Evaluation: Hair and Make Up Current Trends

This term I have learnt from the basics of applying and colour matching in make up to applying a high fashion glossy black smoky eye look. Working better with products I wasn't so keen on before such as MAC face and body as I never really liked this product as I felt the coverage wasn't so good but I've learnt how to now work with this product and I do like using it now as I know now how to work the product. Getting my speed back up in make up and working well within a health and safety way in my work station, in hair being able to blow dry as at first I did find it hard but now I'm capable to wash, blow dry straight and a volume blow dry! Working with different heat appliances being my favourite Marcel waves and also the crimper's as I loved the crimper's as a child so have enjoyed using these too! So I feel liked I have learnt a lot in term 1 and can't wait for term 2 within Fashion make-up and Fashion hair! But before that this is my evaluation on my formative current trends: Zac Posen.



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For this formative assessment we were give four cat walks to research them being,

• Zac Posen NYFW SS/15
• Tanya Taylor NYFW SS/15
• Burberry LFW AW/14
• Marc Jacobs SS/14 

Researching into these catwalks helping me select my chosen Zac Posen cat walk as I felt all the others were very plain but they all did have their main attraction point on the face, but Zac Posen cat walk really drew me in as I love the perfect base, the glossy eye & the bold red lip! Also I loved the sleek back glossy hair look that connects well with the make up as it shows a rich glossy image as an whole and I was excited to recreate this look showing my skills in this high fashion look!
For my base I used MAC face and body as I wanted an natural look but also give a nice light coverage with a light powder of Kroylan translucent and this worked great on my models skin, for the eyes instead of going straight in with the MAC gloss I applied no higher than the crease MAC cork just to give a slight rust colour to the lid then to finish off the eye with the gloss giving that high shine to the lids! for the brow I took through MAC brow gel to keep that natural look to the brows for the contour I used my MAC contour palette using the colour shadow to really chisel those cheek bones out and using MAC dolly mix as the blush this time applying more going a bit more pink with it as Branka said in my practice she would of gone pinker so I took this tip and and added more and it did look good! For the lip in the practice I used more of a orangey-red lip, this time I went more of a red as it is in the image! I loved applying this look found my time has got quicker too, but I do need to get my speed up on applying the lip even though I felt I done really well on a balanced lip it took me the longest as I really wanted to make sure I applied this lip well! And this is something I do need to gain speed on, If I was to do this again I think feel I would really change anything sept from speed on the lip as I was really happy with my out come and feel I really did show my skills and creating that perfect base and recreating the image as well as I could and it does in my eyes say Zac Posen!

For the hair in my formative I went for the same look sleek back glossy look I applied with gel putting to a side parting sprayed down with water to take out the kinks and let it dry straight and applied the gel giving the wet look like the image I was creating from combing back wards with my tail comb, combing in movement and to the front of the hair used my tail of the comb to lift the hair to give hight but still keep the same shape of the hair. Only taking the gel to the top of the back of the head leaving the rest straight and then doing random sections of crimping to give a slight change to the models hair, which worked really great! And feel I applied the brief well with my final out come of the hair and make-up! If I was to apply this hair again I would make sure it was all kept random as it all was sept from the far left side went more formal and the right side was more random which I felt worked more but the rest I really applied it well I felt I kept the shape well but still applied the similar movement that went on in the image!!

The Final Image

Full Body blow dry by me

For this lesson we were shown how to apply a full body blow dry this time we didn't wash the hair but just wet the hair down with some water spray! So after I wet down my block I sectioned my blocks hair into 3 sections and then sectioning them blow drying row by row taking my taking my medium round blow drying brush right up to the root and instead of pulling out towards me like I did in straight blow dry I was rotating my brush a lot and curving it in as I wanted to create body this time.
Once I had blow dried the whole of the blocks hair I then applied Velcro rollers to the hair sectioning the hair and putting them in making sure in each roller section I throughout keep using my tail comb to keep those ends in. Once I had applied the whole set I gave a slight spray over with hair spray just to give that extra hold on my set. When ready I took my whole set out and carefully brushing a smoothing out my set into shape really enhancing the look I've just created with a final spray of hair spray again.

Final full body blow dry

Evaluation 

For my final out come I was really happy with it as I think it shows a good amount of body to the hair and when I done straight blow drying I hated it as it made my arms ache but this time I hold the dryer at the nozzle which always gives me more control over my blow drying.

The next blow dry I would love to give a go is a curly blow dry so that's hopefully the next blow dry I try. If I was going to do this again think I would next time add some serum just to give that soft perfect finish ready for camera! 

Practice of my chosen catwalk Zac Posen- Hair & Make-up

For this lesson I done a practice run on my chosen catwalk Zac Posen NYFW SS15, excited for creating this look as I love how high fashion the hair and make-up is giving such definition to the bone structure of the face finishing with a sharpe bold lip with a glossy eye and slicked back glossy hair.
Cleansed, toned and moisturiser my model getting the skin ready for the base. For the base I used Face and Body MAC C1 and C3 to suit the models skin tone and as the models for this catwalk isn't an heavy coverage its more of a natural base worked more into with the contour really chiselling the face.
Starting to apply to my models skin building the base but not too much as I still want the natural skin look. Applied my MAC medium pallet just cancelling out slight darkness under the eyes, once I applied my base and concealed I applied strobe cream MAC to the cheekbones firstly applying with my ring finger but because I find face and body quite oily base to work with anyway and noticing this more when applying strobe with my finger as I felt like when I was applying to the cheekbones I was lifting the foundation, so I tried to light apply with one of my flat brushes that still did leave brush marks on the foundation so I moved onto powdering the face as I didn't want to over work and ruin it so I decided to move on and go back to it later on in the make-up.
Moving onto the eyes buffing up to the crease with MAC cork shadow and a slight buff of brule onto the brow brow just to give a slight highlight to the brow bone and applying MAC lip gloss to the lid just on top of cork giving the eye a glossy look! For the brows I groomed them with MAC brow gel just giving a more of a natural look as the may focus was you really show of the bold lip being complimented by the strong contour, glossy eye and natural brows.
Finishing the eye area applying MAC mascara to the lashes using my MAC fan brush to lightly apply the mascara.
As my chosen image shows a lot of structure within the cheek bones I buffered into under the cheek bones with MAC contour powder shadeester and then at the top near the ears I deepened this by going in with MAC shadowy to really add depth to my contour, with finishing the cheek area applied MAC dolly mix blush dusting it up the cheekbone.

To finish my cat walk inspired applying the bold red lip, mapping out my lip giving a slight points to the bow of the lip once mapped out using my MAC Ruby woo liner to then fill this lip in I used Ruby woo liner worked into the back of my hand and then applied on hold on top of this, this little trick is to help prolong the wear of the lipstick on the lip then applied to my mapped out lip. But a final finish off going back to the strobe cream explaining my problem to Branka being shown to
use a medium sized fluffy brush and lightly buffering into the height of the cheek bone really completing the glossy glow look.

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Product used

MAC face and body C1 and C3

MAC medium concealer pallet

MAC brow gel

MAC mascara

MAC gloss

MAC cork shadow

MAC shadowy contour powder

Rimmel  medium bronzer

MAC Ruby woo lip liner 

MAC on hold lipstick

Evaluation 

I loved applying this look in our practice run for our formative seeing what worked well and what didn't. I was really happy with the base as I created a fresh look and good on the colour matching but when I went to apply MAC strobe cream to the height of the cheekbones with my ring finger I felt I just kept lifting the face and body from the skin so Branka shown me by just a medium sized fluffy blending brush just lightly buffing to the skin with not too much product and it really worked well!

When I applied the lip and told Branka I had finished she done a check on my work and just said the only thing was that the bow of my lip points were to close together and she would of parted the bow of the lip wider apart .

   

As you can see the left side was the lip I created and the right side Branka made adjustment too so taking off the off side with a cotton bud and copied Branka's side creating a well balanced lip as shown in my final picture below.

Final image with corrected lip. I feel I done really well within this practice and over come any problems I came to within my treatment and resolved them so that my formative should go smoothly on the day.

  

For the hair the models have sleek back wet look hair which on the day I will apply with gel  but for the practice I just wanted to get an quick feel for it so in this lesson we was shown different heat appliances as we have to use one in our formative so below I have insert different heat appliances I have tried and what my views are on them and what I will be using on the day of my model to recreate Zac Posen bold red lip look with the glossy sleek back hair style.

Firstly trying out marcel waves using a hot tong getting section of hair holding the leaver of the tong down and you place the hair between the tong and the plate of the tong when the hair is in you let go of the leaver just one roll up against the head rolling it to the left of the head and the and the left over of the hair pulling the hair in the other direction and repeating this all way down the hair going opposite to the way you did before and this will create your marcel wave.

This heat appliance created barrel waves with this all I done was section the hair and just place between the barrels and pressed down pressure and when released was left with lovely waves.

Final look on the barrel waves.

I really liked the look of the crimper's taking random sections a think this will also be very creative when I gel to get my wet look, I feel like this is the one I'm thinking more yeah this will work with my make up look but I wanted to try the others as I have never attempted some of them before so was nice to have a go at it even though I have selected them to put into my final piece.

Editorial Campaign: Free people the November catalogue

The magazine format catalogue showcases how to shine brighter and keep cosy all winter long, highlighting look's from the brand's new winter collection fronted by 'it girl' Taylor Hill, the November catalogue showcases four edittorial shoots.  (http://fashioneditorials.com/2015/11/02/free-people-the-november-catalog/)

The front cover really shows a Christmas feel, with the dimmed lighting in the back putting the set into a cosy winter back set showing the model is at the theatre in a glitzy dress giving the idea the model is on a Christmas night out in her glitzy winter number.
Showcasing this stunning image on the front cover reminding all us women those Christmas night outs to gleam for . The hair showing the windswept look coming from out of the windy cold weather into the warmth showing a warm winter glow, eyes with a dark smoky eye with a nice golden pigment dusted over the top to relate to the whole Christmas attire.

All the images of the editorial are all so beautifully captured really setting the set with dim lighting giving you that winter as its getting darker, the make-up showing darker and warmer feel with a brown full smoky eye, strong brows, bronzed contour skin warming skin where the sun would naturally hit the models skin with slight highlight.

                                 










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Orla Kielu AW14

 

Orla Kielu it's raining cats and dogs collection was inspired by an French 60's musical "The umbrellas of cherbourg" this what showed within the collection subtle patterns, textures and the colour combinations were subtle too as mainly shows a base colour with dots on the coats or even just a block colour but really influenced by the 60's era. I love this collection as its a nice classy look and its always a fashion that makes it way back round! It's more elegant it is one of those looks that can tend to put years on you though after hair and make-up are once applied to the attire.

Orla's designs representing classic British vintage clothing with the hair and make up complimenting the whole attire as the hair was worn in a 60's style in a sleek side parting with an side ponytails with the make up also incorporating the 60's touch with an natural make up a light pink tone applied to the lip and a slight 60's flick of the liner used for the eyes, an a rose blush to the apples of the cheeks giving an English rose appearance to the face going hand in hand with her beautiful and wearable pieces which were brightly coloured and fun yet sophisticated and feminine to look at.

Available to view images links below, last visited 09/12/15

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Dolce and Gabbana SS15

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Dolce and Gabbanna SS15 Kendal Jenner took the lead of the Spanish and Southern Italy inspired cat walk looking at the influences between 1516 and 1713 showing the collection as an romantic theme being the key colours of black and red as the attires mostly consisted of black lace, carnations, castillian gold and bejewelled detailing that gave you the insight of Spain. I think this collection is absolutely stunning the whole design and the hair and make-up just finish it. 

For the hair and make-up it has been well applied keeping to the Spanish theme with the hair dramatically centred parted and both sides of the hair firmly slicked into a tight low bun sitting just above the nape with blood red carnations to the hair to really set off the Spanish inspired catwalk walk.

For the make-up Pat Mcgrath worked her magic by transforming the models into Latino-beauties with thick dark brows to really frame the face strong contour into the cheekbones giving structure to the face, flicked liner to the eyes and to finish with a suety wine red lips.

This is one of my favourite catwalks for hair and make-up I love the sleekness of the hair and the bold brow and strong deep lip as its so powering when all together really capturing the eye, this look inspires each winter as the flicked liner and deep lip is always a nice deep warm feel to the face as all the darker colours come out around this time of year and ladies tend to colour their hair warmer for the winter choosing darker colours such as brown/black and this balances out with the deeper make-up choice. 

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Current Trends: Marc Jacobs SS/14

Marc Jacobs SS14 was a very dark gothic feel with moody hues and slimline shapes showing a dark side to fashion. With the style not giving the women a feminine look but a ragged look with the arms cut out material the bottom edging to the the dress giving no shape to the models curves just straight down and straight up finishing with the biker boots. The only women feel in this attire is the sequins on the dress that indicates this is a women attire as I don't feel it's feminine one bit. Im really not keen on this look but if I could change it a bit I think I would, by getting rid of the cut out sleeves and just keeping the top shoulder sleeves, cutting the dress just above the knee giving a neater appearance.

Even in Vogue the trend of SS/14 was described as disturbing children in fancy dress of ship wreck, as the hair and make up looks like a child has gone at the hair giving a chopped look and a very natural base outlined the eyes with a turquoise giving a slight cat eye look. The whole image gives out a scruffy look not a high fashion feel at all .

Overall I really didn't like this catwalk attire at all the clothing is horrible and manly looking the hair is awfully cut the make-up would of suited a better cat walk something that isn't so manly and shipwreck looking.

Images available below, last visited 09/12/15 

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Current Trends: Burberry LFW AW14

                     

                                                                 

It's fresh. Modern but still beautiful. It's classic Burberry

For Burberry's AW look was an very artistic feel to the clothing and a very hippie look with printed scarf dresses, trenches daubed with swirling floral's and broad brush strokes in warm colours clothes presenting AW . Such a beautiful  hand painted English- woven cotton silk dresses flowing look taken down the catwalk. With this artistic flow I think the pattern and colour really take the attraction straight to the attires they are very busy with pattern but not like Taylor's as her were small patterns which kind of her my eyes when looking but with Burberry's its artistic and really reminds me of an African art/pattern and just makes me want to wear it! 

Burberry's Hair and make-up for this catwalk was very natural bare minimal which I love still look's beautiful and I truly believe the saying less is more as this most definitely shows and really does make it all about the clothes.
Wendy Rowe lead make up artist gave a natural base to the model and applying a slight contour to show the structure of the cheekbones,giving a winter feel applied a warm nude blush to the eyes that gives the eyes warmth.The brows were applied strong to give structure to the face, as the other two catwalks made the make-up more about the natural skin and bold lip but Rowe made this more about the eye and just applying tulip pink lip giving a slight frost look.
For the hair lead stylist Neil Moodle gave a classic sleek blow dry that gives that look as if they have just come in from outside in the wind a slight wind swept look. I do really like this plain English rose look as I think is connects well with the pattern of the clothing and the shape and flow as the whole image flows into one.

All images available below in image order , last visited 09/12/15

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Current Trends: Tanya Taylor NYFW SS/15

For this collection Taylor created her whole colourful chic and sophisticated image inspired by graphic patterns and pin-wheels, using colours orange black and white . Some of her attires were plain and block look as shown in the right image above but also a chic look with busy patterns which I'm not so sure that I'm keen on the collection as with the patterned outfits I feel I don't know where to look but I do find her collection very fresh and she is known to give the idea of the models wearing certain colours that will give you the idea of what season it is.

Lead make-up artist for Taylor's collection was Uzo from NARS who also created a bold look making it all about the natural skin and bold lip as so did Posen's catwalk consisted of. To create this bold and simple look for the cat walk used tinted moisturiser to enhance the natural look and to create luminosity around the cheeks and eyes as the eye make-up was very little and this help highlight opening those fresh looking eyes. Instead of a bold orangey-red lip Taylor went for a light bold orange lip that will compliment her collection as it did include the colour orange. And finishing the look warming the contour with a peach tone which I really like as I think it really relates well to the bold orange lip.

It really connects well to the overall attires as the make-up compliments the clothes and not taking the attraction away just keeping it fresh to go with the Tanya Taylor women look crisp, fresh and bold.

For Taylor's I did not like at all as with the clothing range and the make-up shown so much crisp, freshness and boldness in her work I felt Allen Wood who styled the hair has just gone off the track completely with this hair style as I wouldn't say this looks fresh or high fashion to me just looks lazy to me not making think wow look at that her doesn't compliment the work just looks like she plaited her hair before school or work and the plaits have just gone loose and are falling out! To create this look Wood parted the parting in the centre of the models head making both sides flat to the head and tucked behind the ears and taken into two separate plates and luckily some of the models just had their hair in a centre parting  and flat to the head without those horrible plaits products used to style the hair bumble and bumble thickening spray and dryspin, texture spray to create and add texture to the hair styles.

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Current Trends: Zac Posen NYFW SS/15

Zac Posen for this catwalk NYFW SS/15 went for a sexy suit look that's not shouting out to us I have a boring job its saying I'm fashionable and I'm a suit in an elegant manner, keeping to classic colours white, classic red even though in his collection it was more of a gorgeous summer coral and sexy black dress that swooped the catwalk of NYFW. 

For this collection Posen created such a beautiful range showing off his beautiful tailoring, showing an elegant evening wear with a suit feel to some of his designs as others show off the curves of the women's body hugging to those curves. Stepping away from the floral pattern and delivering his designs in classic block colours white, red and black with matching colour shoes to finish the attire. I really like the block colour look he as gone for and showing off the curves of a women's body .

For the hair Odile Gilbert was the lead hairstylist and I love how she's created a flawless gloss look to the hair as it relates so well to the range. As its sleeked back gloss but still showing volume to the front section of the hair also showing breaks and waves within the hair still so not all too sleeked back as showing some body at the front of the hair still implies a sleek women look where as if was really sleeked down onto the head would still give a nice look but this still shows they have hair and not that bold looking gel back look. Think it works really well with the structure and movement of the dresses/suits as its still a beautiful hairstyle but its off the shoulders showing structure of the shoulders and not taking away from the main attraction the outfits but complimenting them.

Lead make-up artist for this cat walk was Kabuki, he wanted to keep natural to compliment and match the structure and sophisticated line so he created an natural base, strong contour and bold red lip.

This look was all about the lip and contour to me as he really applied strong depth to the cheek bones which I think really works well with the rest of the image as the dresses make the shoulders look really structured and this links well to showing the face structure. The lips looking on point showing a good balance, to get this orangey-red lip he used MAC cherry lip pencil mapped out the lips and then filled the whole lip followed by MAC lipmix lipstick on top making the lip a semi matte finish really being the main focus point of the face for me. The images as a whole show structure and sophistication and is most definitely my favourite show and will be my chosen show to recreate in my current trends. 

All images available below, last viewed 08/12/2015

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Alex Box

Alex box now where do I start! What an amazing make-up artist, all of her work is so creative, colourful, eye capturing and using each face as her clean canvas and just creating her beautiful art this women inspires me to be bold within my work , work outside the box because Alex box most definitely does and creates outside the box every time. And that is my name for her Alex Box thinks outside the box and I think this every time I look at her work.
Alex Box is an British make-up artist who moved to London to study fine art, and her artist skills are always shown throughout her work continuing her art work combining art, science, nature and the magical which I would say her work is magical. Her work has shown in Vogue, Stylist, i-D and many others and celebrity clients such as Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller and Courtney Love.
Also she works as make-up director for many international fashion shows and been the creative directer of illlmasqua this meaning she creates the products image since 2008 and I couldn't think of any one to do better than Alex Box herself as she is know to the make-up world as the creative queen!

( fig .1,2,3,4 and 5 Models unknown, Make-up artist Alex Box images found http://thealexbox.com/#/ab0061/ )

Above I inserted some of my favourite images alex has created because her work flickers between work for Vogue, showing warm glossy images, creative paint work making her work come to life, or images that show body parts on her created make-up and I love how she can create anything and how her work always shows that she does think outside the box.

Valente Frazier

Valente Frazier is an American based make-up artist who I discovered when I was younger by watching America's next top model as he's Tara Banks make-up artist and also for the models on the show. And has worked on a lot of celebrities and went on tour with Rihanna around Brazil being her personal make-up artist.
I always loved the America's next top model make-up that I decided to look up the make-up artist and looked more into his work I find his work quite glamorous where as my other inspirations work is more creative looking and its nice to look at all different artists work as taking some inspiration from someone else and another make-up artist and then putting my idea to it helps me look outside the box helping me with my work today!

( fig .1 Models, Tyra Banks rest unknown, Make-up artist Valente Frazier, image from http://makeupartistsmeet.com/workshop/seamless-beauty-make-up-workshop-valente-frazier.html)

His work draws me in as I think he always delivers clean bases and such a polish finish to his work its glamorous and always works for the camera and this inspires me to make sure my bases are also perfect because if you dont have the perfect base it will just ruin the whole make-up look ruining the attire image!

Recreating an image

For today's lesson we had no demo but instead Branka gave us all random images for us all to recreate on each other! Our brief given of the lesson was to copy the exact image we had been given which will help us with our assessment when we have to copying our chosen image from certain catwalks.
My image was a glossy smoky eye with strong contour, firstly I applied the eyes using MAC black track liner taking it to the socket line and then slightly blending the product and then working onto the lid with MAC carbon shadow pressing into the lid, then onto the brows I used MAC brow gel brushing through them and applied MAC brun shadow just taking the shadow mainly through the beginning of the brow and took the remainder lightly through the brow finishing the eye by applying MAC mascara, and was leaving the gloss till last so it would last longer.
For the skin I cleansed and moisturised the models skin ready for my base application using Full coverage applying where I wanted to highlight mainly focusing under the eye as this is quite highlighted in the image once I had applied my highlighter I used NC25 for my contour as its very strong the contour so placed this under the cheek bones and around the temples and slightly on the forehead and jawline and blended all this into the skin blending in circular motions making sure is well blended and not made her look dirty as some people can make this happen when contouring. To set the skin I used Ben Nye fair and lightly dusted this over the face and for the lip I used my nude MAC lip liner applied all over the lip and then added a hint of MAC gloss also applying gloss to the lid finishing my glossy smoke image.

( fig .1, fig .2 Model Chelsey Pavey, Make-up artist Sophie Anders )

Products used

Base: MAC full coverage NC15, NC25

Eyes: Mac black track liner, MAC carbon shadow, MAC gloss

Powder: Ben Nye fair

Mascara: MAC mascara 

Lip: MAC nude lip liner, MAC gloss

Brows: MAC brun shadow , MAC brow gel

Evaluation

when turning over and seeing the image I had been given I was made up as I loved applying this look a few weeks ago! This time though I didn't apply a blend out colour as the image didn't look like it had a blend out colour so just black track and carbon shadow was used I feel I did apply the image well but I think eyes did look a bit more blended mess look to the lids and my look very Sharpe so if I was to copy this image again I think instead of using a brush this time I would work into the lid with my fingers doing a Pat Mcgrath technique to give it more of a edge look and not so neat and sharpe like my image shows above. And maybe work more into the contour as its a very strong contour. But I did feel I made a really good attempt at this look and is good practice for my formative assessment as I have to copy a chosen make-up.

Pat Mcgrath

Pat Mcgrath is an well known British make-up artist who is known for her best work and most creative work being hand made and works mainly with her fingers and not brushes. She has been one of my most favourite make-up artists that has inspired me in work I have created in the past when studying level 3 in specialist-make-up one of my favourite pieces of her work and that inspired me was Christian Dior AW 09/10 1920's inspired look, was so beautiful and so creative feel to it, it really really captured my eye as I do love the era 1920's and she recreated the era into today's modern feel to it making it creative and eye capturing for catwalk and when I was researching this make up and hair really did make me want to look into her work and seeing more creative work with colour and structure and thats what I love about her work she just lets go and gets so creative and doesn't really uses brushes to applying any make-up to the face either, and that's were her artistic side comes out as Pat didn't learn about fashion or make-up she studied foundation art course at Northampton. Being able to see in each make-up how creative her work is as she quoted in an interview (Vogue.com UK during London Fashion Week (Sept. 2008) McGrath explained her creative process, saying: "I'm influenced a lot by the fabrics that I see, the colours that are in the collections, and the girls' faces. It's always a challenge but that's the key - to make it different every time.)
                                                                                                           

(fig .1, fig 2 AW Christian Dior 09/10, Make-up artist Pat Mcgrath.)

My Work

( fig .3, fig .4 Model Samantha Rose, Make-up artist Sophie Anders, Hairstylist Sophie Anders )

So above my images I inserted images from the catwalk show Dior haute couture A/W 09/10 and below I inserted my images, as this catwalk look inspired me so much as I looked for inspiration for my catwalk project and it also influenced towards my artist influence make-up look by using the grip idea but just changing a little making my own instead of a formal sections of them being in line and staying straight I kind of made its bit more abstract as that was the look I was wanting to create.

( fig .5 Model Fiona Sutton, Make-up artist Sophie Anders, Hairstylist Sophie Anders)

So this women has really inspired me throughout my make-ups and all of the make-up artist I am talking about on my blog is people who I look at think I want to be like you doing what they love creating pieces of art everyday doing what they love and what everyone loves to see.