Illamasqua Lecture & Workshop

I don't really know where to begin with this Illamasqua talk, because it was so inspirational! We had three women from the Illamasqua team come in to talk to us about what they do & what our futures could hold, which was a bit overwhelming seeing as it was our first week of uni! They told us a bit about the company which I didn't already know. Illamasqua is an Independent British company that only uses synthetic brushes to avoid cutlery to animals & this also means that they have a cruelty free records. 

Charlotte, one of the make-up artists, gave us a demonstration of make-up. This make-up is what they have been currently using on the fashion walk at Sorapol. This was a very targeted fashion walk because it was with only females of a darker skin tone. I loved this because it shows how to work on a darker skin tone because it can sometimes be rather difficult. Charlotte then chose one of the girls in the lecture hall to have their make-up done in the style that she had just been doing on the professional models. These are a few pictures from the lecture;

These pictures show the model getting done up, the final outcome & also Charlotte's make-up table and the products she used. These are the products she used & what they were for;

Hydra Veil Primer to prep the skin

Honour & Navy Pencil for the colour in the eyes

From the Once Collection, Embellish which was buffed over the top of the honour & navy

Reflections Pallet, which gets the pot light effect in the corner of the eyes & really blows them out

Skin Base 18 for the darker skin tones that Illamasqua have to offer

Highlighter Brush to get the highlight glow down the centre of the face

Apocalips Lipstick. 

Illamasqua Workshop

I really enjoyed that workshop part of this because it meant that we could work closely with the Illamasqua team, instead of just listening to them, & actually use our kits for the first time! Which ofcourse we'd all been dying to do!
Our task was to get into teams of 2 or 3 and create a small pitch idea. We had only 15 minutes to create our make-up look & our pitch talk. I worked with Jay Kale & Naomi Parsons for this task. I was their model who they had to work one & this is the outcome;

Our pitch was 'This is Zora, an underwater alien creature who is starring in a short film called The Abyss'. We had so much fun doing this because it shows not only how good you work as a team but how creative you can be within just 15 minutes! I think we did well in this task and it made us closer as friends. We used a lot of green, blue & gold colours to create this image because it represented the sea colours that look like scales and also those of what we would believe an alien to look like.