Who's that girl?

And so it appears that the 5th week of school is upon me and I find myself wondering where oh where did the past 4 weeks go?

It went in the past, that's where it went; and with it went some product, time and creativity... not to mention a lot of playing, listening and learning. Everything is in full swing now and every day a new technique is taught and a new product introduced.

Today's lesson: The 'infamous' smokey eye (pictured- Janelle, my lovely model for the day)

Let me tell you, it was sure a treat to put away the grease paints and get out some liquid foundation and mascara to create a little beauty. Now, by no means am I a stranger to the smokey eye. As a matter of fact, it is one of those looks, just like cat eyes and pin up styles, that I generally excel at. However, despite doing it time and time again, it was great to be critiqued and corrected by someone who has surely applied a million more smokey eyes than I.

I love learning and relearning looks. In my makeup past, I have always had the opportunity to be creative with what I am doing and have mostly been given an idea that I got to work with. However, in school I am given a specific look to do with specific colours and specific placement, ultimately following a brief somewhat like what a client may offer me. I love this as it gives me the opportunity to work towards someone else's vision. Someone else's goal.

And my goal in school, makeup and career is to be able to do whatever is asked of me and do it well. Or, better than well. Awesome, perhaps. Perfect? Yes, I will settle with perfect. I want to recreate other peoples visions and exceed far beyond their expectations. I want to realize ideas and construct masterpieces on the skin. And that is why even though I am learning and relearning and practicing things I may never use in my career, I am thrilled to be doing so. Because I believe one never stops learning and I feel that one piece of constructive criticism can change the way you look at a face. The way I look at a face. And if words can enhance my ability, I am all for words. And practice, play, listening, watching and, ultimately, learning.

Ageing Andene

   

Week 3 has begun and it seems that all of our paperwork and heavy note taking is over and we have finally dove in hands first, fingers gripping brushes! Week 2 had us master our basic shading, do our first in school straight makeup (*picture 1) and prepped us for the stage/character makeup we will be doing every Tuesday and Friday for the rest of the semester.

Todays Character: Aged Andene

I must admit, this was all very new to me. Ageing, hard lines, feathering and really caking it on to assure the detail, bags, wrinkles and all, could be viewed by any audience member, provided my model were playing the part of a much older lady in a stage production. However, despite being a character virgin, I was quite pleased with the outcome and became inspired by the infinite possibilities of the face.

Character makeup, here I come....

In the fresh...

I have made it safe and sound through the first 2 weeks of school, learnt more new things than I expected to learn in this short introductory time and have finally got enough of a website built to be content with publishing.

Over the next nine months, I intend to use this space to document my studies, my experience and everything that I learn in relation to makeup and cosmetics over this time. I plan to regularly update with pictures, videos and reviews, all the while building my portfolio to showcase the best of my work.

This week, I have no pictures, no videos and no new stories to share. Next week will be different and the week after that, even more so. Give me a few months and I will be flowing with interesting bits of information and great tales to share.

until next time,

enjoy......