introduction week

Moodboards

As an introduction to the course in groups we had to discuss are moodboards which we created over the summer, asking each group member where the would like to be in five years time. And give an unusual fact about ourselves.

In five years time Anna Field would like a makeup career in the fashion industry working for companies such as vogue or Mac as well as trying freelance editorials.She would also like to travel and be wealthy with good health. An  interesting fact about Anna is she has a twin brother. 

Becky Mercer would like a makeup career in either fashion working with celebrities such as Kim Kardashian and Beyonce or working in TV on programmes such as the X factor and strictly come dancing . Beckywould also like a makeup career in the West End . In the hair and makeup industry Becky would like to be professional inspirational and confident.An interesting fact about Becky is she starred in Billy Elliot at the West End.

In five years time Becky Gould would like a 

Makeup carer in fashion, working on catwalks at London fashion week for example or she would like a career doing makeup for film and TV. Becky would also like to travel as part of her career and would like to be seen as confident and successful. An interesting fact about Becky is that she is a big one direction fan.

In five years time Maddie Cotton would like a makeup career in fashion working on catwalks but mainly being involved in magazine editorial shoots for vogue . Maddie would also like to travel as part of her career, and would like to be seen as successful . 

Alexander McQueen is someone who Maddie considers as inspirational and would like to work with. And interesting fact about Maddie is she worked for Mac. 

Locations in Southampton

Throughout my course there are a number of different locations in Southampton which I may need to visit throughout year such as West Quay, the mayflower Theatre and Southampton Art Gallery. 

I worked In a small group with Charlotte and Tonia in order to find West Quay shopping centre. West Quay was generally quite easy to find due to the shopping centre being located in the centre of Southampton town.

Hero products 

I researched a number of different companies best selling products  such as smash box, benefit, Bobby Brown , Laura Mercier and Mac by visiting the different Makeup counters around Southampton .

Mac

The red lipstick and foundation studio exploit are two of the company Mac's best selling products to all year round. The 3D dimension mascara is the company's newest product out which may become a hero product in the future.

Benefit

Some of Benefit 's best selling products include: 'The real mascara' which is the world's number 1 mascara , the eyeliner , professional UK number 1 primer,  browsing which is the UK 's number 1 brow product and 'hoola' which has been the number 1 bronzer of the last five years.

Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown's hero product is the long wear gel eyeliner and ultra fine liner brush. Bobby Brown's top ten best selling products are the smokey eye mascara, lip colours (all shades), the correcter concealer, bronzing powder, skin foundation stick, vitamin enriched face base, pot rouge, shimmer brick and the long wear cream shadow stick. 

Laura Mercier 

Laura Mercier 's top three best selling products are the tinted moisturiser, primer and the camouflage concealer.

Smash box

The photo finish primer which has been on the market for 18 years with 11 different shades in total is the company Smash box's hero product.

Hot heads 

Using a brown paper bag different coloured card glitter and crape paper I had to show my creative side a design a mask . I then had to take photos of myself wearing the mask at different locations round the university 

Illamasqua

The makeup company Illamasqua visited the university and gave us some background information on the company and some tips to use when applying makeup during the course for example, different colour shades to use on the face in order to complement the skin such as on darker skin using colours such as reds and greens to neutralise the skin and then add warmer colours over the top and on lighter skin using pink shades.

Illamasqua then carried out a makeup tutorial  showing us the products they were using fon the face for example on the eyes they used the honour and navy eye liner pencil , the company also gave us a few tips whilst applying the products such as keep layering the colours to the skin and brush constantly once the makeup is applied to blend it into the skin.

Illamasqua makeup tutorial 

This was the model after the Illamasqua makeup 

In small groups we had to design a makeup look to pitch to the Illamasqua team

The makeup look we wanted to create was a magical pixie look and the products we used in order to achieve this was a darker foundation number 13 and a 

Lighter foundation which was number 9 we used the darker foundation to highlight parts of the face, we also used other products such as a loose white powder blue lip gloss and a green eyeshadow. The pitch we used to sell are look to the Illamasqua team was 'are look is a magical pixie that turns the forests to winter '.

 Our model before the our own Illamasqua makeup design .

Our Illamasqua makeup look starting to take place.

Our final Illamasqua makeup design.

Charles Fox

Another makeup company Charles Fox which is based in Covent Gardens visited during the induction week giving us some background information about the company and the Kyolan products which are manufactured in Berlin, they also gave us some information on a huge range of the products including the fixaspray, dermocolour which is a fixing powder that keeps makeup in place , dermashield which are effective for special effects and body painting and the oil based foundation which are useful for runway models. Charles Fox also gave us some information on the products used for special effects such as silicone and latex the different varieties of waxes which was really interesting.