Final Make up Design

I have finally designed my final make up design for my mask making project. Its been a bumpy ride but I feel I have finally created a simple look that is well suited to my theme and portrays the emotion I feel is needed for my theme. 

I took inspiration from photographs I came across in Cosmopolitan magazine. Taken of High altitude natives. For them the Eagle plays an important role in traditional beliefs and society however because I had given this importance to my mask I wanted to create make up and hair that resembles ordinary natives rather then elements of eagle for example with a theatrical make up look. 

I found looking at original images of natives really useful and helped me quickly Identify the key features I wanted to incorporate into my make up. 
What I came up with was relatively simple however I feel it is a really powerful and stunning look. 

Final Make up Design

Creating the Look

Above are practise images of the final make up design I created based on the photography I stumbled across of High altitude native women. To begin the look I cleansed and moisturised to prep the skin. 

As I established in my previous post I decided to create the brushed up brow look for my final image. Achieving this using spirit gum had to be done first because of the rolling of the spirit gum onto the skin which means theres always a chance it will ruin the foundation. 

To create the brows I used a mascara wand to apply a minimal amount of spirit gum to the brows using the repetitive rolling method. This helps to get the sticky texture and get the hairs as flat as possible. When this was done I used a cotton bud with some MME (Spirit Gum remover) I used this to neaten up the edges were spirit gum was visible. This was done by rolling back and forth along the edges until the spirit gum had pilled off. To complete the brows I applied Mac brow pencil to define the hairs as well as deepen and darken the brows for more definition. However I did this step last when the base and cheeks were perfected. 

So after the first stage of the brows was completed I created the base mixing my La Maquillage pallet to create a medium coverage cream foundation. This is key to the look because the cream is needed to give the blush something to grip onto. I spent a lot of time on the base perfecting it and making sure I had an even coverage. The look is so simple and so I want to ensure that there are no errors. 

To give the cheeks a native blushed appearance I used Mac blush in Melba This was a perfect cool pink rosy colour the other blushes I had were either too warm or to bright I found this to be the most perfect choice. 

The lips for this look are to be kept natural in keeping with my reference pictures for inspiration. However I did give them a little moisture by applying Charlotte Tilbury Lip Magic.

Because I had spare time I decided to play around a little with the look to be sure I was happy with my final design. I took inspiration from the make up for Christian Cotas fall 11 look and applied a similar toned purple eye shadow to create a slight winged effect. I liked this a lot because It gave the model a more ethnic look to the eye. The wing gives the eye a more native elongated shape.

I liked this eye design however all together it made the face look to busy and there was a lack of balance. Taking this eye make up away actually made the look a lot better.

I have realised that less is quite often more and overdoing it does not always help!.