Week Five Reflection

This week was also good, got to see other presentations and what they had come up with, it also gave me inspiration for my own ideas and things that I had missed out. 

In the makeup session we did lips, power lip, sexy lip and romantic lick, matte glossy and satin, this was a good lesson and helped me decide what kind of lip shape, colour and texture I wanted in my own designs. In the hair session we did a natural beauty hair look and beach hair, which is good as beach hair is my usual hair!

In photography we learnt how to do a white out with two lights and a white backdrop; I did do photography before university and have actually forgotten everything, I have a brain like a fish!  But with simon he explained things in a way that I actually remember which is lovely. 

This week I have been thinking of what lighting and location I will have my shoots, for editorial, I am doing it on location so natural lighting with be what I will work with, for advertisement, it will be studio based and have a hollywood style lighting or really soft lighting, I'm not sure yet and or catwalk I haven't a clue yet to be honest. 

Timed Assessment Practice

In my practice I was just experimenting with lots of different mediums like pearls and the Crystal clear. I love all the looks but the one I like the most  is the top image is simple but effective. The gold leaf on the eyelids on the second image was way to heavy on the eyes so not going to do that!

In the top image I just did a simple base with Revlon ivory, powdered, slightly added colour to the eyebrows, got my beauty bay dusty pink on the lids, smoked out. On the lips is the Illamasqua pink lip shade, and on the cheeks and eyebrows in dots is some crystal clear gel, but i did them thicker to look more pearl like!

Rowfant House in Sussex - Location for Editorial

'Although Rowfant house is often described as an Elizabethan manor house, it is, in fact, a mixture of 15th, 16th,18th and 19th century  architecture, so skilfully and harmoniously blended that it is thought of as wholly Elizabethan. In the entrance hall there is a panel of three portraits: Henry VIII, his daughter, Elizabeth I, and his father, Henry VII.' This description from their website made me fall in love with the location as is so fitting to my project and time zone.

Brief history from website

"The Locker–Lampson family, owners of Rowfant House from 1848 until 1962, comprised a colourful group, particularly Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, barrister, journalist, MP for 35 years and Commander of an Armoured Car Unit in the First World War. It was during his escapades in the First World War that Oliver came into close contact with the Czar of Russia and agreed to help  smuggle the Czar to safety in the West. However, the Czar would not leave his wife and children behind and in doing so condemned them  all to a terrible fate.

There is even a well-documented story that Oliver was asked to carry out the murder of Rasputin. Oliver himself never confirmed this but is on record as having been visited twice by a Russian Officer who was later involved in the murder.

The Ministry of Defence requisitioned Rowfant House during the Second World War and Winston Churchill, who was a personal friend of Oliver’s, spent many enjoyable hours there.

After the Second World War, Latvians who had fled from their country before its occupation by the Soviet Union were living in Germany as Displaced Persons. In 1946-48, recruited by the British as what were known as European Volunteer Workers, thousands of them arrived in Great Britain.

When the Latvian Lutheran Church in London started to lease Rowfant House from the Locker-Lampson family in 1953, it had for some years been left empty and in a dilapidated condition, but the Latvian Church through the voluntary work of its members soon made the house habitable again and began to use it for residential purposes and for a variety of community events."

Freckles - Editorial

So my model, and step sister has freckles and I love them and want to make them more prominent in the shoot, so it fits into the sweet natured theme I want to have with her shoot.

A number of makeup artists, such as Stila's Global Executive Director of Creative Artistry Sarah Lucero, had actually added freckles as part of their look, for Skingraft (pictured below), she drew the freckles on all the female and male models.

"Freckles instantly make the complexion look fresh, as if you have no foundation on," explains Lucero. "It's a beauty trick I use more often than you may think. If your foundation or powder looks cake-y, pop a few freckles on top. It will fool everyone into thinking you just have gorgeous, perfect skin, and that you're not wearing much makeup."

With this in mind, making the model look more youthful will make my image look a lot better with the light colours flowing around her and the wig itself. It has the cutie factor!

Inspiration

Links:

stylecaster.com

My result

I love the way it came out, the inspiration above really helped me achieve the best results and the over look will be great! cant wait to do this on shoot!

Found Texture Inspiration

Finding texture inspiration is easy, just look at the world around you, its full of different materials and interesting colours.

So I went on a trip round my town looking for things that I though may help me get a feel for the texture I really wanted to achieve, so I found netting, bark, metal rust, and cracking earth. All the images below have helped me construct the kind of texture I want, and I think the best one is the earth and the rust.

The earth has a softer texture which I think I like the most. So I take to a class mate who used fullers earth in her project last term and said it was really good for that effect that I want so next blog post will be to look into the effect it gives and how quickly I can do it, and also what paint looks like on to of it.

Below are some images found on pinterest that also helped with this theme I have in mind, it shows what just paint looks like on the skin.

I don't know what it is about these looks, but they just ooze beauty, artistic skills and I love the way its like they have painted outside of the box. That is how I will do my own work, look at it as if I am painting outside the lines, and creating a new beauty.

Week Four Reflection

This week we have to present our ideas to the class and tell them who we have chosen for our brand, what we have found out about them like price point, target audience and my own ideas that I want to do. That went find I know exactly what I want to do, I love the brand so its easy to talk about, and as its so diverse I can go any way with it so that was fine for me, in another blog post you can see the ideas and information about Illamasqua and my ideas. 

In the makeup session with Fenella, we did some more work with eye shapes with eyeliner and just experimented in how to open up the eye and what works for what eye shape, which was fun, I like doing eye makeup as you can really go out of the box or keep it quite laid back. 

In the hair session we did advanced plaiting which was amazing, as I always see videos of these really creative braids and plaits and never think I can do them but once Lottie showed us I was okay at it and picked it up quite quickly. 

In the photography session we where testing lighting again and camera lenses which was good as I like experimenting and seeing what I can achieve and also include in my own shoots. 

Overall this week has been good as I am getting more confident in my idea and the practice sessions. My schedule is still the same as I still need to get this contextual studies out the way. But I am really enjoying the experimental side and the research into 1700's/1800's paintings and learning more about my main inspiration, Marie Antoinette 

The Judis Kiss -wig inspiration/ work experience

The Judas Kiss 11.03.16

Today, myself and Antonella are on our first journey in the wig making world. We are currently sitting on the train talking about what we are worried about and excited about, what to expect and hopefully gain some more knowledge in the industry we have grown to love so much over the past few months.

We have been lucky enough to gain a little work experience with Helen, our wig teacher, to assist her and watch what this side of the industry is like.

I am feeling really nervous and worried that I may get things wrong or not have the best knowledge of the industry. However, I know that everyone starts from the bottom to works their way up, as that is just life really.

I am not sure what to expect from today, but all I know is that this will be the start of my career and hopefully help me fall more in love with the wig world!

So after meeting Helen at the station we went to Tottenham Green Workshops and visited two studios, one by Alex Rouse who specialises in full wig knotting and Sarah Weartherburn

A who specialises in facial hair.

Their studios where beautiful, like going back to school, the building was old and smelt like a canteen, we went up winding stairs and opened the door to a group of women chatting and knotting hair, listening to music also. Along the walls where block heads with actors names on, and on another wall where large wooden draws with little windows in them so you could see all kinds of different hair. I felt like a child in a candy store, completely in my element, surrounded by hair!

We got to talk to some of the women in the room who have many years of experience and saw how they stich the lace together to form the whole head, and see the knotting the hair in place.

We then went upstairs to Sarah’s workshop which was so lovely, large pots on a stove boiling hair on reels and facial hair on tables, picture’s surrounding the room with actors they have made facial hair for. It really made me think that we where in Harry Potter, the feel of it is so old school, I think that is what draws me to it, its quirkily and different, but fun and always interesting.  

I know this is going to sound cliché, but when I was standing there listening to the women, drawing in my surroundings, I felt like this is exactly what I want to do with career. I don’t want to do anything else but learn and become one of the best knotters, and within a company like the one I was standing in, they are all so lovely and enthusiastic about the work which made me think, yes this is for me and I need to get work experience with them asap!

After picking up Rupert Everetts wig from Alex Rouse’s studio we went to The American Church to go to see the performance of The Judas Kiss and help out behind the scenes. We walked into this massive church that looked like a school also, and went into the room where all the producers and actors where and we got to see, shake hand and talk to Cal from Selfridges the Tv series, and he is to die for, and then Rupert Everett, who has the most beautiful voice, he is polite and so sweet and interested in what we are studying, and had such high praise for Helen our teacher which was so lovely to see. After helping out with the wigs and setting some curls in the actresses hair we went and watched the performance, which hadn’t actually been done in over three years so felt very happy to have been part of that. It was such a beautiful and moving play, and acted so well, you believed all the characters where the real people.

After the show was over and we have helped clean up and get all Helens things ready we all headed home. Overall, this was one of the best days I have had, it has opened my eyes to this industry and made me more passionate than ever t get my foot right in the door to be come a wig knotter. This, I hope is the tart of something fantastic!

Texture within Clothing

When looking into creating texture with material the world is your oyster; I still need to keep the brief of spring/ summer 2016 and have looked at Vouge magazine and online sources on what they have presented for this years clothing.

They seem to have a bohemian feel with flowing dresses and some tribe aspects. I was thinking of keeping my looks quite simple with long flowing dresses or tule skirts with flowers embedded in the 'Day' shoots. With the night looks the same but with darker colours to make the make-up pop.

Photographer: Mark Kiszely
Makeup: Roseanna Velin using Illamasqua
Headpiece: Masanori Yahiro
Model: Lotty Benson
Assistant: Ian Davies
Special Thanks: Garcia Morales

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https://tommybeautypro.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/illamasqua-golden-goddesses-myer-fashion-show/

Sarah Walton

Contemporary Textiles Design - dyed, cut, layered & hand-stitched for a beautifully textured finish with metallic accents; fabric manipulation // Sarah Walton

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen Spring 2007 www.foreveryminute.com Luxury Silk Lounge and Sleepwear

Cracked leather sweater with heavily textured surface like cracked white paint; striking fashion details // Balenciaga FW13

Brushed on bleach t-shirt refashion - inspiration from Maison Martin Margiela Couture Spring 2013







// Proenza Schouler Spring 2014















When it comes to my own fashion looks for each shoot I was thinking of covering the dress in fullers earth or acrylic paint to create that texture I want like the images above. However, I will have to look into this as I don't want to ruin the clothing I have chosen! But we will see when it comes to the shoot!

John Galliano F/W 2 - Texture Shine

John Galliano F/W 2 - Texture Shine

As its all about texture for me, I really need to have a lot of inspiration so I can create something different and beautiful. Looking at John Gallianos interpretation of texture and shine in the images below, you can see they are from the same runway show but differ in matte, shine and dewey faces. 

I think as I have had a trial and error with making the texture cracking I am now swaying more towards the shine look and making it so you can see the brush strokes. The images below are very white, but I want to have just pale skin not Elizabethan white!

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Vlada+Roslyakova+at+John+Galliano+F/W+2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJkYuOuLbLAhWEshQKHYuEBcMQ_AUIBygB&biw=1391&bih=866

Marie Antoinette. Paintings. Inspiration.

These images below show an enchanting Marie Antoinette inspired editorial from Elle Sweden. It is beautifully fascinating how talented some stylists can be, and how they are able to play with clothes created for a 21 century princess and create an atmosphere so gorgeous and era-appropriate as this.

So why these images, why have they inspired me? Well look at them, they are everything I am looking for within my shoot and more. I love the way they have the girls grouped together giggling and acting cheeky. They emulate beauty and passion, and the soft lighting and light clothing all mix together. In my own shoots, the editorial mainly, I want to create like this, the lighting and colouring especially, its so light and sweet!

  

These iamges below would look great for my night shoot. They have the elegance like above but with the lighting, backdrop and presence they feel a lot colder and better fitted to the look I want. I may make mine look a bit warmer but these image below couldn't be ignored as they are beautiful!

Also the hair! its perfect for what I am thinking to do with my own wig, but less all over the place!

Vogue Germany April 2014
Photographer: Luigi + Iango
Stylist: Patti Wilson

Paintings by Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

Without Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s many portraits of Marie-Antoinette, our mental image of the Queen would be different, so iconic have these paintings become.

"It was in the year 1779, she writes, that I painted the Queen for the first time; she was then in the heyday of her youth and beauty [she was twenty four]. Marie-Antoinette was tall and admirably built, being somewhat stout, but not excessively so. Her arms were superb, her hands small and perfectly formed, and her feet charming. She had the best gait of any woman in France, carrying her head erect with a dignity that marked her as the Queen in the midst of her whole Court, her majestic mien, however, not in the least diminishing the sweetness and amiability of her face.

To anyone who has not seen the Queen, it is difficult to get an idea of all the graces and nobility combined in her person. Her features were not regular; she had inherited that long and narrow oval peculiar to the Austrian nation. Her eyes were not large; in colour they were almost blue, and they were at the same time merry and kind. Her nose was slender and pretty, and her mouth not too large, though her lips were rather thick.But the most remarkable thing about her face was the splendour of her complexion. I never have seen one so brilliant, and brilliant is the word, for her skin was so transparent that it bore no umber in the painting. Neither could I render the real effect of it as I wished. I had no colours to paint such freshness, such delicate tints, which were hers alone, and which I had never seen in any other woman."

These painting show the grace of a young women, lavished in beautiful garments, and hair accessories showing her youth and wealth. These paintings have inspired me in the way my models will be positioned and how to create the texture I want on the face. As I tried to so the shoot with the face looking cracked with Acrylic paint and Fullers Earth and it didn't work, I think I will make them have the sheen that these paintings do. 

Going to the V&A and National Portrait Gallery on many occasions, looking at the paintings up close you can see the slight cracking, from ageing, but they have a gloss to them, so to make my life easier, I will make my models face have this sheen and also make it so you can see the brush strokes, or even just apply natural texture to the skin like freckles. 

Overall, looking into recent works and older paintings I can get to grasps with what I want out of my shoot, what will work and what doesn't. The images above have made me really sure on my idea and how to make the best image possible. 

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