Final look and assessment (My design)

I changed my mind, because my other makeup chart was a little bit too difficult and it took too much time for my partner, so I changed my idea to this. My all products that I used are written on the chart. I will use the white fake eyelashes and I will color half of them red supracolor to make eyes bigger. Gold color on the lips and under the eyes gives a nice reflect to the light and it relates to Elizabeth wealth. I will keep pink/red cheeks and pale foundation as it was in my first face chart. My inspiration is Lady Gaga, so her makeup when she wore meat dress inspired me to create this contemporary Elizabethans makeup.

And here are pictures from the assessment. It is my design and Antonella's work on me. I think she made it look nice and she did a great job. I am happy.

Practice for contemporary Elizabethans look (my design)

I have many ideas for my contemporary Elizabethans look. So I will put here my thoughts and ideas.
The first one is with gold lips ,,Kryolan'' supracolor gold, black and gold lines in the eye wrinkles ''Kryolan'' supraclor black and gold, Light foundation 'Illamasqua'', Loose powder ''Illamasqua'' and sculpting powder ''Illamasqua'', Red and pink blusher from ''Kryolan'' blusher palette. Black pepper ''Kryolan'' color eyebrows and white mascara. It looks quite nice I think. You can see my chart and make up on my partner Antonella.

Review of the Taming of the Shrew

2005 ''The Taming of the Shrew''  is an adaptation of William Shakespeare 's play of the same name. This is a funny comedy with talented actors such as Shirley Henderson (Katherina), Rufus Sewell (Petruchio). Jaime Murray (Bianca), Stephen Tompkinson (Harry), Twiggy Lawson (Mrs Minola), David Mitchell (Tim Agnew).
I really loved watching this movie. It is a movie about strange and extraordinary love story between Katherina and Petruchio. Katherina is a politician running for leadership of the opposition, who one day aims to be Prime Minister. Her style is very conservative. This can be seen from her dress, hairstyle and she wears no makeup. She is unpleasant, strange, unsightly, surly and always dissatisfied with everything. Even she is 38 years old, but still virgin. It seemed that this women could never get married. However, Petruchio, seduced her and they eventually married. The dialogue between Katherina and Petruchio was brilliant. Petruchio is forthright man, who came to the wedding wearing high heels, makeup, velvet coat and miniskirt. That was very funny.
Katherina's sister and mother are two completely different personalities, both character and appearance. Her sister and mother wears many jewelry and fashion, colorful clothes. They really likes the attention of men and they are very confident and admired. I noticed, that Katherina's mother wears purple color. In many episodes she wears purple makeup or clothes or some accessories.
At least Katherina wore the white dress, as it should be in the wedding. But she still kept her hair in the bun, which in the honey moon became half down.
 I suggest for everyone to watch this movie and try to empathize into this extraordinary love story.

Eyebrow coverage practice at home

I tried to use an information that i learned in the lecture, how to cover the eyebrow on natural color face. Actually I really wanted to find it out if it is possible to cover my own dark eyebrows. First of all I took soap, water, brush and applied eyebrow against the hair growth and backwards. Secondly I took ''Illamasqua'' loose powder and red shadow from the ''Kryolan'' blusher palette ( red color hides combines differences between dark color and skin color) and applied on the eyebrow. Then I put a foundation on the top. I used dry powder and foundation two times, because I needed more layers to cover my dark eyebrows hair. I think the result is quit good, comparing between my natural eyebrow and covered one.

Historical Elizabethan make-up application

Finally we have tried to create a real Elizabethans makeup. We learned how to hide eyebrows in two different ways.Since my project partner is Antonella, we did a makeup on each other. Antonella got thick, black and long hair on her eyebrows, so it was quite difficult to glued her eyebrows hair to the skin. 
The first way we used the soap. We used angle brush and natural soap. We dipped the brush into the water with soap and lubricated the eyebrow against the hair growth and backwards from time to time tapping it with the finger. And then we cleaned the excess soap around the eyebrow with the cotton bud. I think this way is quite easy and it does not take a long time to do.
The second way we used the glue. We used simple (paper) glue and spatula (or something similar). We took a little bit of glue and quickly applied in to the eyebrow tapping it with the finger. For my models eyebrows glue worked better than soap, because it was easier to stick her long hair to the skin.

In these pictures bellow you can see the difference before and after eyebrows done and the facial application.

(The left eyebrow hidden with the soap technique and the right one with the glue technique)

After we finished eyebrows we applied the whole face, neck and ears with  Illamasqua white foundation and white powder on the top. And I managed to make it smooth. Afterwards I used ''KRYOLAN'' blusher palette (TO & YOUTH RED) and applied circles on the cheeks (because in XVI century it was a sign of the wellness and freshness). For the lips I used MAC red color lipmix and I mixed it with ultrafoundation (olive) to get the natural effect. I also used the white mascara, which I borrowed from Antonella.

And here you can see my final Elizabethans look. I did not get a lot of time to do my makeup properly, so it does not seem very symmetrically.The next time I think I can make it much better.

My New Elizabethan

When I heard about our project to create contemporary Elizabethan, I straightaway thought about Lady Gaga. The reason why i chose Lady Gaga is that her appearance reminds me the Virgin queen. She has a pale skin and similar face features. Especially in those pictures, where she is with white eyebrows and eyelashes. Then she looks exactly like Elizabethan I. Lady Gaga has also an exceptional clothing and makeup style and she is one of the most exclusive style person in nowadays. Lady Gaga is also strong, confident and powerful women as well as was Elizabethan I. Consequently, Lady Gaga is my new Elizabethan and my inspiration for the makeup project.

  

I even found an amazing comparison between Elizabethan and Lady Gaga. Here are two similar pictures, but one is from XVI century and another one is from XXI century.
On the left side you can see Elizabethans ''The Armada portrait''. Symbolism is prevalent in this famous image and there are three versions of it. Pearls symbolizes the purity. Her right arm is next to the imperial crown and her hand is on the globe, precisely - her fingers rest upon the Americas. The globe means that Elizabethan is mistress of land sea. In the background you can see scenes from the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
On the right side is Betty T Kaos's painting, which was painted in 2009.  It is painting of Lady Gaga as Queen Elizabeth I. Lady Gaga is shown with an eye orb, Hello Kitty, a bleeding heart, and her mouth dripping with glittering blood. She is part of an art movement in the cross of post modernism and popular culture and an interesting multi-disciple performance artist. 

In 2009, Lady Gaga met Queen Elizabeth II, of England, but dressed as Queen Elizabeth I. Of course her dress was contemporary, but still reminds Elizabethans I style. Even their poses in these pictures are very similarly. Both are with red dresses.






I found some similarity between these purple Elizabethan's and Lady Gaga's dresses.  First of all they are the same color. Secondly, the similar texture of  the Elizabethans shoulders bow and the edges of Lady Gaga's dress. And third, they both look gorgeous and magnificent.
 

According all those pictures and similar facts about these two ladies, I could confidently say, that Lady Gaga is XXI New Elizabethan!

(http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/lady-gaga-meets-queen-elizabeth-ii-england-dresses-queen-elizabeth-article-1.433070)
(http://aaartsalliance.org/photo/lady-gaga-as-queen-elizabeth?context=popular)
(http://www.gogmsite.net/_Media/queen-elizabeth-i-15331603-2.jpeg)
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/07/article-1233947-07831B91000005DC-977_634x886.jpg)
(http://www.gogmsite.net/_Media/1596_queen_elizabeth_i_1533.jpg)
(http://inesjunqueira.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/5-lady-gaga-e-a-moda-blog-da-ines-junqueira.jpg)
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Carina Buckley Analytical Review - The Danger Dress

                                 (http://fashiontoast.com/2013/11/where-have-all-the-surfing-cowboys-gone/)

Such a beautiful and fresh morning! A blue and white colors consistent with tanned skin and dark hair are a great combination that gives freshness. This photo is the attitude of positive mood. The lady whose name is Rumi in this picture is clearly confident as it can be seen from the posture and face, which is directly turned at the camera. She looks relaxed and calm. She is wearing sports shoes and sports dress, which in my opinion is perfectly suited to play tennis. On the other hand, it is a beautiful sporty and lightweight combination for everyday wear.

According to her blogg she represents her friends dress, which calls ''Danger dress''. Personally, If I heard such a dress name I would imagine a black or red dress with a wide neckline. Probably the name of the dress is ''Danger dress'', because it is quite short and it gets much males attention. And simplicity sometimes is even more attracted to men than luxury dresses or shoes.

Her blogg name is ''Where have all the surfing cowboys gone''. I checked this inscription, which is not visible in this photo. But if you open the page, you can see the yellow notes on this blue wall. It is just a furniture store. But I believe she and her friend used this shop wall as a disguised idea. I think the idea is that everyone is still sleeping in the morning and she is waiting until all get up. She knows that she looks good and she will get much attention, especially with this dress.

 Otherwise I think she is just helping to her friend as being his model for his dress.

Val Garland

Val Garland is an amazing makeup artist. At first she trained as hair colorist in Australia, but later she  turned into makeup. She has worked on a lot of Vogue covers and with many models and famous people such as Kate Moss, Georgia Jagger, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez etc. Val also has worked with such talented people like Lee McQueen, John Galliano, Nick Knight, Tim Walker and Steven Klein. She is known in MAC as the go-to makeup artist. Her first iconic shoot was in Australia for magazine ''Follow me'', which does not exist anymore. Val Garland: '' Makeup is everything… It’s your mantra to self confidence. On the catwalk it complements an outfit and strengthens the look of the season. On the street it influences everyday life. In turn it becomes a trend…. Major!''

Now Val works in London. And she does fabulous makeup. I looked at her work and I really like her style and ideas for makeup. Especially I like face art elements she uses in many images. I think she is very creative and does not scare to experiment on faces. Here are couple images that I like. In the first picture I like texture that she used and Gold-Silver composition on the eyes and eyebrows. In the second one I like colors and shades.

 
        Photography by Richard Bush                                       Photography by Miguel Reveriego
Ali Stephens for 10 Magazine, 2009                                           Make-up Val Garland
             Make-up by Val Garland

(http://www.vogue.co.uk/beauty/2013/04/08/val-garland-make-up-artist-interview-kate-moss)
(http://www.vogue.it/en/beauty/beauty-news/2010/05/val-garland)
(http://www.filepmotwary.com/motwary/2011/03/interview-val-garland-talks-to-filep-motwary.html)