A walk on the wild side...

As promised here's my Illamasqua/Mizz Worthy competition entry, and you didn't even have to wait that long! For those of you that don't know Illamasqua is running a competition in conjunction with Mizz Worthy. To enter you have to create a character to attend a banquet in an enchanted forest with the other 13 charaters created for the launch of the Illamasqua Autumn range. The prize is amazing!! Not only do you win the entire Autumn range but you also win a spot on a two day course at The London Muse School of Makeup, and of course you stand a chance of having your work viewed by the amazing Alex box. I am so excited about this!

My character is called Flora and Fauna. As well as the other 13 characters I took inspiration from the environment where the banquet is to take place. I started to think about what sort of creatures could be roaming around an enchanted forest and what sort of life would grow there. I've always loved the idea of an enchanted wood and loved any books that referenced this kind of place when I was a kid so it wasn't hard to let my imagination run wild. Being mythical I could choose anything so didn't strictly stick with just the idea of a forest, I brought in a bit of jungle as well. I was originally going to do two separate makeup looks, one for each character as I had decided to do twins. But then I started to think about different personalities existing in the same body and decided to do half a face to represent each. I liked the idea of them battling inside one body and the darkness and mystery of never knowing quite which one you were talking to.

Character description...

Flora & Fauna

The twins embody all life in the enchanted forest. Two personalities co-exist in one body. Flora is gentle and sharing, radiating light and calm. But Fauna is wild and unpredictable. She is exotic and alluring, yet dark and possessive. Make sure you know which one you are dealing with or you might just end up being dinner!

Face on...



Flora...



Fauna...



one side...



then the other...



The look was created on my beautiful friend Kate who sat very patiently for 4 hours while I did this. I still can't believe some of the things she lets me do...Awwww :D I paid her handsomely with dinner and cups of tea (we had pancetta wrapped asparagus, fried eggs, oven baked vine tomatoes and sauted potatoes...it was delicious even if I do say so myself. Oooo and we had apple and blackberry pie for desert). Anyway back to the look.

My original sketch...



My face chart...



I had to tweak some of it from the original face chart as it didn't quite work, but it was so much fun. I made the reptile spikes out of Fimo for one eye brow and the snail for the other (at some point he became known as Simon...I have no idea why. I think it was delirium!) The patterns are all hand painted and some of them have stencilling over. Let me know what you think, or if you're entering yourself. I hope to have another character done soon.

Fingers crossed xx