Journal# 4

Karina Rodriguez March5, 09
Journal #4

Today morning was a little shaky. As I walked into the back door where all the students have to go through theirs always a security guard there to make sure that only the students are going in. She asked me if I had a student ID. In my mind I was like duuuh obviously not I’m not a student here. She said that I needed to get an ID in order to go in. I was mad because she already seen me three times how could she not know who I am?? So I walked to the front door, and told the reception lady what was going on, she knew who I was so she just told me not to worry about it. I was put in a class room today because Suheiry, and Samantha the girls who I’m always with are now moving to a different teacher to learn about color, and cuts. I was a little happy because I got to learn about something different now, and the teacher was Ms. Cindy. She was the one I talked to my first day there who use to be a makeup artist in New York. Now that I was going to be in her class I was probably going to be able to talk to her more about her experience as a makeup artist. When I walked into her class I spotted Suheiry and Samantha so I immediately grabbed a chair next to them. The teacher first started talking about color formulas, and how their really important to use when dealing with color. “She gave different scenarios where if she was the client, and she’d pick a student to do the color formula they would have to do for that client. Like for example she was like what if I was a lady that had 50% of grey hair, and I wanted to cover it all with color. So then the student had to figure out the formula for it. The formulas were pretty difficult; I didn’t really understand them well. Then we would het like 10 minute breaks every half an hour. She started getting into makeup and said that makeup is the same way. She said that makeup is just like hair color that it’d important to use a color chart. Like if someone has really red skin that it’s important to use warm colors on their skin, and if someone is more of a yellow skin tone then cool colors are better on their skin. I asked her about concealers because last week I was doing a couple of my friend’s makeup, and two of them had really bad dark circles under their eyes. I thought hey don’t worry with concealer that’ll fix the problem. Yea right when I went to put the concealer under their eyes it was turning a grayish color. I was thinking it was the eyeliner, or mascara that was turning it that color. So I cleaned it with a tissue, when I went to put on the concealer again the same problem came up. Ms. Cindy said that the problem was that I needed to put these special color applicators that are speacialized for that. She said that it’s like the color chart like if someone has bluish circles under their eye I would have to use the red color to put under their eye, and then their concealer on top. She said even if I don’t have those color concealers I could use color lipsticks instead because it’ll still get the job done. That’s pretty interesting and amazing to know that could fix eye circles, but not only is that for eye circles that’s for bruises, or even blemishes. I’ll definitely be using that technique when ever that problem comes up again. A student then participated to get her hair colored by a student. The girl’s hair color was like a brown, and wanted to dye it like a reddish color. Before applying the color the student applied a cream barrier to the forehead which is used to protect the skin from being stained. She then applied the color. It was already the end of the day so I didn’t get to see how the color came out, hopefully next class I’ll be able to see it!!