Ageing Hands/Skin

Equipment:
-Kryolan foam barrier (https://uk.kryolan.com/product/pro-shield-barrier-foam-50-ml)
-Sponge
-Old age stipple (https://uk.kryolan.com/product/old-age-stipple-50-ml)
-Mixing bowl

Step by step:
1. Shake the foam barrier and put some on the back of your hand. Then rub a small amount of this on the back of the model's hand.
2. Pour some old age stipple into a bowl.
3. Stretch out the area that you want to be wrinkled and keep it stretched out until the stipple is completely dry and enough coats have been added.
4. Using a sponge, pat the old age stipple onto the area you want.
5. Use a hair dryer, on the cool setting, to dry the old age stipple more quickly.
6. Add as many layers as desired.

I am really happy with the outcome of this as I think it looks a lot more natural than if I went to draw on the wrinkles. I would obviously need to cover up the colour with a base that matches the rest of the hand to make it blend in and look realistic. One of my friends did a much thinner layer of the old age stipple and her outcome didn't look as natural as mine, so I will therefore remember to use a decent amount of it and build it up to get my desired effect. This technique can also be used on the face, but you would have to be very gentle when stretching out the skin. 

Theatrical Ageing

Equipment:
-Black stipple sponge
-Orange stipple sponge
-Supra colour palette
-Foundation brush
-Base palette
-White skin base
-Big fluffy brush
-Small angled brush
-Disposable mascara wand
-Kryolan Tooth Enamel (https://uk.kryolan.com/product/tooth-enamel#nicotine)
-Cotton bud

Step by step:
1. Add a moisturiser to the skin to make the grease based products easier to blend over the top.
2. Add a foundation colour that is slightly paler than the natural skin colour. Use a foundation brush to apply this. Also add this colour over the lips.
3. Use a big fluffy brush to buff this colour into the skin so it looks as natural as possible.
4. Mix the yellow, blue and red from the supra colour palette to get a brown shade. You can also make this colour slightly more grey if you wanted with a bit of white added.
4. Ask the model to make really exaggerated facial expressions so that lines begin to show.
5. Take some of the brown colour on a small angled brush and lightly trace these lines all over the face and blend, where needed, with your fingers.
6. Also contour with this colour to make the face look more hollowed out and blend it all over with your fingers.
7. Mix a tiny bit of yellow with the white colour to make an off white colour and brush it through the eyebrows with a mascara wand. Brush the hair backwards for a messy/bushy effect.
8. Add some of this off white colour to the eyelashes with the mascara wand.
9. Use a tissue to dry the tooth/teeth and then, with a cotton bud, add some of the Kryolan tooth enamel in nicotine where desired. Make sure the model doesn't close her mouth until this is dry.

Close-up

Front on comparison

I only did half of the face so that I could compare both sides and clearly see a before and after. I am really pleased with how it came out. I love the darkened eyes and exaggerated wrinkles and I think the nicotine coloured tooth works really well. However when I was experimenting with the makeup look, I felt like I needed to look more into how peoples faces change when they get older because I wasn't completely sure what I was trying to achieve. I think it will be beneficial to do some research into how old people look and what happens to their skin and features so that I can portray more realistic versions of ageing. Looking at this image alone, I think to improve it I should have added more lines around the mouth and emphasised the wrinkles around her eyes more. I am also not happy with the lines around her nose because they look really out of place. 

Early Victorian Hairstyles

Equipment:
-Tail comb
-Paddle brush
-Hair clips
-Hair grips
-Hair elastics
-Small curling tongs

Step by step:
1. Comb the hair on top of the head away from the face so that it is easier to make the parting straight.
2. Using the end of the tail comb, draw a straight line, from the nose backwards, to create a middle parting.
3. Starting from the top of the head, draw a straight line down to each ear so that the front half of hair is separated into two equal quarters.
4. I brush back the hair in the back section and tied it with a hair elastic.
5. I then split the ponytail into two sections and twisted them together into a bun.

Top view.

Side view.

One half of the head..
6. To create the look below, flatten the hair down until you reach the ear and then plait the hair flat to the side of the face.
7. Sweep the plait backwards and pin it to the bun at the back to secure it in place. Make sure you keep the plait untwisted and flat to the head.

Side view of the plait.

 Second half of the head..
8. I sectioned off a thin, long section from the front, clipped the ends into the curler tong and twisted it towards the head, making sure the curl goes towards the face.
Notes:
-Make sure you tuck the ends round the curling tong to get a smooth curl.
-Keep the curling wand facing up so that you can pull it out of the curl and bring the hair downwards.
-Start the curl further down the head so that the top part is flat and smooth.

Front view of how to hold the curling wand.

Side view of curls.

Front view of both sides done.

Side view of finished curls.

I am happy with how the plait along the side came out because the plait is very defined and neat, however to improve, I will next time make sure that the flat part of the hair is very flat against the head and that it is smooth and even. 

Half way through curling the hair I realised that I had curled a lot of the hair the wrong way, facing backwards. I therefore re-curled sections of the hair so that they were facing the right way. I will make sure to always double check which way I am curling the hair so I don't make this mistake again. I also noticed that the bottom of the curls looked messy and didn't follow the shape of the curl, I will therefore make sure that I tuck the very ends of the hair into the curling wand to finish the look of. When I first started curling, I was using short and thin sections, however I soon noticed that that was not the style that the Victorians went for, as they wanted thicker sausage curls instead. I also think that using a sneaky pin just above the curls would help flatten the top section down, so I may experiment with that next time. 

Consultation Notes

NAME: Anna Field
AGE: 18
HAIR TYPE:  Medium length, thin hair
COLOUR, NATURAL OR DYED: ombre from dark blonde to light blonde ends, dyed.
DRY/DAMAGED: not dry, but slightly damaged
SKIN TYPE: normal
SKIN TONE: yellow
EYE COLOUR/ SHAPE: blue, oval shape.
ALLERGIES/MEDICATION: —
CONTRAINDICATION: —
CONTRA-ACTION (e.g. piercings): Nose piercing, ears pierced.
NOTES: Wears contacts.

NAME: Liam Graham
AGE: 19
TYPE OF HAIR: Curly, thick, short back and sides, longer on top. 
NATURAL OR DYED: Natural colour
DRY/DAMAGED: Not dry or damaged.
SKIN TYPE: normal/oily, acne prone
SKIN TONE: yellow
EYE COLOUR/ SHAPE: hazel, oval shape.
ALLERGIES/MEDICATION: —
CONTRAINDICATION: —
CONTRA-ACTION (e.g. piercings):—
NOTES: —

NAME: Linda Mercer
AGE: 57
TYPE OF HAIR: Thick, straight, short 
NATURAL OR DYED: Natural colour
DRY/DAMAGED: Not dry or damaged.
SKIN TYPE: normal/combination
SKIN TONE: pink
EYE COLOUR/ SHAPE: brown, oval shape.
ALLERGIES/MEDICATION: —
CONTRAINDICATION: —
CONTRA-ACTION (e.g. piercings):—

NOTES: Mature skin