would have liked which is quite disappointing, so I think I am going to reconsider my designs for a second shoot!

Face Templates

These are a couple of my designs I plan to do on my model who I have chosen.

This last one I decided was my favourite development from my face templates. I have chosen to do the blocking out of one eyebrow to create a higher lift with a squiggle design replacing it, I then have the dark eyes fading out with eyeshadow and the black drips coming from the bottom eyelid. I like this idea as I think poison is usually in liquid form, the drips I want to be in black so they stand out on the face. I would like to pale the skin down with a light foundation, and have a small bit of pink blush on the cheekbones. For her lips I have decided to go for a dark purple.

Theatre Of The Nameless

Illamasquas collection 'Theatre of the nameless' gave me lots of inspiration for my look, here are some of their images.

I love the dark pink eyes and again the bold black eyebrows! Also the first picture how they have been made into a squiggle I thought looked amazing.

I liked these images as I think they could go along with the two words I have been given, the pale faces and high brows along with the dark lips.

Ideas

For my two words my first impressions are that my look would be quite creepy, dark and mysterious like an evil magician. With dark black eyes and lips, I didn't want my look to be scary but maybe like a glamorous evil.
I would like to use a girl as my model as I would like to have the eyebrows as a different feature, from recently learning how to block them out using soap I have had an idea of doing one of them and re drawing over  in a crazy design. I have also associated the look of a magician with a clown as they are outgoing with make up.

Although this is an extreme version of what I have been looking at I like the idea of the black eyes fading out and the higher and exaggerated eyebrow.

This again is a picture of the eyebrows after being blocked out and re drawn on.

Here are some images of me blocking out the eyebrows on my friend in class.

I found blocking out the eyebrows quite challenging, as its hard to get the colour completely out but I think with full make up and a re drawn eyebrow on it would look good and I'm excited to try out the full look on my model.

MAGIC POISON

Illamasqua are famous for their bold designs, colours and attention to detail. After a workshop with Spob and Mika from the Illamasqua team, we were given two words with two colours to create a look using these in half an hour. This was a really fun exercise and interesting to see what everyone produced.
One image is a fantasy based look generally quite dramatic and extravagant where as the other will be a beauty look using ideas from fantasy.
My two words are 'Magic' and 'Poison' for this project.
and my colours, Green, Red and Black.