Editorial Face charts and experiments

Instead of using black for the tattoos on the face I've chosen white. I feel this look is based on the habitat of the Eskimo/Inuit. 

The blue I'm going to use is my pigment by Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics, it actually has quite a green shine/glow to it. I'm going to layer this with a golden shimmer to give it a warmer glow, like the sun is setting on the ice and sea. Also the glow will make the skin look very healthy.

Here are a couple of experiments.

In the first experiment photos the pigment looks quite purple, I think this is due to the lighting in the room I was in, however I still think it looks very effective.

First Experiment

Second 

I've added some white to the tips of the eyelashes, next time I want to add some white to the eyebrows.

I found a fantastic image of a man who's face is covered in frost. I might see if I can add some frost-like texture to the eyebrows and eyelashes, however I want it to be as safe as possible. I don't want sugar or fake snow falling into my model's eyes!!

I love the shape of the frost moving down the bridge of the nose!

Catwalk look - First draft moodboard

Here is a very rough draft of my mood board for the Catwalk look:

I want lots of fur to feature in this look. The idea I have is very simple, it involves only two colours, very healthy looking skin and lots of fur! I want the hair to almost resemble fur.

The contrast of the red on the white is supposed to represent the colour of blood on white snow. The tattooing is a tradition among many Eskimo/Inuit tribes. The tattoos wouldn't normally be red but because I wanted it to also represent blood, and the tattoo comes from the mouth, I feel that the tattoo serves two purposes; the traditional tattoo and blood from eating the raw animal. I am going to have my model wearing fur also because this is another product of an animal that an Eskimo/Inuit would use. 

My first go at the look (on myself) I really need to practice keeping the lines precise and thin. 

Creating Frosty looking hair

For my editorial look I want my model to have hair that looks like its covered in frost!

I found it a little difficult to create the look of frosty hair through drawing, this is the best I could do!

I went on to experiment with some sugar, fake snow and beads, using PVA glue as an adhesive.

Beading

This was pretty time consuming but I was very pleased with the results and definitely want to include this for the final piece. I'm going to have to buy a wig and bead the hair before hand otherwise I wont have enough time to shoot my image!

Starting with the thicker beads and moving down to smaller creates a lovely icicle effect.

Fake Snow

Putting the PVA on my fingers I lightly applied it to the tips of the hair and then poured the fake snow over the top.

I was quite happy with this effect, I wish the white was a little stronger but the texture works very well.

Sugar

I achieved this the same way I did with the Fake Snow

I'm SO happy with this effect. Definitely going to using all 3 techniques. I love how the sugar clings to a single hair, I think it looks exactly like frosty hair. However, I'm not entirely sure I want my final look to have black hair. I feel like going in the opposite direction and using blond hair will be more contemporary and unexpected. If the beads don't show up as much on the blond hair, I'm going to experiment with painting them with nail varnish!

Editorial look - mood board first draft

After gathering together some images that represent my Editorial look I've put a rough draft of the mood board together:

I've found a beautiful pigment by Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics that looks like the sun setting on the ice and water of the Arctic. This is the image used to advertise the pigment:

I've noticed that the skin of an Inuit is usually very beautiful and healthy, I want to use this pigment to not only represent the sun setting on the ice, the glow of the pigment will give the skin a healthy looking glow also.