>Those who follow me on Twitter, might know that I have been a model for an examing make-up artist yesterday and today. Yesterday we practised, today ‘my’ student had her final exam. I’ll start with the good news: she graduated with a 9 out of 10! Congratulations to you! – for privacy reasons, I decided not to post name/photo of the make-up artist student.
Last week this girl asked me whether I wanted to model for her. Her theme was ‘fall’ and I think I don’t need to explain why she thought I suited that theme? I’ll give you one hint: hair!
What was totally wrong from me, was that I thought I was going to sit in that chair, she put me some mascara on, some concealer, some lipstick and I was okay. Well, I didn’t even thought any concrete thing, but my expectations were like… ‘light?’. Don’t know about any good other word. I just never thought about how a make-up artist exam would look like, before.
To be short: I didn’t expect this task would take me almost two full days, which wasn’t really on my planning and freaked me out a bit – I am a tiny little autistic at this point.
Then I am a hell in keeping my mouth shot, and this was my ul-ti-mate test. I didn’t even need to keep my mouth shot líterally, but also very, very sure fíguratively! Namely, I found out soon that I could have been replaced by any person, I was just a face with the right hair. This may be véry childish, but I felt so stupid about it.
Then, my personal opinion was that the leaves would have suited my hair and the “hair leaves” more, if they would have been a little bit more brown/green. They kind of looked like fire to me now.
However, I want to do a big add to this post! On Twitter I told my followers that I thought I could have done it better. This was exaggerated, definitely. I didn’t ever make a creation like this, so I can’t even know. People were telling me I shouldn’t undervalue, as using make-up on somebody else is much different from yourself and I totally agree on that (I make-up my little sister every now and then)! That is why I want to take my words back; it was an expression of the frustration in the rest of this post.
What wasn’t on my schedule, but what I liked was that I had a very good chance to have a close look at what make-up artist education looks like. Namely, it is something I’d love to do at some point in my life. However, I was a bit disappointed. There was so little ‘open minded’ thinking involved: all glamour-look-exam-models had black, smokey eyes and red lipstick! Since when is only that thing glamorous? Also the organisation was really bad. As a model I kind of had ‘no rights’. I had to fight for a little break with some tea and a biscuit in between the full afternoon of ‘no moving’ and at the end I couldn’t even hear whether my student had graduated for the examination! Also there was nó-one, neither a student or a teacher or I don’t care, who asked me what Í thought I looked like. That may be my personal frustration, I understand it wasn’t important in this case, but I thought it would have been a logical one. I would have loved to answer it, at least! Besides my back really hurts because I needed to sit straight for hours, with almost no support.
I’ll end positive: I think that ‘my’ student’ really improved from the practising on Monday to the ‘real thing’ on Tuesday, and I think that her look was one of the best of the class too. Though. Also, I think that she improved her make-up by the entourage she created, with the plastic leaves for example.
I hope you like a bunch of photos! There’s no editing involved on purpose: you would see the absolute, real, true look. By the way: these are the first taken with my new camera: Canon EOS 550D. You like? I do!
I am curious: did you ever do a modelling task like this and do you like this make-up look?
