Studio: Natural Beauty Hair

Equipment Needed:

Paddle Brush

Mousse

Sea Salt Spray

Hair Dryer (with Diffuser)

Hairbands

Kirby Grips

Pins

Creating Beach Hair/ Messy Waves:

1. Give your models hair a good brush through, making sure the hair is knot free.  Using a paddle brush is great for this. 
2. Take a small amount of mousse and run this through the hair using your fingers.  Mousse will give the hair extra volume, hold and a shiny "just-washed" sheen.
3. After this, spritz the hair with a sea salt texturising spray.
4. Now, scrunch the hair as it dries, you can either let hair air-dry or use a diffuser on your hair dryer.  Diffusers are attached to the end of hair dryers to protect hair from direct heat, allowing you to dry your hair without damaging it.  If using a hairdryer take small sections of hair and scrunch it into the diffuser, holding until the hair is dry.
5. Once you remove the hair from the diffuser, you should be left with a messy wave to the hair.  However, this may depend on your models hair type.
6. If you need to add extra waves to the hair, create messy curls with a curling iron. The secret is not to create perfect curls, so use a curling iron with a bigger barrel.
7. Lastly, run your fingers through hair to break up the curls. You can put a bit of shine serum on the hair also but this step is optional.

Chignon with Textured Hair:

1. To start, take your pintail comb and two sectioning grips.  First, use your comb to create a middle parting and then section the hair from behind the ear, leaving a fairly wide section either side at the front of the head.  Taking the hair left at the back, gather it at the nape of the neck and secure with a hair band. 

2. Twist the hair upwards, not too tightly and secure with kirby grips.  Using your pintail comb, shape and volumise the the hair, gently pulling outwards.  Once you have created your desired shape, secure with hair pins.

3. This style is all about a messy, un polished look.  I allowed some hair to fall around the face to create a boho chic look and made sure the chignon wasn't completely sleek at the back.

Timed Assessment Images

Day Time Look Final Images

Urban Decay Inspired Day Time Test Shoot

This week in our studio session with Kat, we did a test shoot for our brand inspired day-time look.  As you know, my chosen brand is Urban Decay, and my inspiration for this look was their Naked Skin Collection.  

I chose to keep the make-up very light and fresh.  The skin was kept dewy with the use of an illuminating face cream and satin primer underneath the foundation, I actually used UD's Naked Foundation, which has a buildable coverage but still allows your model's skin to shine through.  I used the Naked 1 Palette to create a subtle, defined eye.  To keep with the glowing theme, I made sure the main features of the face were highlighted using a cream highlighter.  To complete the look, as glossy lips are a main feature in the Naked Line Campaigns, I used a nude lipstick and added a pinky/beige gloss.

Daytime Look- Facechart and Hairchart

The aim is to create a natural, dewy look with minimal eyes and nude glossy lips.  I will define the eyes with a brown/ taupe shadow with a shimmer champagne colour to add a highlight.  I will also highlight the skin with a cream highlight to keep the look natural, as the idea is to keep the make-up light and day time appropriate.

For my natural Day Time look, I wanted to keep the hair soft and tousled to go with the understated make-up.  I thought a messy, curly chignon would be perfect for this, with tousled hair falling around the face to add a pretty, softness to the style.

Day Time Look Testing

After designing my day time look and completing my test shoot in class, I further practised the look on my friend Molly.  I thought this was a good idea, as I wasn't 100% sure who my model would be for the actual shoot, so this gave me a chance to see how I would have to alter the look to suit a different eye and face shape.  For my test shoot, my model was Meg, who has fairly open eyes however Molly has a slightly hooded eye which means I had to add a little more definition.

To create this definition, I kept the colours of the shadow the same, I simply just added a black pencil liner to the lash line and smudged this out.  I then added a nude pencil to the waterline and a shimmery champagne colour to the inner corner of the eye to really widen and give the illusion of a bigger eye.

I'm happy with how the looks turned out on both test runs, and this the look represents Urban Decays Naked Skin line really well.  Less is more for the day time and this simple defined eye and nude lip, for me personally, captures this really nicely. 

Daytime Look: Ad Campaign Inspiration

Image Credit: Urban Decay To Arrive On Australian Shores : Moustache Magazine. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.moustachemagazine.com/2015/02/urban-decay-to-arrive-on-australian-shores/. [Accessed 18 Feburary 2015].

Model: Li Wei

Image Credit: Pinterest. [ONLINE] Available at: https://uk.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=urban%20decay. [Accessed 18 Feburary 2015].

These images bring good inspiration for a daytime look for me, the look is quite fresh and not at all heavy but still with subtle definition to the eyes and a natural, nude lip.  For my daytime look I aim to create a look inspired by this image, however I would like a more natural base as this looks very airbrushed for a daytime style of make-up. 

When I think of daytime make-up, I think of a look that is not over-done, using neutral colours on the eyes such as champagne and brown tones and if the model was to wear foundation, it would be of a light coverage which allows the skin tone to come through.  I would also add some nude gloss to the lip, as sometimes during the day a women's staple lip product is often just a balm or gloss.

I also particularly like the hair in the second image, I think a soft looking up-do would compliment this style of make-up perfectly as the look wouldn't be too harsh.  I would accompany the make-up with a chignon up-do, but would leave a few strands of hair around the face and loosely curl these to create a feminine style.