Practice Look for Miss Havisham - Both Makeup and Hair

Health and Safety: If using a model place apron around the neck to protect clothing. 

Always ensure to run a client consultation to check for any infections, allergies or contraindications.

Wash hands before touching the clients skin.
FOR ASSESSMENT - DRESS MODEL IN COSTUME BEFORE APPLYING MAKEUP AND HAIR!
Products / Makeup & Hair:
- Matte Primer
- Mac Pro Full Coverage Foundation
- Concealer Palette
- Illamasqua White Skinbase Foundation
- Kryolan Contour Palette - Glamour Bronze
- Mac Paint Pot
- Kryolan Eyeshadow Palette
- Translucent Powder 
- Supracolour Palette
- Illamasqua Fundamental Palette - Dark Gold
- Satin Lipmix
- Small Hair Tongs
- Paddle Brush
- Segmenting Clips
- Tail Comb
- Hairspray 

Process Of Creation (Makeup)
1. Run a client consultation form to check for any allergies etc. 
2. Cleanse, tone and moisturise the face.
3. Apply a primer to the skin.
4. Mix foundation with white to pale the complexion and apply to the face and neck.
5. Blend!
6. Apply a mixture of charcoal and pepper into the socket of the eye and blend out.
7. Deepen by adding more colour.
8. Taking a dark purple apply and blend into the bottom of the eyes natural fold.
9. Enhance further with violet.
10. Apply a dark gold along the bottom lash line blending out again. 
11. Using white foundation or supracolour run along the brows and apply to the lashes for aged effect.
11. Add paint pot to the lips. 
12. Contour the cheeks, jaw, temples and sockets further with contour powder. 

13. Dap Satin lilmix onto the highlights of the face to create a greasy texture to the skin.

Process of Creation (Hair)
1. Brush exposed hair through to remove all knots and tangles. 
2. Divide the hair up into small sections.
3. Using small curling wand create ringlets facing in towards the neck. 
4. When curls have cooled push them back up the hair to create messy texture. 

5. Spray with hairspray.

Evaluation

Overall I was very pleased with how the makeup turned out for my first proper run through before my assessment. I feel that the makeup followed my design well and the use of the additional purple tones around the eyes had been effective in creating that sunken look to the face but without ageing it. This was an important element to my whole Miss Havisham design as I did not want to portray a haggard, old character as that is not what I felt from reading the novel. Instead I wanted to focus my Miss Havisham on looking tired both psychically and mentally, drained of life and greasy from living in her own filth. A key feature that I felt was highly important from the facts surrounding Miss Havisham is the retainment of the pretty nature of both her appearance and status, although she is a damaged woman her vanity would still retain her beauty and class. For the hair I tried two different styles of ringlets to see which one would be most effective for the final assessment, originally I began with tight ringlets that I pushed upwards to create volume and a tatty backcombed effect. This I felt worked well as it still resembled a Victorian styling but was a slightly more natural and weathered which would be appropriate for a young Miss Havisham as she had not undergone the years of distress yet. The second version I did was far more relaxed with the curls falling more and being less structured, although this was effective I felt I had lost the connection with the Victorian fashion of the ringlets and it resembled "bed hair" more than that of bridal decay. Within the final assessment the look will be slightly different as a costume will be added, regardless I do not feel that this will take away from the makeup and hair and I will keep my styling as simple as possible to follow on from Victorian cosmetic fashions.