Reflection Journal: Reflecting

How have I changed in my attitude or actions, and what have I learnt?

When starting the year I was nervous to apply make-up to new people and open up about ideas. Even though I do have previous experience with make-up as I did it in college I feel working on different people at a new level helped me open up more. I try to come across confident and just work with the skills I have and try to learn and experiment with new ideas and techniques. I think my attitude towards make-up, my career and the course has always been quite strong as I always try my best, think positive and take everything we do seriously. I think the overall year was amazing and I think the work load was much more than what I expected as I felt slightly drowned between each lesson and having different assessments constantly and constant deadlines for tasks. I really did try and keep on top of the work load because as soon as you start falling behind more just starts piling on and makes it even harder. I think it was quite hard to find models for assessments because all my friends are on other course so its hard to find time when we were both free and available to shoot a look however when you start collaborating with people sometimes favors can be returned. I enjoyed when we were partnered together sometimes because then you get to work with different people in your class as people tent to pair up with the same people I think this helps us work on different people so we can experience different face shapes, skin tone and skin complexion which helps us develop as a make-up artist. I think over time and during learning new things in each lesson keeps slightly changing you when you start to feel more confident, determine and also the feedback from peers and teachers. Over the past year I have learnt a lot within make-up application, fashion and history and also general skills such as timing and organisation. Each assessment really put you to the test to execute a complete look in a certain amount of time, also arriving on time, having a model/partner, bringing all the kit and brushes, being dressed appropriate and bringing face charts and notes. Each assessment got slightly easier as we knew what was expected of us during the assessment.

Have I improved?

I think over the period of first year I have improved, I think my skill set has got better and I've definitely learnt more through hair and make-up. I also feel I have definitely got more confident applying make-up on different people. I think also documenting and blogging all of my work helped me to evaluate my room and try and improve or progress to do better. I'm definitely ready for this year and can't wait to work with different people and learn a different area of make-up. I think this year I will try and reflect more on my work and hopefully it will show through my skills. Below I have presented a few of the looks I created in the first year which i'm happy and proud with.