Reflection

'How have you changed in your attitudes or actions, and what have you learned. Explain what you think has caused you to change. Have you improved?' 

Before I decided to take the next step in life of university, I chose to take a year off to work. Mainly because I thought I was an adult who was independent and didn't need to be in education any more because I wanted to earn my own money. I was wrong...  I found it so hard working full-time, I was not ready for it, and I actually missed learning about new things. So I knew that when I got the next opportunity, I would apply for university, and it's been the best decision I've ever made. 

Coming to uni has made me grow and develop as a person. The people I've met have changed me for the better and helped me to over come things. The girls on my course have helped me to develop in areas that I used to struggle in. I never studying make-up before at college like most of the other girls on the course, so I was so nervous that I was going to get left behind and it made my anxiety develop further from this. But all the students and teachers helped me to calm down a bit and realise that I can do some of the things that I was afraid of before. 

I'm still unsure as to what area of make-up and hair that I want to go into, there's so many that I really can't decide yet! But then again, I am only going in to my second year. So far, I have learnt that I've been more interested in the hair side to the course than the make-up. This surprised me as I've always been so into special effects at halloween or face painting, along with actual make-up. I like how this has happened though, because it shows that I've really been getting involved and its making me change as a person. Who knows what this year is going to make me start to like? 

I've still got a lot to learn from this year and need to tackle the areas in which I find difficult to develop on. I believe my weak areas are will power, concentration and timing. I'm really lacking in will power, I believe this is because I had a year off and worked, so didn't really get back into the swing of writing blogs constantly and getting homework. I'm actually excited to start writing again after this summer so hopefully I'll pick it back up quickly. I feel I didn't concentrate as much as I could have last year. I chose to go out with my friends and spend time with them instead of working hard to get my work to the best possible standard that it could have been. When it comes to my timing of my work, this links in with my concentration too. Because I didn't concentrate enough, that meant that I had to do my work in a short amount of time. I hated doing this and I am not going to let it happen again this year. I have learnt from this and I am going to change it. 

I loved my first year at uni. There are somethings I would have changed when it came to my work, but at the same time, I wouldn't have changed thing because I had the best year, had some very good times and all while still passing my course and carrying onto the next year. I must not have done as bad as what I thought. I couldn't add possibly add all my favourite photos of what I've produced within this year, so I'll add a few that from the last year. 

Contemporary Elizabethan design

Contemporary Elizabethan hair

Gothic Horror - Quentin

Gothic Horror - Miss Havisham