Wednesday 27 November 2013

Face Charts

Below are a few face chart designs that I created for different looks for this project including one that was quite androgynous one that shows colour and a more abstract art effect on the project with a hint of Berlin era and also another which is very much Berlin inspired along with Anita Berber.









Monday 18 November 2013

Androgynous , Tattoos and Piercings

Androgynousandrogynousandrogynous fashion - I am intrigued how designers use photography which create androgynous females. Does this appeal to a specific audience?Josephine Baker (1927)

Images sourced from pintrest.

Androgynous style.Neo-Victorian #Goth girl, piercings and all. Gorgeous and not an easy task each morning!

I have the Idea to create quite an androgynous looking image but to also show someone who has a few tattoos and piercings and a more individual look making them there self s diverse by looking how they want and being happy by this and to not look and follow the crowd.
DieselRebootNIKITA-IRA
Above is a diesel advertisment I came across winch I really liked it had quite diverse people in it with not the usual models I like how the photographs have been taken and also how they show androgynous looks these are images similar to how I would like to create my androgynous image for one of my final ideas and looks.

Wednesday 13 November 2013

Timed assessment look 1 - Emma's Design


Finished looks




Designer – Emma Moon
Make-up Artist – Lily Mills

Peer assessment- 
Me and Emma both met up before are timed assessments to discuss each other’s ideas and looks and go over what we would both be doing. We also discussed how we would print some images out of our looks and give each other’s notes on the day along with our own kits so we could create each other’s looks easier with the right tools and equipment. With my look for Emma we discussed how Emma was not as confident in finger waving so I changed my design for my hair idea. We also discussed going in earlier for me to start her look and prep her hair earlier as I was doing finger waving for her look.
Advise for designer- Emma

Emma designed and practised her make-up look so that she knew what she was doing and could show me pictures of this before the timed assessment. Emma’s make-up ideas were good and she had good images to show me and instructions and knew what she wanted. What could have improved in Emma’s design was the use of accessories and also knowing more how she wanted the hair to be styled as she was still a little unsure of her idea. The make-up needed something more to compliment it such as a hat or some kind of accessory also but overall it was a good design and quite straight forward to do.
Self-reflection as make-up artist


I have learnt that I need to be more confident as a make-up artist and hair designer and just do what I think instead of worrying so much as this sometimes puts me off and distracts me from what I should be doing and causing me to make mistakes. I have learnt that I can do things if I put my mind to it and am relaxed and confident and have practised. With Emma’s look before the timed assessment I had to practise the look on myself just to make me feel better about what I would be doing in the timed assessment. My weakness are that I always feel unconfident in what iam doing when I shouldn’t and that I worry too much and can overthink what I am doing as long as I practise a look or design and am prepared I can achieve it.



Leland Bobbe - Photographer

Photographing Men in Half Drag  ‘Half Drag’: Fascinating Photos of Drag Queens In and Out of Makeup

I came across these images of Leland Bobbe's work on pintrest I found them really intriguing and clever. I had an idea similar to this in mind but not using drag, I wanted to show someone almost like two people and two personalities but using age as a concept using half a face with natural make up and half with the made up version of the person almost like the other them.


Monday 11 November 2013

Matthew Black...

The sisters of perpetual indulgence
It’s easy to make assumptions about a group of people based on their appearance, but what happens when you actually get to know them? In 2007 local photographer Matthew Black first caught a glimpse of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Seattle. After many months of building a trusting relationship with the Sisters, he discovered that there is more than meets the eye.
Info sourced from- http://www.borderstan.com/11/fotoweeksisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-at-joan-hisaoka/

I really like these images and the meanings behind them I like how there is a picture of them as a normal person and also them as a character dressed up and how the images have been placed next to each other so you can see the difference. I think this is a great idea for an image to show the change in someone from themselves to another person and show how easily the identity is changed by adding different hair, make-up and accessories.
 The sisters of perpetual indulgence




Does size matter?

Nick Knight
Sara Morrison, British Vogue.




















                                                             Dove Campaigns 
Images sourced from google images.


 Size plays a massive role in the fashion industry and is a big issue with many woman and men around the world because of what we see in fashion magazines, catwalks and how we are conceived to try and look like. Its wrong to say one size is the ideal size as people are all different shapes sizes and heights as long as your are fit and healthy this is what we should be seeing fit and healthy men and woman of all different sizes shapes heights and ages.

Catwalk models
Is this what people today should be looking up to? Not all models we see on the catwalks are as skinny as these pictures but all catwalk models are very very thin some more naturally than others and I don't think that this is right that fashion clothing should only be presented on small models clothes are for every shape and size not just skinny people and should be shown on fit and healthy models of different sizes and shapes. I know there are a lot of people out there that agree with this but still we are not seeing a huge change in shapes sizes and ages on the catwalk and models are made to all look the same.



Collage


Saturday 9 November 2013

Older models

Desfile older model tooShop Black Peacock Mohawk by New York Vintage Now Available on Moda OperandiThis is a little post with kickass older women whose slogan is "This Is My Happy Place."  Design Shimmer: AgeAdvanced Style blog features older models and their individual style-very inspiring!

Images collected from pintrest and google images. 

I wanted to look at older models for this project as in fashion magazines and everyday life we rarely see an older model brace our catwalks or modelling in magazines. Older models show a huge range of diversity and you should be proud about growing older just because you are becoming older doesn't mean you have to dress and act the way society tell you. Older people should be able to dress stylishly in bright colours if they want and should be able to wear bright coloured make up and not have to stick to nude colours that most people would preferably put someone older in.

That's not my age
Info and images sourced from: http://thatsnotmyage.blogspot.co.uk/

 Kinfolks The Aged Issue.



              





Older models in Boots No.7 Ta Dah Campaign







Wednesday 6 November 2013

Finger waving

In our practical lesson we done finger waving as this was a very popular style and look within the 1920's era especially in cabaret. This took me a while and I found it quite hard to do but I really like the end results of finger waving as it looks really nice. As an end result my finger waving did not turn out to well as it had not dried properly before I took it out, I think that finger waving is a great style that could potentially be used in one of my final looks.



Is that a beard?



I created stubble and a beard in my special effects lesson but I wanted to incorporate it into this project also as the thought of a woman having stubble or a beard is very unlikely in our everyday life and is a very diverse look. I also added lipstick to the look as this made it look even more weird as my model is very girlie looking with long blonde hair so this added to the effect.

Tuesday 5 November 2013

Yolanda Dominguez

Poses (2011) 

Below I have posted the piece of writing directly from Dominguez site as this explains exactly what poses is and how great of an idea it is and the meaning behind the  great idea.

"Poses" is a direct criticism of the absurd and artificial world of glamour and of fashion that magazines present, specifically, the highly-distorted image of women that they transmit through models that do not represent real women and promoting harmful parameters and attitudes for her.

These images of women (thrown, submissive, weak, sick...) are the most feminine reference in the mass media and they have a great influence in both men and women when building our roles in terms of behavior and ways of thinking.

Using these impossible stances of the fashion publishing, a group of real women transfer these poses to daily scenes: the queue of a museum, the supermarket or the bus stop, sparking off the reaction of the spectators (on the other hand, regular consumers of these images).

The aim: to make it clear how ridiculous, and at times harmful, it can be to follow these models that the world of glamour impose on us.


info sourced from - http://www.yolandadominguez.com/en/poses.html

I really love these images and what they are about, I love the use of real everyday woman posing as if they are super models in everyday situations it shows that doing these poses shown and used in magazines in everyday situation looks ridiculous.







http://www.yolandadominguez.com/en/poses.htm

Sunday 3 November 2013

Image from a body shop campaign

I came across this image from a body shop campaign and I found what was written and what it was about really inspiring and that it had a great meaning towards the topic of diversity showcasing why some people are diverse and it shows what this project is about. I also liked the image because some people naturally think people get tattoos for a fashion statement which is more the case now, but also people get them as memories, stories on the body and to help make a bad time better such as a scar. I also liked it as for a final look I am thinking about the aspect of using tattoos and showing someone with tattoos that potentially has tattoos with meaning behind them etc.