Lesson 3: Fashion Magic

*F a s h i o n M a g i c*

Selena, the Cat Queen of Fashion Magic, she shall teach this lesson! Please Note: For the FULL lesson, prepared by Eyre Greening, please go to: http://ca.geocities.com/eyres_owl/Beausim/intro.html Cheers, Swishykins

meow.... purrrrrr..... Welcommmmme, My name is Selena, Prof Swish has asked me if I could help him teach this unit, just so you know, My name is Selena, although I said that already, I am a psychic cat and belong to Prof Swish's mother, purrrrr (*stops to lick paw*) I hope you enjoy this unit... especially all those little witches out there...... and maybe afterwards, you could give my belly a bit of a scratch? purrrrrrrrrrr..........

Many wizards and witches these days find that they look too plain and boring the way they are, so, they turn to a form of Image Changing Magic known as Beauism or Fashion Magic. It can change the state or colour of your hair, the length of your nails, remove warts, add Lipwand (Wizard exquivilent of the Muggle Lipstick) in an instant. One of the most popular Beausim Spell these days in the hair department (*stops to lick her paws*).... meow..... is the Gorgonian Hair Hex. It turns your hair to live snakes (Gorgon --> as in Medusa of Greece). Unlike most spells, Beausim Spells are cast upon your self. (see diagram below, A: Normal Spell Casting direction, the wand is pointed at the other parrrrrrty. B: Fashion Magic spell casting direction, the wand is pointed towards your body, so the spell will take effect on you, no special wand movements are needed, just the old Point and Recite Technique).

Also, most Beausim spells have a time limit for how long they take effect for:
                * Hair Spells: 14 days
                * Nails & Eyes: 1 week
                * Skin & Makeup: 48 hours
                * Other: 1 day - 6 weeks depending

Most spells in Beausim can be classified into 5 main groups:
                * Anamalia Beausim: The Gorgonian Hair Hex is in this category, as this section deals with changing body parts (hair, arms etc), into animals.
                * Gothodica Beausim: The changing of hair and skin colours into multi colours, patterns or just a slight change or base colour look (black, green etc) Also involves changing the colour and appearance of clothing.
                * Lightdicticsol Beausim: Concerns make-up application and old style Muggle fashion
                * Updatechno Beausim: Concerns fashion spells in the style of the (*stops to lick paw*) meowwwww Japanese Teenage Muggles and other zany muggle hair styles. This branch also stems into Gothodica, with changing the colour of the hair. As you can see, Fashion Magic is a very confused strain!
                * Misculinto Beausim: Anything that doesn't seem to fit in the other groupings

Beausim is very popular amoung pre teen-teen-young adult wizards and witches.

Some Example of People who have cast different Beausim Spells on themselves

This witch has cast the Gorgonian Hair Hex on herself, this comes under the Anamalia Beausim category

This witch has used Gothodica to make her dress seem tattered and to change the colour of it.

These Japanese Witches and Wizards are a classic example of Updatechno Beausim, as you can see, the spells make the hair seem to defy gravity and it changes the colour dramatically.

This wizarding family has used the form of Fashion Magic called Lightdicticsol to make their clothing appear 1800's in style, they have also used it to give their hair the same look.

These witches have used the Misculinto Beausim to make their hair and bodies look like the Muggle substance called Plastic.

Homework And Assignments (This work need not be sent in until the end of term, as there is a fair bit of it! Please send all of it as ONE E-MAIL!!!!) Spell Design

You are to design 5 spells, one for each category of Beausim. They must be in the following format:

Spell Name:
Incantation:
Pronounciation of Incantation:
Spell Effect:
Other Details of Spell:

Some Examples are:
                                A spell that turns your skin into a warm, furry jacket
                                A spell that turns your fingernails into fish scales
                                A spell that makes your hair change colour every hour.
                                A spell that turns your eyes into diamonds
(please do not use example, points will be taken if I see a spell that does any of the above)

Picture Finder

Find a picture on the net of a "witch or wizard" who seems to have used Fashion Magic on themselves. Write approx. 3 short paragraphs on what you think they changed and what spells it seems they have used, also say what branch of Beausim they seem to have used. Send the picture you used as well as the paragraphs.

Witch Fashion Magazine

You are to write a short or long article for a Witching Fashion magazine known as Witch Fashion, you may include pictures of "witches and wizards" showing the latest trend in wizard fashion using Beausim. You could do a Dolly-style quiz (eg. Cackling Good Looks: Do I Have What It Takes?) or maybe a step by step guide to how to make yourself look witchy wonderful for that big Witches Meeting and Cheesy Whiners night.
They must be in .html or .htm format, all pieces (this is not optional, though all homework to be done in this unit is not due till the end of the Wand Unit, that's the end of the term) and will be transformed into a Fashion Magic mag in the Charms library (coincidentally called Witch Fashion?)
The e-mail, it must be seperate to the others must be subject: Lesson 3: Witch Fashion Magazine
The attachments can be up to 700kb, more if zipped up. You must include your HOL name and Student ID with the mail.

Here is an example of a briefly outlined step by step guide on how to make yourself look witchy (could use something like this for a guide, you should also include spells though for each change!!!)

Plain You---> Gothodica spell to change hair colour---> Anamalia spell to make eyes look like that of a tiger---> Updatechno spell to make hair stand on end and defey gravity---> Gothodica spell to make pure white skin look Mediterranean (olive complexion)---> Misculinto spell to make ears slightly smaller---> Lightdicticsol spell to make robes look old

Words to know:

fashion victim n.
a slavish follower of trends in fashion.

beautiful /"bju:tîfWl/, /-f(…)l/ adj.
1 delighting the aesthetic senses (a beautiful voice).
2 pleasant, enjoyable (had a beautiful time).
3 excellent (a beautiful specimen).
VV beautifully adv.

hair /hE:/ n.
1 a any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of mammals, esp. from the human head. b these collectively (his hair is falling out).
2 a an artificially produced hairlike strand, e.g. in a brush. b a mass of such hairs.
3 anything resembling a hair.
4 an elongated cell growing from the epidermis of a plant.
5 a very small quantity or extent (also attrib.: a hair crack).
V get in a person's hair colloq.
encumber or annoy a person. keep one's hair on Brit. colloq.
remain calm; not get angry. let one's hair down colloq.
abandon restraint; behave freely or wildly. make one's hair stand on end
alarm or horrify one. not turn a hair
remain apparently unmoved or unaffected.
VV haired adj. (also in comb.). hairless adj. hairlike adj.
Old English hÆr, from Germanic

The ideas presented in this lesson are from the brain of Clinton Moore, if you wish to use them please contact me at my e-mail address: [email protected]

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