Final Evaluation....

Final Evaluation...

I kept my Estella make-up design quite simple due to her character mainly being represented as a classic beauty that is seen dressed in expensive long dresses paired with a flawless complexion and perfect make-up. However even though we commonly saw Estella presented in this way I chose to create her less glamorous side unfortunately. Towards the end of the novel we find out that she has married a horrible, heavy handed man. So I decided I wanted to include a black eye and cut lip in my final design. I also thought the juxtaposition between both the formal, clean, sleek hair paired with the opposing make-up was quite interesting visually. 

 Most of my peers chose to create her well-known, beautiful appearance however I chose to do the second but a very light interpretation of her unfortunate beat up self. I only included one quite faint black eye on her right eye with a cracked, bleeding lip. I definitely feel the coloured versions of the images look more effective than the black and white which is unlucky as the aim was to have to black and white images, a profile shot and a side shot.

Overall everything went to plan when shooting my first Miss Havisham look. However I think my design ended up looking much more contemporary than originally anticipated! A lot of my peers created a much more lighter, minimalistic design of her character where as mine included details such as a big, colourful flower headband sat on top of a huge hair structure.  

My Make-up design was quite subtle, I produced a light base to convey her lack of sunlight and applied a heavy brown on the eyelids and under the eye to create an aged, tired expression. The lips were covered using Duo eyelash glue with red supra colours on the top to form a cracked bleeding lip effect. Overall I think my design was quite successful however my make-up design lacked detail compared to my hair design which occupied most of my assessment time.

I had only attempted my hair design once including the flower head band as I had practised the shape I planned to create on the day a few times during our hair seminars with Seema. I thought the flower band might look slightly to modern due to its bright colours but I didn't want to dye them or make them look more grotesque when the rest of my design was already quite grim and dark. I always thought it was important to include a pretty and feminine element in my interpretation as her appearance is based on how she looked on her wedding day. I wanted her to still look quite elegant and pretty but a more gloomy, decrepit version of this. The crimped hair worked out to be much more effective than previously planned which was lucky as I only decided to this at the very last minute as I didn't know whether it would suit the flower headband.

However after prepping the hair by crimping it, it was much easier to style during the assessment. I back-combed the hair, heavily then pulled it through the headband and then pinned it up in a similar way to the French pleat but a much more informal version. Due to prepping the hair beforehand I was left with more time to focus on the make-up which I felt I could then concentrate and relax more on due to the extra time.

Both my Claudia and Quentin design went as planned. I enjoyed creating my Claudia design more than Quentin as I am more familiar with working on girls, however I found researching for Quentins look really interesting as I didn't realise how many varied looks I could create. 

For my final Claudia look I chose my skeleton inspired design. The hair was a very simple, sleek, wet look with a central parting to suit her femme fatale persona. The make-up however was more complex. It consisted of a lot of shading using black shadow which a lot of the time would leave fall out on the lighter, white skin areas. The final design really came together in the final shots as the dark, heavy make-up against a white, bare wall really helped give the design a lot of depth and shadow making her look a little more evil.   

My Quentin design was a little easier to decide on compared to my Claudia. I knew from the beginning that I wanted a quite handsome, well  groomed looking male with some added Gothic horror to  match her crazy character. I kept the hair quite simple again similar to Claudia's. Using wax I created the same sleek, wet look effect but kept a quiff in the fringe at the front, I also coloured it all in blue as I thought the juxtaposition between the red face and blue hair really added to his rebellious, passionate persona.