Issues.

Okay! So I began to have issues. I tested and tested my idea of transferring Japanese and traditional style tattoos onto the skin and it was failing incredibly. Some came out in perfect transfers and others- nothing at all. I felt I was at a dead end. I began testing and realising which types of print would transfer correctly and decided it was time to start thinking of a back up plan.
Here are some images of when I was testing..These actually came out really well unfortunately others did not. It was really trying.

I desperately wanted to still incorporate the idea of tattooing. I realised that the bigger and stronger lines came out and anything in black ink. I was now only down to limited funds and felt very under pressure to produce the look at I had originally envisaged. I was browsing through mycourse and caught the image of Kimiko Yoshidas work with the henna type designs. This inspired me to start looking into transferring henna designs onto the body and I started researching Mehndi.

I felt that prehaps the henna transfer idea would actually blend a little more with the hair and make up and felt that if i was using the bright colours of the japanese and traditional style it may look a bit cheap. I want to incorporate the beauty of the collaboration of cultures in my work. I felt now that I wanted to be inspired by this colour scheme also.

The second issue was that I had been wanting to use the idea of texture and scarification into my work. I didn't actually enjoy the use of beans and peas on the body and felt I could not make it look professional enough and wanted to stick with the theme I had been envisaging. The reason I was looking a lot at the Ganguro make up was the way in which it was a modern and beautiful interpretation of a tribal 'witch hag' look. I particularly liked the way in which they used stickers on the skin to give a cutesy textured look. I figured this could be something to base my idea on and started researching more attractive ways of creating texture on the skin similar to that of the scarification.

I felt that the idea of using beads and jewels would be great and would work well in creating the new idea of interpretting scarification. Scarification is now just about the position of your tribe but also about the sensuality of the feeling on the texture on the skin. What would be better than using jewels to represent this to not only feel nice but to look nice.

As I am on a tight budget I began rummaging in my treasure chest (which I actually own) of old necklaces, bracelets, buttons and ribbons. I began pulling apart some old costume jewellery along with some feathers and began to design my new make up creation.

I decided that rather than the spots I was using around the eye I would expand on this and use the scarification/texture technique instead.

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