Initial Chapter Ideas
Jealousy
I want to explore the concept of jealousy because I think its fascinating how its in your head as an emotional response. How can it be transferred to an outward expression? I will avoid cliche responses like green makeup and attempt to tackle this in a much more fashion forward, though provoking way, like using hair as an extension of the body and skin.
Cracks and Growth
Everybody has cracks in their personality and everybody grows from them. How can I show this through makeup and the skin? The duality of these points really interest me and I think it could make for some really interesting photography. There is another side to this concept that celebrates the textural differences in the skin. In my opinion there is not enough work in the beauty industry that does this - yes, race and skin colour diversity has been celebrated and continues to be, but how about birth marks? Wrinkles? Scars? As someone with scars and textures all over my skin I really want to have a project that celebrates this. How can all of these factors relate to, or be perceived in the fashion industry?
Identity
This comes from the idea that the skin is the first thing about a person that we see, and how we decide their identity at face value. I'm really interested to see how this can be achieved and portrayed through skin and think it could be quite a poignant statement on identity. Our skin is seen by so many as our main identity. How can we manipulate this and can, by changing things on the outside, we change whats on the inside? Testing this connection will be a huge component in looking at human condition.
Stress
The body reacts in many ways to stress. Hair can fall out, faces can turn red. For me, my eczema flairs up. The connection between inner thought patters (e.g. the stress) and the outer responses is really interesting to me and is why I want to include this into my project.
