More Makeup Ideas and Practise...

After feeling that the makeup look I had designed was incomplete in some way, I decided to have another play about with the colours I had chosen to incorporate into the final look, including orange, brown and black tones, along with brushed up eye brows.

As my headdress is designed to look like worn metal (bronze), I decided to include metallic shades into the makeup which would complement the shades used in the headdress, so I used gold, bronze, brown and black tones around the eyes to create an in depth look. As I still wanted to use the bright orange tone along the eyes for a splash of bright colour that matched the orange tones in the pheasant feathers featured on my mask design. 

I designed the eye makeup by applying gold eye shadow along the entire length of my eye lid, ensuring it was applied widely enough to not be covered by a winged liner. I then applied a bronze eye shadow to the top lid, leaving the outer corner. I used a shimmery Taupe Mac shade along my lower lash line. I then filled the section of my outer top lid with the orange shade (56) from my Morag Ross Le Maquillage palette and blended the shade outwards, using my ring finger. I bought the orange shade under my lower lash line and blended outwards again. To add depth to the eye makeup (which it lacked before), I lined the top lid with Mac eye pencil in Feline along with a quarter of the waterline. I filled the rest of my waterline with a brown khol pencil to not close the eye too much. Once complete, I applied mascara to the top lashes. I decided against applying mascara to the bottom lashes because, once again, I did not want the makeup to look too glamorous. I still wanted it to look raw.

 

I used the same metallic shades on the lip to add a sense of symmetry to the makeup. I began by filling and lining my lips with a natural shade, then pressing the bronze shadow into the corners of my top and bottom lips. I then pressed the gold eye shadow into the centre, to add the same dimension onto the lips as the eyes. For further enhance the lips, I then applied a small amount of loose gold pigment, which really made the lips pop. I then softly lined the lips using a brown pencil to stop the lips appearing lost on the face due to the pale shimmer shades. I feel the use of a darker lip line redefined the shape of the lips and evened out the eyes and the lips.

The base required a lot of products because I wanted it to be dark and glowing. To achieve this, I mixed together two Mac Face and Body fluid foundations along with a rich cream foundation called Caramel by Makeup Forever. Doing this helped create a base with a dewy glow but with a rich depth to it. To add more depth to the base makeup, I applied a cream foundation highlight shade to my chin, under my eyes, down the bridge of my nose, along my brow bone and the centre of my forehead. I blended it in with a damp beauty blender. To contour, I used a rich brown shade, called Chocolate Beige (Makeup Forever cream foundation) and applied it along the cheekbone, temples, top of the forehead and jaw line and blended with the other side of the beauty blender. To add more depth of colour, I used a darker contour shade (Moag Ross Le Maquillae shade 117) to the very top of the contoured areas of my cheeks and head and blended again. This gave the effect I wanted- a tribal warrior out in the heat all day hunting, with beautifully tanned a glowing skin. I set with a dusting of Mac Prep+Prime powder to avoid losing the dewy finish. I further enhanced the highlighted and contoured areas with powder products to add depth of colour. I used Mac Soft & Gentle to highlight and Ben Nye Glam shadows in Mink Stole and Coco Brown to add warmth.

To finish and round off the makeup look, I filled my eyebrows in with a deep black shadow, brushing my eyebrows upwards and following the motions with the black eye shadow to emphasise the length of the hairs, to create wild brows- a tribal version of the simple brushed up brows seen on the SS15 catwalk. I then blended the black eye shadow down onto the sides of the nose, as I loved his part of the look I designed previously, as I think it looks really tribal and will complement the shape of my mask. To finalise the brows, I brushed a small amount of spirit gum through them to add texture to the brows and adding a more natural feel the shapes created with eye shadow.

Overall, I really love this makeup look I created. I finally feel happy with the look; however, I am going to practise applying this makeup on my model as what may look good on me may not look good on someone else. But I do feel I have taken my models skin tone, face shape and eye colour into account so the colours and products used should work. So far, I do not plan to change anything to the makeup look...