Editorial Look

I'm incredibly pleased with my Editorial look.

I was feeling quite apprehensive about my wig as I felt that it wasn't as "full" as I'd hoped it would be, however I'd taken into account my model's beautiful long hair. I decided against hiding her hair in the wig, I crimped my model's hair and back combed it it add lots of volume and texture. I pinned the wig up at the back so that the natural hair was more visible. This change in the hair is the only change that I've made.

Finishing touches - Editorial Look

I decided on the hair colour for my Editorial look, Instead of opting for the traditional black hair that an Inuit/Eskimo would have naturally I decided to go to the opposite end of the spectrum and went for a light blond wig. I chose to do this because I felt that 1, it would give the look a much more contemporary edge and 2, it will add to the snow and ice theme/colour palette of the look.

I went for a wig that didn't have a particular style to it, I want it to be quite natural so that I could style it myself.

I've added beads to the hair to represent the icicles, I've decided against using the sugar however because it wasn't very visible against the light colour of the hair.

finishing touches - Catwalk look

I'm going to add some small red beads to the chin along side the thin red tattoo lines, I think this will give the look more depth and texture. It also relates to scarification and the concept of attaching things to the skin or scarring the skin to make it rise and bubble up. I'm going to add a little brown around the eyes to pull it all together. With the hair I want it to just be off the face and quite "fluffy" and "furry" like an animals.

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.