Practical - Halloween Sugar Skull

Health & Safety: Apply apron round the neck of the model to protect clothes from makeup. 
Secure the hair away from the face using clips/pins.
Run a consultation to ask about any allergies/medications/contraindications.
Ensure hands are washed thoroughly and all cuts are covered. 
Products Used:

• Metal Spatula and Palette
• Foundation Brush
• Small Angled Brush
• Flat Concealer Brush 
• Thin Eyeliner Brush 
• Disposable Makeup Sponges
• Illamasqua Matte Primer
• Illamasqua Skinbase Foundation - White
• Kryolan Supracolour - Black, Blue, White
• Illamasqua Translucent Powder 
• Triangular Powder Puff

Process of Creating a Sugar Skull

1. Ensure the models faced has been fully cleansed, toned and moisturised. 
2. Apply a matte primer to the whole face.
3. Taking Illamasqua Skinbase foundation in white and a disposable makeup sponge, apply a liberal even layer all over the face to create a solid white base. 
4. Using a small angled brush and the blue kryolan supracolour outline the shapes on the face required to create skull such as hollowing the cheeks, sculpting the chin and around the eyes. 
5. Taking a flat concealer brush and another disposable makeup sponge push black supracolour into the eye sockets, chin and cheekbones, blend out into the blue to create depth. 
6. Using a thin eyeliner brush and black supracolour draw out the skeleton shape on the nose and fill in the lines. 
7. Taking the same brush and black colour draw a cobweb onto the forehead and create a tooth/skeletal outline on the lips/mouth. 
8. Powder the face with translucent setting powder to set the makeup.

Reflection on Class
Due to the creative nature of this class I found it just that little bit more enjoyable but also challenging. The process of creating a sugar skull design fully challenged our ability to produce work that was symmetrical on each side of the face, this was something that we had not fully focused on before in our practical studies and therefore to achieve this is required a higher level of focus and concentration to detail that we had previously focused on. Overall I felt I did well with this look an din class was happy with the level of symmetry shown within my design. However once photographed it became apparent that elements such as the cobweb and the nose were not perfectly symmetrical and would have to be developed on within future projects. By comparing photographs with real lift it makes you aware of how much attention you have to pay to the work you are creating to create a symmetrical makeup look.