Dirty Teeth & Dirt

Today we did a great lesson on how to make the teeth dirty and also adding dirt to the skin using a variety of different products. We had so much fun making each other look gross and dirty!


Health and Safety 
If the client has had their teeth whitened then don't use the enamel on the teeth or tooth caps.
Don't get any of the skin sprays in the mouth, nose, eyes or down the ears.
Follow all health and safety procedures, making sure the client is fully covered up so no products gets on to the clients clothing.
There is no need for barrier cream on the skin.
Always keep the clients eyes closed when working around that area.
Always work in a well ventilated room so the smells can remove them self from some where and don't linger,
Always check with the client they are alright, with applying products.

What I Used 
- Kryolan teeth enamel - black and nicotine
- Fullers earth
- Water
- Cotton buds
- Spatula
- Hair dryer
- Supra palette
- Bowls
- Kryolan body sprays - mucky colour, gold and black
- Blood watered down

What I Did 
Teeth - 
1. Check with the client if they have any tooth caps or whitened teeth - if so then don't use the enamel on the teeth
2. Get the client to make sure they keep their mouth open and don't let the lips touch the teeth
3. With a cotton bus clean the tooth to get it dry so the enamel sticks
4. Shake the bottle before use and get the enamel on a palette or in a bowl and apply the enamel on the tooth with a clean dry bud
5. Once you are happy with the look of the teeth leave a few seconds before the client lets the lips back down
Once you need to take off the enamel on the tooth just use a cotton bud with surgical spirit on and rub it away.

There are a few different colours you can get for tooth enamel, I used the black and the nicotine over the top and the effect looked really good. The ones you can get are gold, silver, black, nicotine, rotten teeth and bad teeth.
Here is the tooth which I did -

Dirty Skin - 
1. Using fullers earth to get the dirty look, you put some in a bowl and add water to a consistency which you would like
2. Rub it on the skin to create a dirty look, I did it on the hand so I placed it all on the hand and the fingers
3. I then got the hair dryer on to the skin to dry the fullers earth, it gives a cracked dry effect on the skin but still looks mucky
4. Once it was dry I gave some areas a little rub to get the dryness more effective
5. I then used the Kryolan coloured sprays on the skin in the dirt colour and the golden colour, these worked really well in adding more colour and to the dirtyness effect
6. Using a little black from the supra colour palette I rubbed it in to certain areas and around the nails too, to make it look patchy

These sprays worked so well as they had more intense colour to the skin, the mud cracks and looks dirty and the supra colour adds more effect to the dirty look. When using the sprays though, make sure the skin on the hands, elbows or knees is open, so get the fingers to bend so the colour gets in to all the cracks of the skin. Also, with the fullers earth you can use it dry as a dust on the skin too and in the hair.
Here is the dirty hand I created -

Reflection 
I really enjoyed making each other look dirty and gross looking, I liked the products that we used and the what to use them too. I feel like when you do these things you can create what you like and use what you like because there is no limit.

I really liked the dirty teeth, I found that really interesting, to look at myself with gross teeth was quite funny too!
I really enjoyed creating these looks and I would definitely like to do it again.

Chosen Design

I have decided to go with design number 1, where the the gelatine that makes the skin look old, bumpy and cracked like, goes up the neck and up to the sides of the face.

I feel this design will look better for my character, the whole book is about him being swallowed up by the portrait and it taking over his life. The design I have picked looks like the gelatine is coming up from the chest as if it has already taken over the body.

The model will be wearing a shirt too, as he is quite a powerful and wealthy character I think if the shirt was unbuttoned at the top and it looked like he was a little off his game, it would suit the character really well.

The time in the book would be near the end when he feels he wants to leave and end his life, he wants to ruin the portrait because its starting to eat at him and destroy him. There for the dishevelled look would suit the whole look I was going for.

Monster Mash - Psychopathic Killer/Vampires

Today we explored the different monster's that are commonly known to be in horror films, me and my group got - PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER. 

We thought about all the different characteristics and programmes that included a psychopathic killer and here is what we came up with - 

We thought about how they would look, what they are typically like in films and programmes, also we thought about what they were like as a normal person. It's as though they have a split personailty one minute there just a normal person living their normal life and the next there going out of their way to kill some one.

A few different films have been made about psychopathic killers but these are a few that I have seen-

Dexter -

This TV series is one of the best I have seen on Netflix, I was totally addicted to watching it as it was one you can not stop watching. The basic story line is a man who is a blood splatter analyst but with a hidden secret that he is a cereal killer. I only kills people who are bad and do bad things to other people. His personal life gets caught up in it all and it all ends in a way I was not expecting. 
This is a normal American man living his life normally in the day but by night he kills and dismantles bodies, takes them out in his boat and dumps them all in the sea. No one knows his secret, no one would suspect it of him either as he is such a nice guy. This is why I liked the programme he was a nice guy but was very twisted too.

Scream -
This is a classic film and they have been re made in to funny spoofs time and time again, a very popular halloween costume too. This is someone who goes around killing teenagers from a school one by one, they are quite old now and I think other genres of film or at least different story lines have taken over the classic man in a mask killing people. This person would wear a black like over sized dress/cape/gown and have the classic scream mask on. He would appear out of no where, no one would have seen the person enter or leave the place and he would literally chase the victim till they were dead and any one who got in the way. I liked the films before other films started to become bigger and better than these, I think we have moved on from the classic killer chasing the victim in to more scarier situations.

Saw -

Saw has had many film in their series made and they get better and worse every time. There is so much gore and suspense in them as they go along and they get scarier too. I love these films even though they scare the hell out of me. The man behind the games is a guy who is dying and he takes a puzzle piece from every person that dies in the rooms, the people don't know though that there is always a way out for them but they just don't think it through. It's a story line and I think the story also makes the film as well as the gore, the man doesn't personally kill them but the mind behind it is just scary and twisted. I love these films for some strange reason and I think they are very gross also but you can't help but watch.


It is really strange but good how some characteristics have stuck with certain characters, for instance vampires always look the same. They are white skinned, dark hair, can't go out in the sun, they drink human blood and turn in to bats.
But as time has gone a long and the more modernised we become, they have been changed a lot in to all sorts of different things.

The Vampire Diaries -

 A TV series about two brothers who go back to their home town, they end up making friends and enemies, turning their friends in to vampires too and learning how to control their "thirst". Witches and wolves become present in this series too. The vampire characteristics that are present in this series in particular are they look normal, they have the fangs when they are about to "eat", they have rings which let them go out in to the sun without turning in to ash, they are very attractive, their eyes change colour when they are about to attack and also they can eat animal blood.
These characteristics have been adapted to the modern world, they have created these vampires to be different yet be able to lead normal lives with out just eating human blood. This is a really good TV series and I know a lot of people who watch it - I personally watched it but I think sometimes the story line get a little boring on vampire programmes and films, they need to keep the excitement there and sometimes its not.

True Blood -

This is a TV series that I found so good and interesting! I was hooked from the beginning and loved it! It's about a man who comes back in to town and one woman in particular fell in love with him, they found out he was a vampire and then all sorts happened in the little quiet village. It's a true love story but with one hell of a twist. The main characteristics of these vampires were, they were very pale white skinned, they didn't come out into the sun at all, they had coffins that they would actually sleep in, silver burnt their skin, they were very out spoken and had their very own dress sense, they loved human blood, all of the characters were very attractive too, there were wolves, witches and all sorts of crazy characters in this programme too.
I loved this series and I think it's a very good programme too, its thrilling and lovable and scary all at once! Definitely recommend this programme to vampire lovers.

My Character Design - Design 2

For my chosen character I have made two different design which I want to produce.
This is my second design -

Products I Am Going To Use - 
- Illamasqua matte primer
- Illamasqua loose powder
- Gelatine
- Supra colour palette
- Concealer if needed

This is the other look I wanted to produce, it will be on the same model so he will have a little facial hair and the hair will be smooth and slick to one side.
The same products will be used and the same style of look but the gelatine will be coming from the top of the forehead and coming down to the eye brow and down one side of the face to the cheek bone.

This look will replicate my character by having the sleek look about him yet the secret he is keeping is slowing coming for him, starting on the top of the head near the brain. I chose to start it from the brain/head area as he is al ways thinking about it and the portrait is always on his mind.

This is my hair design -

It is based in the 1890's where men had their hair smooth and slick on one side. They had facial hair nicely trimmed into a style or beard too. I have decided to go with this style as I think it replicated the date and it suits the character too, he was very swarve and good looking and clean so the hair looking swept to one side and sleek with go with my character and be with in the era of the character too. 

My Character Design - Design 1

For my chosen character I have made two different design which I want to produce.
This is my first design -

Products I Am Going To Use - 
- Illamasqua matte primer
- Illamasqua loose powder
- Gelatine
- Supra colour palette
- Concealer if needed

As my model will be a male I am not going to use any foundation or power on the face so the face will be as normal as it can be. Unless there are any imperfections on any day of the continuity test then I will have to conceal those by using concealer to match it to the skin.

My character is very handsome and fresh and slick so my model will replicate that too, my model will have a little facial hair as that was popular in the 1890's, his hair will be slick to the side too.

Coming up the neck from the chest area and ending around the cheek bone area on each side of the I will apply gelatine on to the skin to create a cracked wrinkled effect on the skin.

I wanted to produce this look for my character because he is smooth and slick but he has this secret, throughout the book it is slowly eating at him and so the gelatine/cracked horrible skin creeping up his neck on to his face is like it is swallowing him up.

This is my hair design - 

It is based in the 1890's where men had their hair smooth and slick on one side. They had facial hair nicely trimmed into a style or beard too. I have decided to go with this style as I think it replicated the date and it suits the character too, he was very swarve and good looking and clean so the hair looking swept to one side and sleek with go with my character and be with in the era of the character too. 

High Definition Broadcasting

High Definition broadcasting is where TV channels or stations have their programmes running in HD.  This basically means there are more pixels in the frame bringing more colour and more detail on to the screen when you are watching something.

TV stations have been adding HD channels on to their digital programme list where as they are not yet on analog, but in Japan they first brought out a HD broadcast on to analog on June 3rd 1989! As we are able to fit more pixels in to each frame this also means that there are 60 frames per second which is twice the amount of a conventional TV! 

When doing make up for HDTV it is so important that you keep checking your work in the mirror, what you see in the mirror is what people see on the screen. 
I watched a little clip online of a make up artist called John Woodbridge, he explained why doing HD make up is really important - 

John Woodbridge is one of the UK's leading make up artists specialising is HD make up, he is the third of his generation who have became make up artists too. He does a lot of film make up techniques to the cutting edge creativity and cosmetics.
He is well known for his very natural grooming on males and little corrections to the glamorous make up and air brushing skills that he holds.

Most products that you have in your make up kit will be fine to use for HD, you don't always need an air brush machine to create the look.
Make sure you look in the mirror at what you can see and also look at the model too because anything that needs touching up will be made apparent when seen in HD.
Airbrushing is made from micronised pigments, these are much smaller and so they are less visible to see on the skin and they are very lightweight too. You can easily blend out any lines on the skin and it will last much longer than normal products on the skin. If there are any spots that need touching up you can apply a translucent powder on to the skin too.

It isn't just the foundation that you can use airbrushing for, contouring, highlighting and blusher is available for air brushing. John Woodbridge mentioned that blusher is always poorly applied when with a brush, so airbrushing gives a softer effect on the skin and isn't as harsh.

Loose powder is available in an HD form as normal setting powder can make the skin appear dull and ashy which doesn't give the skin a good look when on TV.

 

The same goes for hair stylists too, you need to make sure the hair looks as natural as possible, not too much product on the hair, if the scalp is dry it could be make more clearer as the image on the screen will me clearer too.
Rules of hair dressing any way are to hide grips and anything else in the hair that doesn't need to be seen.

In-Depth Character Analysis

My character, Dorian Gray, from the book The Picture of Dorian Gray. I am going to analyse my character and base my design on my analysis.

Dorian is a very rich young man who gets exactly what he wants going through the book, he inherited an estate and a lot of money, this is why he moved to London.
He didn't know nay one apart from the painter at first and from then on he met with a lot of new people. He was very wealthy and very handsome, effortlessly handsome that every woman and even men were talking about him. Throughout the book he gets what he wants and he makes enemies our of it, the more people got to know him and the more the portrait started to change the more people started to dislike what he had become.
In the end he knew that his life wasn't the same any more, everyone knew he wasn't ageing and that wanted to know his "secret". A lover who was in his life at the start of the book who killed her self destroyed him at that point and then her brother returned to kill Dorian and put him to rest like he thought Dorian did to his sister. Since that point Dorian knew his life was at threat and he did what he could to avoid that. Being so scared he was looking over his shoulder thinking his life was over, yet he wasn't happy with his life any way, one day at shooting some one accidentley killed the man.
Now his life was no longer at threat he still knew this portrait is destroying him still - he went up to the room where it was covered and locked away and stabbed the painting resulting in him killing himself too.
He was very happy with his life, knowing how much of an influence he had on women and men, getting what he wanted, invited to posh partied and dinner parties at some of the best places in London. He was very high in social status and was really enjoying himself. Once he was at the highest he could he learnt things about people and blackmailed them, everyone left the room and didn't want to be near him.
Even though he was very high in social society he still wasn't happy with his life , the portrait was in the back of his mind slowly ruining him and he did what ever he could to forget about it but in the end turned evil towards everyone else.

There are a few films and TV programmes which have the same plot as Dorian Gray too -

Dexter 
Dexter is a TV series where the main character Dexter is a blood splatter analysis but he hides a huge
secret - he is also a cereal killer! He loves his life he does what he wants when he wants, he works, he kills and he loves women too. He has the huge secret and during the series' there are moments where he nearly gets caught and his life would be over but he manages to solve the problems. At the end of all the series, his little boys mother dies, so he leaves and puts himself out of danger and out of anyone's way so he doesn't ruin any more lives like he feels he has done. He send his lover and his little boy to France to live the rest of their lives in peace without him.
This links to Dorian because they both were so happy with their life, they did what they wanted and got away with it too. They both had things that they wanted to forget and they both did things they shouldn't which slowly ate them away. In the end both characters put them self out of danger and leave their lives behind them with the people who care about them.

The Wolfman 

This film is based on a man who ends up getting bitten by a wolf, he turns into a wolf and tries his hardest to hide it from everyone even the woman who he has fell in love with. Eventually it comes out and the whole town want him dead, he suffers in the process trying to remove the wolf from out of him. When the whole town put in him a chair to die he release's the wolf and goes out on a rampage. Everyone sees him as this figure who he doesn't want to be and he doesn't know how to stop it. I personally haven't seen the whole film but I can see from the trailer and the things I've read that it has the same story line as Dorian, keeping a big secret about yourself that one day will come out.

Fifty Shades of Grey 

Christian Grey is a character that has influenced people who have normal lives to spice it up a little bit. In the books and the film he has this secret that he a dominant, he wants people to think that he's this rich man who is self made. He has what he wants, does what he wants and he always gets what he wants. He meets a girl who changes his life forever, he falls in love which he has never had before too. His childhood was difficult as his mother was a drug addict and so he was adopted into a rich family, he doesn't know how to love and this girl does what he wants but he also changes for her too. He opens up and his personality comes out and the story is a true love story. I personally love the books and I feel him and Dorian so have a lot in common, there both rich, handsome, a big socialite and in the end the truth comes out for better or worse.

Continuity - Why Is It Important?

Continuity is so important in the make up industry, you need to be able to produce the same thing over and over again. In a film or TV production if there is something different or missing then everyone notices. 

The thing I notice the most is blood, one minute there is blood all over someone and the next it's nearly placed next to them and then it flips back again. There are so many movie mistakes that the more you learn the more you find things which need to be amended. 

I think being able to produce work which is the same each time shows your skills as a make up artist. You can produce the same thing over and over again which shows you know what your doing, you've practised and your well trained. 

Today we did a continuity test where I had to do a black eye one someone take it off and start all over again trying to re produce the same look, in the same place using the same colours. 

This is the online image I used for inspiration and how the black eyes I produced came out - 

As you can see the first picture the colour is very deep and dark, it comes down the socket or the 'bag' of the eye and stops there. There is redness and a tinge of yellow on the skin too. I did use an online image for inspiration for this black eye but I think sometimes following something else is really easy it really hard. 

Doing a black eye is quite tricky as you don't want to over do it but you want to make it look real. 

The second picture I brought the colour down the eye a little too much and I didn't do it just around the socket area. I feel like the colours are very similar and so I was pleased with that. 

The next time I do something like this I really need to concentrate on taking pictures on each step and have them in a sequence so the next time I can look at those and know exactly what I did. 

That is where I went wrong here - you get carried away and forget to take the picture when you've done one part. 

I find continuity quite hard as it is hard to produce the same thing more than once but to be a make up artist you have to do these things or you aren't as good as you should be. Recreating looks on models should become easier with more practice and the better skill set you get. 

Men's Victorian Hairstyles

Mens hair was very similar to women's, they wanted to look good, be groomed and if the hair was not in style then they didn't look correct in their class. Side burns and side partings became popular also curly hair was one look which men would sport too.

 





At the beginning of the Victorian era men were just starting to care about what they looked like. To us in old picture they make look scruffy and dishevelled but back then it was all the rage.
Curly hair that was in a side parting, it looked a little crazy to me but it was one of the biggest looks for men to have. Their hair was basically long and then came in to fashion the moustache and the side burns to match or beards. They were sometimes well kept but they mostly look over grown and fluffy in images we see today.

After 1860 men's hair was then worn shorter, they still had beards and moustaches though on the face.They used a variety of different products on the hair to keep it in place and slick. Waxes and oils were produced and so were wood frames for their moustaches to preserve their form during the night.
The most popular product used to keep the hair in place was called Macassar Oil, it was made using coconut oils, palm oil and oil from ylang-ylang. It was said that it strengthened and stimulated the hair growth. As it was such a popular item to be used on the hair women had to cover their chairs and an anti-macassar protection so it didn't ruin the material on the furniture.

A man who was very influential in fashion and style in the Victorian age was called George Bryan Brummell, he dictated men's fashion in the British Regency court and for all of the English society. He wore the tailored suit with the W collar and ties which every an wears today! Everything about him, his hair, manners, clothes and behaviour was copied by every man back then, he was a true fashion icon of the Victorian era. He bathed and cleaned his teeth and saved every day to keep up his look, which men started to realise they need to keep on top of hygiene too.
It would take him nearly 5 hours just to dress to go outside and he bathed in milk too like Cleopatra.
Unfortunately he spent all his money gambling and spending so he had to move away to France, he died 3 years later but when he was alive his friends were sending homier a salary to live on!

Since this man first came on to the scene, most men were then wearing the suit, it was either matched or they would pair some light brown or fawn trousers with a black coat. The different facial sales still went on having little moustache or a full on beard. But the hair on the head was short and very oiled and slick to the head.


Razor Machines 

The first razor was made by the Kampfer Brothers in 1880, Germany. At the time the razor blades were made of steel, they would need to be sharpened but with rusted too when used too much. They were a little expensive, pricing at $5 which now would equal to $140. King Camp Gillette - a sales man of a company called Crown Cork and Seal Co. designed a razor machine which would make the much more affordable, thinner, lighter and they had detachable blades. 
The Gillette Safety Razor Compant was made in 1902, it was the supplier to the United States in World War I and at that time they were selling 70 million razor blades and 500 thousand razor machines yearly!

Late Victorian Hairstyle

Late Victorian hairstyles are very different to the early ones, they are more structured and have more about them. They are bigger in volume and height from off the head, they are more fancy and just overall have more to them.
I think i prefer these looks and styles compared to the early Victorian looks, when I did this look i saw that we use the Victorian ways to produce wedding and prom hair from these styles.

Here is the image I used as inspiration for this look -

What I used
- Heated rollers
- Grips
- Pins
- Tongs
- Bobbles
- Combs

What I did 
1. I started off by sectioning the front of the hair from the back and putting the hair in to a middle parting
2. Using small heated rollers on the top of the head going down I did two rollers and the last two I did sideways as in the pull in the hack from the face
3. Keeping those in to cool down, i then got the top section of hair and put in to a bobble and then a bottom section of hair in to a bobble either. All about the hair line at the back and sides of the head, going around the neck I left about an inch wide of hair
4. The hair that was around the hair line left out I put in to heated rollers to get those to curl too
5. The hair that was in both bobbles I used a small curling tong to curl this part of the hair
6. Once the hair was all curled in the bobbles I started pinning the hair up in to a barrel curl but leaving the ends of the hair out so they dangled down
7. I did this for every bit of hair in the bobbles and then I took the rollers out of the hair line going round the back
8. Pulling the hair up in to the middle of the head I pinned the hair to look like the curls were falling down around the head, I did this all around the head
9. The front rollers I then took out the hair as they were cool too, the sides of the hair i pulled back and in to the design at the back
10. The top parts of hair I pulled back but let the hair wave loosely going back in to the hair too

This is the finished look -

Reflection 
I was really pleased with the look I made today, I had never done a put up by putting the hair in two bobbles at the back and pinning around them to make it look like there is more volume and more hair on the head.

I really liked the look i created on my model, I think it actually really suited her, if I was able to make it more modern say with a side parting I think it would be a lovely look for a wedding or prom.

The only thing I found difficult was my models hair was so thick so it want taking to the tongs straight away and they were dropping out too. But I worked with it and in the ned I think it looked really good.

Overall, I am really happy with what I produced, I have used heated rollers a lot and I have done a lot of put up designs as well so I feel okay with styling hair like that. I think the final look, looked really nice and I was very pleased with it.

Early Victorian Hairstyle

Early Victorian hairstyles were very organised and curly. They had the front sections of the hair rolled up the sides of the face, or dragged down and around the ears going back in to the bun. Here I do an early victorian hairstyle where the hair is in the plaited bun and the front sections of the hair are braided and brought back to the bun and pinned in to place.

I got my inspiration from this image and this is what I wanted to produce on my model -

What I used - 
- Combs
- Grips
- Bobbles

What I did - 
1. I sectioned the hair into a middle parting, I then sectioned the two sides from the back and put the back of the hair in to a point tail on the back/middle of the head
2. When the hair was in place I braided down the hair and put another bobble in the bottom
3. I twisted the hair about the bobble to make a bun shape but i could hide the bobble at the ned of the hair as the braid wasn't long enough
4. I attempted to hide it by pinning the hair in place and hoping you couldn't fully see it
5. Once that was in place I went to the from sections of hair and combed one side towards the face to get the hair slick
5. I braided the hair down from the jaw line to the bottom of the hair
6. Pulling the braid backwards looping underneath the ear I pinned it back in to the bun and did the same with the other side

Here is this finished look -

Once I showed Helen she told me to take the bobble out of the bottom of the brain in the bun and pin the hair with out it. So I took it out and re-did the bun at the back by just braiding the hair and pinning in to place in a bun shape and it looked much better. Also the hair was all one length but not very long in length so the ends started to poke out too which made it look messy.

Here is what it looked like when I re-did the bun at the back -

Reflection 
I was really pleased with the outcome of the hair, I have never done a Victorian hairstyle and I thought that sales was relatively easy to produce. I liked how I changed the bun at the end because the braided bun actually came out better than it looked before.

I thought I did quite well in producing the style but I personally would never go out with that style in my hair, ha!

Overall, I am pleased with what I produced, if i did it again I would concentrate more on the direction of the braid so they both looked more the same. I think when you braid you have to lead the hair in the way you want it to go unless it doesn't look right if you then pull it back because it stick out from somewhere.
But I am pleased with overall look!

Women's Victorian Hairstyles

Hair during the Victorian times changes a lot, from the start of 1840's to the end of Queen Victoria's reign in 1901, women's hair styles went from tight and up to loose and curly.
I will be looking into the different times in the Victorian era at the different styles which came about, from the subtle put ups to the hair pieces and elaborate hats they wore.

Early Victorian Hair Styles 

Most women had long hair, they didn't have hair cuts and styles like we do now, they either had just the ends cut off or they were singed off! Girls were allowed to have their hair down but when they reached the age of 15/16 they had to have their hair up, it was a sign of being respectful. Most women who had their hair down were actresses and models who were just looking some romance and intimacy.
Before the Civil War it was very fashionable for women to have sausage curls, they would frame the face and go all around the head. I don't personally like this hair style as I think sausage curls look terrible now but back then it was how everyone had heir hair.
If it was't in sausage curls then they had it all back in braids and curls pinned up. The front of the hair would be in a middle parting, braided and then brought down around the ear and pinned in to the back of the hair too. Fringes weren't in fashion at all, that's why the middle parting was in place and the hair framed it, it was very flattering to hair the hair down to the jaw on the sided.
Other common styles were having the hair all up at the back in a braided bun and then the front was in a middle partin again but the hair was loose with long sausage curls framing the face. If the hair wasn't down then the curls were rolled up going down the sides of the head. They looked like little sausage rolls which much have been very fashionable back then.
They would decorate the hair using flowers, leaves, ribbons and jewels, later on though hair pieces, curlers and hats became all the rage and then hair started to change.
The Victorian's were all about cleanliness of the hair and always wanted to look respectful, it reflected their dress as well.

Late Victorian Hair Styles 

Ladies hair started to change from the middle partings and the hair down the front to wearing a chignons on the back of the head was all the fashion. Every change in hair styles was still reflected in the dress style too. The hoop skirts came in to fashion and so did using pads to make rolls or wings in the front of the hair.
In 1870 hair started to move higher up the back of the head and the styles were getting bigger too. The pompadour style was all the rage pulling the hair up on to the top of the head and leaving the front of the hair to fall around the face, they would have it curling or crimped down each side too. They were a called the pin curl bangs, a little hair was just over the forehead but they were curled in to place, very fashionable and even featured in Vogue.
Rats were added in to the hair to give lift and volume when styling, a rat is a collection of hair from your brush which you mould into a shape and pin it in to the hair. Hair was usually always pinned up on top of the head and then a twist started to come in to fashion.
Later in the 1890's a look called the Gibson Girl was created. The hair was pulled on to the top of the head in to a bouffant style, it looked very elegant and was a massive trend going through to the Edwardian era.
Hats were still in fashion and so were hair pieces to give the extra volume and extra style to the hair.

Hats & Hair Pieces  

During the 1830's hats which sported feathers, jewels, frills and ribbons were all over, it was the must have fashion accessory of that time. Another thing they used to have in their hair was birds and birds feathers - bit of a weird accessory but women did wear them.
The shape and style of the hat changed through the era as styles changes, from big head dresses with the feathers to bonnets with frills.
Bonnets were very big at first as the hair was bigger and piled up on the back of the head, the bonnet went over the hair, as hair started to get smaller the bonnets changed shape and size to match the hair.
An American magazine called "Godey's Lady's Book" was so popular during the Civil War, it had ladies new styles, a piano music sheet and measurements for new garments. It provided women with new fashions and it gave them chance to make them at home.
From around 1866 bonnets had pink bows, frills, silk ribbon and ties with flowers on a woven straw bonnet. Girls would also wear bonnets to mimic their mothers too.

Hair pieces were added in to the hair for extra volume, extra hair to make it even bigger and for style. You could get full on hair pieces which were added on to the back of the head sticking up and out of the head. These would then have a bonnet over the top too. You could get pins with strands of curls to pin in the back too or they would be on a comb and slipped in to the hair.
They were very popular because they looked very good but they were also good for women who had thin hair. It enabled them to have good hair too, ladies weren't restricted to having one style of hair as there were numerous different looks they could make with these hair pieces.

 


The Marcel Wave 

The first set of hair tongs were first brought about by a French hair dresser called Marcel Grateau, women wanted their curls to last and stay in the hair so he came up with a design to create that. He made the first tong, they were heavy and you had to heat them up to get the hair warm and change the shape of the hair. The tong was a great success and it let women have more freedom with their hair and change the style more. The waves in women's hair was then called "The Marcel Wave".

Bleeding From Veins & Arteries

When we bleed from our bodies, the blood appears in different colours deoending where the blood has come from. It is really important to understand and learn about this because when re creating cuts and wounds on the body if the blood is the wrong colour - too red or too dark, it could look really fake!

Even on the outside of the body blood can be seen in different colours, we can see the blood looking a blue colour which is the blood running through the veins and some times we can see it looking red which it the blood flowing through an artery.

Blood flows through the body as we all know, we have veins which transports blood around the body back to the heart to refill with oxygen and arteries transport that blood with oxygen in it around the body!

It sounds very simple but this is what changes the colour of blood when it leaves the body too.

This picture shows where the veins (blue) and arteries (red) are in the body coming from the heart -

When we bleed from a vein we dont have any oxygen in that blood as it has laready been transported around the body. This is why the blood goes "blue" or dark red when leaves the body! It leaves the body ina normal flow, might be fast might be slow but it will still leave the body as the skin has been opened.

When we bleed from an artery it has a lot of oxygen in the blood, as it is tranposrting that around the body, this is why the blood comes out really red when the skin is broken! It doesnt flow in a normal way either some times it spurts out in pulses too, when the blood leaves the body though it starts to oxygenate and get darker too.

I find it really interesting how the body works and how we are all different yet we are all the same on the inside too! We have veins and arteries all over the body as blood is transported to and from the heart from all around the body.


Blood Products  
On the Kryolan website you can purchase lots of different coloured bloods and they have different textures about them too depending on what you are going to use the blood for. 

The first one I found was called Special Blood IEW, its easy to use, can be washed out and used on any type of materiel, it is used for theatre, film and television too. You can use it in and around the mouth too which is brilliant! This blood flows slowly though so appears really realistic on simulated fresh wounds. You can purchase this blood in two different shades dark or light so you will have the right colour blood for what ever wound it is and I bet you could probably mix both the colours together, they are available in two different size bottles too!  

The next one I found is called Transparent Blood, its it said to be highly versatile in its use in film and television, the way it looks on screen gives the perfect image of real blood. It is available in two colours too a dark and a light one, it seems to be a good product to use! They are available in two different sized bottles too. 

F/X blood isn't a runny blood so it dries on the skin but doesn't stain it, it comes in liquid form and dries to be smudge proof too. It still has a sheen on the skin so it gives a good impression that its a fresh wound too. 

In a cut or fresh wound you can also fill it with Wound Filler, its in a jelly consistency and you place it in to the cut or wound to make it look more gory and gross! I like this product as it really does have a good effect on the wound to make it look realistic. As it's a jelly it gives a shine to it too which makes it look fresh! 

As well as bloods that you would put in a wound, you can get a blood which is called Fresh Scratch, comes in two different colours, doesn't die the skin and dries to look like perfect scratches or scabs. When its drying you can't touch it or it will create matt spots in the blood. The dark colour is good for creating scabs and the light colour is good for creating fresh wounds as it keeps its shine it makes the wound still look fresh. 

As well as these products there are soo many different companies and products out there which are available too these are just a few and a few that I would possibly use in the future also. 

 

History Of Gothic Horror

The era of the Gothic History was between the 12th and the 16th Century, it frames the horror and thriller genre that we have today. Gothic was spread all around us in lots of different ways -

- Architecture 

- Paintings 

- Books, poems and comics

Georgians were so obsessed with the Gothic that it came in to every aspect of their life, things changed and evolved giving writers, architects and artists more inspiration and drive to create something more sinister. 

It was also split into different categories -

                              1. Strange places

                              2. Clashing time periods 

                              3. Power and constraints 

                              4. Sexual power 

                              5. Uncanny 

                              6. Sublime
                              7. Setting
                              8. Industrial revolution

Strange places

Gothic horror stories or poems are usually based in a strange place, like a grave yard or a woods or even a castle or old building. They scare, entice, excite and worry people, all different types of emotions. They are usually based there because they are old, possibly have ghosts or dead people associated with them, the setting that is described or seen makes you feel scared too. Like Dracula, he has his own castle and I think it would definitely be scary to be there if you was against your own will.

Clashing time periods 

We like to think we have left some thing in the past yet in gothic horror books and stories we then find out this thing has come back to haunt/get us. They also skip through periods like for example from the medieval period to the renaissance. Like Dracula, he is basically immortal, he will live forever! Also in Dorian Gray he stays young over a period of time, he goes away and comes back 18-20 years later. This happens a lot in films we see today too, it gives a suspense about the film knowing this character is back and "what is he going to do?" is in our heads.

Power and constraints 
We love the sinister effect of the power that the character has, we love how they control and take over the actions of a person they are targeting. We also love the thrill of knowing something is about to happen to someone. Forcing or trapping someone in a situation that they cant get out of, this is what happens in all horrors and we still read and watch these because as exciting as it is we know its not real so it doesn't feel as bad. I always think of Saw, the thrill and scare of the trap ahead that Jigsaw has created shows his power and what he uses to constrain the people in the "game" is frightening to watch.

Sexual power
People love reading about the sexual tension in books and poems, or how a certain character is attracted to a female, wanting their body and then the sinister happens. Usually in books and stories the male who is the bad person attracts the women in a sexual way, thinking this character can get what ever they want through sexual power and tension. The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli painting shows sexual power to me, the woman on the bed with the leering imp on her. Her body language shows her in a sexual way where the imp is on her chest with the look as if he owns her, it was a very inspiring painting which has been recreated so many times. 

Uncanny 
Writers had a motion where they would write about things that weren't real, but they had aspects where they were very real. It made the reader think it was normal but they knew it wasn't by the twist of words and imagery.

 "In telling a story, one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton, and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately."

The was a quote by Ernst Jentsch, he was very popular for his essay The Psychology Of The Uncanny and has been mentioned by numerous other writers.

Sublime
Paintings of landscapes which were beautifully painted, were created to show the horror of nature! The storms, mountains and rain and wind were created in paint by some amazing painters. They were called the sublime because of the beauty yet the scariness of the image.

“When pain and danger press too nearby, they are incapable of giving any delight, and are simply terrible; but at certain distances, and with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience”

Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful 

 This painting is Claude Joseph VernetA Shipwreck in Stormy Sea 1773, I find it so interesting to look at, it looks scary and sister in the way the boats are, the water and the sky but it looks so interesting and beautiful that someone captured that moment in time. 

Setting 

The setting to all gothic horrors - books, poems, buildings are always sinister looking! Castles are big and scary, very dark places you never would know if there was a trapped door or someone lurking around the corner. Churches has the stained glass windows and they were all about heaven and hell. They had gargoils and things hanging around to keep the bad away, but they just looked scary them self too.
The settings for most books and paintings seemed to be in very dark rooms or buildings, so you cant see very well, you get the feeling of entrapment, you don't know how you got in so you don't know how you're going to get out.
I think it makes it what it is when the setting matches, it gives you the mood and puts you in the place when you see or read it.
Church's had really interesting architecture to them too, a man called Augustus Pugin designed all the interior in Westminster and it is so incredible to see. He designed all the wood work, the upholstery, metal work, stained glass windows and furniture, he went on to design more architecture and they are still around to see today. 

Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution hit England in 1760 and it changed life for ever one. More work was available, more factories were popping up all over the place and the country especially the major cities were all dark and gloomy. They weren't nice places to live, the houses were all lined up on rows, the dark smoke and ash filled the streets and it became a much more sinister place to live. 
People had to share houses and slept on floor, had no furniture and the water supply often got infected too. Crime rose as well as popularity in areas, the growth of people increased so much too! 

Burns

Today in class we learnt and practised the different kinds of burns on thr skin using a variety of products too, I found this very interesting but a little difficult not to get carried away in going over the top in creating the burn look realistic.

Health and Safety 
Follow all health and safety procedures, making sure the client is fully covered up so no gelatine gets on to the clients clothing.
You must always do a check on the clients arm with a blob of the gelatine to make sure it is not too hot or it will actually burn the skin and also check it on your own skin too. To remove the gelatine you can just pick it off and it will come off in one piece and then was the skin to remove any little bits and any make up on the skin.  Always clean out bowls and remove all the product out the bowl too by scraping it out and putting it in the bin.
There is no need for barrier cream on the skin.
Always keep the clients eyes closed when working around that area - the smell can be overpowering on the eye so keep them closed.
Always work in a well ventilated room so the smells can remove them self from some where and don't linger,
Always check with the client they are alright, with applying the gelatine and using the hair dryer in the clients face - always check they are ok.

What I Used 
- Charles Fox Sculpting tool
- Cleanser, toner
- Sponges
- Bowls
- Gelatine
- Hair dryer
- Supra colours
- Witch hazel
- Cotton buds
- Make up brushes
- Loose powder
- Spatulas
- Couch roll and a cover
- Bruise and cuts wheels from Kryolan
- Fake blood in liquid and jelly form (wound filler)
- Hairpins
- Fake puss
- Vaseline

What I Did 
1. I made sure there was nothing left on the skin before I applied the gelatine so i know it will definitely stick to the skin
2. I then got a bit of gelatine and warmed it up in the microwave so it was all melted and didn't ever melt it or it will dry out
3. Once I checked with the client that the gelatine wasn't too hot I applied it with a sculpting tool on to the skin like a warm wax, stroking it on and the patting it so it lifted to give it the wrinkled skin effect
4. When I was happy with how it looked and I didn't have any hard edges I then got the hair dryer on a cool air and dried the gelatine
5. It still stays really sticky but it doesn't move on the skin,so get the colours to stick you need to apply the loose power all over the gelatine
6. I used my make up brushes and fingers to apply a red colour over the whole burn to give the redness
7. Once I was happy with the colouring on the burn, I got a small brush with red Supra colour and went in to some of the lifts in the gelatine to make it look sore and the skin look sort of flappy
8. I added puss in to some of the areas to make it look infected and gory, when I looked in the mirror at the burn it needed something else so I got the sponge and stippled a little black on to it to make the skin look as if it had got burnt in a fire and it had got burnt like meat does
9. Over the whole thing I dabbed on Vaseline on the burn as burns are wet to look at and shiny
10. Once I was happy I double checked in the mirror how it looked and I thought it looked good for a first attempt

In the last picture I used the blobs of gelatine on the hand, which I tested on the client to see if it was too hot, to make a blister. I stuck a grip in the gelatine to give it hole and swept a little red over it go make it look sore. I then got some puss on my finger and dabbed it on making it look all infected and gross. I think it looked really cool and realistic!

There are different types of burns which I have wrote about in the research blog post, but to make them more realistic when you are re creating them you can add all sorts of different things in to them like mud, puss, glass and flappy skin and blisters. Burns are on top of the skin but they come from underneath the skin too and creating a look where it looked under the skin is hard, its better to use less make up or even wipe off some of the make up you have applied to make it look more realistic.
When making a fake burn you need to think of how it was burnt, what shape is the burn, was there anything rubbed in to or around the burn that could have got in to it and at what healing time is the burn at too.

Reflection 
I feel I didn't okay at this today, it was my first time using gelatine and creating burns. I really liked how we can use a lot of different products in class to get us used to creating the different kinds of burns too.

I think it was difficult tot make it look realistic without going over the top on the make up and the redness of the burn. Using the different products was good but I just didn't want to over do it.
I liked how my gelatine came out on the skin though it was very wrinked and lifted in areas which gave it such a nice effect, I was really pleased with that!

If I was to do this again I would try a different kind of burn, I would definitely do more research into burns and look at colouring and effectiveness of a burn on the skin so I have a better understanding on how they should actually look to the human eye.

Overall, I really enjoyed it just as I am enjoying creating all the other things that we do in this lesson, I really want to have more practice sessions with a tutor though or have more classes in the practical rooms with a tutor so we have guidance and longer to create something on each other. I think this would benefit me and other people as I feel for a first time thing we need extra time and the lesson we had today we had to rush a little or we would have ran out of time before swapping over. But I did really enjoy creating burns today!