In conclusion...

I found the project ‘New Elizabethans’ a really challenging, interesting and enjoyable start to our course. I found learning the history of cosmetics, style and hair trends really fascinating as a make-up student. I find it amazing how trends and the perception of beauty from such a long time ago still impacts the styles of today. I felt like the skills we learnt in class gave us the basics of what we needed to know to complete the brief however to do something really creative it required a lot of practise, which is why I am thankful for having such an organised partner for this project. I really enjoyed working from someone elses design as it was good practise for when we are working in the industry in the future. If I could do the project again I would have done a lot more historical research as I feel there is less compared to my contemporary research.  I also would like to work on keeping more up to date with the work we were set as then I feel like I could do even more of my own research, this is what I plan to work on next term. I really liked the idea of a ‘sketch blog’ that we have been introduced to, it is an easy and clear way to show our journey through the design process to the final outcome and look forward to using this again next term. After a lot of worrying and doubting myself I feel like I have learnt so much and come a long way during this project and look forward to building on my skills as a make-up artist and improving in all other areas throughout the course, for example; time management, writing skills, research methods and referencing correctly.