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.