Beginning Billie's Design

We went through each others design and explained each step that we had to go through in order to get the look that we want. 

Initially Billie was showing me how she blocked out her eyebrows, as I have never done this before I was very apprehensive about this and the technique, but when we were asking Sue about her design she suggested that we leave the brows in for the look. Sue did also show us a quick method to block out eyebrows, by using; pritt stick, pink coloured concealer and foundation. I blocked out one of the eyebrows and filled in the other to see what the face would look like with both options. The eyebrow definitely looked better to me as it framed the face, and although it did add a modern edge to the design, you didn't lose the Elizabethan style of the look. 

For the eyes I subtly defined the crease with the purple from the MAC palette so that you didn't lose the features in the finished look.

I had difficulty getting the right shape for the eyeshadow
due to the lack of eyebrow

Then I moved on to the main part of Billie's design- creating the tears running down her face. I did line roughly underneath the eye with the black Supra Colour to create the effect like she had smudged her make-up from crying. Then I used the black Aqua colour to add the shape of tears onto the previous black, which I then added a droplet of water of each to make it run down the face and look like she has actually been crying. Billie did also want me to drop the water into her eye to create actual tears running down her face, when I did it however it didn't run down the face as well as she had done in her practises. I think I will need to practise this myself and just get the proper technique and make sure that I get an authentic look. As the tears didn't turn out as well as Billie wanted, I drew on some droplets which I added water onto so that they would run more down the face.

After I got some more droplets onto the face I added gold in between some of the tears and in the inner corner. Billie did say afterwards that I need to put less on the tears as it did look very drawn on- which is not the look that she is after. 

For the last part of the eyes I added on mascara, which I built up to make it look clumpy so that it did give the effect of just finished crying- which is what the lashes do naturally. I did have some trouble with the application and I did get some mascara on the eyelid which I had to go and clean up afterwards with a cotton bud. I will have to work on my technique so that this doesn't happen in the assessment.

Finally I drew the heart shape for the lip, creating a gradient effect on the lip by using two colours. I was very proud of how the lips turned out, I learnt from a previous experience of doing lips to always look back in the mirror to make sure that the line is even on both sides.

I only did one eye as the other one didn't look right with the
lack of eyebrow.