'Indentity'

In many aspects this dissertation is about self expression, identity and what influences people to create new personas through the use of make-up and music, but for me I am focusing on the 80s. Which brought me to think about when I used to model for Toni&Guy and Saks, this developing into a love and passion for make-up and the art of hair.

 

Back in the hair modelling days

 

From this I wanted to start working behind the scenes of the shoots instead of being in front of the camera...resulting in me studying this course at Solent. How the use of hair styling and make-up can create new imagery and pieces of art work that has never been seen before excites me so I want to dig down to the roots of the 80s and investigate what was the first KEY point that kicked off peoples creativity. I love the use of products to define/cover or even highlight certain features of your face can change somebodies perception of you, the way you act and carry yourself. 

My 'Face'

 I always jokingly say how I 'paint' on my face, as some days I feel like I literally do draw on a new face. With the essentials being to contour my entire face but most importantly, eyebrows! I have repeatedly been complimented on my eyebrows and I feel after YEARS of practice iv finally gotten them right. As well as brows, thick black eyeliner and eyelashes are a key trait of mine, along side red lipstick. I have a variety of shades but always rely on a nice red lippy for the day. When I do my makeup routine in the morning I don't even give it a second thought as to what products/shades I am going to wear as I know what suits me best and this now....has developed into my 'identity'. Without even realizing, and this is something that I find quite interesting as for me one of the reasons why I have this look is from the compliments and reactions I get from it, so for me this is something that I want to look into for my investigation. Maybe one of the reasons why people rebelled from the social norm in the 1980s was down the reactions they used to get and how this extra, not necessarily positive, but attention is what people craved.

(close up pictures of my makeup)