Creating a bruised eye on Beccy.

I recently created a bruised eye effect on my peer Beccy, she allowed me to practice this effect on her as we had learnt how to create a bruised eye earlier that day in Sues lesson, but I didn't have enough time to swap with my partner and practice myself. Because of this Beccy allowed to practice it on her in my spare time. I feel that I successfully created a bruised eye and enjoyed it a lot too, I chose to use my Ben Nye bruise wheel to create this bruised eye effect. Before I created this bruised eye I looked at some images of all types of bruises, I ended up choosing a image of a black fresh bruised eye.

I began to create the bruised eye by making sure the area of skin I was working on was clean and primed slightly as I didn't want the skin to be dewy or too oily. After prepping the skin, I began to apply darker blue,black and purple shades in the inner corner of the eye, using my Kryolan supra colour palette and also my bruise wheel. I gradually built up and then blended out the colours using my fingers and eye shadow brushes. 

To improve this bruised eye I would use more red/pinkish tones to create more colouration and broken blood vessels on the skin, this would have added more effect. I also would have extended the bruise on the edge of the nose a little too so that it appeared more extreme and painful.