Practical Experiments and Research- style (4) ♥

Hair style Influences

These are just images of hair styles that I found on www.google.com. I wanted to see the different popular hair styles around at the moment and these celebrity images have sure give me some ideas for my own hair style designs. I thought it would be useful to focus on celebrity hair styles instead of ordinary hair styles because these will be professional looks and more or less perfect and so this will have a slight glamorised approach to them. As I am quite creative, it is easy for me to recreate hair styles that I see so I can maybe take one of these hair styles and create it in a similar way but interpret it into my own style.

Makeup Influences

i-D Magazine- The Visionary Issue NO.133

Photographer- Craig McDean

Makeup- Pat Mcgrath

Styling- Edward Enninful

Model- Sarah Murray

October 1994

I was focusing on the makeup in this image. The eyes appear quite smoky even though it is a natural pose and photograph. Everything else is so simply that's why the eye makeup may seem to stand out clear from everything else in the image.

i-D Magazine- The Underground Issue NO.134

Model- Bridget Hall

Photographer- Steven Klein

November 1994

This front cover is overpowering with colour and style. The eye makeup is very persistent in the frame but instead of me just focusing on the eye makeup, this shows off the hair style and the clothing and not forgetting the cocky over-exaggerated pose. This is something I am drawn to the most for some reason, I just love the layout of the cover, it is massively eye-catching.

i-D Magazine- The White Issue NO.203

Cover Model- Luciana Curtis

Photographer- Kayt Jones

November 2000

I am so influenced by this style of makeup. I was drawn in as soon as I glanced at this front cover. I quite like the way the darker shade of makeup is outlining the top of her eye lid and flicks out lower near her eye with the pink colour dominant in the middle. This still has a slight smoky effect but it includes colour to make the makeup look visually exciting.

The Face Magazine NO. 85

pg 101

Photographer- Ellen Von Unwerth

October 1995

This image is quite seductive from the way this model is posed and from her facial expressions shown. I am most interested by the makeup to be honest... I am a fan of flicks anyway but even more so with this image because they extend the shape of her eyes and give a smoky approach to the image.

The Face Magazine- NO 85

Photographer- Ellen Von Unwerth

Styling- Cathy Kasterine

Model- Raina at Ford NYC

Makeup- Kay Montano for smile

October 1995

I chose this to include within my research because I like the way the eyes are not too striking with makeup but have this smoky look that seems to work quite well within the image. By having her other eye covered, this puts all attention on the eye that is showing which enhances the appearance of the makeup. The eye is the main focus of the image and if the model was posed in a different way and the other eye had been uncovered, maybe this would loose all attention off the makeup in the frame.

Experimenting with my model Charlotte- Focusing on the Makeup style and Hair style.

I have uploaded some more contact prints to help me figure out which photographs are the most successful from what I have taken. I quite like each image here, although they aren't big enough on the contact prints, I am going to upload the images that I feel will be useful for planning my final shoots and display them below...

Focusing on the hair style

This hairstyle is one of my favourites. I tried to back-comb all of the front part of Charlotte's hair so it looked really messy but still glamorous. I have completely back-combed all the back and clipped it to give it this nest look. I am thinking about using this hair style within one of my fashion shoots because I feel that it would fit in well with the theme I am trying to portray. I thought of this hair style myself, I have only had influence from the back-combed look but this show's my own style and creativity. I think when the makeup is properly finished and the clothing is on, this hair style will complete this glamorous but yet grungy look.

I found a similar hair style to this on the Internet and I was really influenced in using this idea within my shoots because I feel that it would look really effective with the grungy style location as my background. I thought this was quite a cute hippy look but still has this back-combed appearance to it which makes it seem scruffy and messy. I took this idea and made it into my own, Charlotte wasn't too keen on the idea although I am rather fond of it. If I manage to create something that relates better to my project then I won't consider using this within my final shoots.


This was quite a fun hair style to create, we had some laughs when styling it. This is slightly similar to the above hair style although I have taken the hair from the bottom and clipped it to the middle whereas the above hair style was just clipped to make a messy nest at the back. Even though I like this hair style, I believe that there have been stronger designs that I have come up with for this project and so for this reason I probably won't use this for my final fashion shoots. I still think the front back-combed quiff looks funks and quirky so I shall take this into consideration when finalising my designs.

I was going for more of a hippy cool casual look for this hair style. I wanted to experiment with a different style although still have this back-combed feel to it. I think this style would only look right within my shoots with someone with longer hair and I have actually created this style for my model Becky which seems to appear more effective. With shorter hair, I think it is best sticking with full on back-combed hair and maybe a few clips here and there to create a style like the first few I have tested out for Charlotte.

Focusing on the Makeup Style

For the makeup, I have focused on using the eye-liner to create quite a funky but elegant look. I have experimented with both black and blue eye-shadow to see the difference between these smokey makeup styles. I am really interested in using the eye-liner like it is displayed on the last photograph experiment, the long line flicks give the impression that the eyes are much fuller and wider. Even though people normally use black eye-shadow to create a smokey appearance, I feel that the blue colour still works just as effective and actually brings some colour into the image instead of a dull black/ grey colour. I shall have to take this on board when focusing on the makeup for my final shoots.