Estella- final look

Estella's look was natural suitable with the Ideal Victorian look:

 

 

I believe it is a suitable look for Estella's character with very soft and delicate line. Unfortunatly my model couldn't take off her piercing but if she was without it, I think the make-up and the hair are suitable for thi character.

Miss Havisham- final result and continuity

Miss Havisham's first part of the assessment consisted of creating the look as we designed it, and here is the result:

The second part of the assessment consisted of creating exactly the same look as it was the continuity assessment:

 I'm quite happy with my result, even though there are some differences between the first and the second make-up. I'm not really happy with the lips, probably the base is whiter and maybe too much red colour under the eyes.

Estella's hair for the assessment

This is the hair design for the Estella's assessment. It is an early Victorian hairstyle. It consists of a middle parting on the top of the head. Each part is with straight hair that cover the ears in a soft way which ends are going towads behind..... Behind the head I wanted to create a bun which in my design is situated quite law but I changes it in a higher bun during the assessment. On the bottom side of the bun are falling some curls that make the design to look more mid-Victorian style.

Miss Havisham's hair for the assessment

   This is my hair design for the Miss Havisham's assessment. My idea was to create an early Victorian hairstyle but in messy way, as my character is ambiented in a period which is aproximately 5 years after the wedding.
   My design consists of a middle parting  of the front part of the hair and curled. One side has to be longer than the other one and I thought to go with finger through the hair to make them look disordered. Behind,I thought to make a high bun wich doesn't have to be a perfect circle with the bottom part left free down and curled. The bottom part wich is not part of the bun are curled as well in a messy way but is not well seen and the veil covers all the part behind.

Dead mask

After a seminar in which the main topic was "Death", where we talked about Memento Mori as well, we were asked to create a dead mask that I found an interesting task. Here is my first result:

BEFORE:

AFTER: 

After that I experienced at home on myself as well :

Creating Estella's look

     For our informal part of the assessment we had to create a look for one of the characters from the Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Estella. Here are my creations:

This is my first look that I created for Estella's character. I tried to maintain a natural look but still contouring a little the face. I also wanted to put in avidence the eyes by applying the mascara and some black eyeshadow aroung the eye-line. Also on the eyes I thought to apply a soft make-up with a light brown colour on the eye-lid. A peachy (very natural and light colour) as a blusher. And glossy redish lips.

I thought that this look could be good for a modern version of Estella, because As I needed to maintain the aspect of that particular period of time, the make-up must be as natural as possible, nearly invisible on the camera, because these are what the Victorian Beauty required.

    This is my second design for the same cahracter, Estella. This make-up includes a natural make-up for eyes and natural skintones tor the face, with peachy blusher a little bit of contouring. The lips are glossy pink. A detail that I think captures everyone's attention from my point of view are the eyelashes. I left myself go and I thought that this make-up would look great with fake eyelashes on the upper lid and small pieces of eyelashes on the bottom lids on the outter corners.
    I created this make-up thinking of a fashion catwalk with a topic based on Charles Dickens' character - Estella. And I think it can be very suitable as it is rafinated, natural and soft make-up but that still has a modern touch.

This is the last face chart that I also used as the one for the assessment. I tried to represent a natural look that consists of foundation a a light contouring; a peachy pink blush. On the eyes I wanted a natural make-up in which is used just some highlighter on the innercorner of the eye and under the eyebrow, and a darker shade (brownie) eyeshadow on the outter part of the eyelid. I also applyed some mascara. The lips, I wanted to keep them of a natural colour that tends to pink, even if on my face chart it looks orange.

Films or TV series with Victorian hairstyles

There are films and TV series which script is based on Victorian era. Consequently in this films or TVseries the make-up, hairstyles and costumes are represening the fashion of that time. I will make some examples of films and TV series which are based on that period of time.

• Wives and Daughters (mini TV series)- This is a 1999 TVseries based on a story about a daughter of a country doctor copes with an unwanted stepmother, an impetuous stepsister, burdensome secrets, the town gossips, and the tug on her own heartstrings for a man who thinks of her only as a friend. Persons who created and took care about actors' looks are: Karen Edwards (hair stylist / makeup artist (1 episode, 1999)), Sarah Grispo (hair stylist / makeup artist (1 episode, 1999)), Lesley Smith (hair stylist / makeup artist (1 episode, 1999)), Lisa Westcott (hair designer / makeup designer (1 episode, 1999)).
      The reason why I've chosen to bring this TV series as an example of Films with Visctorian hairstyles is because in TV series usually there are many characters and there we can see a big variety of Victorian hairstyles.
  
   
    
  • David Copperfield (1999)- This is a film based on Charles Dickens' novel. It is a semi-autobiographical taleof a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph incredible adversities. Through the cast we can see the following names: Janita Doyle (hair stylist / makeup artist), Paul Gooch (hair stylist / makeup artist), Caroline Noble (hair designer / makeup designer), Lesley Smith (hair stylist / makeup artist). These are the persons who worked on actors make-up and hairstyles.
        This film is a very famous film that I chose to bring as an example because it is not only about beauty or a love story ast the previous TV series I was talking before, But is more about lifestyle of that times.

• The Young Victoria (2009)- This is a film that dramatize the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. This is the right film to watch if you want to know more about Victorian era, about her fisr years of rule and about English people of that perion of time. People who worked on actors look are: Francesco Alberico     (hair artist / makeup artist), Kate Benton     (hair artist / makeup artist), Mandy Gold     (hair artist / makeup artist), Jon Henry Gordon (hair stylist), Ashley Hill (hair trainee / makeup trainee), Joe Hopker (makeup artist), Susan Howard (makeup artist), Geraldine Jones (hair artist / makeup artist), Julie Kendrick (hair artist: crowd / makeup artist: crowd), Gary Machin (hair artist / makeup artist), Veronica McAleer (makeup artist: Mr. Bettany), Liz Michie (hair artist / makeup artist), Laura Morse (hair artist / makeup artist), Richard Muller (hair artist / makeup artist), Rosie Octon (hair trainee / makeup trainee), Marc Pilcher (hair stylist), Kath Rayner (hair artist / makeup artist), Maralyn Sherman (hair artist / makeup artist), Jenny Shircore (hair designer / makeup designer), Andrew Simonin (hair artist / makeup artist), Sam Smart (hair artist / makeup artist), Julia Vernon (chief crowd hair stylist / makeup artist: crowd), Ursula Adelhelm (daily makeup trainee), Corinne Bossu (makeup dailies), Kathryn Fa (crowd hair stylist), Louise Fisher (makeup artist), Sharon Holloway (crowd makeup artist: dailies), Uxue Laguardia (makeup artist), Kristyan Mallett (prosthetics designer/supplier), Cara Parry (daily makeup trainee), Gilly Popham (hair stylist / makeup artist), Tinks Reding (dailies makeup artist), Alex Rouse (wig maker), Rupert Simon (additional hair stylist / additional makeup artist), Rachael Speke (hair stylist: crowd, daily / makeup artist: crowd, daily).
  

Continuity. What does it mean and why is it important for films and TV?

    Working a s a Make-up artist on a film set gives you a big amount of responsabilities. First of all it is important to know that make-up artists for a film set are devided in 2 categories, based on the area of the actor's body being made up:

• A make-up artist who is allowed to apply cosmetics only from the top of the head to the top of the breastbone, from fingertips to wrists and from toes to ankles.
• A body make-up artist who applies cosmetics as required to any other areas of the actor's body. While the regular make-up artist generally works throughout filming, the body make-up artist is hired per day when needed.

    Film make-up artists also vary with their responsabilities on the set. For example there is Key make-up artists who is in charge with the make-up department of a film. The Key make-up artist is also called Make-up designer(heard more often). This person has to read the script and dicuss with the film director and the screenweiter all the details required in the film. After that the key make-up artist designs the make-ups and the special effects that are going to be used in the film. The key make-up artist also hires additional make-up artists for the film, sets their work schedule and supervises them during production.
    There are also Senior Make-up artists, who oversees the work of the other make-up artists and usually become primarily responsible for continuity. This means making sure that actors' make-up remains the same or changes as filming requires, such as the addition of scars after an accident or evidence of aging as the film progresses.
    Continuity is a very important detail for a film or TV series. To have a film done usually required a very long time that means that also the scenes are filmed in diferent periods of time. Sometimes the actor needs to be refilmed in the same scene with the same make-up, the same hair-style and the same costume after days or weeks from the previous filming. All the details have to be exactlu the same as they were before, because every film needs to look realistic. For continuity, the make-up artist probably will make his own notes and maybe even shoot photos of the actor in make-up. During the day, the make-up artist or an assistant will touch up the actor's make-up and change it as required by the scenes being filmed.

Links: http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/movie-make-up-artist2.htm

Practicing Miss Havisham's look

During our make- up lessons I have practiced the design for the assessment:

I also practiced the look in our freetime during the weekends for being more prepared for the assessment:

In the final design for the assessment I thought to make the lips bolder and also not to smudge them with a sponge as I did here, but with the brush and usig the fingers,like here:

Ideas for Miss Havishim's look

Apart from the design I pubblished before for creating my Miss Havisham's look I experimented with some other designs as well:

With this design I tried to show a kind of old Miss Havisham, this is why she has wrinkles on her forehead and around her eyes. Using the redish colour under the eyes I wanted to show her being tired, and I also thought that it could show her broken heart. I left the lips with no colour because I thought to make them look dry and pale. The reason why I didn't choose this face chart as the final one is because I think the eye make-up is too sophisticated to be right for the Victorian age, as during that perios they didn't wear a lot of make up, because the real beaty was considered the natural beauty.

The other design for this project was the following in which I wanted to represent Miss Havisham in some years after her wedding disapointment. This is the reason why I didn't want her to look old, but I still wanted to make her look tired making circles under her eyes, and for showing the passing of the time I thought to make her lips look pale and dry and making dry skin on her right cheek bone. The upper part of the eyes are dark because in my point of view it makes her look cruel and at the same time the eye make-up is not simetrical because in some years after the wedding her actual make-up cannot look as perfect as it was during the wedding day. So I decided to maintain the idea of this design for my  final design but still changing some details.

This is the final design that I used during the assessment for this project. In this design I kept the semplicity of the previous one , but still adding several details. I also kept the dry skin on the cheek-bone trying to make it obvious on the facechart using the latex.  Using the dark colours around the inner corners of the eyes I wanted to show the dark circles around the eyes, so that it can give the impression of a tired person but at the same time trying to create the look of the person who had difficulties and disapointments in their life. The broken- hearted persons don't care about their looks and especially in Dickens' description, Miss Havisham never changed her look as well as anything in her day by day life, after the criel disapointment she had. I added redness around her eye-lines to make all these characteristics look more obvious. Also she has smudged red lips, besed also on the principle of imperfection as in years after the wedding the make-up cannot be as perfect as it was during the ceremony. The lips are of a deep red because I iamgine Miss Havisham biteing her lips till they are bleeding and having as well some reshish lipstick from her wedding day and also when drinking water I imagine her drying her moth by smudging the deep red coulour she har on her lips.