A year at Uni - Studying Makeup for Media and Performance

I am about to enter my second year at university where I am studying a degree in Makeup for Media and Performance. This year was all about experimenting, learning our way and understanding the degree, the real work starts this September - wish me luck. I finished my first year with a 2:1 which I was very happy with :) I thought it would be nice to show you a few images of what we have been up to, and if any of you have a strong passion for makeup maybe this is a degree for you?

Sam xxx

 The result of a rainy Sunday afternoon with my housemate...

 Inspired by a close up of a toads eye...

 Knotted this mustache hair by hair, took 4 weeks and a lot of patience 

 Bald Cap - Not perfect, this was my first attempt...

 Hair weaving, this is so time consuming, but I found it so fun and relaxing, you weave a single hair at a time into the string - not for everyone...

 1960s inspired..

 Bullet wound 

 Burn from the BBQ... Hence the BBQ in the background...

 A burn for an 18 Certificate film - BBQ explosion...

 BBQ burn for stage - I used glitter as when the light is on it, it will be visible from the back row of a big theatre ...

 For our brief we were given Beatrix Potter characters - mine Mrs Ladybird - and we had to use inspiration from the Muppet's to create a design suitable for a stage production...

 A fashion shoot I worked on in my own time... Inspired by the sea..

  Our last project was for a music video in the 18th century, hence the white and big hair...

Production I worked called The Threepenny Opera. It was very futuristic and in the final play the makeup was a lot stronger and more bold! Such good experience!!