Creating Miss Havisham in Contrast

Emotion through make-up in contrast-

Me and another peer started working on a model by both creating a
different emotion/period of Miss Havisham on the face. This would the show the contrast between the looks and the effect make-up can give on the face. We started with creating a small mind map of ideas in our group of three and then decided between me and the other make-up artist who would create which look. We started with looking at sorrow, making mend, caring and wanting forgiveness, then old, broken, tired Miss Havisham and also the cruel and selfish. We was trying to figure how we could portray this through make-up and show a contrast. Jamie, the other make-up artist decided she wanted to create very old and broken Miss Havisham and I wanted to do younger however a little crazy just after being stood up by her future husband-to-be.


I started off my design with the base foundation, as Miss Havisham is very pale and white I mixed my models normal colour foundation (which is very pale anyway) and a mix of Illamasqua skin base foundation which is pure white, this gave the pale complexion.

Next I started with the contouring on the cheeks, I wanted it to be a very deep colour which contrasts against the pale skin. I used a mixed of grey and brown and followed the cheek bone line. I then added a hint of pink to the skin as Miss Havishams character here is still young and isnt long after her husband to-be left. I wanted my half to look a little crazy in the eyes as she clearly went mad after what happened, so I applied a red powder under the eyes and blended it round to the crease of the eye. I then mixed a grey eyeshadow over the eyelid to give the eye depth and darken them. For the lips I purley went over them with the white base foundation to make them appear cold and slightly lifeless as I didnt want them to pouty. Due to stress your hair can turn white or even start falling out, so for the eyebrows and eyelashes instead of highlighting and defining them I used white supra paint and a disposable mascara wand to paint the brows and lashes white.

On the other side of the face my partner Jamie had created Miss Havisham a little older, still very pale however much older so the skin is wrinkled and looking much more tired. I think our practical session to creating Miss Havisham in contrast went very well. You can really see the difference make-up can do when trying to create a character. I think the difference between the old and younger crazy Miss Havisham really portrays well next to each other and how make-up can change the face.


Products:
Illamasqua white base foundation
charles Fox Foundation palette
Charles Fox Blush Palette
Charles Fox eyeshadow palette
Illamsqua white loose powder
mascara wand
Charles Fox white supra colour

Make-up products I used to create the look.

The brushes I used.

Face Chart:

Miss Havisham face chart in contrast. Half a face

Close up on the face chart

Mini mind map I created, gathering ideas.

Above is the face chart I created for Miss Havisham for the contrast look. I only created half the face as the point was to make-up half the face and the other make-up artist create the other half of the face so the look contrasts against each other and the comparison between the looks. Mine was quite a subtle look and concentrated on the application of the colours and the contouring and highlighting of the skin to show Miss Havishams look. I really enjoyed creating this look and getting to compare the difference between the looks and showing how make-up can effect the face and the emotion its portraying. It was fun working on half a face and the model enjoyed feeling the difference between brush strokes.