Final Fantasy Images. . .

For me, I feel as if these are my strongest images from both of my looks. I am so incredibly happy and pleased with myself how my ideas and designs came together to create these 2 different looks. I think with this shoot, I really managed to capture Frankie's idyllic features. With the positioning of her chin and posture in the second image, I am so proud of myself as I feel as if I really managed to portray my make-up skills to create 2 stunning final images. By editing the lighting during the shoot as well I feel as if I managed to capture the depth of Frankie's hair colour which worked so well with my overall look.

Final Beauty Images. . .

So here they are, these are the final images for my Beauty Illamasqua look for GRASS, DARK, PURPLE, WHITE and GREEN. I chose these 2 images as I felt as if they really stood out due to the different positioning of my models face, to show the colour on the cheeks and detail on the eyes, representing my make-up techniques but more important my skills as well as captioning Frankie's true beauty. 

Illamasqua Products. . .

As this is an Illamasqua project, potentially working towards the Illamasqua competition, it was only right to use Illamasqua products to promote and to show my skills through using there wide range of products. From my kit these are the products that I am going to use. The combination of pure pigments and shadows will work well together I feel by using the technique of layering up to create more of a depth to the skin.

Precision Ink in Scribe - Pure White

Gleam in Aurora

Pure Pigment in Berber

Powder Eye Shadow in Livid

Powder Eye Shadow in Sex

Powder Eye Shadow in Taboo

Hair Flare. . .

For my beauty shoot to keep the attention and focus on the make-up, I am going to keep the hair design quite basic and just straighten it. With the different tones and shades of blue/green in Frankie's hair I think this will work well as it will compliment the make-up and really bring out Frankie's strong green eyes. In regards to my fantasy look, I intend to do something slightly different. Still keeping the hair relatively straight I shall figure out the hair design once the make-up is complete as from what I have learnt in the past my ideas might seem good on paper and in practise but when putting the final hair and makeup together it works better sometimes by being creative and playing around with the finished result. Here is a small mood board of some of my ideas in regards to the hair, with the colour, style of having it up and coming over the face slightly and different techniques.

Hair. . .

My model for both of my final shoots is m dear friend, Frankie Sassquatch. As well has having amazing bone structure, Frankie has dip-died turquoise/green hair so I thought this would be perfect for my shoots, especially my fantasy looks. At first I wasn't bothered about my chosen models hair colour but now that I have introduced the colour green to my main words, I thought this would be perfect. With Frankie's length of hair as well, this gives me the opportunity to do an up-do or have it down and straight for the beauty look, which is what I have in mind. I know this is a bad quality picture but it was the only one where you could clearly see her hair colour.

Design Process. . .

Face Charts. . .

As part of any design process, development of ideas through face charts is always important. My initial ideas were the following face charts but as one of my words was 'grass', and from looking at over grown nature, I decided to add on another colour which is GREEN, as this I feel will make my project seem more rounded as it will bring my words and colours together and more realistic.

My face charts were my first ideas of how I could picture my final shoots, I feel sometimes although face charts is a good way of getting your ideas visually across, sometimes I work better by doing
the shoot then doing the face chart after. In this case to show my more creative side as this is what Alex Box does a lot of the time, make the design up as I go along. The different between a face chart and a design on the face is incredible, my idea might not work well on the face so I intend to start off with the base and then develop my idea by layering colour and as I build up my look, so what works and add more/darker shades onto the certain areas that I feel are necessary. If it works for Alex, im sure it will work for me !

Over-grown nature. . .

As my project is leading towards the direction of 'Mystical Swamps', I thought a key aspect to look at would be ancient trees and the roots. I have always found them fascinating how these beautiful trees have stayed put whereas the ground has disintegrated the the roots have risen to the surface. The texture and direction in which they flow in is something I think would be interesting to include in my look. Initial thoughts are roots/ivy effect crawling up the neck and along jaw line.

Whilst looking through images of ancient trees with roots, I came across the thought of growing moss. As a child I always thought moss was so much fun, soft yet had prickly ends and used to crumble in my hands. This got me thinking.......similar to tree roots where they are sort of the hidden beauty of the forest and forgotten, moss over grows onto anything in its reach. Thinking back to this in regards to my final shoots, where we have to create some sort of character, and with my theme being "mystical swamps", I think I shall focus my ideas on creating some sort of forest creature.

For my primary research following on from the images I collected above, I went to have a look through the park round the corner from my house in Southampton and where as before I had just followed the foot path, this time I went down the little paths through the trees and came across this stunning little stream. I was quite surprised as I had no ideas it was there and yet how beautiful and idyllic it was. Looking past all the rubbish and waste that had been left there, I thought recording and blogging these images would be good so when it comes down to doing my final shoots I can look back at these pictures and remind myself of the mystical, fairy like feel the little stream had on me.