WEARING MAKEUP AS AN ASPIRING MAKEUP ARTIST

So as you can probably guess from this blog I am an aspiring Makeup Artist.

Something I think about quite a lot is how often I am actually wearing and experimenting with makeup. I am a naturally lazy person so I don't like to take time out of my day to do extra things every day, so most days I go to work sans makeup. And the days that I do bother to put makeup on are special occasions at work, if we have a dress up day if I know that the big boss is coming in etc.

But recently I've been thinking a lot about the fact that I don't wear makeup a lot. I wonder if people take me seriously when I tell them that this is what I want to do, or do they think I'm just another white girl with dreams of being Instagram famous? I really don't want people to think of me this way, because this is a pretty serious thing for me.

Another thing that has been kind of bothering me lately is how I don't experiment with a lot of makeup. I've pretty much stuck to the same things for the past couple of years. I want to take more steps outside my comfort zone. I've sort of started by buying my first lipgloss in about 8 years. Which makes me nervous, because I haven't worn lipgloss in so long I'm scared, but I want to love it so bad, so that it will make me want to step even further outside of my comfort zone!

I think that small steps are the best way to go right now. Maybe if I start to get into the habit of doing my brows everyday or putting on mascara, eventually I'll want to go that extra step and do some crazy eyeshadow just to run down to the shops for some milk! I think that taking this step into becoming comfortable with putting on makeup every day will also help me to feel a bit more comfortable, in my body as a whole. Because when I do take that time out of my day to glam myself up, I feel about 100x more confident, my posture gets better, and I just have a brighter outlook on life (most days, there are days when I know that I will feel more comfortable without makeup on, but that is a blog post for another day)

SFX GONE WRONG

 So as many of you know I love to do special effects makeup, but alas I have had no formal training and everything that I have learnt has been from YouTube tutorials and pictures on the internet 

Because of this my learning process is hard and slow and things go wrong more often than not.

          Take my latest "creation" for example. I did this look using Gelatin, but unfortunately due to me rushing through the making of the Gelatin the mixture came out super runny and would not set into something that I could work with.

Not wanting to give up, i made some prosthetics using clay and the Gelatin and let them set thinking it would solve every thing. Then I ran into a second problem. I wanted to use spirit gum to initially glue the pieces down before I built up around them. But the glue was not having a bar of it. it basically just dried up and slipped right off the back of the prosthetics not going tacky at all (and to add salt to the wound I dropped my bottle of spirit gum after this wasting most of it and ruining my floor)

So I gave up on the spirit gum and realised that the pieces would hold on enough until I could build up around them.

I began to build up slowly with the liquid Gelatin I had on me, and everything was running smoothly until I ran into yet another problem. The Gelatin in the prosthetics was cold because I had, had it in the freezer whilst the liquid was at room temperature by this point. So the liquid was melting away at the prosthetic pieces.

Again not wanting to give up because i had a ton of Gelatin left I kept building up what I could silently screaming every time something went wrong. Eventually I got to a point where I could start painting. And even though the paint fixed it a little bit, I still pretty much hated it, but it's all part of the learning experience so I posted it anyway (heavily edited of course)

The only good things in this look in my opinion was the palm of my hand which was done with a super thin layer of Gelatin picked apart and irritated to look like burnt skin, but you can barely see it in the photo and that makes me sad.

Anyway, just wanted to make this post to say that we can all learn from our mistakes. I learnt a whole lot about Gelatin and spirit gum that I can know and avoid for next time!


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