Technical Knowledge

Week 1
In todays lesson we looked at S/S 15 trends and the clean catwalk face, dewy v's matt. 

Dewy 

This is a very soft, moist, glowing and fresh look. Although moist its NOT oily or greasy! 

This dewy look is often achieved my minimal use of product allowing the models natural skin to show through, this means Skin Care previously is very important. Using a natural scrub twice a week, cleansing, toning and moisturising!  

For catwalk base you need to do it very quickly, play with the products to see how you can achieve a dewy look with minimal product. Experiment with products like BB and CC creams, Mixing a satin primer or moisturiser in with the foundation. This will mean smaller amount of product and a natural glowing finish.

For my Dewy look i mixed together Illamasqua satin primer, Kryolan Pallet foundation and Moisturiser. 2 parts moisturiser, 1 primer and 1 foundation. I found this allowed me to achieve a dewy natural look as the foundation is very thick this still showed the model skin through. 

Products: 

Illamasqua satin Primer 

Kryolan Foundation Pallet 

Moisturiser

I feel experimenting with products to find what works for the perfect base is the way i would know what products i personal feel works. 

Matt

Matt on catwalk is more seen within the Fall shows, its about achieving that gentle matt look. Works well with graphic eyeliner or a bold lip! 

Texture of the skin needs to still show dose not mean using excessive use of product again, small amount of product to achieve flawless matt finish. 

Think about product and intensity! 

To achieve the matt look i used the Kryolan Pallet again 2 parts this time and 1 part moisturiser to lighten the intensity of the product again and 1 part Matt primer. Finishing with Illamasqua translucent powder slightly dusted.

Products: 

Kryolan Foundation Pallet 

Illamasqua tanslucent powder 

Illamasqua Matt primer

Week 2

Contouring & Highlighting

Catwalk Contour; Natural tones of colour to mirror natural highlights and concave's on the face.

Using blushes to contour, peachy, rosy or golden tones. Gentle coverage again! 

Looking at anatomy to understand contour! use the bone structure on the models face as a guide.

When contouring i prefer to work with powder products although i do like the cream highlighter products. I was experimenting in this lesson how quickly you can over do the contour i feel i need to be more gentle with my application and practise working on many peoples face to get used to contouring on many different face structures. 

Week 3

Eyebrows & Lashes

In this lesson we looked at catwalk trends featuring different eyebrow and lash trends of both S/S15 and Fall 14 & 15. How catwalk makeup uses brows and lashes in different ways to change the face.

Things to try:

Tom Ford S/S15

Brushing direction, by simply brushing the brows in different directions alters the models look. Simple but effective very natural and clean.

Prada S/S15

This look is very experamentative but still natural a simple line to define the brows keeping the base natural makes the look gentle.

Chanel By Peter Philips

Blocking brows can either give or remove symmetry within the face and you should do one or another, if you are going to block out the brows make sure they are symmetrical.

Lashes examples of using different products or accessorise.

Chanel Fall By Peter Philips

Using glitter applied with lash glue on both the lash line and the eye lashes gives this a natural but effective lash look.

Alexander McQueen Fall

Using a simple technique of features giving a very dramatic feel to the models faces. I experimented with brow direction and was looking how this would alter the models face. Looked at brows with a strong lip.

Week 4 & 5: 

Colour Theory 

In class we were given an images of a catwalk look (as shown above) in black and white we were then given a colour theory i had analogue colours. With this set of colours (chosen by ourselves) we were to recreate the look on each other. 

I created the look based on the analogue colour yellow, green and orange. I didn't realise that by analogue colour these didn't mean colours sitting directly next to one another on the colour wheel but variations of one shade using different tones. 

I do like this final look and it taught me how important colours can be within a makeup look. 

The week after we were shown the image in colour, it was interesting to see how different we had all portrayed the makeup application. I recreated the look with the correct analogue colour tones using tones varying from orange/browns. This was a much more successful look and i preferred the final outcome of the look.