Author: Anahita Mayekar

CONCEPT BOARD REFERENCES

Beauty By Us  20 Positive Morning Affirmations We Should All Say Daily – Beauty By Us. Available at: https://beautybyus.co/positive-daily-affirmations/ (Accessed: 6 April 2022)

Pinterest  11:11 on Twitter | Lightning photography, Nature photography, Sky aesthetic. Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/474144667023005319/ (Accessed: 6 April 2022)

PR EVENT REFERENCES

Beautysolutions Glam Station – BLACK Available at: https://www.beautysolutions.com.au/glam-station-black (Accessed 24 April 2022)

Diffordsguide  Smoky Whisky Sour Cocktail Recipe. Available at: https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/3525/smoky-whisky-sour (Accessed 24 April 2022).

Pinterest.  Pink Ombre Gift Bag $10.05 by cabgodfrey77 – #diy or #personalize | Gift bags diy, Gift bag, Diy bag. Available at: https://www.pinterest.ie/pin/pink-ombre-gift-bag-1005-by-cabgodfrey77-diy-or-personalize–596867756839941498/ (Accessed 24 April 2022)

Woman’s Day ( 2019) These Mimosas Will Be the Star of Your Weekend Brunch. Available at: https://www.womansday.com/food-recipes/food-drinks/g2235/brunch-mimosa-recipes/ (Accessed: 24 April 2022)

SHOOT 1 

Home Ideas HQ (2019) vanity room ideas 6 – Home Ideas HQ Available at: https://www.homeideashq.com/2017/01/24/12-fabulous-ideas-to-make-a-vanity-room-spectacular/vanity-room-ideas-6/ (Accessed: 30 April 2022)

Lauren, R Silver Tone Crystal Micro Pave Inlay Hoop Earrings Available at: https://www.fenwick.co.uk/women/accessories/jewellery/earrings/silver-tone-crystal-micro-pave-inlay-hoop-earrings/2530013817800.html (Accessed: 30 April 2022)

radvice best way to achieve a bouncy blowout look with lots of volume at the roots. hair type : wavy and slightly frizzy. hair cut : long layers Available at: https://www.reddit.com/r/femalehairadvice/comments/ope8vh/best_way_to_achieve_a_bouncy_blowout_look_with/ (Accessed: 30 April 2022)

Science (2015)Red Sky at Night: The Science of Sunsets. Available at: https://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/psychpedia/sadness (Accessed 30 April 2022).

Wong, A  Red Sky at Night: The Science of Sunsets. Science. Available at: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/131027-sunset-sky-change-color-red-clouds-science (Accessed 30 April 2022).

SHOOT 2

Boohoo BLACK CUT OUT TWIST DETAIL CROP TOP Available at: https://www.boohoo.com/cut-out-twist-detail-crop-top/FZZ35889.html (Accessed: 5 May 2022)

Flowerbx LILAC LILAC Available at: https://www.flowerbx.com/lilac-lilac (Accessed: 5 May 2022)

Nedis SmartLife Mood Light Available at: https://nedis.com/en-us/product/lighting/decorative-lighting/mood-lighting/550725535/smartlife-mood-light-wi-fi-round-diameter-200-mm-360-lm-rgb-warm-to-cool-white-2700-6500-k-5-w-glass (Accessed: 5 May 2022)

Pinterest Maddy’s Makeup In Euphoria May Be The Only Thing More Explosive Than the Season Finale Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/544724517431863830/ (Accessed: 5 May 2022)

Purewow The 15 Best Silk Sheets Money Can Buy Available at: https://www.purewow.com/home/best-silk-sheets (Accessed: 5 May 2022)

ZINE

Adobe Blue Gradient Available at: https://stock.adobe.com/uk/search/images?k=blue+gradient (Accessed: 20 May 2022)

Douglas, E pink and orange butterflies Poster Available at: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/pink-and-orange-butterflies-by-emilyyyxdouglas/48740104.LVTDI (Accessed: 20 May 2022)

Istockphoto Orange Gradient Available at: https://www.istockphoto.com/search/2/image?phrase=orange+gradient (Accessed: 20 May 2022)

Narongsak, E Rainbow pastel gradient And a combination of colors that are soft, subtle and harmonious Of beautiful pink, orange, green, yellow, blue with purple on the background of the sky with smooth clouds. Available at: https://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/pink-and-orange-butterflies-by-emilyyyxdouglas/48740104.LVTDI (Accessed: 20 May 2022)

Pinterest Available at: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/641974121875606623/ (Accessed: 20 May 2022)

Vecteezy Green Gradient Available at: https://www.vecteezy.com/free-vector/green-gradient (Accessed: 20 May 2022)

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ZINE PROPOSAL

Growing up in Mumbai, Bollywood culture has been a big part of my life growing up. Seeing the glitz and glamour of all these Bollywood stars combined with my mother’s profession in dermatology sparked my passion for makeup and prosthetics. 

My zine will be very personal to me. It is about my story of growth – coming from a broken family and moving to London alone at the age of eighteen to now being in a happy and content place in my life. Throughout my life, I have always hidden my emotions, even whilst I was struggling. Initially after moving to London, I was struggling mentally without any support as I did not have friends in my accommodation which made me feel lonely and depressed as I am naturally a social butterfly and an extreme extrovert. However now, I am happy to say that I have found a supportive circle of friends that make me feel loved and at home. I will be making this zine as an expression of my journey from depression to my current self which is happy and content.

My zine is titled “Metamorphosis” because I feel makeup is about transformation and concealing your flaws. For such a long time, I had become so used to hiding every negative emotion I felt. In the same way, when we look at butterflies, we only see the beauty and many times we forget the caterpillar that they once were. Like a butterfly, I have taken my time in my “cocoon” and now have emerged happy. I believe that all personal growth takes time and that the journey is beautiful.

The zine will consist of screenshots taken from a makeup tutorial I will be doing on myself. Each step of the makeup tutorial will be a visual representation of how I have concealed my flaws emotionally and use makeup to portray that visually. For example, when I cover the dark eye circles around my eyes, I am using concealer to hide that I have been crying. I am a naturally joyous and bubbly person that loves to socialise. I believe that human beings are all social creatures. I do not want to visually represent myself as someone who is sad, tired and lonely. The tutorial is my transformation to better express my natural self which is loving and sociable. The zine is an explanation of the symbolism of the steps I do for the makeup look in the tutorial. 

EVALUATION

I started working on my zine over the Easter break. I first started working on creating a mind map thinking about what self meant to me and what my journey has been like till now. The only thing that came to my mind was how I always pretended to be happy and how currently I’m actually very happy with my life and everything that I have achieved. I really tried to come up with some idea for my self-shoot but couldn’t come up with anything that would best portray what I wanted to tell in my story. After talking to Carlyn she gave me the idea of doing a tutorial I felt that was the best way for me to make a makeup zine as with every step it would tell a story. I really thought that my photography was quite average but in all the three terms most of the pictures have been clicked by me and I think I have done a pretty good job considering they were all clicked on my phone and edited by me. I worked to try and maybe get a better camera for my main shoot of the zine that I did in the makeup room of the campus they were a little hazy and not high quality as I wanted them to be but still with very less to work with Nandini did a great job with that shoot. I also am so glad that this course didn’t make me change my mind and that I was 100% sure that I wanted to pursue the BA I had decided on before I entered this course. I had my doubts sometimes and also did speak to Carlyn about it and she told me that I have made the right choice and that I should stick to Hair, Makeup and Prosthetics for performance. Suzzane loved how I had executed my shoot though she asked me to make mood boards on all my shoots and that is a really good idea I will make sure I create one before every shoot so I am prepared for what to do and don’t waste any time. My biggest regret this term was that I left all the written work for the end as I don’t really enjoy doing that and hence I was so stressed before submission as I have a load of written work left. I should really stop doing that and should do it little by little so that I’m not stuck with it in the end. I am so glad that I completed every SDS task as soon as we were given it this helped me with balancing a good work and personal life as I had no stress with any of my edits or with my zine formatting and I could enjoy my week with my friends stress-free. I loved how my zine turned out and I also loved the overall experience of planning an entire PR event.

Finally, I made the class on time, I love it when I actually do things on schedule, it gives me a sense of motivation. Session one initiates with creating a digital flappable zine and had an intro to video editing on premiere pro. Making the zine was much easier than I thought as I have a tough time using photoshop but to my utmost surprise, this software was quite easy. It’s almost three hours now & I’m blanking out at spaces.

Moving on, the second session was about Explore Film editing skills and techniques. I missed this class as I was extremely unwell and I just couldn’t manage to wake up and make it for class though my friend Nandini filled me in and I’m up to date with my work and ready for the next class.

Well, I shouldn’t have been that happy because the third session was about learning sketch up and I thought this would be easy but I felt personally it was tougher than Photoshop for me as I have an idea about prosthetics & I’ve worked as a makeup assistant quite a few times, I have never worked as a graphic designer or as a digital artist so I felt very under confident about this and I am very nervous on how I will manage to create the Sketchup for the event.

The fourth session was the last class with Mr Sing we were again taught how to use Sketchup it is a very difficult software and I feel it would have been better if this was taught to us earlier in the course as I am still very confused and unsure on how to create it for my PR package.

SKETCH UP

INVITATION

PRESS RELEASE

EVENT PROPOSAL

SOCIAL MEDIA SQUARES

PROMO VIDEO

In today’s session, we read a=eachothers blogs and had to give feedback to everyone that was sitting at the table. I uploaded my link and then began reading my peer’s blogs I realised that a lot of them hadn’t included everything that was taught in this term and so I gave them the feedback accordingly. I read the feedback that was written on my link and decided to make the changes accordingly as I don’t want anything to go wrong this term. I hope I pass this term easily and do not get a resubmission. I am confident about my work and I think I have included everything that we did in this term.

Today’s session was a PPD session with Fiona. She came around checking our PPD myblogs I showed her everything I had done and she said I was right on track. I also discussed with Fiona my attendance issue as I had missed classes because I was really unwell during this term and hence wanted to make sure I don’t have to face any trouble she ensured me that I just have to make sure I attend all my remaining classes and that I would be good to go. I also tried to edit my site which I had never done before but with the help of Kaushiga I managed to edit my entire site and I am really very happy with how it turned out. I am not very worried about my blogs as I’ve kept them up to date overall the session was good we got some dedicated time to work on the blogs. I made sure I included everything that was done in the sessions this term so that I don’t miss out on any important slides.

I missed today’s session but Tish filled me in on what they did in class, we were given time to do our own work. I decided to work on my press release as that was left from the previous session. I took inspiration from the Gucci Places that were shown in the session and hence it was easier to write it. It didn’t take me much time as the teacher told me there is no word limit for it and hence I included everything that was important about my zine and the PR event at Barbican for the zine. I called it a day. as I was on a high dose of painkillers and that caused me severe acidity and stomach ache and hence decided to take the day off.

Today’s session was about the PR event we had to plan for our zines. Suzzane showed us the Gucci Places event to give us an idea about how to go forward with it. We had to do three tasks for this session an event proposal, a press release and an invitation. I then started first making an invite for the event. I used an orange background and added a huge butterfly in the middle as my zine is called Metamorphosis. I also added the title Metamorphosis on the top of the page and then added a few details about the event in the invite. I then started writing my event proposal and I was a little confused about what and how much I should write. But I think I wrote a good proposal including all the details of my event and then I was drained and so I decided to go home and finish the press release at home. I had a very productive day overall and I think I will take the feedback of my tutors cause I’m a little uncertain about the proposal.