I’m baaaaaack! After neglecting this little blog for just over a year (!) I have decided to make my return to the Internet and get writing again! I’m not going to get into why I haven’t been blogging, it’s really boring, so let’s just finish with saying I’m so excited to get back up again and I’ve got so many ideas about I want to post about!
If you have anything you want me to write about, review etc let me know in the comments!
x
It’s awards season again! That wonderful time of year filled with glitz, glamour and quite a lot of tears. The golden globes this year was no exception, and brought a lot of lols including this moment (awkwarrrrd). Here are are a few of my favourite makeup looks from the red carpet:
So first up is Lady Gaga, This whole look from the hair to the makeup and the dress and accessories just screams old school Hollywood glamour and it suits her so much. Bravo to MUA Sarah Tanno and the rest of the team, Gaga looks gorgeous.
I pretty much always love Rooney Mara’s makeup up and here she is with a bold brow and berry lips…. Surprise surprise; I am a fan. What I really love here is the hair. It is so different from what you would usually see on the red carpet and Mara pulls it off perfectly.
Another AHS babe Angela Bassett is giving me major brow envy. Her makeup is absolutely flawless! I just love how glowing she is, I love her hair, I love her dress, I love her!
Here she is, my absolute girl crush Emilia Clarke. I love how understated yet still glamorous she looks here. That simple smokey eye is just perfect. Oh and her brows are a m a z i n g (If you didn’t get the memo I bloody love a good brow).
I could honestly go on and on but this post would just get ridiculous and go on forever, but other makeup looks I lurrrrved belonged to Katy Perry, J-Lo, J-Law, Amber Heard, Olivia Wilde and Laverne Cox to name a few!
Who’s makeup did you love at the Globes? Tell me in the comments below!
Rebecca X
Images taken from http://www.refinery29.uk/2016/01/100905/golden-globes-2016-best-hair-makeup
So the assesment is done! Here are some BTS shots of my interpretation of Glinda from The Wizard of Oz. I wanted her to be a kind of dreamy, ethereal, serene queen. I’m so happy with how it turned out and I’m obsessed with the dread lock crown! Professional images coming soon!
Rebecca x
The start of my dreadlock crown for Glinda. I’ll be sure to post the finished look on Thursday after my assesment!
Rebecca x
Hey!
So for the first assessment this (academic) year at uni we had to create a false moustache, which is legit one of the most difficult things I have ever done!!
The technique used to create various types of Postiche (false hair) is called knotting, or for you lovely American readers, ventilating!
Experimenting with knotting!
To cut a very long and complicated story short, you basically tie strands of hair to a very fine lace net. The amount of hair you use and how you space the hair depends on how thick you want your hair piece to be.
I found this image at makeup-fx.com that explains the technique better than I ever could:
Fiddly, huh!
To create the moustache you must first create a stencil of the intended mo’ wearer’s mouth and nose, so you know what size to make the ‘tache. You then draw the outline of the moustache onto the stencil and cut it out. Draw around the moustache shape into black card and cut that out, sellotape it to a board. Pin on your lace and you’re good to go!
You then knot and knot and knot until your moustache is complete! Then, if needed you add lift to the hairs using moustache tongs (that totally look like some sort of medieval torture device) and then you trim the hairs to the lengthy you want them to be!
To create this ‘tache I knotted 2-3 hairs in each hole in alternate rows.
Here is the finished look: 
The model is my wonderful boyfriend Lee who earned himself major BF points by letting me do this to him!
Our characters had to be our own interpretation of the wizard from The Wizard of Oz. Since the wizard is infact not a wizard at all and actually just a guy behind a curtain with smoke and mirrors and all that jazz, I chose to make my character a con-artist-come-salesman. Sort of like an old school snake oil salesman, selling something completely useless.
I think I have achieved my desired look, and Lee definitely looks untrustworthy. I originally wanted to do a chevron style moustce but as I was trimming away at it I went for a more walrus kind of moustache which I think was a better choice for my character as the lips were hidden, for some reason this make him look very suspicious!
Makeup wise I used MUFE Ultra HD foundation mixed with a little moisturiser, Nars Creamy Concealer and MAC Prep and Prime Traclucent Powder. I went a little heavy on the powder, and if I were to do this again I would probably thin out the foundation more or use a lighter base like MAC Face and Body.
I really enjoyed this creating this moustache and developing a new skill and hope to be able to use this in future. I’m feeling the need to make false colourful eyebrows so watch this space!
Rebecca x
Image from: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3682173952/ch0032616#
For one of our assessments at uni we have to develop a character from The Wizard of Oz into a high fashion look with creative hair and makeup. When selecting my character I knew I wanted to do either the Wicked Witch or Glinda the good witch, I really liked them both as a child. I decided to opt for Glinda, as I felt I could push my creativity a little more with her. My interpretation of Glinda is a really ethereal, dreamy, otherworldly being, so I wanted to reflect this in the makeup and decided to make the main focus the skin.
As you can see I have gone for a really paled down yet luminous base, with the brows and lashes lightened with concealer to add an almost alien feel to the look. The key products I used were Illamasqua Gleam in Aurora and MAC Silver Dusk (I think this has been discontinued? Please correct me if I am wrong!). I am really happy with how this turned out and I have a good starting point to work from!
What do you think? Let me know in the comments below!
Rebecca x
I love the movie Beetlejuice so much and pretty much wanted to be Lydia Deetz when I was younger, so I had to create my own version of her for halloween! Eyes using Illamasqua Neutral Pallette, MAC eye shadows in Omega, Brun and Embark, Contour using Benefit Hoola bronzer and MAC eyeshadow in Brun, Lips using MAC Taupe lipstick. I kind of want to wear this every day, I may develop it into a more wearable look.
What do you think?
Rebecca X
So I had planned on doing 7 days of Halloween makeup during the build up to the big day, but I was so poorly with wisdom teeth problems yesterday I couldn’t bare to touch my face!
Anyway, in keeping with the recent Wizard of Oz theme we have been focusing on at university I decided to do my own version of the Wicked Witch of the West, kind of glammed up with contouring, eyebrows, the works! 
I used face paint mixed with foundation for the base, next time I think I will try something different as it stayed so wet and was really difficult to set!
Let me know what you think! Do you guys have any suggestions of Halloween looks for me to do? Also I really need to get a camera so any suggestions would be amazing, I can’t rely on iPhone selfies forever!
Rebecca x
We did it!
Echoes of Oz has finished and it was truly a pleasure to be involved on such a great event!
As you all saw in my last big post I spoke about the initial designs we created for each character as individuals We then as a group chose different aspects of a few of those designs to create one final design for each character which are here:
Pretty cool huh!
Then came the fun!
Overall the weekend was a success for us, we managed to get all the performers done in plenty of time and they all looked fantastic. On the Sunday our tutor was unable to be with us, which at first was a bit worrying, but we managed to pull together as a team and get everyone done in less than half an hour, and, for me anyway, it ended up being the most enjoyable day.
Again here is the link to the organisers Irregular Arts and their Facebook. They did a fantastic job of helping everyone celebrate how great Bradford really is!
Rebecca x
Photo credits: Thalia sparrow and Natashca Schnieden
Hey everyone, after a long summer of working at my day job A LOT I am finally back at uni and they have got us straight back at it!
Our year has been asked to design some of the makeup for this event in Bradford next weekend. The weekend, quite obviously has a Wizard of Oz theme and is intended to show the world how wonderful Bradford really is! There will be light shows, flash mobs, a ruby slipper slide, and more, but most importantly for us, performances by people from the local area dressed as characters from Oz. We have 100 children from local schools as Munchkins, 100 teens from local dance schools as Emerald citizens and a group of 30 teenage boys on bikes at the Flying Monkeys!
We are designing the makeup for these 3 groups as a whole, taking our own individual ideas and combining ones we, and the artistic director for Irregular Arts (the company producing the event), Jenny, like the most. After our first meeting with Jenny we narrowed down our initial ideas and were given key words to help us with our second designs:
Munchkins: Fun, Childlike, Quirky. Key colours: Red, Green, Yellow, Brown
Using snazzaroo face paints and brushes.
Emerald Citizens: Sophisticated, Pretty, Happy. Key colours: Green, Red/Pink, Silver.
Using snazzaroo face paints, glitter, brushes and sponges.
Flying Monkeys: Scary, tribal, warrior. Key colours: Blue, red, black.
Using snazzaroo face paints and fingers.
I do not like my munchkin design, especially the eyebrows, I will experiment with different colours and shapes. I do like my flying monkey, I feel it fulfills all points of the brief and whilst somewhat resembling a monkey due to the mouth. I think my Emerald Citizen is good, although the cheeks could me a little sheerer and I could have maybe been a little more creative. Most importantly all the designs took less than 10 mins to complete, which will help massively since we have so many faces to paint in such little time!
Now we will take these designs and take the most preferred qualities from them all and decide 1 final design for each group, which I will of course post here!
Let me know what you think of the designs!
Rebecca x
Echoes of Oz Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/echoesofoz
Irregular arts Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IrregularArts?fref=ts
Rebecca Powell 