The document discusses the makeup choices for various scenes in a music video for the song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". For the main scenes, a dramatic red lip and bold eye makeup was chosen to make the main character stand out. Simple makeup was used for bedroom scenes to look more natural. Glittery lip makeup was applied for ski slope scenes to look dramatic and winter-themed. Different hair and makeup styles were designed for supporting characters to contrast with the main character and enhance various scenes. Before and after photos showed the transformation from natural to finished makeup looks.

1. FINAL MAKE UP
Girls Just Want to Have Fun – Cyndi Lauper
Amber Liman

2. MAIN ACTOR
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My make up was the most important as I was the main character in the video. Therefore,
we worked together to decide on different make up for each scene. I looked at other
media texts to get inspiration and I found Rihanna’s album cover for “Loud” and an
image on the “popular page” on Instagram I thought that her make up choices were really dramatic
and they made her stand out, something we wanted me
to do in our own video. I discussed this with the rest of
my group and they agreed that the red lips and big eyes
would be good for the main close ups of our video.
I really liked how different this make up choice was
and it was really striking, which made it perfect for a
fun music video. I thought this would be good for the
ski scenes, as it stood out and looked almost frosty.

3. WHITE BACKGROUND
As mentioned before, I thought that Rihanna’s
“Loud” make up for her album cover was really
effective. As this shot was a mid shot, the
audience can clearly see my face, which is why
the make up was so important. We decided on a
Rimmel London “Berry Red” Lipstick because it
was a really deep red which stood out against my
skin tone. For my eyes, we used a Max Factor
“Mass Effect” mascara and some false lashes. As
this made my eyes big and bold. For my hair we
decided to keep it straight and simple, as the
make up itself was so bold.

4. “BEDROOM SCENES”
For the bedroom scenes, I wanted my make up to
be simple as it was to show that the character
has been woken up from a sleep. I added a light
moisturiser to my face yet took of my previous
red lipstick and false eye lashes to make it look
more realistic.
This simple choice of make up was used to
highlight the naturalism of the video. I put my hair
into a simple pony tail as we found that that
stayed in the longest, whilst still looking realistic.

5. “LONDON SCENES”
My London make up choices were probably
more simple as supposed to the other major
scenes. However, this is because we wanted to
experiment with my hair more. I did wear false
eye lashes again yet for my lips, I decided to
have a simple pink shade that wasn’t as
striking, yet complemented my skin tone.
My hair started out by having curls, as well as
the quiff seen in the picture. However, as it was
raining of the filming day, the curls gradually
came out. I therefore decided to wear it straight,
yet add more lift to the quiff to make it more
dramatic.

6. “DRY SKI SLOPE SCENES”
We felt that the dry ski slope scenes would be
the hardest to design make up for, as we
would be moving at a pace and my face
wouldn’t have been seen as much.
However, we decided to incorporate glitter into
the make up choices, as it gave a really
dramatic effect. I mostly added the glitter to my
lips, covering them completely which enabled
us to take an extreme close up of them, which
we used in the final video. We thought that the
glitter went well with the ski slope part of the
video because when you think of skiing you
think of snow, and glitter is usually associated
with winter, which we felt enhanced the fun
and girly side to the video.

7. “MUM”
For the make up for the “Mum” we wanted it
quite simple, she wore mascara to
emphasise her important facial expressions.
The main part however, was that we asked
our actor to wear glasses. We felt this this
gave a typical authority figure trait and
this, along with her folded arms and angry
expression, enabled this character and
scene to look more realistic. This is
something we needed to achieve as
obviously our actor was not old enough to
have a teenage daughter, which enhanced
the comic effect.

8. FIRST FRIEND – STEPH
Steph’s make up design was relatively similar
to mine in the “London” scenes. She wore
striking false eye lashes which made her eyes
bigger and dramatic, which is what we wanted
to achieve. She wore simple lip gloss on her
lips which gave them a subtle shine.
For her hair, she wore it curled as we wanted
our hair to at first be similar. But as my curls
fell out, it was nice to see the contrast of the
dramatic curls against the quiff I wore.

9. SECOND FRIEND - JESS
Jess’ make up was also quite simple. We did this
as we wanted the main attention to be on my
striking lip make up. She wore her hair down with
slight waves to give off a girly vibe in the scene.
She then had thick mascara on and foundation,
which gave her some colour in contrast to the pale
white location choice.
We found that the Ski Slope scenes were the
hardest to style as we moved around a lot more
than the previous scenes shot. However, we were
lucky that both mine and jess’ make up stayed on
in time to shoot the scene.

10. BEFORE – AFTER
This is the before and
after shots to show the
progression between
the make up choices. I
applied the make up to
all of our actors and
thought about each
make up choice before
finally completing the
finished product.