Dream In Colour: March 2015

I am fairly unfashionable since being a mum buy in working on not looking like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards and got dressed in the dark.

Before being a mummy I nailed it spent time and money on fashion and enjoyed spending time on myself getting ready.

Now I spend time trying to get my 2 year old daughter ready through years and tantrums and I swear she looks more fashionable than me.

But I think this is a pretty cute look

It's a sale top from tesco for £4

A grey strappy from new look about 6 years ago under it.

And nude semi smart looking stretch boot cut trousers from primark two seasons ago.

Teamed with ballet pumps

And a dash of sanity because i swear Iv lost a few marbles in the last few years.

Lots of love

Aimee & my more fashionable daughter Autumn xx

I LOVE a challenge and we were asked at college to to choose a woman from around the world and recreate the whole look including mood boards to help us bring the look to life. So I decided on Greek goddess, my friend Steph offered to be my model and she had the perfect look for this her skin tone is perfect for whites and golds.

Also I love Disney and Hercules is one of my top Disney moves and my image was based on Meg from it.

She is just so beautiful.

I am extremely upset I didn't think to take before and during images. But I have a selection of after images that show the overall look.

Our mood boards had to cover everything from makeup, accessories, clothing, hair and nails.

I incorporated the gold Ct dust on the hair and face, darker brows and glowing skin. I also enjoyed working with multi tonal golds to create the eye look.

I feel I used different aspects from each image to create my overall look.

To create my hair look I went for tussled with a extension clip accessory, with gold leaf through the hair and an accessory to complete the look. Due to time restraints and the hair extension being straight I was unable to create a curled look.

I ebcoprrrate a bit of everything for the final look but chose to steer away from blacks.

I chose my outfit from Smithys its a shorter less traditional style of a toga but it a modern take on a classic look.

I had th flower necklace from the mood bird and a number of rings simpler to my original chosen designs. Earrings and head piece matched the necklace with a flower theme. All jewellery was brought in the sale from new look. It was similar to what I had originally planned.

We then had to recreate our final look from the mood boards created.

I was terrified by pre run hadn't gone to plan but it wasn't on my model. So when I had to do the look in about 2.5hours I really felt the pressure.

My final look was based on this beautiful inspiration image I found from Pinterest the original creator was amazing and I fell this to be breathtaking.

This looked incorporated a number of images that I used on my mood board, this included the uses of the gold scattered over the hair and face and gold lips. I used a different head piece due to the origin being out of stock but the new one matched the chosen necklace perfectly.

I did the nail design and art the night before to save me time as I new that to me would be the longest pft as it requires the nails to dry so they didn't get ruined during the dressing stage.

I couldn't decide on a single pattern for the nails so chose to incorporate a few different styles which I feel with the final look worked very well.

This way I got to use as many styles on my mood boards as possible to create the overall look.

I intended for her to look like a goddess from the heavens, glowing and draped in jewels.

I was so nervous at the beginning of the task which my model had noticed. After a little while I was more comfortable and found it more enjoyable. I was having lots of fun with the make up as I got to do something different and really play around with looks and colours, using helms and colours you wouldn't use for an every day look so i found it really made me think about trying hard to get it as close to what I framed perfect as possible.

Next I moved on to the face and started with covering the redness and any areas with dark circles, I wanted to create a completely flawless look like a goddess.

Stephan the perfect skin and eyes to work on her eyelids took the colour very well and I was so pleased with how it ended up looking. I used a lot of different products to create the look.

I have listed below a few of the products that went into the creation of the look.

I started with an instant face fake tan from St. Tropez to give the skin an all over glow.

It's £10 and available to buy here

http://www.sttropeztan.co.uk/instant-tan-lotion-light-medium/

The base I used MAU colour corrector pallet which cost £3 which have me the green,purple and yellow colour correctors and a highlighter and contour colour allowing a great Base

It costs £4 and is available here to buy

http://www.muastore.co.uk/pro-base-prime-conceal-palette

before moving onto smash box lumizing photo finish primer (it has a golden glow to it ) this allows the skin to take the foundation better with a smoother finish.

It's £25 and available to buy here

http://www.smashbox.co.uk/product/6038/18507/Face/Primer/PHOTO-FINISH-LUMINIZING-FOUNDATION-PRIMER/Fitness-2011-Beauty-Award/index.tmpl

My base was finished off with snashbox 15 hr wear foundation studio finish in shade 2.3. I love this foundation and use it all the time. I this the coverage is amazing.

It's £28 and available to buy from here

http://www.smashbox.co.uk/product/6035/22769/Face/Foundation/STUDIO-SKIN-15-HOUR-WEAR-HYDRATING-FOUNDATION/index.tmpl

The 24 ct gold leaf which i used across the hair and face is very affordable and brought from eBay. £3.60 for 20 sheets which was more than enough.

http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=360373054547

I used Smithys fx face paint to draw the sandals on my models legs £2.69 free postage on eBay. http://pages.ebay.com/link/?nav=item.view&alt=web&id=191312184863

I used Barry m glitter dust in gold £4.59

http://www.barrym.com/products/face/shimmer/fine-glitter-dust.html