I've been looking into hair and make-up ideas for the female model for my shoot. I'm liking the idea of having a very doll-like young girl approach to the make-up to relate to my previous research. I'm therefore, thinking that I need either the emphasis on the eyes or the lips to draw attention to that feature. I'm thinking that if too much of both were used it may look too theatrical.
I really love the above image and below of the lips but after speaking to Lydia, it may not work for what I want:
I like the strong full lips, purely because heart shaped ones never look that good in make-up. I have done them a few times before and never been happy. Again they only look good really close up. I have lots of lip colours we could use...I will send you and images of some nice lips too!
I think this shows how important it is to get someone in the team who really knows their specialism. Whilst I think it may have looked great she has the experience in knowing what will work and what will not work.Lydia: I like the high pink blush....looks really lovely, and I would like to do thick eyebrows over the top of the natural eyebrows. Like in a few of the images you have. Lydia: Love them all but my concern with some (like the really soft browney smokey eyes and pink cheeks) is that it would just get lost in the day light and outside. This is an awesome look but it suits close up images in studios! :) The image above was one of Lydia's favourite images out of my inspirational images.
Lydia: They have a pale base (Make sure what ever model you get is pale and ask them if they do not to use any fake tan the week of the shoot as the base is pale) This will look really strong...like a porcelain doll.
These are the make-up ideas from Lydia experimenting with a few of the inspirational images I have looked at.
I think the first image is my favourite as it has a huge emphasis on the lips with a few details on the eyes to stop them from disappearing into the face. Lydia has said that if we choose a base for the make-up for example the eyes and the blush which we keep the same, we could then change the colour of the lips for each look.I really like the emphasis on the eyes on this drawing but I think it could look to heavy, also taking what Lydia said about the lips I think I would prefer to use fuller lips, so heavy eyes may not work as well.
This is just on the emphasis of the lips but it is clear that the eyes will need some definition like the very first drawing to stop them from vanishing. Hair Ideas
For the hair, I like the idea of using big messy hair. When looking at dolls they always seem to have a lot of hair which would quite often get bigger and messed up (barbies hair was never the same again).
I'm also thinking of trying to incorporate my colour hair when I was a child from my childhood photographs. I was very blonde and had a lot of hair so perhaps this could be taken into my shoot.
I also showed Lydia the image of the coloured hair to see whether we could try and incorporate this and how it could be done.
Lydia: Hair wise we could do something like in that add and even use a hair spray to put touches of colour in it....so the options for all that are huge! I really like the idea of putting things into the hair...was thinking maybe keys or trying to make a teacup and saucer head piece. Something quirky but not as noticeable at first. Lydia: Yes I like the idea of bits in the hair! Ask the model what colour her hair is as i have two wigs brown and blonde, but if you wanted to do something with lots of bits and layers i can get practising and can incorporate some on that synthetic hair in it (like the pink hair a sent you) i could do a mixture of plaits...frizz....twists.....or something so as soon as your ready i can get working on it and do some practice ideas and send u and if your Happy with what i come up with that one thing done etc!
Lydia is now looking at to ordering some fake hair that we can apply to the model to give the appearance of over sized hair. The colour we have gone for is a light blonde.
Lydia: Those colours are light, but quite warm...that way when she has a pale face it wont get lost in the hair....
We will look at using a cage so that the hair can be attached to it and stand up. Similar in the way the Georgian wigs were applied for my 18th Century vs 80's project.
I like the strong full lips, purely because heart shaped ones never look that good in make-up. I have done them a few times before and never been happy. Again they only look good really close up. I have lots of lip colours we could use...I will send you and images of some nice lips too!
I think this shows how important it is to get someone in the team who really knows their specialism. Whilst I think it may have looked great she has the experience in knowing what will work and what will not work.Lydia: I like the high pink blush....looks really lovely, and I would like to do thick eyebrows over the top of the natural eyebrows. Like in a few of the images you have. Lydia: Love them all but my concern with some (like the really soft browney smokey eyes and pink cheeks) is that it would just get lost in the day light and outside. This is an awesome look but it suits close up images in studios! :) The image above was one of Lydia's favourite images out of my inspirational images.
Lydia: They have a pale base (Make sure what ever model you get is pale and ask them if they do not to use any fake tan the week of the shoot as the base is pale) This will look really strong...like a porcelain doll.
These are the make-up ideas from Lydia experimenting with a few of the inspirational images I have looked at.
I think the first image is my favourite as it has a huge emphasis on the lips with a few details on the eyes to stop them from disappearing into the face. Lydia has said that if we choose a base for the make-up for example the eyes and the blush which we keep the same, we could then change the colour of the lips for each look.I really like the emphasis on the eyes on this drawing but I think it could look to heavy, also taking what Lydia said about the lips I think I would prefer to use fuller lips, so heavy eyes may not work as well.
This is just on the emphasis of the lips but it is clear that the eyes will need some definition like the very first drawing to stop them from vanishing. Hair Ideas
For the hair, I like the idea of using big messy hair. When looking at dolls they always seem to have a lot of hair which would quite often get bigger and messed up (barbies hair was never the same again).
I'm also thinking of trying to incorporate my colour hair when I was a child from my childhood photographs. I was very blonde and had a lot of hair so perhaps this could be taken into my shoot.
I also showed Lydia the image of the coloured hair to see whether we could try and incorporate this and how it could be done.
Lydia: Hair wise we could do something like in that add and even use a hair spray to put touches of colour in it....so the options for all that are huge! I really like the idea of putting things into the hair...was thinking maybe keys or trying to make a teacup and saucer head piece. Something quirky but not as noticeable at first. Lydia: Yes I like the idea of bits in the hair! Ask the model what colour her hair is as i have two wigs brown and blonde, but if you wanted to do something with lots of bits and layers i can get practising and can incorporate some on that synthetic hair in it (like the pink hair a sent you) i could do a mixture of plaits...frizz....twists.....or something so as soon as your ready i can get working on it and do some practice ideas and send u and if your Happy with what i come up with that one thing done etc!
Lydia is now looking at to ordering some fake hair that we can apply to the model to give the appearance of over sized hair. The colour we have gone for is a light blonde.
Lydia: Those colours are light, but quite warm...that way when she has a pale face it wont get lost in the hair....
We will look at using a cage so that the hair can be attached to it and stand up. Similar in the way the Georgian wigs were applied for my 18th Century vs 80's project.
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