Assessment, my partner's design on her

Finally I have completed my assessment. Looking at the end results am very pleased with myself. I feel that i have captured my partner's design well. The one thing am very happy about is the eyebrow. This is because during practice i found it difficult to create the brow to my partner's liking. This goes to show that practice makes perfect.

Assessment ( my design) done by my partner

For the final look, i am pleased to say that my partner executed the look as instructed in the practice session. She has fully captured my vision and demonstrated her skills well. However, i would have loved to see the eyebrows completely covered.

Practicing my partner's eyebrow and lips: Practice 3

 

The main aim today in my practice session with my partner was to make the eyebrows perfect. On reviewing the pictures taken during practice, i noticed that the eyebrows were not as perfect as i would have liked them to be. Am not the only one that noticed, Sharon our tutor noticed It as well. I must admit that i have struggled with the eyes and eyebrows and therefore i had to do more practice in oder to get it right.
Also on our previous practice meeting my partner and i agreed that we needed to include a red lip.
The red lip definitely made the look better, and it also made my partner look more sophisticated.
By the end of our practice session my partner and i were satisfied with the look. We agreed that nothing needed to be changed anymore. Finally the look was to my partners expectations.

Three brush challenge

 

 

The three brush challenge involves using three brushes to do a makeup look.
For today's lesson, i used three brushes to do my partner/model look. At first i shied away from the idea that i could use three brushes to do an overall makeup look. My first challenge was choosing which brushes to use. I ended up choosing the the foundation brush, the contouring brush and a small brush.


I then washed my hands, gowned my model and did a skin consultation.

To start with, i mixed the foundation and the primer together, and applied it on my model's face, using the foundation brush. With the contouring brush i used it to blend the makeup well so as not to have any lines. Using the same brush i contoured my model's face using a dark bronzer. I pinched the brush to make it small enough to be able to apply the bronzer at the side of my model's nose.
With the small brush, i used a light colour eyeshadow to apply on the inner corner of her eyelids and also to highlight the bridge of the nose. With the same brush i applied a darker colour eyeshadow to the outer parts of the eyes to create a settle smoky eye look,  and also used it to apply the lipstick.

Using three brushes was not as bad as i thought it would be. I realised that i have actually used three brushes in the past without even realising it.
  

My partner's look practice 2

In practice today, my partner made a few changes in her design. She kept the foundation, the eye and eyebrow makeup and also the cheeks, but she decided to changing the lips. She wonted to keep the lips simple and stained like in the elizabethan portraits. However after we finished the look we felt that a red lip would look better. Therefore on the next practice session we will try out the red lips look and see if it looks better or not. this will help us decide which look to stick with.

Instructions for the final look.

STEP BY STEP makeup

What to use

1.     Illamasqua loose powder
2.     Dermacolour camouflage (d1, d16)
3.     Illamaqua matte primer
4.     Gold Kryolan super colour
5.     Merry k foundation ( n.o 6)
6.     Brusher (youth red) brusher palette.
7.     Saffron Kryoian makeup
8.     White kryoian super colour

Health and safety

1.    Wash the hands. 
2.    Gown the model. 
3.    Do a consultation on the skin. 

HOW TO.

1.  Conceal the eyebrow using soap pest.
2. Use loose powder to seal it.
3. Use 1d from the concealer palette, on the eyebrow then go over it with the d32. Do not rub, but    dab the product on.
4. Go over it with d16 camouflage concealer.
5. Mix up gold and the merry k foundation and apply all over the face including the eyebrow.
6. Blend the foundation mix well on the face and make sure to go down the neck and into the ears.
7. Apply loose powder all over the face to set the foundation in place.
8. Using the red (youth red) brusher, contour the face using an angled brush.
9. Take the brusher upwards towards the hairline and into the forehead.
10. Keep adding the red brusher to get a deep red look.
11. Using the yellow from the super colour palette, apply it on the eye lid and down towards the sides of the nose.
12. For the lips, line the lips using a brown pencil and then using red (081) from the super colour palette, apply on the lips.
13. On the center of the lips apply gold from the super colour palette.
14. For the eyes use the white from the super colour palette, using a mascara wand and apply on the eyelashes generously.

my one on one with Sharon

Today i meet up with Sharon. The main thing i wanted to talk about was the blog. I needed to know if i was doing it right and if i was missing anything. The one thing she emphasised on is that i needed more images of practice look done in my own time.  Also she said i needed to include my practice session in the blog.

practising my partner look on her. look 1

For today practice session, i got the chance to practice my partnered look on her. As seen above we used red on the eyebrow and the lip and as well as the cheeks. looking at the final image I can say the red make the look more Elizabethan. However we felt like there is something missing. Although the makeup looked good, the red kind of overpowered the face; Therefore on father discussion my partner decided on changing the look a little.

Here is the next look

On this look we changed the eyebrows to white instead of red. Straight away we sow a dramatic difference. The makeup looked more Elizabethan yet contemporary. Also i went over her face with gold to give it that glow. We got this idea from Sue our teacher, and am happy to say it looked very good. the gold made her face look healthy and young. It also allows the image to have that contemporary fill to it.  

Practice on my final look ( trying gold on the lips)

www.flickr.com 

I found this image of a gold lip which i thought was very simple. For my contemporary Elizabethan i would look to try out the gold lips to see what it looks like.

Here it is

To day my partner and i meet up and practised my final look. It was interesting to see the end results with the gold lipstick. Looking at the final results, the only thing that is Elizabethan is probably the white eye makeup, so i have decide to keep working on my final Design till its better. Next time we will work on the lip more and experiment on different colours.
All in all i think the practice session with my partner was productive.

Queen Elizabeth on screen

introduction

Elizabeth has been represented in various films and television programs. It is very interesting to see the variety of interpretations of Elizabeth from different writers' points of view, from serious interpretation to comedic/ parody.    

Elizabeth 1998

Cate Blanchett

          Goodwin, Christopher (14 October 2007). "Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I is no surprise". The Times (UK). Retrieved 14 October 2007

Elizabeth is a 1998 biographical film written by Michael Hirst, directed by Shekhar Kapur, and starring Cate Blanchett in the title role of Queen Elizabeth I of England, alongside Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Fiennes, Sir John Gielgud, Fanny Ardantand and Richard Attenborough.

This 1998 film is loosely based on the early years of Elizabeth's reign. In 2007, Blanchett and Rush reprised their roles in the sequel, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, covering the later part of her reign.

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

The film Elizabeth brought Cate Blanchett her first high-profile international role, which earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. She became the first and only actress in the history of The Academy Awards, to be nominated in this category for the part. Blanchett lost out to Gwyneth for her role in Shakespeare in Love but won a British Academy Award (BAFTA) and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama.

The film also received a best makeup award which went to Jenny Shicare



In this film, Elizabeth is represented as a young, carefree princess who escaped execution from her sister, Queen Mary. In the film, Elizabeth's hair was down and long and flowing, at the beginning of the film. Also when she first came to power, showing us her status as a young virgin seeking love and companionship. This is a direct reflection of how the young women in the Elizabethan era used to portray innocence and youthfulness.  

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

Bette Davis

Ref= Bette Davis: The Performances That Made Her Great

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031826/reviews

This film concerns the tempestuous relationship between the middle-aged Queen Elizabeth I and the ambitious Earl of Essex. At one point, the Queen intends to marry Essex and relinquish her throne, until she realizes that his plans for advancement would ultimately prove disastrous for England.

Bette is first actress to claim 10 Academy Awards nominations and one of the top actresses of her time Bette Davis was an icon within Hollywood cinema. Her skill as an actress only enhanced further by her sparkling doe eyes and quick wit that remain an iconic association with her career and beauty. In the role of Elizabeth Bette had to undergo a great transformation Perc Westmore's recreation of Bette in 'Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex' recreated her as a dramatic historical representation of 'Elizabethan beauty' impressive accurate in her representation of an older Queen. For this role Bette, then aged thirty-one, courageously agreed to have her appearance dramatic transformed for the role of the older queen: her hairline was shaved back three inches; her eyebrows were completely shaved and replaced by thinly pencilled lines; her lips were made to seem thinner and pouches were drawn under her eyes. A pasty white Elizabethan ‘beauty’ makeup finished the transformation.

Black Adder II  (1986) (TV)
Directed by Mandie Fletcher
Writing credits Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

The second season of the British TV comedy series, set in Elizabethan England.

Starring Miranda Richardson as Queen Elizabeth, and Rowan Atkinson as fictional Lord Edmund Black Adder

This series of episodes has the decedent of the first Edmund Blackadder in Elizabethan times. Atkinson, quite dapper in his beard, is still plotting with a lot of cunning plans to further his lot in life with the decedent of his friend Percy and his Dogsbody Baldrick. This time Edmund is up against Queen Baby who borders on nutso, with nursey at her side.
These episodes 1 - Bells finds Edmund employing a new servant named BOB - much to Baldrick's distress. Just as things seems to turn out all right in comes FLASH his best man and complicates all.
Episode 2 - Head - Queenie appoints Edmund Lord High Executioner and she keep his hopping with "off with their heads" only Edmund gets a little ahead of himself and lops one head too many
In Episode 3 - Potato - Edmund is furious that Sir Raleigh has returned and curries favour with Queenie, so he Percy and Baldrick set out to find the new world...but they bring back something rather different!
Episode 4. Money - has the Bishop of Barton Wells after Edmunds for money owed, only Edmund does not have it and is dashing about madly to get it before the Bishop gets out his hot pokers
Episode 5 - Beer - is one of the best of the series - Edmund has
his uncle and aunt - religious people - coming for supper. But the Queen has Edmund in a drinking contest with her PM. Add an oddly shape turnip in to the mix and the Goblin song and it is riot!

http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/elizafilms.htm

What are the similarities and differences to that of my own design and the design of Elizabeth in the Golden Age Film?

ref: google imaged- Elizabeth the golden age 2007

The face.
In the film, Elizabeth face is very pale.
For my design, my face is golden brown, and a shed lighter than my complexion. This is because we live in a time when bronzed face is looked as being beautiful.

Cheeks
Elizabeth's cheeks are rosy pink in colour but very settle. something the Elizabethan women would wear.    
For my design, my cheeks are a deep pink, almost red. which is a contemporary elizabethan interpretation. I choose this because a light pink douse not show on my skin complexion as clearly as the deep pink.

Contour
Elizabeths face has not been contoured at all.
For my deign, i have contoured my face using the deep pink cheek colour.

Eyebrows
Elizabeth's, eyebrows has been taken off.
For my Design, my eyebrows have been taken off too to create a high forehead. this was very normal in the Elizabethan time to have thin or no eyebrows


The lips.
Elizabeths lips are a stained red colour.
My lips are a deep red and gold in the centre.


The eyes
Elizabeths eyes have been kept plain and simple
For my design, i have used white mascara to make my eyes stand out.

Looking at the two images the only thing that is similar is the taking off of the eyebrows. However i do think that the pink cheek colour is a good interpretation of the Elizabeth golden age look.

Elizabethan contemporary practice look 2

 
 For this look I wonted to play a little with bright colours to give the look that contemporary fill and look to it. The colour I chose was yellow and red. This look was inspired by the previous Elizabethan contemporary look I had tried out as a practice and is posted in one of the previous blog posts.  For this look I kept the foundation and the eye makeup the same as done in the previous look. I also removed the eyebrow completely, to create that high forehead. The one thing that is different about this look is the use of very bright yellow lip colour and the red in the center of the lip.

Looking at the end look, I fill like the yellow and red centered lip overwhelms the whole look. If anything it makes my lips look very big.  The lips have taken the attention away from other parts of the face that has an Elizabethan fill to it, like the lack of eyebrow. However I do think the look is very bold and contemporary.

After I finished this look I decided to change the lips to red and yellow/gold centered. The end result for that look was much better and reflected better on the Elizabethan look.

 

Also the use of white mascara on the eyelash gives the look a more contemporary look to it.

I have decided to stick to the red and yellow/gold lip look for my final design. However there is still more that can be done and will be done to make the look even better.Therefore more practice with my partner and more discussions.