We decided, because Liv has her hair down whilst lip syncing, she would have her hair up with a head band, flower and other various things on her head. We chose to do this because the colours in the make-up would be easier to see which is what we want because the whole idea of doing a lot of make-up was so when Liv cries it looks convincing because all of her make-up is smudged etc. Things in her hair, on her head and around would, one-by-one be taken off which symbolises that Liv is stripping herself of anything artificial and is being natural because she loves someone and is showing her true self. 
That is why when filming, we didn't want Liv's top to be seen because we only wanted the audience to see her bare shoulders to make it look like she has nothing to hide behind; 'this is me'. This turned out to be a bit of an issue thoughout- because liv wasn't miming, she was singing... so everytime she took a breath you could slightly see the top of her strapless top which made it look naff, this then made us film numerous times.
Laura did start doing Liv's make-up but it took too much time so in the end Liv did most of it herself because it was easier and we didn't have a lot of time left at this point. The shots we filmed with Liv wearing make-up will be used to convey serious emotion in our video. Although Liv looks sad when lip syncing she isn't crying, so we decided that (like Natasha Bedingfield - I Bruise Easily) we would get Liv to smudge
her make-up and cry. Because Liv couldn't properly cry she had a glass of water next to her where, she quickly ssprinkled drops of water on her face so it looked like tear drops. She also put water on her hands inbetween takes, so when she smudges her make-up it smudged more. Because Liv smudges her make-up and then wipes it off with a make-up wipe, we were under a lot of pressure to film it in one take because if there were any mistakes we would have had to wait for Liv put all of her make-up on again, luckily thios didn't happen and we were ok.This is what liv's make-up looked like before she cried it out and smudged it:
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