photoshoot one – pre production

For my photoshoot one I am focusing my photos on male gender norms to achieve this I am having my male model wear drag makeup. For this photoshoot I collaborated with Evan (my model) I let him take most control in what style he wanted to do and what he felt most confident in. before the shoot I did some research into the kind of make up I want to have and worked with Evan to see if he had ideas to add or if he felt we could improve the look.

when researching I was mainly inspired by 90’s glam as well as editorial looks. some artists I looked at were Alexa Demie and  Donna Davy, I was mostly inspired by their extravagant looks of sharp eyeliner and deep colours. Alexa Demie is a well known actor but inspires me mostly for her courageous make up, she mostly uses dark colours but can be occasionally seen adding colour or glitter to her looks. I wanted to focus on Demie’s neutral looks as I feel those colours will look best when I edit my photos, which I’m planning on doing in black and white.

 

               

(images from Alexa Demie’s instagram)

Donna Davy is well known for working as a make up artist on the show Euphoria, I took a lot of inspiration from this show as I love the aesthetic and the make up is always different and out going. I think Donna Davy’s looks are a lot more colourful than I want to attempt but a lot of the structure was inspired by her work.

                                      

(images from Donna Davy’s instagram)

another makeup artist me and Evan looked at was Crystal, Crystal is known from the season 1 of RuPauls drag race uk- season 1. I felt it was important we looked at a drag queens make up look as that is what I am inspiring to do. We are planning on making the look extremely extravagant by gluing Evans eyebrows and making them longer to completely transform his face.

                         

(images from Crystals instagram)