Colour Schemes and Products

I came up with colour schemes for each of my characters to do with each of the stories and so they all differ in the photos. I wanted to test these colour schemes in real makeup and show products that I may use for the assessment.

Rapunzel

Left to Right: MAC beauty marked - MAC cranberry - Sleek sugarlite - NYX milk lait - Kryolan lavender viel - glamourshop loose glitter lavender - makeup revolution pure pigment allure - makeup professional lip liner pink - MAC plumful - makeup revolution crime - makeup revolution depraved.

Cinderella

Left to Right: Glamourshop loose glitter gold - makeup revolution all about that bronze ( 3 shades) - makeup revolution beyond flawless - sleek dragon fly - sleek cricket

Beauty

Left to Right: NYX milk lait - Classikool fake blood - makeup revolution 100% vamp - MAC contrast - glamourshop loose glitter blue - collection glam crystals gel eyeliner hustle - Sleek bat - sleek chill - H&M eye pen dark turquoise - makeup revolution immoral

Fashion Spreads in Magazines

I wanted to look at a lot of different fashion spreads in magazines of different fashion genres to compare key themes between them to inform my own context and how I want the photos and editing to be done. 

Harpers Bazaar

Segal, M (2011) heart of darkness. Harpers Bazaar. September. page 268

Segal, M (2011) heart of darkness. Harpers Bazaar. September. page 270

Segal, M (2011) heart of darkness. Harpers Bazaar. September. page 272

Segal, M (2011) heart of darkness. Harpers Bazaar. September. page 274

I like that this shoot is in the outdoors like mine will be. The colours are all muted and dark, matching the clothes that are being displayed. The hair and makeup also mirrors the wild theme of the shoot.

Nylon

Shokrae, S (2015) About face. Nylon. February. page 14

Shokrae, S (2015) About face. Nylon. February. page 16

Shokrae, S (2015) About face. Nylon. February. page 18

This spread was only 6 pages long which was nice to see are shorter one as mine will probably be 8 pages. The eclectic background in this one matches the slightly out there theme of the clothes, as does the poses the model is making.

Dazed

Weir, H. (2014) collections spring/summer 2014. Dazed. Spring. page 162

Weir, H. (2014) collections spring/summer 2014. Dazed. Spring. page 166

Weir, H. (2014) collections spring/summer 2014. Dazed. Spring. page 170

Weir, H. (2014) collections spring/summer 2014. Dazed. Spring. page 172

It was interesting seeing in this spread how a lot of the images were not sized to the page and instead had borders around them. It made the pages look slightly less cohesive but visually more interesting.

Wonderland

Dolce & Gabbana. (2014) Dolce &Gabbana. wonderland. Sept/Oct. pg 6

This was a Dolce and Gabbana advert in the front of Wonderland magazine which I included because it has a fairy tale theme. Like mine will be it's taken in the woods. It has full body shots to advertise the clothes and accessories.

White, J (2014) Your regulation hottie. Womderland. Sept/Oct. page unknown

White, J (2014) Your regulation hottie. Womderland. Sept/Oct. page unknown

White, J (2014) Your regulation hottie. Womderland. Sept/Oct. page unknown

White, J (2014) Your regulation hottie. Womderland. Sept/Oct. page unknown

This spread was all done with two photos across two pages with no single photo spread across two. However it did have a mixture of black and white and colour photos on the same pages. The makeup and hair is the same in every shot.

W

Alas, H & Piggott, M (2015) Be witched. W. March. page 364

Alas, H & Piggott, M (2015) Be witched. W. March. page 366

Alas, H & Piggott, M (2015) Be witched. W. March. page 368

Alas, H & Piggott, M (2015) Be witched. W. March. page 368

Like with Dazed, W's photos aren't fitted to the page and a lot have borders or are off center. And again there is a mixture of black and white and colour photos on the same page. Each photo is also very varied with more of an overarching theme over the whole shoot.

Vouge

McDeen, C (2015) Command and Control. Vouge. March. page 292

McDeen, C (2015) Command and Control. Vouge. March. page 294

McDeen, C (2015) Command and Control. Vouge. March. page 296

McDeen, C (2015) Command and Control. Vouge. March. page 298

Here there are a mixture of two and one photos per page, different borders and a mixture of black and white and colour. However because its Vouge, the background and makeup and hair is more muted.

It was very useful to collect fashion magazine spreads to compare and contrast between magazine, seeing trends and differences in them all. Most had one photo that went over two pages as there title page with the title being overlayed on top of the photo in a gap somewhere. In most photos the clothes information was then put in a small font also on top of the photo in the corner of a page. A lot of the spreads had single page photos after the title page, however some had double page photos interspersed in the spread. Even though they were advertising clothes, a lot of photos were also head shots showing the makeup and hair clearly which is useful to see and know for my own photoshoot.

Cinderella - Mouth Covering

Part of my design for my Cinderella makeup is a lost mouth to represent her and women in general having no voice This was an idea I took from two other stories from the original Grimm's brothers fairytales where girls lose their voice/mouth as a punishment and then become married to a King partly due to their lack of voice.

The Virgin Mary's Child

Zipes, J (ed.) ( 2014) The original folk and fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm: The complete first edition. Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press page. 19

The Twelve Brothers

Zipes, J (ed.) ( 2014) The original folk and fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm: The complete first edition. Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press page. 31

This represents that women don't need a voice to be attractive to a man (in many versions of Cinderella her and the prince barely exchange a word and especially after she leaves the ball. She also never saves herself and is always saved by other people) . It is going to be a flat piece I will sculpt to take away my models mouth. However this is also something that could be done afterwards in photoshop so I wanted to experiment with this too.

Photoshop

These were my attempts at photoshopping out the mouth on my model Livv. My first attempt wasn't that good and I believe it was harder as the in the photo Livv is turned slightly to one side creating more shadows on one side of the face. My other attempt is better but still looks very unnatural and fake. However doing this shows me this is an option for my makeup or if I do it in prosthetics I can then touch it up in photoshopping. In industry this may be more likely to be done in photoshop but I'd like to challenge myself and try it in prosthetics.

Prosthetic

I sculpted this by first measuring my models lips to find out what size I would need. I wanted to keep it as small as possible so that I didn't make the area surrounding the lips look unnatural and show that it is a prosthetic. I put a light skin texture all over the piece so that it looks natural and made sure it was blended well into the tile.

This was the first run of the mouth piece. I wanted to use silicone as it has the best skin like quality for a piece that needed to be very natural. I used a 50% mix as it was in the mouth area so I wanted it to be soft but too movable. I'm happy with how the piece cam out although there are a few breaks in it where the flashing wasn't filled up enough with silicone so it ripped with the pressure of pulling out the piece. Next time I would fill up the flashing more to get a better piece.

Health and Safety
Obviously there are health and safety issues with using a prosthetic over the mouth as it blocks one airway and prevents the model from drinking or eating. Because of this I will limit the time the model wears it for by as much as possible. I will apply it last thing I do before we leave for the location ( I will do all the models makeups first then go back to the Cinderella look and apply the mouthpiece) then when on location (a 5 minute walk) I will do the group shots first, followed by the Cinderella's individual shots so I can then remove the mouthpiece on location whilst the other models get shot - this means the maximum time the model will wear the piece for is 45 mins. Because I will be taking remover into the woods with me I can also remove it at any time if the model feels uncomfortable (if this happens I would then edit the mouth out in the post-edit)