Year one

When I went into doing my HND in makeup part of me felt that I would soon realise that I wasn’t as creative or good as I originally thought I was, this I found to be true because within my class there were people who are better than me, more creative than me and overall just brought more to the table then I could.

Then I soon realised that they also had problems with various things we were being taught some excelled with hair other's makeup but they weren’t all perfect in everything we were taught and through that we started to help each other and share the knowledge that we had from past experiences and this became one of the best things about the HND was the fact that no matter who was better at hair or makeup we were all willing to learn, grow and share knowledge and experience with each other. This is something I love about the course is the genuine camaraderie and were all in this together attitude that came about when we were panicking about deadlines and assessments.

Research time

The look I'm doing for my final assessment is quite strange even to me its creator, the Viking inspired helm with wolf and raven pieces, a fur cloak with a raven shrug all allude to a very different time and place. Though the look was overall created by me it does have some pieces that were inspired by Movies, magazines (comics) and television as well as history.

The helmet itself is created through inspiration that I got from the helmets that Vikings used called spangenhelm and in contrary to popular belief Viking helmets did not have horns. A spangenhelm is a helmet that had a metal band around the head and then 4 pieces of metal or leather joining at the top with a eye piece and a long nose piece which may seem useless but actually protected the noise during fighting.

The curvy inspirational

In June 2011 Vogue Italia came out with a cover that instead of featuring the fashion industries normal perception of beauty, it instead featured 3 curvy models called Tara Lynn, Candice Huffine and Robyn Lawley photographed by Steven Meisel. The cover just has the magazines logo and the words Belle Vere meaning True Beauty which in my opinion is kind of odd.

The cover is beautiful three gorgeous curvy women in their underwear sultrily looking at the camera, this image to me is important and influential because for some of the more curvier girls out there seeing this cover on a publication like Vogue would definitely be a booster in ones confidence.

This cover has inspired other magazines such as Elle in Quebec to feature a plus sized model called Ashley Graham on their cover, 

                                                 

Ashley Graham has also recently started on the front cover of Sport Illustrated,

                                               

These magazine covers show the industries changing view towards more fuller sized figures and becoming more welcoming to the fact that all women have different body types and there not all cookie cutter shape that we normally see gracing our covers.

http://www.vogue.it/en/fashion/cover-fashion-stories/2011/06/03/belle-vere/

Gold leaf and glitter everywhere

So today you better be prepared to fns glitter in your hair, eyebrows and generally everywhere for the next little while,

So first off B (our demonstrator) did a really simple gold leaf look with glitter accents and then with permission from Jess (the model) decided to go full glitterarti on her.

                  

So how did we create these two looks read on to find out

The Influential Covers

So for my first influential cover I decided to not go with a fashion cover but a cover that was shown around the world, the moon landing. This special edition of LIFE magazine called To The Moon and Back covers the story of Apollo eleven and the moon landing in 1969.

The front cover of the magazine features Buzz Aldrin taken by fellow Astronaut Neil Armstrong, the inside talks about the Apollo eleven mission and includes colour photographs of the historic moon walk. The reason why I think this cover is influential and important is because it shows how far scientific research has taken us, it also is a moment that is seen as one of the greatest achievements of mankind and helped further a new generation of astronauts and people who want to  be involved with space.

These images and this event did have an effect on the 60's and 70's fashion with Vogue magazine using  Donna Mitchell as a model and photographed by Clive Arrowsmith in 1970 created this photo obviously inspired with space 

                                                     

This look from designer Pierre Cardin for L'Officiel in 1971 is again what was called Space age fashion, 

                                                    

Even in later years the space age was still inspiring designers for example in 1979 Louis Vuitton brought out a collection heavily inspired by the space theme,

https://thetimetravellers.wordpress.com/2008/02/13/10-magazine-covers-that-changed-the-world/

http://www.intothefashion.com/2010/01/inspiration-thierry-mugler-1979-louis.html

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/space-age/

Bright eyes even brighter string

So why the name on this post well because today we are going to clash some colours and tie string around the head (fashionably of course). This look wasn't done by me but a wonderful demo done by a friend of B( our teacher),

So how do you do this look well read ahead,