Preparation. . .

So during the progression towards my final shoot, I took a few images on my phone for my blog and to just for my keeps sake. This is by far my favorite as I feel that you can really see the different shades on the eyes and the contoured and highlighted cheeks, plus Lauren naturally has amazing eyes and this really shows it. . .

The image below shows Lauren before the first shoot for the first look. For this I didn't want the make-up to be too heavy as this was the more 'natural', day-time look so wanted to keep it quite neutral. With the image on the right, I think you can clearly see the finger wave technique I did using the Babyliss tongs which turned out great!

For the 2nd image, as Lauren had about an inch of root, with her natural hair color being a dirty blonde, I thought to put my fine art background in good use as Sue my tutor said, paint onto the hair to really add extra depth to the wave. So using the grey from my SuperColor Palette and with a brush, I added a tad of water and painted onto the front of Lauren's hair line to enhance the waves to shape her face and onto the first few top waves. Doing this technique really shaped her face and brought my attention to the eyes I thought with the contrasting shades.

The final image below here is before the second shoot. I think in this image you can really see the detail of painting in the hair line and the top of the waves plus also one of the 2 headbands I made for my shoots. I decided to keep the hair throughout all 3 looks because when Lauren's hair it was the perfect length for it to be waved, unlike if I straightened it, it would be slightly too long for the classic 1920s bob look and this wouldn't of been as effective I don't think.

This was taken during the 3rd shoot, but as I wanted this look to be my head shot you wouldn't be able to see the detail of the headband. So here is one of my favorite pictures from the shoot because I think with the position of the Lauren's head with her looking down, deep into the camera, kind of shows the story that she once had everything, and now it all seems to be crumbling. She has just killed someone and she is going through all these different emotions thinking what to do next. I like as well the fact that you see her tears and smudged make-up from distress, yet the contrast with the glitzy head piece. You would think that someone with that kind of money able to afford head pieces like that wouldn't have a reason to cry.