Blushing Bride!

                     Simple Bridal Hair and Makeup

For my bridal makeup I wanted to keep it really plain and simple. Sometimes, less is more.

For the foundation I used Airbrush Foundation to give a flawless base and added very light blusher and contour. I used light and dark brown eyeshadows. Along the eyelids I used the lighter colour and the dark colour along the crease of the eye to give the eye more depth. I then winged the lighter brown out a little and added an almost white colour to the very inner parts of the eyes, near the tear ducts.

I then finished the eyes with a simple brow, using dark brown brow cake and an angled brush. For the lips I added a medium red lipstick and that's that! Makeup done. :)

Bridal Hair

Once again this hair style is very simple. It's brushed back from the front out of the brides face. If the bride was to wear a vale or tiara, this hair style would be very easy to deal with and would be less likely to get wrecked.

To do this hairstyle, you simply devide the hair into three sections and tie them with an elastic band. Plait each of the sections as far down the hair as you can go and, again, tie them with an elastic band. I'd advise to try to use elastics and clips as close colour to the model's hair. Once you've plaited the hair, wrap them around themselves one at a time and clip them in place. The outcome should be something like this!

Burn recreation, ouch! (Not for the squeamish)

                                     Burn using Gelatine

To create an effective burn mark, little details are quite important. Using dark and light red grease paints / blood will help it look like there are deep wounds within the burn, and the gelatine gives it a blistered, fresh, shiny burn look on the skin.

When preparing the gelatine it's important to work fast with it once you've mixed it with water as it dries very quickly, and will be impossible to work with! Apply it to the skin quickly and use a hair dryer or let it dry naturally before adding colour / blood.

You can also add a little pink or red colouring to the gelatine when you're mixing it, to give it a slight pinky / skin coloured look. I decided not to add any colour to mine before hand and just added colour afterwards.

Here's the final outcome of my burn, looks sore! If you're squeamish, prepare yourself!

Ouchie!

Old Age Makeup

                                                       Old Age Makeup

Before and After :)

To create this look, I simply used dark and light foundations and a little red lipstick! Yep, that's it! Oh, along with some props of course.

It can sometimes be a little hard to make the wrinkles look as realistic as possible, so the best way is to go with the model's natural creases in their skin. This is especially hard to do this with very young skin. So in my opinion, the best way to do this is to get the model to smile or crease up their face, tell them to get angry and growl! This will highlight the natural creases in the skin so you can copy them easily!

                                    

Dragon Tattoo!

                                                      Temp Dragon Tattoo!

From some reasearch, I decided to do this tattoo dragon design! It took a lot of time, effort and planning but I'm pretty pleased with the outcome!

For this tattoo I simply used black body paint and a very thin paint brush and copied it from the template as best as I could. It was quite challenging to keep it all in proportion.


Here's the outcome of the tattoo below!

Terry Bradley Makeup Design

                           Terry Bradley, Artist - Interesting makeup design?

My take on Terry Bradley's piece, 'Rock'.

Since my first years of school I've always been into art. I'm still an amateur, but that doesn't stop the love I have for drawing, painting and, er, attempting oil pastels and chalks. (Tricky buggers, they are!)

Once I started GCSE art, I descovered more and more artists that were simply amazing and inspiring. One that has always stuck in my mind was Terry Bradley. I simply adored his style and how he can potray his character's attitudes simply though his colours and simplisted lines. They look simple enough... but trust me, they're really not! His paintings are so full of love and effort.

I thought to myself that it would be interesting to combine one of his art pieces and a makeup design. I'd love to see one of his pieces come to life. So this will definitely be a future project of mine.

The design plan would probably be along the lines of this.

For the hair I'd have pin curls, and one little curl coming down onto the forehead. For the colours on the face, I think using an airbrush would be best and use normal face paints for the little details like the hearts, mole and details on the nose, eyebrows and upper lip.

I'd then finish the look with some eyeliner and purple / black eyelashes and possibly add the tattoo if I was going to have the model in the same position as the character in the original painting.

I look forward to working on this, it's going to be so much fun!                                            

Final alien / fantasy look!

                                                    FINAL Alien outcome!

Yaaay! I did this piece for my fantasy look along with my bald cap assignment. I know I could've blended the bald cap a little better, but overall I'm happy with the outcome. I think the paint work was a lot better than the practice. Pity about the blending part! Oh well, practice makes perfect as they say. Here it is!

 

A lot of time and effort went into this piece, for both me and the model. It's all about planning and ,of course, practice, practice, practice! This piece allowed me to focus a lot on my airbrushing skills, blending colours to make them fit together more naturally was the key.

 

Here was my original design plan although I tweaked it a little.

 

 

 

Special thanks to Brendan Strong for the support and taking time to model!