My Assessment Partner experimenting with my Design and Creation of Final Design

 In my recent make up studio lecture I had to bring in either one or more of my make up design that I drew. This was for my partner to study my design and try out the make up design on me. This lecture was allocated to swap design with my partner, for my partner to attempt my design and experiment with the looks. We started off with looking at two of my face charts that I drew as these were my favourites, one was based around red and one around purple. 

My partner, Beth, started with applying the base of the make up which was very pale foundation. She used a mix of white base foundation and the lightest foundation from the Charles fox 8 foundation palette. Once the foundation was applying she set the make up with a white loose powder by Illamasqua, this just got away any shine or grease to the skin. Beth then contoured my cheeks with Charles fox, viva brilliant palette lavender colour. The contoured defined the cheeks and was brought slightly up the sides of the temples by the end of the brows. We then experimented with shading over the eyelid and down the nose, this wasn't in my design plan however we thought it looked nice as it added more colour to the face and definition. 


After looking in the mirror for a white me and Beth was studying the face and thought the purple on the pale skin made the face look very neutral so we asked for our lecturer, Sue, of her opinion. Sue came over and said the colour didn't look very Elizabethan and the purple made the face look very cool. We then suggested to Sue if we tried out the same design however used red, as red was definitely more Elizabethan on the face and I had already based a make up design around the colour red. We then wiped the contouring off and started again. As the skin was very pale we wanted to warm it up ever so slightly and Sue gave us the idea of applying the gold supra paint over the skin lightly so it gave a gold tint to the face and warmed the skin up. We tried out this idea and found the gold did the job and warmed the skin up and looked lovely on the face. 


We then carried on with the original plan of the make up design however just instead used red. We contoured the cheeks with red a built it up around the side of the face which looked lovely over the pale gold skin. We then filled in the eyebrows with a small make up brush using the red supra paint and just followed the natural line of the brows. We used the same red supra paint from the eyebrows to use on the lips as well which we painted just in the middle section just like my design. Finally was the eyelashes which were to be white, we didn't have a white mascara so we used a wand and spread the white supra paint over the wand and applied to the lashes just like mascara.


 Once we completed the design we gave a hard look at the make up and thought if it suited the category of contemporary Elizabethan make up. Me and Beth then discussed what we could do to improve the design to look a little more Elizabethan. We then realised that we think the eyebrows were a little to bright for the design and made it a bit too contemporary and we had to step back a little to become more Elizabethan. We asked for Sue opinion again and she said she liked the eyebrows and they did look really good however she understood what we meant when there were quite striking for the design. We then decided to try it with the eyebrow white like in the original red make up design I drew. Again we took of the brows and Beth used the White supra paint to paint over my eyebrows in white. Finally we felt much happier with the design and felt the contouring of the cheeks and the lips looked much better against the pale shimmery gold face complimented with white eyelashes and eyebrows. We didn't want to over power the look too much with colours and go to over the top with modern ideas. 

 Sue came back over the have a final look at our completed design and she questioned the lips if they were too bright for the design and if they would look better smudged. We then used a brush and smudged just the bottom lip across and left the top as it was and told us to have a think about that idea. We decided we really liked it when the lips were a little more subtle however we wasn't sure on just keeping the top lip the same. Me and Beth then decided to smudge the top lip as well so the lips were soft and just dabbed on, this was definitely more historical Elizabeth as there lips wouldn't be defined in the 16th century just smudged on. I was very happy with this final look after experimenting with the design and realising what look good and suited the project best. I'm much happier that I changed the colour and gave myself an option with my make up designs through the colours and technique. I think in my final assessment I will be using the final outcome of this lesson look as I think it fulfils the brief after development and experimentation on my design.