Developed 1990s Makeup Evaluation

 

Developed 1990s Makeup Evaluation:

Makeup Designs:

These makeups are for a film about a grunge couple and they are heroin addicts. This is a film similar to ‘Trainspotting.’ This is 2 weeks after the previous makeup and the couple is going through withdrawals, so they have dark circles under their eyes, they’re sweaty and they have old needle marks.


Makeup:





Evaluation:

This makeup works for film & TV as the makeup works under intense, artificial, and natural lighting and it works well on camera. This look wouldn't work for stage as the makeup isn't intense enough which means the details will be lost due to the distance, but I could make it work for stage by making the makeup more intense which would allow it to be seen. I also used grease paints for under the eyes and on the cheeks and alcohol paints for the needle marks which means they will last longer as they won’t be affected by water as much as aqua paints would be.

This makeup fits the time period as the colours used were accurate and the lips were a matte brown, which was the most popular lipstick colour during this decade. The hair was also accurate as people who were part of the grunge subculture with longer hair often had their hair in space buns. I also didn’t use eyelashes as the lashes were kept very natural and through research, I know learnt that only mascara was used, I also made the foundation colours slightly lighter than the natural shades. I also didn’t use eyeshadow for the men’s makeup as I smudged the pencil eyeliner to make the look accurate. This is also accurate as symptoms of withdrawals can include sweating and insomnia which is why they are sweaty and have dark circles under their eyes.

However, to improve I could maybe use a lighter brown lipstick to follow the trend of a darker lip liner with a lighter lipstick and I could tame the baby hairs to make the hair look slightly neater. I could also make the bruises around the needle marks slightly bigger and add some more broken blood vessels to the bruising. Finally, I could use glycerin, or a product called ‘Sweat & Tears’ to create the sweat on the face as this will last longer than water and appear better on camera than the water did.

Peer Assessment: Phebe

Phebe said that my makeup was amazing and works amazingly well for a grunge ‘90s look, however, to improve she said that I could add bigger bruises around the needle marks and make them darker using purples to look like deeper bruising and older and that I could add some more broken blood vessels to the bruising.

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