Practice on dark Make-up

During one of our sessions we were aske to create a look that we saw on the papers that our teacher gave us. These looks were based on various avat-garde designs. Here is mine:

I have decided to create a full look that includes not only make up but hair as well. It is an avant-garde look inspired from that picture I had to copy and I would defenetely use it for a catwalk. I completed the look creating a hight placed ponytail adding some dry shampoo to create the white line. I decided to make this line in the hair to give an extra touch.It completes the look with a light point that make to attract the attention even more.

Final Evaluation

    Overall,  I'm pleased with all the designs I've done and the final looks I managed to create.

    If talking about the first part of the project: "Continuity". The task was to create a look suitable for Miss Havisham's character from Great Expectation and then to recreate exactly the same look. It was an interesting experience, but at the same time demanding.I found it challenging to recreate same the same colour tones, textures, lines, the same length of the curls and exactly the same number of curls. Regardless all these details I'm happy with the final result even tough there are some mistakes as for example the skin tone, the smudged lips and the special effect of dry skin on the cheek-bone.

     Regarding the second part of the project which was creating the look for another character from the Great Expectation: Estella. This part of the project was easy from a technical point of view, but I found it difficult from the creative aspect. All the designs I created for this character were too much for a simple Victorian look. I love to let my creative spirit free, thing that I found very hard to do, especially in this part of the project.
    I think it was a really nice experience, I'm also very glad we have studied how to create special effects and I've also realized that this kind of make-up, especially the special effects, are not the job I'd like to do in my future. I enjoyed doing them but I realized that creating and doing some more creative looks as for fashion shows or even editorial make-up would be something more adapt for me. Also during the sessions while I was creating my special effects, at every single lesson the teacher was saying that my work was mor " Fashion" than "Realistic".

Dark eyes and perfect lips

We had a practical session in which we studied how to crete perfect black eyes: we had to try to crete the look we were given, and here is the result:

This is the design I had to follow:

I didn't apply any foundation or ather products. I was concentrated to create only the eye make-up and the perfect shape of the lips. I am happy with the resul because it came as I expected it to be.

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.