5 T H S H O O T - E N V Y

10th April
My Envy shoot is one that I have been the most excited about! My model Elise is a good friend of mine and is also my housemate, she has modelled for me before and for this look I thought her face would be perfect for it. For the beauty look I created quite a strong eye design in contrast to natural skin to make the eyes and the green stand out more. Elise has stunning long hair, so when we started shooting I think the best images were when her hair was pulled over to one side to show bare shoulder which made the image seem a lot more elegant.

For the hair this was the hardest transition from beauty to avant garde for me as this one of the most intricate hair designs and it was all my models hair as opposed to using props or hair sheets. I had practised this design before and I made a note on how long it took me so I was on quite a tight time schedule, as I had to complete the make-up and shoot within an hour and a half. To start off I had to section Elise’s hair and even this proved to be challenge as her hair is so long and so thick, so this took longer than I thought and then I had to crimp the hair. I background each section and then crimped the hair and sprayed with hair spray as when brushed out, this gives the hair more volume and easier to create structure. When the hair was fully crimped and prepared it was quite quick to shape the hair, after endless amounts of clips and hairspray, and then all that was left was to run the straighteners along the edges to create a sharp, crisp line. Once the hair was finished, I noticed Elise had quite a lot of baby hairs along her hair line and as the hair designs had a lot of curves on in it, I thought a good thing to do would be to run gel through the baby hairs and curl them onto her skin. I am so happy I did this as it really helped the overall look and it gave it something different than what the other looks had, that extra polish.