Attitudes and Skills

Over the past year, I feel my attitudes towards being a makeup artist has changed massively. I have become a lot more positive as to whether I can achieve certain things. I used to look at makeup looks and say that I would never be able to do something, but with a lot of practice I can see myself achieving my goals. I was also very nervous to apply makeup onto other people, whereas now, after practise in both class and volunteering at the Graduate Fashion Show, I feel much more confident. I believe that working with partners and working on each other in class, as well as forcing myself to get out there and volunteer has boosted my confidence massively.

My organisation skills were put to the test within first year. Juggling each of the subjects, homework and completing our own research was difficult to adjust to at the start of the year. As I attended sixth form, I was used to completing work and having hand-in dates, but in university you usually have more than one task to be getting on with at home. I used a diary last year to make sure I was ready for hand-ins, but this year I have gone one step further, and bought both a white board and calendar for my room, so I can clearly see if I have hand ins for the next day, but this will also help accommodate my social life, work and own time. Blogging is an important aspect of our course, and I always had to find time to sit down and unload all of my ideas. I think within the Elizabethan blog, I could have ordered my blog posts a lot better than I had, to make them flow and easier for the reader to understand. When looking back on my blog, I made sure that the Gothic Horror blog flowed better and showed my ideas. When coming to the final designs in the Gothic Horror section for our characters Quentin and Claudia, I feel I hurried them and they were not in detail enough because I had not accounted for them taking as long as they took. But now I know for next term that my designs will take a lot longer if they are in more detail and if more thought goes into it.