Technical sign off sheet...

Evalutation...

My first impressions of this project were intriguing and excitement, but as I did more research and practical seminars, I began to struggle with what route to take with a final outcome. As a developing makeup artist I have discovered I love creating looks that are 'pretty' and I also have a stronger set of skills when it comes to styling hair. This encouraged me to design two final images that I enjoyed creating that also include special effects techniques I have learnt this term. I did not enjoy the SFX unit as much as I had hoped, but my two favourite products were the tuplast and use of crepe hair on the face. I loved how the tuplast was quick and simple to use, dried quickly and created a very realistic vein look. I also loved the practical seminar I had producing fake stubble/beards/moustaches with crepe hair, and as our class is majority girls, it was interesting to see females with such an obviously masculine image. After designing and creating my looks I am really happy with the final outcome, I love how they contrast each other, one being very black and white, the other bright and colourful. On my black and white image, if I could improve anything it would have been to make the bun on my model a lot larger, but she had very knotted hair so I wanted to be careful with it. On my colourful image I love the idea of making facial hair on females look attractive and fun although I would make the side burn patterns neater if I could re-shoot the image. Overall after a lot of thinking, designing and creating I have liked this project and my final images, although I have realised my I do not enjoy special effect makeup us much as other aspects of makeup design.

Final Images...

Final Moodboard...

Idea 2...

For my second idea I am going to adapt the skills we were taught with when creating facial hair with crepe hair. I'm going to take the idea from the film The hunger Games of the gamekeepers styled beard and pretend that if women were to one day have facial hair, how they would style it, and as we dye, cut and style the hair on our head in fabulous ways I predict women would do the same to the face. I will use primary colours and green they all blend well, and stick them onto the face, a widows peak on the forehead and swirled side burns as contour. I will have normal foundation, golden smoky eye, red lip and similar to my first idea slicked down hair in a centre part, then two large voluminous buns on each side of the head.

Idea 1...

As my first final idea I'm going for a very metallic monochrome colour theme inspired by the white/ice queens from the films The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Alice in Wonderland. My favourite product we were taught about and practised using was the tuplast. Although it creates a very simple effect, I love the simplicity of it, usage and result, and with a silver coloured over the top it will look amazing. When practising with it I created veins on the arm, I intend to do this over the face creating branches/veins as though if we could see our veins in a beautiful rather thang vulgar, masculine way, we would see them in a shimmering silver form, over a white base, metallic grey smoky eye, silver lips with a slight pink twinge, grey contour and a slicked up and voluminous up-do side bun on the top/side of the head.

Moodboard...

Films...

Many films show adaptation to the body using surgery or special effects.

We watched a film during one of our seminars called 'The skin I live in', where a man loses his wife, his daughter gets raped and kills herself, catches the rapist and overtime with surgery changed the boy into a woman to look exactly like his wife who died. 
I thought the film was incredibly creepy, disturbing yet clever as it shows what surgery is capable aesthetically, physically and psychologically.

Some films that I find inspirational to create my final images are;

The Hunger Games = Lots of colours are used which I love but the one character that caught my attention was Seneca Crane the Gamekeeper. His beard was beautifully shaved into a symmetrical pattern making something horrible like facial hair seem stunning. 

Alice in Wonderland / The Lion, the With and the Wardrobe = I love both of the white/ice queens in these films as the white is so pure looking with the black and silvers and greys for contrast look amazing.

 

Facial Hair...

I was incredibly excited for this final practical as I love anything to do with playing/creating style using hair! We were shown how to create stubble, moustaches, beards, eyebrows, etc on the face using crepe hair. For stubble you finely cut up the hair into a dry bowl then apply spirit gum to the face finely, then gently roll the cut up hair onto the face with a large powder brush. For denser areas of hair, cut small strips of crepe hair and slowly build up in layers applying it to the face/skin with stipple, you can also do this with areas like eyebrows.

 

 

 

Hair modification...

As well as cutting, colouring, styling the hair on your head to look pretty or shaving your leg, facial, pubic hair to make it non existent, hair can be used and styled in so many more ways to create interesting looks.

In this video hair is used as clothing and other objects to interpret dancing and music...

Breach - Let's Jack = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EiujcV3Tg

Maison Martin Margiela, famous for creating the jacket out of wigs, using whole wigs as should pads.

Boys and men have had styles go in and out of fashion having images and words shaved into their hair. 

 

Bald Caps...

During the next couple of practical sessions we learnt how to apply and makeover a bald cap, this is the broken down step by step of how to create the look...

= Dampen down and gel the hair, comb and wrap neatly and tightly around the head evenly. Apply hair net, use hairdryer to dry and hold firmly into place. Once secure, remove hair net. (No grips)

= Get bald cap, apply front to back with extreme care and steadiness.

=Once adjusted in position start to cut and glue the front down on the forehead avoiding hair with stipple. Move onto the ears, do not stretch cap whilst drawing ear shape or will be too short to stick, cut slowly and carefully, then glue. When at the back of the head/neck gently stretch cap down, cut quite a way down from hair line and stick down. Go over any loose parts of the cap with glue.

= When all secure, use airbrush machine to spray the cap a pink/red toned colour until you can no longer see through to the hair as a base. Once dried, find matching skin tone colour and spray over the red until all covered and blended with the colour of face/neck/ears.

= Add any other prosthetic pieces or patterns etc to final outcome.

                  

                                  

Westernised ideas...
Tiffany Parbs=
Took images of imprints of jewellery left on the body and skin.

 

Phillip Toledano=
Took images of body memory, prints left on the skin by items worn by them;jewellery, socks. Although they were temporary it was similar to scarring. 

Danielle Beutti=
She photoshopped scars onto images of people.

Arianna Paige Russell=
Has an immune system disorder where she is allergic to certain things by touch which results in rashes and welts to the skin, she does it on purpose to create patterns.

 

Alexander McQueen=
Created scars on leather shoes/boots and created a scarification dress using texture.

Lucie Vincini=
Adapting the idea of lip plugs and plates for fashion using orthodontist and dental work.

J'adore Dior=

Samantha Harris wore neck ring inspired necklace/dress for a perfume commercial.

Michael Burton=
Scientific adaptations...
-2005 Government Office of Science, OBESITY became an epidemic and food/exercise/biology/psychology was research as to why. 
-2007 'THE RACE' 1:10 body cell to virus/bacteria, health care was studied such as antibiotics, parasites to cure such as leeches/maggots to clear blood clots and infection, at Imperial College. Many other testing was carried out; cows in incubaors with several stmachs to collect saliva, bird flu, nail biting, soil boosting seritonin levels.
-2007 'FUTURE FARM' nano technology was tested by Richard Jones for cervical cancer with cells taken from Henrietta Lax in 1950, she helped the world and was not ever noticed for it.
-Nanotopia, a world moving forward with discoveries such as bodies will be machines to harvest products, glowing jelly fish with bacteria and algaculture...
-ALGACULTURE... Algae a plant/animal feeding of light (photosynthesis) Charles Spence helped create a futuristic device to replace the idea of the oxygen/carbon dioxide cycle with algae. Masks will be worn by humans as the algae will feed humans oxygen and humans will feed algae carbon dioxdie.

 

Kieran Lavine...

Kieran has created many tribal inspired pierces of work, mainly accessories (see images below) jewellery, head pieces, masks etc the minority of his collection is bought. He also produced the paper butterflies images which I absolutely love! Many of his accessories have been borrowed by people to be worn to huge shows and 'do's' all over the world, including Canada.
Kieran chatted with us and educated us on all of the tribal research I have, he was great to listen to as he was so enthusiastic and explained things simply.

 

 

 

 

               

      

Experimenting with moulds...

We brought in interesting shaped moulds to create latex/gelatine pieces to apply to the face and body. We used a selection of patterned acetate, body part mould (nose/face/etc), yoghurt pots, train tracks, basic shapes (square/circle/etc). Many things did not work simply because we did not have enough time for the products to dry or they were to fragile and broke immediately, etc. The best outcomes were the sheets of acetate using latex and smaller basic shapes using gelatine.