Final Miss Havisham Assessment - Round 1

In this assessment we had to create our final Miss Havisham look in an hour and half, we are then required to do the exact same thing 2 weeks after. Here is my design that I am going to have to work off for the next assessment. I personally think it came out really well and I am thoroughly pleased with what it looks like, the main struggle will be to make it look a spit of what I have done here. With a lot of practice it will be doable, the main concern is the duo and colouring the duo as this basically has a mind of it's own and can work in your favour but also can be a massive hindrance.

FINAL LOOK

Front

Back, under veil

Front Angled

Final Miss Havisham Practices

PRACTICE 1 (MAKE UP)

My first practice was mainly to get my inital ideas out and onto the skin, I didn't expect it to go exactly to plan. I am happy with the outcome but this was the stage I decided to add the psoriasis near the scalp which is why it is missing.


PRACTICE 2 (MAKE UP & HAIR)

My second practice was when I had decided to add the dry skin around the forehead and I think it works really well, you can see my link to colour a lot clearer in this image although I felt the contour on the cheeks was slightly too purple as I wanted it more red toned. The eye bags have worked really well, however I think the dry skin on the cheek was slightly too dark, I don't want it completely obvious just a sore dry patch.

This was my first attempt at my hair design and greying of the hair properly, to grey this hair I used a mascara wand and supra colour, I like this technique (on the back only) but it did take quite a lot time and the model mentioned that she felt some discomfort of pulling the hair when I did this. I think the curls need to be messed up a little more and dry shampoo to be sprayed onto them.


PRACTICE 3 (MAKE UP & HAIR)

Out of all 3 practices this one if my favorite; it came up really natural and realistic on camera yet she still looks disgusting (intentionally) the only concern that I have would be that I have taken the contour too far down on the cheek and what I really need to do is bring it slightly back but also make it darker if I want it really obvious which I do. Front on it looks okay, but when turned to the side, I don't really like it.

This hair just had dry shampoo on and I think it worked a lot better in creating the dusty as well as old look and I really like the way the hair design looks her.

This is the final look all together as a whole, including the veil and flowers, I am really impressed with the way it has come out and hopefully it will go the same/better in the next few assessments.

Final Miss Havisham Hair and Make Up Ideas

MAKE UP

(IDEA 3 + FINAL DESIGN)

This is my final face chart that I am going to be using for my Miss Havisham design. As I have previously stated I have been looking at Victorian interior's as a colour reference, the colours used were very rich deep tones like ruby reds and purples for example. I have chose to incorporate my original idea of using these colours but this time make them seem more realistic rather than artistic which was my initial idea. Not only will I use a deep brown on the contour but I will also incorporate a rich, ruby red to give the illusion the skin is sore. Due to the age that I am recreating Miss Havisham her wrinkles won't be ridiculously obvious, just slight - enough for the camera to pick up. Chapped lips will also be on my model, mostly relating to the conditions Miss Havisham lived in. I have also put dry skin on the cheek and hair line mainly because I want it to look like psoriasis which relates to stress which was caused by her fiance leaving her. Originally I was going to do the hand but I have decided against it mainly because I don't think I would have time during the assessment. I decided that I was going to do Miss Havisham at the age she was when Estella was just leaving home, so not ridiculously old and grey but ever so slightly.

http://hardinmd.lib.uiowa.edu/pictures22/
dermnet/Psoriasis_Chronic_Plaque_292.jpg

PSORIASIS EXAMPLE

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons
/1/1c/INTERIOR_OF_COMMANDANT'S_HOUSE.jpg

VICTORIAN INTERIOR EXAMPLE

HAIR

I have decided to keep my final hair design quite simple as I mainly want to concentrate on the continuity of my final piece rather than the intricate detailing and I thought the hardest part of it would be to make the hair very similar. I have gone for an early victorian look as the look I was going for was for her to try and keep her hair style the same as her wedding day which was based in the early victorian era. I have gone for the plaits either side of her face rolling towards her face and a twisted bun at the back of the head with 2 plaits to wrap around the bun. This whole look will be then messed up and backcombed a bit and then made to be grey to show age as well as dust settling on her hair. My model has a lot longer hair than this so the curls wont be as tight and as high as I would like them to be but I don't mind. I will also add a veil and flowers to the look which I have made myself, I have tea stained them to give them that aged effect.


Below is the flower element of the veil that I have made.

Victorians and the Art of Dying

In today;s society we have this very negative connotation in relation to death, we try and block out the fact that it is inevitable. The Victorians on the other hand celebrated death - made it into a grand thing - mourned for months, wore clothes that represented them mourning and slowly but surely, in their own time they got over their deceased. I found the idea of this rather quite beautiful however some of the techniques used to remember the dead/give them a 'Good death' was actually exceptionally creepy.

After a death had occurred, the ones that had been affected wore head to toe black and slowly reduced this colour as they started to improve, I personally thought this concept was great; people would give you the space and respect you were after.

Momento Mori was this idea of having something physical from the loved one that had died, for example a locket of their hair woven into a beautiful design that they wore in remembrance of their loved one.  

http://stoneplus.cst.cmich.edu/zoogems/hair-brooch.JPG

Families would make their dead children pose for photos whilst they held them, again, to have a physical copy of them. Death masks were also created to remember the dead - a plaster or clay cast of their face was made and kept.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
thumb/f/f9/001Paskal.JPG/220px-001Paskal.JPG

We were then asked to create a death mask of our own, however, not from the use of plaster cast but using make up to try and create the dramatic lighting that these masks have.

This was the first one I created in my lesson, I like it but I feel some areas need to be a lot darker to really give the impression that the face should actually be stone

I then created another one at home on myself, again with the same lighting (from the side of the face) so one half would be a lot darker. I really like this one as I worked on what I felt my flaw was in my previous on and I feel you can really tell. 

I then decided to try another lighting angle and this time from above, although very subtle you can still see it quite clearly.

Chapped and Dry Skin

EQUIPMENT

Supra Colour
Duo
Fake Blood

1. Apply Duo to where you would like the dry skin to be and wait until it's dry.
2. Using your fingers stretch the glue to form flaky skin and rough skin.
3. Apply the colour using a brush and stipple sponge, using reds and yellows.
4. Apply blood if desired.

I really love this technique and am mostly defiantly going to use it in my final design. The one on the cheek is really effective and looks really real, however the one on the lips needs toning down a bit and I think I might only do the chapped look one side of the mouth, either way I really like it.

lllness and Rashes

My main objective was to create someone that looked as they they were severely run down, little to no sleep and very poorly.

ILLNESS

EQUIPMENT
Supra Colour Pallet
Foundation Pallet

1. Apply a base, mix a lot of white and a tiny bit of yellow into the skin.
2. Using blue, red and purple tones, apply the colour around the eyes.
3. Hollow out the cheeks to make the model look sunken in.

 I like what I've done but I think I need to make it slightly more obvious for the camera as it is only very slight in the image.

RASHES

EQUIPMENT
Supra Colour
Isopropanol

(Ignoring the chapped skin on the cheek)

1. Mix Isopropanol in with some supra colour.
2. Using a stiff brush, splatter the face with the mix.

This technique is really easy as well as very effective, I think if I was to use this technique I wouldn't go so over the top.

I'm using both these techniques for my final design along side the aging process. I want Miss Havisham's skin to look as naturally disgusting as I can without going too over the top, the rash effect works well alongside the chapped skin effect and helps massively in create a poor completion.

Estella Experimentation

We were asked to create a look that represented Estella's personality, I personally chose to do one half of the face of how she actually is and how majority of people see her - very bitter, cold, heartless and then the other half of how Pip see's her - beautiful, youthful, kind etc.

HOW THE PUBLIC SEE HER

I made her skin a very pale almost grey colour and used dark blues and dark greys to do the contour. To me these are the colours represent a cold heart. I did a really strong contour with chapped lips and bags under the eyes to represent someone who is ugly on the inside. I like what I've done her but I wish I would of added more depth around the eyes to really drag them down and make them look even worse.

HOW PIP SEE'S HER

For this side of the face I went for a very warm inviting look, with a slight brown colour on the eyelids and a lot of highlight in the inner corner and under the brown bone, also along the cheek bone to help create a youthful, pretty face. I applied the blush on the lower part of the cheek to give that rosy cheek look and a gentle pink on the lips. I like what I've done here and I feel it really captures my ideas and what I was trying to show.

THE FACE AS A WHOLE

Late Victorian Hair

Late Victorian hair has become more pretty and romantic to what it previously was, the middle parting still remains and the bun/piece was a lot higher.

EQUIPMENT

Pins
Medium - small curling iron
hair band

1.  Put hair into center parting.
2. Section the front off (edge of the ear).
3. Section the back as a horse shoe shape and put into a high pony tail.
4. Curl the pony tail and twist the curls into a sort of bun shape, but avoiding the typical modern rounded bun.
5. Curl the bottom section in lines, picture demonstrates below.

6. Split the curls up.
7. Add them to the bun at the top of the head so a cascading effect has been created.
8. Curl the front section (going down to the ear).
9. Smooth the curls out and add to bun, making a wave on the top of the head.

I thought this look was really pretty, quite difficult to recreate but I really liked the finished result. I asked my tutor whether what I had done was okay and she told me I need to work on my finishing, making everything smooth and the curls individual which I completely agree with. Overall I am very happy with the outcome.

Although I really like this look, I don't think I am able to use this style as Miss Havisham's hair would be based on when she would of got married which would have been early Victorian. Also despite what my tutor has told me to do, my final look needs to be quite rough and messy so I will be doing the opposite of what she has told me to do for Miss Havisham, as for Estella, my main focus will be on making the hair look as neat as possible with very little flyaway's.

Greying Hair

For my Miss Havisham character I obviously want her hair to be grey and dusty, as she rarely/never washes it and the environment she lives in is dirty and dusty causing her hair to get dusty. I wanted to look into why and how hair actually starts to go grey from age and then be able to chose the most suitable way to recreate this.

Whilst looking at my research I found that whilst we age our hair folicles die and then that certain strand of hair looses it colour - so rather than hair greying at the roots, each strand of hair will slowly start to go grey. To create this as realistically as possible I would have to apply supra colour using a masacra wand, shown below:

GREY HAIR WITH MASCARA WAND:

In regards to dirtying up the hair, I could either go for the greasy approach or dusty. Depending on how either look (which is what I am going to test) I would have to use dry shampoo or talcum powder both of which I am going to try. As for the greasiness I will most likely use water depending how it turns out on camera and whether aesthetically it looks good.

TALCOM POWDER:


DRY SHAMPOO:


GREASE USING WATER:

The Uncanny - Images

We were asked to go out and take images of the 'uncanny' but also something that represents the sublime. Whilst I was back at home I took some images of a variety of different places and things that I think represents the uncanny, in many different ways.

I looked at the stereotypical angle of it:

I then looked at post production in making something spooky, for example focus and grain:

I then looked at a more contemporary, modern interpretation of it:

I then decided to capture something that was personal to me, something that scares me, something that I find unnerving - the uncanny:

Hair Ideas

Early Victorian Wedding Hair
I decided to research into Victorian wedding hair to see if it differentiates from their normal every hair styles. From looking at the images I can tell that they didn't differentiate much - middle parting, hair slicked back, mid to low bun. This was mainly to incorporate the use of a veil and flowers in the top part of their hair.

http://s1.hubimg.com/u/4892360_f520.jpg

http://www.weddingdressesgallery.com/
images/weddingdress-1850.jpg

For my final look I want to be able to use a veil with flowers attached to the top of the veil, (simular to queen Victoria)  however these flowers will be ripped and destroyed to create the illusion of them being aged, as well as the veil. This veil will be attached to the top of the bun and I may decide to put the flowers else where rather than with the veil but I will have to see when it comes to it.

This is the hair chart of my designs below:

IDEA 1 -

I feel like as majority of the hair is covered by the veil I don't want it to be too difficult to create, as well as recreate especially as you wont see most of it.

IDEA 2 -

When designing this design I had my model in mind; her hair is really long and I could see it really suiting this style, the only issue is is that there is more detail at the back which will be covered by the veil so maybe it wouldn't be the best suited design. I tried it on my dolls head to see how I'd go about making the plait bun - this turned out to be a bit of an issue mainly because the dolls heads hair was a lot shorter and a lot thinner than my models but I'll include the images anyway.

I really don't like how  it has turned out on the dolls head so am not so confident in trying to recreate it on my model even though I know it would look 10 times better than it does here.

IDEA 3 -