Colour Theory Face Charts & Make-Up

Colour theories create a logical structure for colour. For example, if you had an assortment of fruits, you could organise them by colour & place them on a circle that shows the colours in relation to eachother. 

http://www.colormatters.com/color-and-design/basic-color-theory

A colour wheel or a colour circle is an abstract illustrative organisation of colour hues & a circle that shows the relationship between primary colours, secondary colours, & tertiary colours. 

How colour reacts in relation to other colours & shapes is a complex area of colour theory. Compare the contrast effects of different colour backgrounds for the same red square; 

Red appears more vibrant against a black background & somewhat duller against the white background. In contrast with orange, the red appears almost lifeless, this is because these colours are analogous. 

Analogous; Colours that are next to eachother on the colour wheel 

Complementary; Colours that are opposite eachother on the colour wheel

Achromatic; Black, white, grey & neutral colours Chromatic; The actual colours/ warm & cold colours

Monochromatic; All the shades within one colour - light to dark

Out of the five colour theories, Analogous, Complementary, Achromatic, Chromatic & Monochromatic , our task was to create two of these make-ups on a face chart & then two on a human face. This is how my face charts turned out; 

This is my achromatic face chart.

This is my monochromatic face chart. We also had to create a second monochromatic face chart to then apply to our models during our lesson with Kat. This is the my face chart I created & the make-up on the model, once it was completed;

I really like the outcome of my make-up that I produced on my model because it was the first real time of applying make-up professionally. I really enjoyed it & for a first attempt, I believe it came out looking good. Obviously now looking at it, I could have blended slightly more & also I could have made it slightly more even, but these are skills that I will pick up on over time. But I believe I did do a good job at this & I am more that happy with how it turned out in comparison to my face chart. 

I then had to create two looks on the models face. For this, I chose to do an analogue make-up & a complimentary make-up. This is the outcome of what I created;

This is my analogue make-up look, I used the colours pink & red as they are next to eachother on the colour wheel chart. I like how this has turned out because it does look rather natural & not over the top.

This make-up is my complimentary make-up look. For this, I used the colours purple & yellow. Again, I like how this turned out because even though these colours aren't natural colours, they still don't look over the top so it still works well for the way that I see it.