Make-up

As the make-up is going to be the main focus of the shoot it is important that it translates well. I am doing the hair and the make-up. I am trained in applying make-up and I have a make-up kit that is full of different colours and textures. The first image will be almost completely white and the last image will be almost completely black so the images inbetween need to show the transition. It can't happen in massive leaps otherwise the series won't flow well together so as a group we decided on 7 images being the ideal number.

Here is our rough guide to how the make-up will evolve in 7 stages:

1) Completely white base with red lips.

2) Emphasize the eye ares by defining brows with a darker colour and introducing a pale blue powder around the eye area.

3) Darken the blue in the eye area, apply a deeper colour to the lips and slightly smudge

4) Eye area very dark and extended outwards, same for lip unnatural shape and colour

5) White base is replaces with a darkening grey and the whole face is becoming more smudged.

6) The base is darker, lips and eyes are black

7) The face is entirely black with just the eye detail showing.

The hair will also start off quite neat, scraped back. Highlighted with white paint. As the series progresses the hair will get messier and more unruly.

EDIT: we then re-read the brief and realised that the series was only five images long so we adapted the make-up so its made the transition smoothly but in less images.