Same start as yesterday, only much more drained. I was also a lot less moody than I was last night. Maybe to do with getting a lift home, and not having to avoid any Cholos.

Much the same at school too really, except there was less induction and more learning. I've got to get re-used to this. Apparently, every morning there will be a demonstration, with a practical in the afternoon. Having already avoided the eyebrow plucking from yesterday, I was hoping both Arthur and I might be able to skip this too... we weren't.

Lunch had ended and it was time to set up our kit, much the way the one pictured above appeared. Obviously, the demo pictured above was nothing like my setup.

We were each paired off with another student in the class, and will be on rotation for the next 6 weeks, just so that we all work on eachother. I was paired with a girl called Elaine, who was kind enough to let me go first. We were given about an hour each to recreate the demonstration of a natural skin makeup on eachother (yes, eachother), which would then be photographed, and eventually added to out portfolio. Luckily, I'd been paying attention to the morning demonstration, and using my four pages of notes, knew this would be a doddle*. My very first attempt at applying foundation, adding highlights and undertones, brushing on blusher, drawing eyebrows, curling eyelashes, putting on mascara, and applying lip-gloss, actually went surprisngly well. I'm not sure Merielle, the teacher, wanted me to take almost 2 hours, but I think she was pleased with the end result.

After having my finest work photographed, it was my turn in the chair. Luckily for me, Elaine is a girl, and so has obviously done this before... just not on a man. She also did very well, giving me an excellent foundation, beautiful blushed cheeks, some nice even eyebrows (drawn on: no one is plucking ME!), carefully curling my lushes lashes, adding mascara and topping it off with some shimmering lip-gloss, I was ready for a night on the town!

Unfortunately, it's a school night, and I still had another class to attend; Creature Maquette Sculpture. There's not much to say about the class or what we did, other than Jim Kagel is one of the nicest guys I've ever met; extremely helpful and a great tutor. I've started to block out the main skeletal area of the skull where I think the key areas will be, but there's still a hell of a lot to do to get it looking the way i want. Heavily influenced by Wes Benscoter, "The Thing", Cliver Barker's Tortured Souls, and some random photos of deformities I found, I'll keep adding a photo or two to show my progress over the next two weeks. I've no idea how I'll get it home in one piece.

I was going to keep this short, as i have it all to do again tomorrow. Luckily, the homework for tonight, is what I read last night... I read the wrong section yesterday.

*Clearly, this is a lie