Dear Sam….

The week that Monday was a stressful one, Moustaches again! & Student lock in 🙂

 

Monday 26th September

Tina’s this week was pulling out our face casts from last week & filing them down to make them smooth ready for sculpting next week 🙂 Lauren’s face turned out great 😛 I spent 2 hours, sanding it, filing and smoothing making sure it was perfect ready to start creating my creation on Monday next week 🙂

I did have the chance to start this week, however I wasn’t in the best mind set to start it off, so I decided to wait and draw up some designs before I start. Last year I remember I just winged it and that’s not always the best thing to do 🙂

Oh & I got electrocuted this week by the bloody plug socket, taking the drill out of the wall, it shocked me 😦 it really hurt… so that was my Monday morning lol!

Garry’s class this week lasted the whole of 10 mins, while he asked if we had any problems & then decided we didn’t need to stay BONUS!.

On the way home, we hopped onto the train, tired and knackered… it got stuck at Wigan 😦 we literally had to jump from one train to the other with like 5 min.. unfortunately for Nicole she was asleep lol.. bless her she had to literally run half asleep with me and Leah shouting at her to move her arse hahaha.

Tuesday 27th September

Sam’s Class today was learning plaiting techniques & carrying on with these moustaches! I’m so proud of myself on how far I got with mine, considering last week it took me 2 hours to do about 6 hairs 🙂

I know this doesn’t look like loads, but there was more hairs by the time the lesson had finished! the orange bit in the picture, is where all the hairs have to be 🙂 I have about 4-5 weeks to get it all done, hair by hair 🙂

We didn’t have Anna-May this week as some of the girls went off to be in the audience of Countdown…. We chose to not go because A. The normal Countdown is boring (If it was 8 out of 10 cats I would have gone) & B. it would have meant that we got home late! Plus student lock in was on this week.

 

Which leads me on to heading to a really cute dessert house called Carmello which did loads of cakes & Macaroons 🙂 I had a passion fruit one, Pistachio and a Vanilla & Strawberry one, they were so yummy :D…

after that we headed to Lauren’s flat for an hour and chilled out until It was time to head into Manchester City Centre for the huge student shopping night…. we went everywhere! I got a new pair of jeans and this really cute jacket… I was exhausted by the time I got home….

This Weeks Makeup look I went for was this really cool clown, I wanted to play about with some of my new face paints that I got, and wanted to see what I came up with 🙂 also had to add in the Snapchat filter of course 😛

Anyway hope you’ve had a good week,

Speak soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam ….

The student year has officially begun, The Circus came to Uni lol & FacePaint galore!

 

Monday 12th September.

OMG how I haven’t missed getting up at 5am to go to university get me there for 9am lol, feeling like death and dragging myself out of bed, it was time to get myself together and hall arse to the train station to meet Nicole & Leah!! wooo Gang’s back together again. Leah filled us in as usual about her summer holiday and what’s been going on, and it was nice to see each other again 😀 plus I got to see Lauren who I haven’t seen since we left!.

All the hello’s & how have you been’s over and done with it was time for Tina’s lesson ready for SFX! After going through our schedule for this first term, we got to sit about and come up with our first characters of the year which involves creating face casts again and any character we like as long it involves airbrushing & a prosthetic OBVs! So Pencils out! and time for a sketch and a brain storm. Not going to lie I fell asleep for half an hour 😀 (Standard of Miss Letch!) my alarm went off at 10:30am lol and woke me up! I mean it was bound to happen, I cant help it hahahaha.

After Tina’s we were supposed to have our tutorial with our new tutor Garry! Hi Garry 😀 Your in for a treat with us lot! thankfully we didn’t technically have to go to that, instead we had a meeting our principal and having to watch this stupid presentation on respect and blah blah blah 😀 Home Time! my favourite part of the day 😛 crawling into bed and what felt like a super long day, it was time to catch up on my sleep ready for day 2.

Tuesday 13th September.

Sam’s Class was up first 😀 😀 😀 So happy we have Sam again this year as I really enjoyed her class last year :D. First up we have to create moustaches of a character or famous singer or someone we knew and the rest of the class had to guess who’s moustache it could have been. I decided to make mine like your little moustache you have going on lol & funnily enough so did Sophie 😀 we had matching Sam Moustaches!! they all turned out really good & I was on a roll guessing who’s they might have been 😀

I added in a soul patch for you 😛

 

We then went through this semesters schedule and have a think about what kind of character we might be coming up with this time, the first one has to have a moustache or a beard and the second is based on a childhood nightmare or memory! watch this space as I have some awesome ideas 😀

After Sam, we had Anna-May who now replaces Lindsay from last year although Anna-May’s class is slightly different and we only have 4000 words to write this time lol No Pressure!

We sat in her class until 3, we got to talk about work experience and ways to go about getting some. Part of our course involves working a certain amount of hours within the industry to pass this part of the course :D.

The freshers fair came to uni and they had advertised that the circus was coming aha, this involved a coconut shy, hook a duck, a guy on stilts and a candyfloss machine lol. Free candyfloss though! I cant say no to that aha. The stands were advertising the local stuff we can get involved in & were handing out free stuff lol! by about 4 it was time to head home as we were pooped and had stuff to get on with lol.

This week I ordered a ton of face paints ready for this year and they are AWESOME!!!!! check them out! I even had a play about with them and had ago at doing a neon zombie to see how pigmented the colours were 🙂

Hope you had a good first week back at university to 😀

Ready for week 2 😛

Speak Soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam….

I’m officially a 2nd year! The new term is about to begin! & Summer Hols are over!

 

Its currently Wednesday & the new term begins on Monday the 12th! I made it to the second year which is a start aha! who knew! after an eventful summer holiday & a break from it all, I’m ready to begin again and conquer a new year, with new creations, designs and characters. Although this a quick post to get me back into the swing of things, Im excited to see everybody again as I have missed them all…. this could possibly be the year we both graduate!

I have a basket full of new makeup on standby ready to purchase for my kit & the new student year, however student finance cant pull their finger out and sort out my money! I caught up with Nicole the other day and were both so excited to start the new plus iv not seen Leah since we left! (its been 1 whole year since we all first met and it feels like a lifetime) I need my usual Monday update on the train of the weeks shenanigans 😀 so roll on Monday to find out what’s been going on! Plus this years schedule is exciting! 5 hours almost on a Monday of SFX! bring it on!

The house is on its way! remembering my last post about it when I moved in and how I wanted the ground to swallow me up from all the stress & building work that needed doing 😦 However the first floor is almost complete & mum has until November to get it done ready for the house warming she planned ha!

I’m so excited for your show this year & having another trip to London to live as a student for a week again!  Roll on October! lol

Blog posting will commence again as of next week!

Speak Soon

Hannah

 

Dear Sam….

The time to de stress can begin….

The weeks of serious stress, Time running out & its all over….. until September!

so the past couple of weeks have been crazy busy! 2 assessments in 1 day, work to finish off and catch up on. Creating crazy outfits for crazy characters & I was a dragon for the afternoon.

Where do I start….

The past couple of blog posts have been about us making these moulds ready to start making our prosthetic pieces. The last time I posted I think I had just moulded my first one! and it turned out better than what I expected… so the time had come for me & Nicole to use the pieces we had created, on each other for our superhero/Supervillian characters we had to make. Nicole’s was based around the pink dragon from Shrek! and mine was loosely based on Maleficent! they turned out sooo cool. But before I show you, let me take you back to where the stress began!

Nicole had her Supervillain assessment up first! with me kindly being her model for it. she had created big wings, brought me this gorgeous grey wig and brought the fishnet stocking for later 😛 aha. She started by applying the piece to my face, which felt really weird trying to breath through the little slits on the nose piece. She then airbrushed it pink added in the detail (She used the fishnet tights to create scales up my arm and around the prosthetic piece (Magic))and daah daaah the creation was made.

My Supervillain was loosely based on Maleficent 🙂 (Who doesn’t love that movie!)

Her name was Aurella! she had large antlers and a big long cloak and mini antlers growing from her head 🙂 I was so happy with how the final look turned out. However! I need to work on my edges of my prosthetic piece as they took me forever to blend out when it came to applying them. I airbrushed all around the edges with black and blended it into her hair, so you couldn’t see the fact that the prosthetic was slightly bigger than her forehead! she shouted at me as I cut some of her hair off trimming it 😛 Sorry Nicole! I used a giant piece of black fabric to create the cloak, and I was going to make a staff, but it was going to be a lot to carry on the day as I also had another assessment… but more about that shortly. Here was the final Piece.

I attached the antlers by hot glue gunning them to a black headband, I separated her hair and pulled some of it through the middle of the antlers so you couldn’t see it, then tied string to the back to hold it to her head as they were pretty heaving lol. Nicole worked her fabulous magic to make my photos turn out great 🙂 My favourite one yet!

On the same day I had my Directors assessment. We had to create characters that would fit into a directors movie. I chose to do Tim Burton! Love him! I chose to do Pinocchio and turn him into something that would go into a film….I did the sunken eyes, the stripes and the dark messy hair! I also bought a prosthetic pixie nose instead of the usual long nose that Pinocchio has ( in the final image you cant see the nose best)… we had to do a demo in front of some of our classmates and show how to do the make (whilst being filmed) aha the most nerve racking thing ever! Thanks Nadia!

I had my tears that day… it had been a long hard stressful day, plus I wasn’t feeling to great… so I had a moment! the first of many from the girls 😛

I was pleased with the fact I got it all done and they looked great!

A week later it was submission day & 4pm was the deadline… thankfully I had completed the work the night before and just wanted to hand it in and get it out of my possession lol. I did the best I could and fingers crossed I at least get a pass! The queues for the printers that day was unreal…. there was a lot of paper, laptops and glue sticks! with everyone running around frantically trying to get all their work done on time! Us girls had arranged a meal in the local restaurant, to have drinks, a big meal and a final catch up before we all broke up for the summer! It was a fabulous after noon! *Clink* Thank F**k its all over!

All The Girls For The Final Meal At Alberts.

Me & Lisa Messing around

Had such a great time this year with them all. YOU ALL BETTER BE BACK NEXT YEAR!

I have learnt my lesson this time and I’m determined to do even better next year and not be so lazy on a few things….. I shall be spending the summer researching on more stuff & buying more makeup for my kit!

I had this cartoon picture of me done, that I can use in the future for a logo or something… or a profile picture because it looks so cool 🙂

See you soon

Hannah xx

Dear Sam…..

 

The week where smart targets began, we got to play with our airbrush guns and the 1940’s assessment arrived!

Monday  29th January…

Monday morning and it was only me & Nicole on the train as Leah wasn’t very well,  grabbing the early morning brew as always we sailed into Lindsay lesson.  In this lesson we were learning about these smart targets we have to do as part of our next written assessment thing. OHHH before I forget we got our results this week for our 2000 word essays,  ill get to that in a minute though. Lindsay always has a game we can play first thing in the morning to get our brains working, we win sweets if we get the questions right. My Fav part of the day aha! We had to fill in a few worksheets before we could get these results by the end of the lesson.  I was happy with my result considering I struggled with the assessment 😀

Into Vicky’s lesson, she had the Kahoot game set up that we used to play with Lindsay, its basically a game we can all play off our phones and we get to give ourselves player names 😀  and again if we got the whole quiz right we won sweets!! I swear they bribe us! 😀 This week I decided to name myself Hissyfit Hannah! the new nickname they gave me hahaha, everyone burst out laughing when it came up on screen 😛

Once we had a game of that, we got out our airbrush guns and got to play around on old white t-shirts using different materials to create different effects which was fun! However… 1. I got the powder paints out because I wanted to test them on the fabric ready for our Fairy tale assessment in a few weeks RESEARCH! and 2. Me & Nicole got a little stress with each other over our final idea for the assessment, which resulted in me peering of the top of the toilet cubicle to cheer a teary eyed Nicole out after she was having  a moment! Don’t Judge… we all get like that! Iv been like that over a jar of mayo once when I couldn’t get it open! doesn’t help being stressed either ahah! 😛  so this basically meant we didn’t get much time with the airbrush gun to have a full play about with it like the others. Just to clarify we are back on track now lol.

Carl’s lesson this week was actually serious aha, we had to sit for 45 mins looking at this stupid presentation about respect lol… everyone was getting stress as we just wanted to crack on with our work. However everyone had a rant again about the course and the college, which is starting to get a little bit funny now haha.

HOME TIME please! get me to bed!

 

Tuesday 1st March…

This morning was pretty chaotic! it was the 1940’s assessment and everyone was running around manic trying to get heated rollers in, outfits ready and their makeup stations set up not to mention getting your makeup brushes sparkling or you loose marks aha! mine was at 11am so I had plenty of time to get ready and I had the lovely Molly as my model 😀 I was going for a 1940’s working girl kinda look, with the added fact we had a nice black dress and shoes to change into at the end to take some photos. I did have a little with the hair as it is so fiddly, so Sam came and gave me a hand, but I got there in the end lol, I’m really happy with the final images, I have a sneak peek you can look at before I photo shop them 😀  plus a look a my immaculate before picture of my work station, you loose marks if its not tidy or in order lol. Sam said she was impressed with my patience over the hair as she could see that I was getting frustrated 😛 that’s a win for me aha! (I didn’t throw a hissyfit for a change 😛 )

Tina’s this week was just finishing off our moulds and getting them ready for the next stage of the process, we had a demo this week showing us how to apply the lining around our moulds ready to cast them into the prosthetic pieces 😀 me and Nicole had to leave early to catch a train s we did miss the end part of the demo so will defo have to catch up next week lol

L-R My Mould, Nicole’s Mould & then the lovely work by Lauren as part of the demo for the next stage 🙂

Looking forward to next week to have a mess around more with the airbrushing guns, starting the next stage of the moulds and HARRY POTTER WORLD!!!!!!!!  So Excited!

 

Speak Soon

Hannah xxx

 

 

Dear Sam….

The Week I Kind Of Only Turned Up On Tuesday  & Airbrushing Lol!

I woke up at 4:30am on Monday morning, had a good ole think my self and decided that it wasn’t worth going in to uni…. 2 reasons…. 1st – it was lashing it down with rain which wasn’t appealing what so ever and 2nd – id only be in until 12 as everyone had there assessments, so I had no main reason to go it….. the only thing I missed out on was Nicole’s doughnuts that she was handing out after her assessment 😛 (Doughnuts or a Lie in which would you choose?)

Tuesday 1st December

I actually dragged myself out of bed, got my shit together and headed down to the train station….. getting on the train, Nicole had her stern words with me about how I lied that I had gone to the dentist when actually I just sat in a did university work all day 😛 … Sam’s lesson today was Airbrushing with stencils and lots of airbrushing colours to have a play about with 🙂 so we got ourselves set up and then just started stencilling crap all over each other… because it was fun! why the hell not!

after lunch, Sam told us we had to go to this “focus group” / Rant meeting hahaha where we got to air out any problems we were having with the course or the university…. I think the blokes name was Glenn or Glynn or something like that, but bless him I think he needed a drink and a cigarette after the ear bashing we gave him… he started the rant off by saying if you think something shit then tell me its shit… everyone went silent and me being me just went its SHIT! hahaha and the ball started rolling from there really 😛

Next up was my assessment with Tina…. I was working on Lisa and my scenario was electrocution… however after the first hour I was starting to get stressed out with the whole thing as it wasn’t going how I wanted it to…. I don’t have the pictures yet as they are on Laurens SD card but when I have them ill post them…… turns out it wasn’t my favourite assessment yet! This will be going at the back of my portfolio 😛

only 2 weeks left then its Christmas break 🙂

Speak Soon

Hannah xx