Professional Make-up Project

Evaluation

 

Reflecting upon my makeup, there were many thing I would like to change. Before the assessment, the test makeup I did wasn't thorough enough to judge what could go wrong. I needed to inform more practice runs for the hair in particular. I would also have liked to run through full application of the appliances too.

I would have resuclpted my hip appliances to make them more equal, so I could make the skin sculpt side match up to the fat side, and then have the wound pulled open as planned.

 

I should have re sculpted the wounded side to create a bigger piece, like the fat side, and be able to use sculpt gel to fill up the mould, like I had. However, the sculpt gel needed deadening more so that it could have hung more organically as it was pulled away in my models hand.

 

Ideally, I wanted to use foam latex to rule out any weighty appliances pulling themselves off. But having not known I could have made my own oven, I ruled out this option as I didn’t think this was doable. This is a definite material I will use in my upcoming projects. The weight of the gelatine hip was too heavy to hold itself up in the thicker area. Thinner areas which blended out to the centre of the stomach were strongly attached and didn't come away. This piece also blended well, until the piece started to move. The colouring of this gelatine was easier to match to my models skin tone than the silicone appliance. The silicone blended smoothly into the skin at first, but began to pull itself off after a short while. I think this piece needed more support as the skin sculpt was a harder silicone than the pro gel piece I had deadened. It was difficult to colour this piece, as the skin illustrator encouraged the piece to peel away from the skin as the IPA broke down my blending edge. I eventually managed to find a more balanced tone across the pieces and her stomach.  The gelatine hip colour in comparison to the silicone appliance, was a lot closer to my models skin tone as it was more yellow, wehreas the the silicone was more of a pink skin tone. This made it difficult to match the silicone appliance to the skin. Unfortunately, the overall application and colour wasn't as successful as I wanted it to be.

 

Hair

I needed to spend more time on the hair, as laying on hair needs time to allow for layers of hair. The mastix was very sticky and shiny, so I tried to mattify this with MAC Maffifier and translucent powder. This wasn’t very successful because I wanted minimal product in the hair. The creped hair I used was useful to give depth and texture to my models hair; this was also helpful to give more coverage over the bald patch prosthetic. The Gafquat idea sounded simple and effective, which it was until I had to blend out the edges of my prosthetic pieces. Looking at the application, I wondered whether blending edges were completely nescessay, as they weren't blending into skin, and were instead being covered by hair that way lay on top. If I'd of had the time, a bald patch wig may have been more realistic and effective, although, this may not have enabled me to pull out any hair for effect in shot.

Next time I would make thicker flat pieces, this would then enable me to hair punch more hair in, avoiding laying on hair with mastix. Ultimately, this would have been a lot more realistic, cleaner, and easier to apply.

 

Nails

My models nails were painted a deep nude colour, which I didn't realise until makeup day. I continued to pain skin illustrator over the top of her nails, this still worked but wasn't as effective as the original idea, to paint the bare nail.