Gothic Horror: John Galliano Spring Summer 2010

In this week's lesson we were creating make up looks inspired by catwalk shows that resemble make up that could look like gothic horror. In the beginning of the lesson we were given images to choose from and I decided to choose the John Galliano Spring Summer 2010 look. Initially I decided to do a more natural look from another designer but decided to go against it as I wanted to push myself and go for a more extravagant look. I thought the look that was originally created on the catwalk was very beautiful and think that the dark lips that were stronger on the top and long thin dark eyebrows was unique with the darkness and colours reminding me of the gothic era. I also liked the bold eyeshadow and the use of the shimmer and bright colours such as the oranges and yellows. My favourite part of the looks was the strong pink blusher on the cheeks along with the dark smudges along the bottom lash line. The make up looks were meant to be a trip to Hollywood which bought old memories back, the make up looks were to revive the starlets in the old black and white movies. I liked the make up look that I created and thought that it was representative of the make up from the catwalk. I was keen to cover the brows thoroughly as they are one of the main features of the make up look. I made sure that I applied a few layers of glue to keep them firmly down. I also made sure I went over them with a salmon shade of concealer so that the darkness was covered. I struggled slightly with making the eyebrows level. I enjoyed creating a strong look with blusher, especially as so far in this unit, I have created natural looks so it was nice to be able to go for a stronger look. Overall I liked creating this look and found the use of the strong colours very inspiring for the next part of my unit where I will be creating some of my own characters in a gothic horror TV series.