I recently just completed my timed assessment on creating my partners final design. In response to the assessment I feel fairly pleased with the outcome of the makeup design I attempted to create in order to communicate my partners character. Outside of practical sessions, me and my partner made sure to practice in the studios and communicate with each other well in order for her to be happy with the techniques I was using to create her look and also so that I would feel confident knowing I was doing the right thing. When I practiced my partners design the first few times, I feel that I created that looks that she had designed on the face charts provided, but my partner would tend to tweak or edit her face chart afterwards. I didn't mind this as i genuinely enjoyed her makeup design and thought it would look amazing on her, because of the chosen colours she wanted me to use which would pop alongside her hair colour.
Anytime I practiced her look in and out to studio sessions, I always felt quite confident and pleased with the techniques I was using as my partner communicated that the outcome was good and what she wanted. The only improvements I think I had to make in practicing before the timed assessment was, my blending technique as she commented that she wanted it buffed and blended out more, instead of in block colours. In response to this I began practicing the method Kat had shown me in a studio session,where she took a large blush brush and applied a minimal amount of product and then gradually applying more, then buffing the product into the skin into circular motions so that It would have a soft ombre finish on the skin.
Although I began practicing my blending method, my partner edited her face chart again before our timed assessment and decided she wanted a brush stroke finish on the sides of the face instead of a soft blend on different complimentary colours. After all the changes to the face chart, I still felt confident during the timed assessment and began to start off the look as practiced, starting with the base and then they eye are finishing with the cheeks and lips. At the beginning of the assessment, I felt quite nervous and was very focused on completing the look in time. After a while I began to feel less tense and instead enjoyed applying the makeup as I felt I was applying the makeup in a good pace whilst creating my partners design well.
Something that let me down towards then end of the assessment was the application of the provided false eyelashes and also the lip design. I had previously practiced applying the false lashes to my partner in a practice studio session, my partner and I had already discussed that we wasn't sure if they were going to glue and stay on the eyes as we wanted because the band of the lashes were quite thick. Although, we went ahead and applied them in the practical and they were perfectly fine just needed some extra glue in places where it was lifting. The eyelashes reacted the same during the timed assessment, and i only felt they were a little bit time consuming was because I had applied both lashes successfully but they kept lifting at the outer corners of the eyes, meaning I had to hold them onto the lash until dry enough to stay.
The lip design my partner wanted was really beautiful and I felt that I would be fine at creating the design confidently. I left the lips until last to finish my partners look, although now Im not sure If that was the smartest thing to do as that is something I am not best at doing compared to eye and base application. My partners lip design consisted of gold and red combining together into ombre finish, I began to create the lip design like practiced and created the lips well and I was very happy with them. But as i decided to clean up around the lips to define them and neaten them up I smudged them by accident, which then began to bleed into the skin base I created, turning it pink. I began to panic at this point because Sue began to count down to the last 5 minutes of the assessment, but this was frustrating because I had so much time left prior to me completely ruining the perfect lips I had made.
Eventually, I completed my partners look before the end of the timed assessment and was still pleased with the outcome although the lips had really upset me, Sue mentioned to me that I will learn and improve from these mistakes. Sue also gave me good feedback but said I could improve on making the brush strokes alongside either of the face more even. I also spoke to my partner, apologising about the lips and asking her wether she was happy with the look which she said she was. I think If I was to redo my partners look I would start with the lips after I apply the eye makeup as it is most time consuming and difficult for me and gives me time to fix any mistakes. Also I would concentrate more on the width and length of strokes I was creating making sure they appeared more symmetrical to each other.
Skin Type - Combination
Contraindications- None
Products used -
Collection gold liquid eyeliner
Illamasqua white base
Illamasqua translucent setting powder
Cryogen Vbrights eyeshadow palette
Illamasqua Liquid metals palette
Orange Fake eyelashes
Collection Red lipstick
Brushes used -
Foundation brush
Kabuki brush
Blusher brush
small eyeshadow brush
Blending eyeshadow brush
angled eye brush
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