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we initially were going to blend the male and female face together – as if the ‘male model’ went to a surgeon and said “what could you do to make me female?” and the surgeon through the use of photoshop would bring his cheekbones in, lift his forehead, shave his adams apple down etc but this didn’t work as we couldn’t find a model with the same skin tone so it would have been to hard to blend. The Picasso route however is so abstract that we decided that using a white model would still create the same effect if the makeup was the same.

Makeup wise we decided to use peacock colours for the one eye as with peacocks, the male is the beautiful one and the woman is the ‘plain one’ which goes against the stereotypical conventions of what a male and female should be. We then used very bright makeup for the other eye so it would stand out against the otherwise plain features.

When we went to edit these photos it didn’t quite work as the male and females were to similar – although that was the purpose (so you would have to look at the shapes of the features to differentiate between the male and female) the image previously worked better with a ‘normal’ male face and a ‘made up’ female over the top for juxtaposition.