how to prepare for assesments.

When assessments are coming up in college we know well in advance. When it comes to preparing we need to know what the brief is, and to research make up looks for this so that we have a reference to work from. Then its practice, practice, practice to make sure we know how to apply the make up to create the look and also the products that were using give the correct effect.

My time so far at James Watt!

So far at college I have really enjoyed my time here. At the beginning I felt that I was out of my depth, and didn't have the confidence to achieve what I wanted to. However, over time, with the help from the teachers and class mates, I have slowly built my confidence and knowledge to feel good about what I am doing and what I would like to achieve. The college have been great in catering for our needs with the facilities available. The people in my class are great, we all get along which I think is important because I feel comfortable in class and makes working and learning easier.

CFE and my course.

The course that we are doing is very much a people based course, where we have to work with different people, from all walks of life, and we have to insure that we are confident, professional, caring and understanding of other people and there needs. with each class, special effects, hairdressing, character make up and wigs, they all tie in closely to create an over all look which is important to the industry that we are going into. From this it shows that the CFE is important to obtain as it will hopefully give us the knowledge together with the skills learnt in this course to be successful in our professional lives, and not only that, socially we will be well equipped for life in general.

CFE

This is what I found out about the curriculum for excellence, and its from there website, which is what we aiming for during our course.

The 3-18 curriculum aims to ensure that all children and young people in Scotland develop the attributes, knowledge and skills they will need to flourish in life, learning and work.
The knowledge, skills and attributes learners will develop will allow them to demonstrate four key capacities  to be successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors.

The four main factors for the CFE is:

• Successful learners
• Confident individuals
• Responsible citizens
• Effective contributors

Halloween make up

With halloween just passed, this week and last week in college we have been re-creating halloween looks for the scary season. here are three that I would like to do and how I would re-create them.

The corpse bride is a Tim Burton film and the make up for this look would be a blue grease paint base, and I would mix a bit of shimmer to give a glossy look. Then I would highlight and shade with different blues to create a dramatic look and then on the eyes, put dark blue eyeshadow and line the eye with liner. For the lips I would mix black and blue together to create a "cold" look.

The second look I would create is a skeleton, and there a different looks that you could create for this. firstly i would put a white base on the skin and then round the eyes, cheeck bones and round the jaw line I would shade with black, and then to finish the look I would add teeth over the lines and out to give a scary feel to the make up.

The third look I would go for is a witch, which is the most popular look at halloween. For this I would start with a green base, add black to shade and white to highlight and then create wrinkles and age the skin. From this I would maek the eyebrows longer and thicker and put dark eye make up round the eyes and out, and finally add some red lips to create the witch.