Evaluation of timed assessment, in the role of the designer

Evaluation 

Designer: Rebecca Southerden
Artist: Partner  



This was my finished face chart of how I wanted my design to look. I used many bright pink and red colours as well as orange to create a statement piece of art. My inspiration for this design came from the personalities of Lettice, a lady in waiting and cousin to Elizabeth I, and of the 'real housewives' television show. Both personalities are strong, bright and glamorous, I wanted to portray this though my makeup design. 

Matida and I practiced this design until it was perfect to the face chart design and until we were both happy. I timed the makeup practices we undertook to make sure she would finish within the time we had for the assessment, and I was very pleased with the results of our practices. The makeup choices I made were quite difficult to complete and I was impressed the Matida was able to put my ideas onto my face. I was happy with the application of the design and she did well to do each part of the makeup in stages, this enabled her to complete on time and remember the process we talked through. Towards the end of the assessment, I could see Matida was feeling the pressure and she was disappointed with the end result of the lips, she first did a good job to get the shape of my lips right, but after applying more product, it smudged onto the white areas. She managed to fix the problem before the time ran out but she would have liked to have more time to perfect it. 

Peer review:
Matilda worked hard to execute my design as close as possible to the face chart I made, and to my ideas we had discussed. She took time out of her routine to practice on me, so she and I felt confident during the assessment. I was happy with the commitment she had towards this assessment, as she would always make herself available to practice and go over new additions to my design. This made me feel confident, and encouraged me work as equally hard on her design for me. 

Although my design took close to the time we had, Matida didn't need to rush or feel as though time was gaining on her. Toward the end, she felt as though she has made a mistake on the lip design, she was able to recover from this and improve on the lips, but she still felt as if that part of the design had let her down. Although this happened, I loved the finish look and it looked the same as when we had practiced, I think the time element of the assessment built the pressure and made her feel more tense at the end. 

Health and safety: 
Matida reviewed my skin type and came to the conclusion that I had dry skin on my nose but normal skin overall on my cheeks, forehead and nose, this helped her to know how much moisturiser to put on my skin and what cleanser and toner to use. She also reviewed whether my skin had any contraindications, and came to the conclusion that no contractions needed to be put in place. All brushes used in the application were cleaned, using brush cleaner and were given a shampoo before hand, this ensured the makeup would be applied cleanly with no cross contamination. 

 

Evaluation of timed assessment, in the role of the artist

Evaluation 

Artist: Partner
Designer: Rebecca Southerden

For this design I used:

• Cleanser, toner and moisturiser
• Satin primer, Illamasqua 
• White base mixed with super colour. Kryolan and Illamasqua
• black super colour, Kryolan
• black powder, Illamasqua 
• Silver metallic palette, Illamasqua 
• white powder, Illamasqua 
• translucent powder, Illamasqua 
• foundation brush, Kabuki brush, blending sponge, small angled brush, eyebrow and eye lash wand     

At the beginning of this project I was excited to find out that I would be working on the Elizabethans. Finding out more about the hair makeup ideals practiced and created by Queen Elizabeth I was interesting, and opened my eyes to be more creative with makeup while working with my partner. I liked researching into the different makeups used on the people of this era, and the contemporary interpretations of this in films and television shows.

  

I found my partner's makeup design practice helped me a lot during this assessment, as I was confident in the end application. My partner and I took time out of lessons to go over any problems we had with the design, and to add any improvements, I enjoyed practicing with my partner as she is easy and fun to work with. 

Because her design is so striking, black and white contrast, I wanted to get the separation lines between the colours perfect, this took a lot of time as I found it difficult to make each side perfectly symmetrical. After discussion and practice, we decided a stencil would be best to make the lines as symmetrical as possible. I was pleased with the end result of the edges of the design; around the hair line and the neck line, as I didn't get the makeup in the hair and the lines were straight. I found it easy to work with my partner as she encouraged me while practicing and made me feel confident in executing her design. 

Peer review from Matida:

On Monday my partner created my make-up design which I overall felt went quite well. I feel that we spent enough time practicing my design in and out of practical sessions, and my design developed as we practiced. When we first practiced my design, I was happy with the outcome my partner had created but it became obvious that creating the clean, precise and straight lines in my monochrome makeup look was difficult. Because of the black and white colours in my look, the line that separated these two colors from my lip, had to be very clean and precise which was difficult to create free hand so any mistake made would show up. 

To my partners best efforts, she could not create the perfect line I wanted free hand, so we both agreed that a stencil of the shape I wanted would be much more practical and save a lot of time. In response to this I created a stencil for my partner and explained how to use it, she practiced this before the assessment in our practical session and it was very successful. I feel that my partner listened to my ideas well and created the base and shape of my design well, I have always had confidence that my partner could create my design the way I wanted. Although, when we first practiced she followed my design correctly creating my desired base and eyes, but she did not create the lip shape exactly how I wanted. In response to this I explained to her again the shape I wanted and showed her so that she understood better what I meant. Because of situations like that I felt that our communication was very good because we always made sure that we understood each other properly.