Unit Conclusion

I have thoroughly enjoyed this project. I found learning about the Elizabethans extremely interesting, as I had never given them much thought, besides the little bit if Elizabethan history I'd done at school. I have been amazed however, at how much of the Elizabethans are still alive in today's society, and how much Queen Elizabeth influenced Britain, both then and today.

This project has really made me start to look at everything differently, and I wish I had explored certain ideas and views a little bit more. I also wish I had made better use of other resources, but I do really look forward to the next project however and I look forward to experimenting more, with ideas and developing my makeup technical skills furthur, and seeing how I can build on the experience I have gained from this project both skill wise, but also with organisation.

My Final Design

Here are the images of my final design. I am really happy with how the look turned out, and I think it is easy to identify it as a contemporary Elizabethan look. 

My Partners Final Design

Here are the final images of Terri-Anne's design. Both Terri-Anne and I were really pleased with how it turned out. It was a really well thought out design and the makeup and hair work brilliantly together. 

Practising my Look

Terri-Anne and I practised and tweaked my design a few times before the assessment. When practising the makeup, I think Terri-Anne struggled a little initially, to get the softness and intensity of colour around the eyes. Once I showed her which brushes I had found best to do the look on myself, and how to build the eyeshadow pigment it worked a lot better. She also seemed to struggle a little bit with the lips, as she was worried about getting the definition with such a bright colour, but once I explained that I wanted to lips to be slightly more diffused around the edges she was fine with them. We experimented with different lips, firstly trying out "Lady Danger" by MAC, which looked a bit too red. Next we tried using "Lady Danger" just on the centre of the lip and blotting it down, but it still did not look right. We then tried "Le Orange" by YSL, and it was amazing how such a subtle change of colour completely altered the look. "Le Orange" is slightly less red than "Lady Danger", but still had a beautiful red tone to it.

Practising my Partners Look

Terri-Anne's final look was fairly easy to do. She kept it really simple, and it was really effective in conveying the Elizabethan details.
For her eyes, she originally wanted to use "Electrum" from the Illamasqua liquid metal palette on the eyelid, and then buffing a lighter gold/yellow around and up to the brow bone to create an almost ombre effect. When we tried this in the studio however we applied the liquid metal first, but it dried really quickly and therefore became really difficult to blend. We then decided to apply the light colour first all over the lid and intensify it with the liquid metal afterwards.

Then with the eyebrows, she originally wanted to leave them bare as they are naturally fair, but we thought it could be an interesting contemporary twist to add an orange line to the brow. We experimented with putting the line on the top or the bottom of the brow and eventually decided to use orange lipstick on a mascara wand and just tip the ends of the hairs with orange. 

The rest of the look was fairly easy to create, and we swapped the lipstick colour from the pinky red colour she had chosen, to "Lady Danger" by MAC, as it has vibrant orange tones to it and would reflect the colour in the brows.