Elouise Poole - Makeup Artist

  Final Evaluation – Whole Project Evaluation: This evaluation will be where I evaluate this project as a whole, I will cover the problems I faced and how I overcame them, how feedback from others was useful, how the project challenged me and demonstrated my skills and finally, I will discuss how I think I have met the grading criteria. Problems I have faced: One of the first problems I faced after we were given our brief was thinking of a theme that could work for everyone and all of the different discipline and I overcame this problem by doing research on each of my ideas and then I used this research to evaluate how each theme would work for each discipline and I gave examples of this when presenting my initial ideas for the theme of the calendar. The next problem I faced was when I was doing research on my selected zodiac sign, as the zodiac is so old, finding reliable information can often be hard so to prevent finding any incorrect information, I checked multiple sour...

  Final Makeup Write Up: 11 th May 2021: Today, after all of my preparation and hard work, I was finally able to use my practical skills to create my final makeup. This is my final look: These are some photos of my process:  Evaluation: This makeup translated onto the face really well and looked how I had imagined it; grease and alcohol paints were used which means that the makeup would last longer if needed and there’s no chance of the makeup sweating off like aqua paints would which is very important for this look as any inconsistencies would be very obvious and would ruin the look. The colours were also the colours I had hoped for and the light complimented the colours extremely well.    The hair was also how I had imagined it and the curls weren’t too tight, I had also backcombed the hair so that it helped support the crown during the final photos. However, some of the edges of the prosthetics weren’t completely blended so they could be seen slightly...

  Final Preparations: 29 th April 2021: Today I created my final design, my practice of the makeup allowed me to see what needed changing and what worked well on the face. When I created this design I considered my own skills, the practice, my research, the audience and that it's for a calendar. This is my final design: For my final design I decided to change some elements slightly, I changed the mouth to have a cut around the zip, this helps the zip blend into the skin a lot better and it will help to include some elements of casualty effects which is what I'm best at, I still wanted to have the contrast of the red skin and bright blue so the zips blue, I’ve decided to attach an actual zip rather than a prosthetic zip for ease and because there’s already so many prosthetics on the face but a nylon zip will be used to reduce the chance of nipping that a metal zip could provide. After some experimentation, I really liked the way the blue for the cheeks and eyebrows as wel...

  Finishing Making Prosthetics & Makeup Practice: 26 th April 2021: Today, I used my practical skills to create the flat moulds for the other eyebrow and the cheeks, using these I then made my prosthetics, I have decided to use silicone as I evaluated the uses of both and it blends into the skin a lot better, and it gives a more seamless and realistic finish than latex does as latex can often create little bumps when blending. After I created these prosthetics, I just needed to let the paint dry on my crown and all of the prep work is complete which shows excellent time management skills and organisation skills as I had followed the original timeline I had created, sometimes I was even ahead of schedule. These are the rest of the prosthetics: 27 th April 2021: As I had finished all of my prep work, I used my practical skills when I decided that I would practice my makeup to see if I would change anything and to see how my prosthetics fit on the face. These are the pic...

  Calendar Meeting & Meeting with the Photographer 26 th April 2021: Today we had a production meeting about the calendar that I had previously arranged through teams, this showed good leadership skills: During this meeting I demonstrated my communication skills excellently as I discussed looking at the Kryolan calendars and the size of them, I then asked what size everyone else had thought about for the calendar, finally, we all agreed that it would be landscape and A3 so each individual page would be A3 and when opened to show both the photo and the calendar it would be A2 in total. I also wanted to discuss backgrounds, we talked about everyone having the same background, but I decided to mention that in my opinion, I didn’t think this would work as everyone’s makeups are so different. I suggested the idea of everyone having their own backgrounds as this would mean we could make it compliment our makeup looks, everyone agreed and started to think about ideas for our ...

  Photography Research and Thinking About the Final Photograph: Photography Research: Photographs for calendars can be in the form of: (Day Pilot, No Date) ·          BMP ·          GIF ·          JPEG ·          PNG ·          PDF ·          TIFF The 2 best types of image files are PNG and JPEG/JPG, the main positive of using a JPG is the ratio of the compression and quality which is 10:1 or 20:1, however, every time the image is compressed, some data is lost, and this cannot be recovered (Flat Icone,2019). The main positive of a PNG is that no data is lost which means it can be edited and saved without losing any data so the quality will always stay the same, however, they’re usually a lot bigger than PJG files, it also lack...