Body painting competition.

At college this year we were learning body painting, this was a completely new thing for me and i was really worried at the start because i didn't have a steady hand but as we worked through all the lessons i became more and more confident in doing my painting. at the end of all our lessons we were given a brief for the body painting competition , we had to design a body painting total look incorporating hair , make-up and props. the brief said we could choose form the headings,

• Horoscopes
• Nature
• Movie characters

I was really worried about it and thought i wasn't going to be able to pull something together. but after doing some research and talking to my lecturers i felt alot better and decided to do the queen of hearts from Tim Burton's Alice in wonderland. we spent a couple of weeks practicing our looks in class and i found a model from one of the hair dressing classes to model for me :) i was getting really excited the date for the competition was the 14th of November.

Preparation
to prepare for the competition i went and bought my own body paints in red and black ( the only colours i was really using ) , i bought new body painting brushed and stocked up on glitter and black and silver gems and sequins. I bought a bra and thong in red to make things easier for painting :) I did loads of research and put together a mood board of my inspirations. I also made a kind of half skirt out of black net and stappled playing cards onto to it and made a headdress of playing cards :) x

The day of the competition
On the day of the competition i arrived at college at half 8 to set up i was really nervous about everything but tried to stay calm and set up and waited for  my model to arrive the competition started at 9 so by quarter to 9 i was completely ready and still waiting for my model... buy half 9 i was in total panic my model hadn't turned up i was a state i didn't know what to do, luckily I managed to find a girl from beauty who was willing to do it for me i was so relived but i was already half an hour behind everyone else. I got started as soon as i had got my model ready and i powered through all the block colourings on the body , i then concentrated on the detail and i managed to make really good process however time was running out so i couldn't have done as much of the make-up and hair as i would have liked, i managed to do a little bit and managed to pull a total look out the bag in time. when we had finished we positioned our models and waited for judging i was so nervous about everything because i had not had enough time and it wasn't the model i had in mind. After judging we got the results i didn't place but the lectures seemed happy with my work and that was a massive relief, i felt proud of myself i don't think i enjoyed the body painting as much as i could have done if everything had gone to plan.
hopefully the next competion i do will be better :D