When it comes to your career as a makeup artist, your portfolio is the most important element to establishing your craft within industry. Second only to your professional skills and behaviour in the work space. Due to this it is vital that only your best work is put forward into your portfolio as this is what show cases your skills to the best of your ability. Your ability to critically decide which elements of your work are the most important will define how your are seen by others, your weakest work will always be the most seen and in many cases, remembered.
The title for this project is "Beauty is Now" and will test our capability as makeup artists to work to a professional level within he fashion and beauty industry. As a result we will be expected to generate and contribute an original theme into an editorial body of work. Within the concept of "Beauty is Now" it is vital to recognise the vast expansion of the online world within the beauty industry and how now, more than ever, the freelance makeup artist contributes a great deal to the promotion of brands, bodies of work and magazines. Equally is the standard for the counter makeup artist which has risen further, now all artists are almost expected to maintain online media platforms to push themselves further forwards in the beauty industry. This stress placed upon social media is an important aspect to include within this project as it is through this platform that our work will be inspired, created and showcased to a worldwide audience.
Themes that can be chosen from include:
- Organic Beauty
- Skin
- Structure & Form
- It's All About The Product
- Beauty is Boring
Initial reflection:
Upon looking at the themes that we can choose from there are two that immediately jump out at me, these include Skin and Beauty is Boring. I feel that it is important not to focus yourself immediately onto one subject as what you originally thought could be a good idea may infact turn out to be limiting. There are a few reasons that these two themes stick out to me in particular which I shall go on to explain in more depth. The first of which being 'Skin'. As a sufferer of cystic acne I have always found the texture of skin interesting and can appreciate how skin texture differers from person to person. In addition to this I understand that no ones skin is the same, each face carries different tones, constructions and textures and this is something that should be embraced. I think it is properly due to the fact that my skin is damaged, something which I still cannot fully embrace about myself that I feel so drawn to other peoples complexion and can appreciate beautiful skin differences, even if the person in that skin cannot. If I was to undertake this project I would most likely want to show a variety of different skin types including dark skin tones, acne skin, pale (almost albino skin) and heavily freckled skin. Although these types of skins do appear within editorial beauty, acne skin not so much, if feel it is something that requires more attention. In particular "problem skin", there is such as stigma surrounding acne sufferers that there skin is "dirty" or "unclean". I do feel passionately that this is due to the fact that it isn't presented as beautiful, someone can still be beautiful and have problems with their complexion. You should embrace the skin your in.
The second choice that I may consider is that of 'Beauty is Boring', within this my initial idea was to feature anti-beauty through the use of creating looks that feature things that typically ruin makeup. For example how the rain makes your makeup run, sweaty skin and dirt. These are all things that are commonly moaned about as ruining beauty during daily life however when transformed into an editorial beauty setting could become incredibly beautiful. I feel with this option there is more opportunity for creative freedom as although 'Skin' would be interesting I feel it would be more a documented photography project rather than a creative outlet. Through doing this option my creative skills would be further tested as I would have to recreate the effects of natural weather but for the purpose of editorial beauty.
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