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Hi guys! sorry I haven't posted anything for a while. Every time I've tried to post something new, it wouldn't let me, that & work. But don't worry, im back. new posts coming soon! tasha x

No surgery needed.

Wanting those perfect cheek bones? a narrow nose? a great jaw line? You've come to the right place. No surgery needed either, all you need is a little makeup! Highlighting and shading is the key, where you put it is the important thing. Here is a guide with where best to place each colour, make sure to decide on your artists face shape first, you need to know this to decide where everything goes. ALWAYS blend well, you don't want your artist walking down the red carpet with lines all over their face! this way really does work too, it looks incredible when you have finished and you can really see a difference.

Here is where I placed my shader, just below the cheekbone, I then placed shader down the side of the nose, under the jawline and in the temples and hair line. I then shaded well, so there was no visible line. 

Here it is, after I had applied the highlighter and blended each area well. To be honest I think the nose is to strong, so I would maybe next time make sure my artists nose is blended better.

Bushy beard and brows x2

I had another go at applying a beard in last weeks lesson and we got to do the eyebrows too, mine is more like 'eyebrow' its on the verge of a mono brow. I love putting beards on people and making them look as realistic as possible, its so fun! We used crepe hair again in this lesson and I included a black mix into the hair this time too. If you ever get the chance to apply a beard I definitely would, its really quite easy, can get a bit messy though. 

If im being honest, I think the eyebrows are a little out of control and I could maybe make them look slightly better!

You can see my grey hairs just coming through, this is all in preparation for my first assignment!

Zombies

Don't be too scared!
Yeyy! we have finally started on the more creative side of media makeup! We pretty much carried out the death makeup, but expanded on it, I loved this lesson and can't wait to try out this look again. With this makeup design you can pretty much take it on how ever you like, adding as much or as little detail you want. I made sure to add quite a few broken veins that looked as though they were under the skin, as I think it just looks really sweet, more believable. We got a chance at using liquid latex and congealed blood too. Take this how you want. I didn't go crazy with the latex as I wanted people to see all the veins I had added, but now I wish I had just covered the face! I was really happy with this look and I think it is so fun to do. The one thing I would change... Make it more gruesome looking.

So here's a side view of how my veins came out, I drew them on and then slightly blended.

I tried to make it look like the temples and eyes had sunken in over time.

A front view of my zombie before I added any of the wounds
And then below's pictures are my finished look, hope you like them!

'What lies beneath'

Hey guys! As you all know its been the halloween holidays this week, so I have neglected my blog! sorry! But im back now, so its all good. I want to talk about facial muscles today, we painted them on each others faces, before we broke up for the holiday. Im not going to lie, at first I hated this task, I thought my design looked awful at first, but as I began to slowly build it up, I was happy with it in the end. It is so hard to get the right texture of each muscle and the right colours. You really need to practise this one, or I do haha. Not my strong point. I think I just put too much pressure on myself, because when I look back, I am please with it. Anyway, enough about me. I find the names of each muscle so hard to remember, so dont worry if you do too! Heres the picture I based my design on.

 http://catalog.nucleusinc.com/imagescooked/9300W.jpg

Here you go, this is how mine turned out. Its my first attempt, so there is areas I can improve on. The black areas are the spaces which have no muscle tissue. Hope you like it!

Hairdressing, first vertical roll.

So we are back on hair again and finally styling. We did a vertical roll this week and if im being honest, I had no idea what it was! But I did really enjoy it, it was stressful at times, but I got there. As I didn't actually know what one was, you can imagine I had no idea how to even do one. From previous hairdressing lessons I have found that I really need to practice hair the most, I will probably use it a lot in my career and it would be extremely helpful and great if I knew what I was doing (it would help haha) At first when my tutor was showing us how to carry it out, all I could think was..

How am I going to do this?

It looks easy-ish? or does it? 

But I was okay, I had failed in my head before I even started! The procedure for a vertical roll is quite simple to learn, you just need to practice (well this is what I have found) Here I will talk you through what I did and how I learnt to carry out a vertical roll. 

Right guys, I worked on my block this week and yes I have named her, her name is Cynthia.. I started brushing through her hair with my paddle brush, her hair is pretty coarse, so I made sure it was smooth before I did anything with the hair. As the rollers were heating I started to separate her hair into sections, now they are pretty similar to when I was blow drying the hair, but just slightly different. I have put up my pictures as a step by step guide. When my rollers were warm enough to use I started by selecting one of my sections and then separating it into at least 3. This will help when putting up in the rollers, as you don't want the hair too thick as it wont be as effective. 

I didn't realise rollers were a great way to create volume, I just always thought we used them to get them natural looking curls. I really had a stress over putting the rollers in, if they weren't falling out they were burning me and if they weren't burning me, the grips were not staying in place, nightmare! Thankfully the fire alarm went off though and by the time we came back in I was ready to start again and win! I think I did too, as I am happy with the result.












Look how good those curls came out! I was quite happy to leave her hair how it was, but the task was a vertical role. I was gutted when I had to brush through them and then back comb her hair, but this was all towards the prep. 

And I actually managed to pull it off! For my first try I am so happy with how it came out trying to create that roll though, I wont lie, it took me about 5 or 6 attempts. When I re-do this look I will be making sure I have the hair as tight as possible, just so it neatens it up a little more. Until next time! 

Old theatrical makeup, 'take one'

As we've already taken on theatrical makeup, this week we tried old theatrical. During this lesson we learnt how to make it appear like someone had aged using only makeup. I enjoyed this weeks lesson as I thought it was really interesting. When we were first told, I did wonder how we would make it look realistic without making it look too fake, but when we were showed the application it all made sense. This makeup look is all down to where you apply the lines, this will make up the wrinkles. It is quite a funny task to do, as you will find getting your artist to pull funny faces always helps! (frowning, raising their eyebrows etc) I did find the blending of the lines a little difficult, as I felt as though I blended them a bit too much. I managed to fix them though, just by applying a darker colour. I felt as though for my first attempt it turned out quite well, it could have been better, but I didn't stress over it too much. When I try out the old theatrical makeup again I will learn from my mistakes by not over blending and I will probably apply my lines a bit darker and bolder. Its always good to find out how you might actually look when your older! (not haha) Here's how my first look went!