Miss Havisham Continuity #1

This is the outcome for my first timed assessment for Miss Havisham. I was pleased with how it came out. I like how well the make up shows up, but doesn't look to over the top. Looking back now, i wish i had blended the lines slightly more, as i feel they are a little bit to harsh still. I felt like my time management throughout the assessment was good.

Hair Miss Havisham step by steps.    

Products.

• ·      Crimpers.
• ·      Brush
• ·      Pin tail combs
• ·      Grips and geishas.
• ·      Padding
• ·      Cobwebs
• ·      Veil
• ·      Hair spray
• ·      Dry shampoo.

Step by steps.

• ·      Section hair and crimp.
• ·      Section hair from ear to ear and grip front section and leave.
• ·      Back comb the hair at the back.  Leave section at the top of the hair.
• ·      Start creating French pleat but brushing over the left side and cross gripping up the center.
• ·      French pleat the hair but adding the padding provided at the top of the French pleat so some is still sticking out the top. Grip hair in place.
• ·      Take the section you have left at the top of the hair and wrap around the padding starting with the left side first. Secure well.
• ·      Take the section you left at the front and barrel it;. Make sure it all joins and reaches the French pleat so there is no gap in between.
• ·      Secure the cobweb with grip underneath the fringe section and bring on to the French pleat.
• ·      Secure the veil at the very bottem under the hair so the top is hidden. 

     Make up Miss Havisham step by steps.

    Products:

• ·      Illamasqua white foundation.
• ·      Kryolan alabaster.
• ·      Dermacolour camfolage pallete d15, d16, d2 and d3.
• ·      Kryolan supra colour browns and reds.
• ·      Kroylan eyeshadow pallete browns and blues.
• ·      Duo eyelash glue.
• ·      Mac brown eyeliner.
• ·      Glycerin.
• ·      Illamasqua transluecent powder.

    Step by steps.

• ·      Place duo on the face where shown on facer chart and wait to dry. Add a couple more layers. Pick off to make it look like dry skin.
• ·      Mix foundations together, (shades above) and cover the face ears and neck. But not over where duo is.
• ·      Using the brown shades from supra colour, derma colour and eyeshadow pallet apply under eyes and a bit above and on cheekbones.
• ·      Add blue under the eyes too to make darker.
• ·      Using a darker shade and wrinkles in natural lines around eyes and under eyes are on forehead and blend well!! Make sure it is blended well as it shouldn’t look theatrical.
• ·      Apply a grey and browns over the lips.
• ·      Using the red tones in supra colour and eye shadow pallete build up colour where the duo is applied to look sore eczema like and powder to make look even more dry.
• ·      Using mascara wand or eyebrow brush make the eyebrows messy and add grey tones throughout with grey eyeshadow and dry shampoo.
• ·      Add glycerin to forehead using pipette.
•     Cover hand in the same colour foundation adding brown colour underneath nails and brown shading on hands.

h    If i could develop this look further, i would try to find a way to make her face look dirtier, as i felt like this was a aspect of my initial ideas and concept that i didn't achieve, as i didn't now how to achieve it. I would have liked to be able to have made her look as dirty as the pictures in my mood board. 

Miss Havisham Accessories

For my design for Miss Havisham, i purchased a veil and some cobwebs. I also used a large padding made out of sponge and wrapped in tights for the hair.

I wanted the veil to look old, like it had been worn for years. The picture above it how it came, so i soaked it in coffee and tea to stain it. I also burnt and ripped sections to try and age it too. 

Final inspiration Images.

These are some images which i feel are my inspiration for my final look for Miss Havisham.

Miss Havisham face charts

After researching the Victorian era and thinking about how i portray Miss Havisham to look, i have started creating face charts for my Miss Havisham design, also incorporating skills that i have been taught over the previous weeks.

Face Chart number 1:

These first face charts are for an older Miss Havisham. I have aged her by creating wrinkles across the face. I have also given her heavy bags under her eyes as she would not be sleeping properly and years of not treating herself well would have caused this. I have added yellow tones around the eyes too as her skin would be lacking nutrition and care and i feel she would have a varied skin tone. Her general face colour would be very patchy and pale. I have given her a coldsore on her the side of her lip as this is something you also get when very rundown and will create this using liquid latex or duo eyelash glue, and various colours from my kit and a bruise wheel to give it depth and look more effective and life like. I have also made her eyebrows big and overgrown with a slight mono brow as maintaing eyebrows was not something that happened in the Victorian Era let alone something Miss Havisham would be doing. (I found this out with previous research which is on another post.) (I would also bring this aged look down the neck and onto the hands.)
Experimentation of this design:

After experimenting with this design i feel like the lines on the forehead for ageing are too theatrical. I really like the idea though of trying to age her, so i will make another face chart and experiment with not so heavy harsh lines, which are blended more. I like the dark tired looking under eye but will also try to contour the cheeks to make the face look more gaunt looking.

Face chart number 2:

This second face chart is of a much younger Miss Havisham. I have created dark under eyes, but not as heavy as above as she is a lot younger. I have added veins coming from the sides of her face as her skin i feel would be full of imperfections. I have also added red patches on the face, either from eczema, itching excessively, or from a skin disease caused by bed bugs that were very common in the Victorian era. Like above i have made her eyebrows big a bushy. I would also make the lips appear chapped and sore.  (I would also bring the red patchy skin down the neck and onto the hands.)
Experimentation of this design: 

Face chart number 3.

This is a face chart, combining the two. The ageing has been toned down so it wont look to theatrical and i felt like the red patches on the second one was to much so i think one will be more effective.

Experimentation of this design:  

After experimenting this design, i feel it is a good mix of my ideas for Miss Havisham but is not to over the top. This is the design i will use for my final assessment.

Burns Practical.

Products:

• Gelglyk gelatine. 
• Liquid Latex
• Mastex glue and tissue. 
• (Make sure you have spirit gun remover to remover all products.)

Gelatine- You can use jelly crystals and meltdown 2 sachets to one water if on a budget. They also come in lots of colours, clear, blood, skin colour, dark skin. This product is used a lot on tv and film. 

You can also add any texture into gelatine. Health and Safety! If adding texture to gelatine NO metal based e.g. glitter as it has to be melted down in microwave. No metal in microwave. Put in microwave in a bowl of cold water for 40 seconds approx. 

You can meltdown gelatine as many times as you want.  (Vegetarian version- agar agar.)

Make sure you look at pictures of burns to find out what they look like. Always think about what happened, how it happened, colour, texture, burns come from within. 

Burns stay shiny so don't powder over. 

• Break up tissue so thin and rough round edgers and place on skin and apply mastix glue over top. repeat these steps for how many layers you want. Pick up bits with a T pin to make it look more real.
• Add colour using stipple pad and brushes using pictures as reference. 
• Add gelatine where you want. I also added pus and fake blood too. 
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The hand on the left is my work. 

Cuts and scars practical.

Products:

• Non flexible colodiuan.
• Barner cream- derma shield. Shake well it will foam. 
• Special fixer spray- kroylan. 
• Tu plaste- kryolan. 
• Duo and liquid latex. 

Cuts:

Make sure you think of aspects before creating. E.g. Did the accident happen around glass? Would there be mud in it. 

• Use pallet knife and work wax into had so it becomes more moveable. 
• Put small amount on where you want the cut to be. 
• Smooth over, keep cleaning knife off. Moisturiser helps it get smoother.
• Make a cut where you want the cut to be with the pallete knife. 
• Add the sealer and make sure there are no hard edges. 
• Apply foundation and powder so it looks the same colour as skin tone. 
• Apply wound filler where you want it and fake blood and coffee granules. Make sure you apply fake blood in the direction they would be in when the accident happens so the blood runs in the right direction.  
• You can apply fullers earth to make it look like there is mud in it.

Further development of French pleat design

After creating my silhouette design i felt like it still needed something more. I began experimenting with padding to create a bigger structure coming from the french pleat and pulling bit of the hair out making it more eccentric. I also tried crimping the hair to give a more decaying texture.

With this final image i tried to make it a lot larger then the others but After talking to Semma and Lottie we decided it was too avant-garde and i didn't want it to end up looking contemporary as it had to be Victorian.
I then practiced on my mum and my partner Beth before my assessment day, to make sure i could keep creating it to look the same every time as this has to work for continuity.

 I ordered cobwebs for my look and added them here on my mum to show where i would want them for my final look.

These are the practices from practicing on my partner Beth. After showing Seema afterwards we decided to make it look better to make sure not to have a gap between the front section and the pleat in my final design and get the bottom of the french pleat a bit tighter. I would then add cobwebs, veil and white spray on the day. I also like the crimp as it gives a better texture for my look.