Final Assessment

Today was the day of my photo shoot. My concept was a high fashion make-up to represent the Greek goddess Hera with an eighties inspiration . The hair was based off of a statue of Hera but with an eighties crimp. To fit in with this concept I decided to dress in a strapless top to give a nude look with bronzed skin.

As I wanted my models hair to be on a middle parting I started but setting it in rollers on a middle part just taking the two front sections. Before doing this I put some setting spray into my models hair so that it would hold better.

I then moved on eye make-up. I applied the eye-shadow in the same way I had on my third trail. But this time I took the blue colour from my Revolution pallet slightly higher than I had previously. I also added a very pale green from my revolution pallet as a highlight under my models brow bone. I found that when I blended the colours together the teal got a little bit lost and so I had to go back in a re-establish this.

I then applied my base using the same technique I had in my trial. This time I used Clarins skin illusion foundation mixed with plenty of 'Sun Beam'. This is a medium coverage satin finish foundation so it mixed really nicely with sun beam and gave me the perfect base.

I used the same technique I had for my trail to apply my contour using a darker tone from my la maquillage pallet and being sure to blend well. I then added the lilac shadow as I had in my trail to the contour. This time I used Mac's soft and gentle for highlighter which worked much better as it's a lighter tone.

I then applied the lip colour exactly as I had in trials only this time I mixed clinic's 'grape' lipstick with the Mac 'up the amp' as this lipstick has a slight sheen to it.

I then took my models hair out of the rollers and crimped all of my models hair. I did this in sections regrettably due to a fire alarm the crimping was a bit inconsistent and struggled a little bit with getting the same sized sections. I then went in with the crimper at the roots of the hair as in some places I got gotten nice and close and others I had left a section straight. I then created my twists I did this by pulling the front section of the hair back and making a rope with it and securing it with a hair pin through the centre of the rope to conceal them. When my teacher came and checked my hair she pointed out that my middle parting was not straight and I think that's something that really let me down. I also achieved a lovely shape with my twist on one side but not the other we discovered that this was because the side that had the nice shape had been twisted up first and the side the other side I had twisted downwards first so I quickly rectified that. My teacher also noticed that the hair had a bit of separation in the back. Due to the crimping all it took was a quick comb to fix this.

My very last step was to bronze my models chest and place the peacock feather in her hair. Overall I am very happy with my look. I think something that lets me down is the fact that my middle parting is not straight as your eye is drawn to it.