Little Doll MUA ♡: The New Elizabethans

Who Are You?

Out of this course and this blog I'm a regular just turned twenty year old. Home is Worthing a town about 10 miles from Brighton, so from Southampton where I'm currently residing I'm only a hour and a half away from the comforts of home.
I love art the openness and un-restricting essence off it all. just finished a art foundation. I like being creative and using my hands. I went from my 3D pathway deciding I wanted to go down and do a degree in the field of Make up & Hair styling. I started creating face charts and painting styles onto them I also started creating masks and made a few with a range of materials.
I enjoy film, sticking to one genre seems boring to me so I like to go for each range, my favourite film of all time would be The Goonies. I've loved it since I was little.
I'm a vegetarian, which no that doesn't mean I eat fish, I just like animals to much to want to eat them. Their innocent.

The Project 'The New Elizabethans'

It was the beginning of year 1/3 the project brief was given to us last week with the title of 'New Elizabethans'. The unique look of the Elizabethan era would completely juxtapose our own. pale skin and high foreheads were seen as beautiful. Queen Elizabeth was seen as a true beauty, she was a Megan fox of her day.
The knowledge I know from that time period is only the sort of thing I learnt from days out with my parents and school, guess I've been lucky enough to go on a number of historical trips that where significant monarchs and lords & Ladies lived.
I enjoy painting of that era too especially the regal ones of the wealthy model covered in their prized possessions, jewels, rich coloured clothing and structured hair.
We will take our influences from art and movies inspired by that era such as the one we started watching "Elizabeth - The Golden Age" with Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush.

The actual project itself is our own takes on that period but with a fresh feel to them, we will also be looking into fashion campaigns and seeing how the period inspired what is captured within clothing and hair. Vivienne Westwood was shown to us from photographs of her own personal style to also the way she designs her clothes for the catwalk.

I can't wait to research more into the matter and to make face templates with whats in my head. Looking into old historical books on what kind of pallets of colours to use and the processes of makeup and hair.
We had our first few lessons within hair these last few weeks; I'm looking forward to being from the bottom with that and being creative with hair in general, my knowledge is not the best. plaiting, buns and other designs will begin for us.