Last week I was a busy bee; doing creative fashion
demonstrations as well as SFX demonstration with a variety of students from Blackburn
College, from my fabulous media makeup students to hair and beauty students.
It was an extremely long week, but I got to meet a lot of
new students and speak to those who were interested in joining my media makeup
band of merriness. In this blog I’ll be covering my creative makeup session and
what I created for the students which included the use of the headdress I created
and spoke about in previous blog.
So the whole theme for this creative makeup demonstration
was “Warriors”, I always like the creation of strong looking images using creative
makeup techniques and figured that this would inspired the students to create
and imagine. My design focused on inspiration taken from Japanese Theatre,
Kabuki in particular as I absolutely love the masks worn. It’s an idea that’s been
floating around in my head of a long time and I wanted to challenge myself with
creating a headdress. The main inspiration for the headdress focused more on dark
nature and creating a bit of a contrasted between the structured, edgy makeup
design and the natural, almost softened effect of the headdress.
The techniques that I wanted the students to have a play
with was primarily creating distinctive patterns using eyeliner, as it’s
something that most students fear. I use several brushes to create the detail
work; flat angled brush, thin round brush and medium round brush but it is up
to you the artist to find a brush that you feel comfortable with using. In
order to get the straight lines the main 3 lessons are use guideline dotes, use
an anchor point created by your little finger and practice. It’s all about
building your confidence and reducing that shaky feeling where you stop
breathing when applying!
The base colours were applied using manual buffing of cream
foundation mixed with applying airbrush, MistFX red. The reason why I used a
mixture of the two was because only my media make up level 3 students are
trained to use the airbrush equipment and so I wanted the other students to
have a techniques that they can apply. I will admit I absolutely love airbrush
application, it quick and creates a beautiful blended and smooth application.
MistFX colour is a fantastic product for applying body art or creative makeup
and it can be used through an airbrush gun (once mixed with distilled water) or
manually. Therefore it’s a two for one sort of product!
As stated in previous blog entries, the headdress was
created by moi, using wire to create a “hat” shape and creating horns and the
bird skull using a clay putty that can be cooked in the oven to harden.
I held these demonstrations 4 times during Blackburn College
Industry Week and meet a lot of lovely new people as well as using my own media
makeup students as models…thankie guys! And hopefully I inspired some more
creative make up applications and may be inspired a few students to join the
media makeup course next year.
Next blog entry will be covering the SFX demonstration that I did for the Level 2 Media Make-up students.
