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.