Practising Continuity

We were given the task of creating either; a bold eye, a bold lip or a black eye, which we would then have to take off and replicate again to see if we could. 

I chose to do a black eye as I didn't get the chance to do one in class. Below is the photo that I used for inspiration for my eye. 

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(Accessed: 18 February 2016).

MY FIRST ATTEMPT AND CONTINUITY PHOTOS 

I scraped out the colours that I thought I would need into my palette, taking pictures of the amounts- I did take more than I actually used on the face and just used the left-overs for the second application. 

 Firstly I applied the yellow from the SupraColour palette under the eyes and into the inner corner. So that the colour wasn't so opaque I blended it out and away with both my fingers and a brush so make it a more subtle colour on the skin. 

I then mixed a small bit of the orange in with the yellow and applied a thin layer of this over the yellow, concentrating on the area just underneath the eye. 

I then proceeded to add in the lighter red on the lower lash line along with defining the puffiness underneath the eye. I did have to blend out the colour on the lower lash line so that it wasn't a complete block and looked more natural. 

The next step was to add the darker red to the parts where I already applied the light red, and then I  mixed a  tiny amount of the black SupraColour in with the darker red just to add even more definition to the bruise. 

The final step was to add Vaseline to the eye to give it a shiny effect. 

The Final Eye. 

I'm quite proud of how this turned out, especially as I have never done a black eye before. One element that I didn't like was the colour of the yellow- in the Kryolan bruise palette the yellow is much more mustard toned which I think would've looked a lot better. 

THE REPLICATION

This is my replication of the eye. Although it definitely isn't perfect I think that it is close to the original. The shape and colours need to be brought down a bit more on the face and rounded off more  at the bottom. Furthermore the orange colour right under the eye needed to be a lot brighter. 

My model was quite squirmy as he has not had makeup applied before so he was finding it an odd process- this made me rush the second black eye slightly as he was feeling uncomfortable having the makeup applied (not an allergy to the products, just a discomfort to the unknown process of having makeup applied).