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Evaluation

    On both mine and my partners timed assessment days we was both rather prepared in terms of what worked for us in our designs and what didn’t, as we had previous worked together and practiced each look numerous of times. We was also always in contact with each other, so if one of us had an issue with anything we could work out a solution or make sure the other person had a clear understanding on what they had to achieve in the set time on the day.

    When developing my research I used the tutorial lessons we had as a starting point for me to go research more and more into designers, brands, and trends that had been inspired by the Elizabethan beauty ideal. I also used took it upon myself to find other resources to find out information, such as films, TV shows and books to help strengthen my research folder for this brief which I found very helpful to see directors interpretations of the Elizabethan era instead of just looking at designers and artists for inspiration.

   I really have enjoyed working on this brief of ‘The New Elizabethans’ and thought it was such a good starting point for our first project at university. It has made me think about a different era of make-up I may not have ever delved into, whilst it has also taught me how important the Elizabethan era was for make-up an cosmetics as a whole. Also the introduction of working with partners and working to their brief instead of your own, I think is such a good idea as in real life in the working environment you won’t always be working to your own brief and has taught me how to deal with working with clients and how to work around problems that may come up whilst working.

Make-Up Assessment: Being The Designer & Peer Review

    This is my final make-up design that I gave to my partner to execute for me for this assessment, for my design I wanted a flawless base with contour and highlight to represent the modern trend in this current day and age, but to get that Elizabethan touch to my design I decided to 'bleach' my eyebrows and make my eyelashes white paired with a red lip which has modern and Elizabethan influences. As for the white streaky hand prints down my face and body, I put this into my design because I wanted to show how Elizabethans might have applied their white base and how it might have been streaky on their faces as well, I also did this technique because I wanted it to mimic the idea of a ruff which seeing all the white lines down my neck and chest I felt this did create the illusion of one.
      I thought Annabel did a pretty good job with my design, my favourite aspects of my design that she recreated on me is the white streaks down my face, neck, and chest along with the overall highlight and contouring of the face. These was my favourite elements of her work because I wanted them to be very intense to contract against the white face and body paint that would of been applied afterwards, and I felt she captured my vision in them elements.

    However I felt like a few things could of been improved, such as the base could of been a lot less full coverage and mask like, as I did request a more natural yet perfected face. I also felt like she could of cleaned up around the brows as they did turn out very messy looking, and also made the eyelashes a lot more opaque.

    I would say that both me and my partner was well prepared in terms of what we was doing when it came to our make-up assessment as we did practice our looks a few times and I made myself clear on what I wanted from her and how I wanted her to execute my design. We also understood each others wants from this assessment and was both accessible to each other if we needed to speak to the other about a concern we may of had.

Make-Up Assessment: Being the Make-Up Artist

    When I started to meet up with Annabel and discussing our final make-up designs I thought the design was quite simple and not as challenging as I would of liked it, yet I was still happy to execute her design for her! For her design she requested me to make her face pale/white, white eyebrows, sublet contour and gold and nude ombre lips to complete the look. When explaining her look more she went on to say she wanted her design to look very stern and serious, which I got once practicing her design I understood why she put certain things into her design to create this look. After completing Annabel's design she told me she was happy with how I executed her look which boosted my confidence about the look a lot more, unfortunately the camera blew out the make-up and make it a lot less intense as it was in real life but I am happy with the overall look and pleased with my own application and that it captured her vision.

Partners Trial Make-Up

    Thursday I met up with my partner and practiced her final make-up design in preparation for our timed assessments for the next two weeks. My partner requested for me to create a smoky eye that blew out onto the sides of her face, complemented with pale matte skin and a gold ombre lip. 

    After practicing her look I feel 100x better about the assessments to come as I know what I'm doing and how to apply the products in the specific way she wanted them, I also know how to manage my time and what I can shortcut that'll still create the same effect she wants but in a less amount of time as we have to fit in clean up and shooting into the 2 hour assessment. Overall, I'm very happy with how I executed her look and I look forward to getting these timed assessments done and out the way!

Design Influences: No Eyebrows

    In my final design after practicing my final design I decided that I didn't like the idea of having strong full brows as I felt like it made the design too contemporary which isn't what I was after for this project, so this is when I came up with the idea of switching my original idea around to no eyebrows. I'd seen a lot of inspiration for no eyebrows in previous years before this project but never had gotten the chance to use them, but here are some of my favourite fashion images that have included bleached brows or had them blocked out all together.
    I really do enjoy this trend, maybe not in an everyday situation but from a fashion point of view I do really love the way it looks! I feel like it gives a very stern look to the design without even trying to come across that way and could transform any look to have this vibe at the end. Another reason for me changing my mind is because I really wanted an element of my design to embody the Elizabethan beauty ideal and what first came to mind was to have bleached eyebrows. I also like the idea of elongating the forehead which is another important beauty ideal Elizabethans would of followed.

Design Influences: Streaky Make-Up

    These are some of the images that have inspired me for elements of my designs, and as you can see I loved the idea of having the streaky in my make-up designs. I was drawn to this idea as I thought it would be somewhat different to what other people might have designed, but also I liked my concept behind it of Elizabethans applying their base with their hands so naturally it would create these streaks on their face and neck. Another idea I had behind this is as my chosen new Elizabethan is Lettice Knollys, she was known for being very sneaky, mischievous and scandals with men so my idea of the streaky make-up stems from her hiding from everyone else and trying to show people something that she's not. For colour choices I decided to go with white for the reason that white shows shows innocents and purity which not only links in with a the historical Elizabethan make-up, but also would show the message that Lettice would want to project to people as an outside image to hide from that fact that she isn't very innocent or pure at all.