Sugar Skulls

As I missed the lesson on Sugar Skulls because I was ill, I didn't want to miss out so I decided to do my own look at home. 

I have never done a Sugar Skull before so this was quite an interesting experience for me. As I was going along my skull did start to have the effect of being a typical skull rather than 'day of the dead'. So I decided to add on a 'tiara' effect to the look, by drawing on small swirls and filling in the circles with colour. To also add that slight decadent feel to the look, I used the gold in the Illamasqua liquid metal palette to fill in more of the swirls and the piping. I was looking at some of the designs that others had done in class, and recurring items were hearts, so I decided to add in a heart as the pin point of the 'tiara'. 

All in all I was quite happy with how my Sugar Skull turned out. I think that for my first attempt at doing this look, it turned out quite well, I really liked the intricate design of the 'tiara' and how different it was to other sugar skulls that I have seen. However I think if I was to do this again I would add a lot more colour into the look- especially on the lips to make it look even more like a typical 'Day of the Dead' make-up look. I think that it would've been a lot easier to do this look on another person, so that I would be able to get a more accurate look to the detailing as I found it very difficult to do on myself. I kept bumping into the mirror with my small detail brush as I kept getting too close to it so I could see better.

I liked how it looks going along the cheekbones

The 'Tiara' close up