Monochromatic Make-up Application

Monochromatic Make-up Application

You will need...

• Strobe cream
• Skin base
• V1 Brights palette
• Essence palette
• Editorial oranges lip palette
• MAC cool neutrals
• Kabuki Brush
• Angled brush
• Blush Brush
• Mascara Wands
• Powder puffs
• Lip Brush

Today in class we had to design a monochromatic make-up look that

would be applied over a white base.

 

I started off by doing a quick sketch of the make-up that I wanted to create, I wanted to use a colour palette of oranges, this is because I have been inspired by the Elizabethan hair colour and wanted to run these orangey gold tones throughout the makeup. My initial design was to include graphic liner, orange lips and freckles.

 

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After sketching out my design I then moved onto putting this down onto a face chart and thinking of the different products that I could use. I wanted to use a white base, and lightly shade the face with orange eyeshadow. Then I wanted to mix MAC Melon pigment with mixing medium to create the eyeliner and lip colour, you cant see very well from the photograph, but the colour it made was absolutely beautiful and I was so excited to use this in my makeup design. To finish off the look I wanted to draw the eyebrows on thick,  apply a generous coating of mascara to contrast the orange and paint freckles onto the face.

  

 

These are the two images of my final look. I am very unhappy with how it turned out and this is down to many reasons like my time management and also product knowledge.

 

To start off with I wanted to create a beautiful dewy white complexion, so after the lesson on white bases I thought the best way to do this would be to use Illamasqua's skin base and mix it with strobe cream, however, this was absolutely terrible, it sheered down the foundation and looked patchy and terrible, and this was not how I wanted it to look, it almost made my model look ill, I spent most of my 45 minutes trying to correct the base. I should have researched this combination prior to doing my makeup application and tested it out to see if it would work. When I do this makeup again I think instead I will mix the strobe cream with supracolour because this will give me a better effect.

 

I also hadn't packed my makeup kit properly the night before and forgot my mixing medium, this meant that I couldn't create the desired eyeliner or lip colour, instead I just simply used eyeshadow and one of my lipsticks from my editorial oranges palette, I am really happy with the shape of my eyeliner, this is the only thing that I am proud about in the whole look, however it would have been so much more effective if I had used my melon pigment.

 

By the time I had finished the eyeliner I was completely out of time, I rushed to finish the eyebrows and freckles, which because I did them so quick have ended up looking like dirty spots or blackheads, I did not have time to contour the face or to apply mascara. So overall I am extremely disappointed in the final application of this look, when I do makeup designs in the future I need to think about what I'm going to do and practice the design and my time keeping, because I had such a short amount of time to create the makeup I panicked, and I believe this resulted in a sloppy makeup application.