Watching Promise Phan.

March 27 2014. 

 Many people look up to YouTube for inspriation, help, or for entertainment. My mentor recommended watching dope2111 (Promise Phan) who is a special effect make up artist and is very talented. The first video I watched was called Lorde Makeup Transformation, she started created the singers facial features. Using a light liquid foundation so she can have the same facial complexion. Next she drew her eyebrows as close as Lordes. After that she used a very dark color concealer to contour her face so the shape of her face would look similar. After her face look like Lordes she worked on her eyes and used a white eyeliner to make her eyes look bigger and shape her eyes differently. After watching the video I have learned that contouring is very important, it shapes a persons face however they want. The next video I watched was How to look like Demi Lovato. I watched a couple more videos after this one and I was amazed how detailed the artist was, all of her transformations looked very realistic and difficult to master to techniques. Today I focused on watching Promise Phan and my plan for tomorrow is to watch Michele Phan and learn the differences and similarities between the two make up artist. 

Time logged for this session: 2 hours. 

Total time logged: 4 hours. 

Meeting with my mentor

 Today my mentor and I met up to discussed what I wanted to accomplish out of the capstone project. I explained to her that I have a lot of interest in cosmetology. I also explained that I wanted to learn techniques and how to blend the make up to make it look more realistic. She seemed very passionate about her career in being a make up artist and was very delighted to help me. The second thing we did was go over basics like brushes and what they were used for, I was sort of flustered to actually see how many different brushes there were. I never expected that all those brushed would do different things and create different textures. Lastly she assigned me to subscribe to a couple of her favorite make up artists on YouTube. One of them was Promise Phan. Who does many transformations including movie characters, music artist, and many other things. And Michelle Phan who is a very successful YouTube star. I would meet my mentor over the weekend but for the next two days she wanted me to watch videos and get a feel of what I was going to be doing. I'm very excited to get into the make up and start creating characters. 

Time logged for this session: 2 hours 

Total time logged 2 hours.