Mrs laderman look first attempt

Mrs Laderman Look first attempt:

During my technical lesson at university, I decided to create my Mrs Laderman design, however I wasn't very happy with the outcome of my first attempt. However I took advise on board and have decided to recreate my Mrs Laderman look again with a few minor adjustments.

In order to create my Mrs Laderman look, I firstly started with the hair , I felt it was best to start with the hair due to the curls been set in place whilst carrying out the makeup. For my Mrs Laderman hair design , I decided to look into 1950s hairstyles as well as burlesque and femme Fetale hair. After gathering many ideas I decided to curled the hair and applying a side parting with the fringe slightly back combed off the face. I felt this would show the strong use of a 1950s hairstyle which was when My chosen horror series was set.

Firstly I began by creating a side parting and then sectioning the hair two smaller sections to the ears and then the back section. The section of hair which had the side parting give me more hair I started with, curling the hair under using the curlers and securing in place with hair pins to keep the heat, I created three of these curls on this side. I carried out the same technique also on the other side however with two curls due to the section being slightly smaller. Next I started to curl the back of the hair using the same curling technique but however on top of the crown carrying out the brick layering technique in order for the curl to appear even, this means one larger curl secured in place with two curls secured underneath and then another one which I followed on until the nape of the neck. Finally I started to curl the side this time bringing the curls towards the face in order to create spiral curls which would frame the face. Once all the curls had been secured in place with hair pins I then started the makeup.

I wanted my Mrs Laderman makeup, to include an element of Femme Fetale , a circus theme and Burlesque in order for it to relate to my chosen TV series. Firstly I applied a primer to my models face and then followed by a white illamaqua skin base  which I applied using a foundation brush. Once the product looked even I then used my buffer brush to blend the product into the skin and applied my white Illamaqua loose powder in order to set the product.

Next I applied a dark pink from my kryolan eye shadow pallet to the cheekbones, extended up to the temples, I also applied the same colour to underneath the eyes.

Then I applied a dark purple from my kryolan pallet known as shallot to the eye sockets which I blended out using my rounded blending brush, I also applied a white from the same pallet to underneath the brows and the eyelids. I then sued a black from my supracolour pallet and a fine liner brush to create two eyeliner flicks on each eye and also the circus style triangle makeup underneath the eyes, I then applied a dark pink dot using a hair pin to the ends of the black triangles to complete the look.

Finally I applied a red mac lip colour to the lips using a fine liner brush.

I took several photographs after I completed my look on a canon camera in the studio on a black background, I took a variety of photographs which were profile side shots and facial shots.

I was unhappy with the outcome of my first Mrs Laderman look, although I was happy with the outcome of the hair, I felt I didn't think the style of clothing through well enough, it didn't link to my chosen TV series or the 1950s which was when it was located. I also made a major mistake of only applying the white sin base to the face and the neck, due to my model having quite a lot of skin showing for my profile shot the photo overall looked odd due to her chest, hands and arms being a different colour.

I feel the makeup element which let my design down most was the black style triangles underneath the eyes, the looked messy uneven and too thick, after speaking to Kat explaining I was unhappy with the outcome she explained the area under the eye is a difficult area to apply thin line work to, in order for it to appear more neat and symmetrical creating a template or using a really fine brush would perhaps help.

After taking my mistakes into consideration I decided to make some minor changes and to think of suitable clothing which will relate to my chosen TV series in order for it to work for my second attempt.