5. Practise Look of Miss Havisham: Hair and Make-up

Face Chart and Hair Chart:

Creating the look:

After experimenting with different hair designs and finalising my favourite design that I would create on for my Miss Havisham look I chose the final look. For the make-up I purely adapted and developed my previous design and changed it where necessary.


Make-up:

Products-

• Charles fox foundation palette
• Illamasqua white base foundation 
• supra colour
• latex
• blood
• Charles fox blusher palette
• Illamasqua loose powder

As this was the practice for my final design I tried to complete it quick so that I knew on the day of the assessment I would be able to create the look in the available time which was 1 hour and 30 minutes.

I started with the base of the skin which firstly I wanted the burn on the clean skin first and then add the rest of the products on top. I applied layers of latex on the skin and used a hair dryer in between layers to dry it quicker, I then picked at the latex to lift some off the face where the blood would be to create depth. Once dry I then started on the foundation, I used a mixture of the Charles fox foundation and the white base foundation to lighten the skin and give a good coverage. Once the foundation was applied I mixed green, red and yellow to make a brown colour for the wrinkles on the skin, I used a thin brush to paint on the lines around the face (forehead, eyes, nose, around mouth) I decided after I didn't like the lines around the lips and decided to just keep them plain white, this was to make them look small and cold. I then used a blusher brush and lightly applied red around the eyes.

I then started on the burn, which I applied red, black, purple and yellow supra colour to the latex area. I then applied Bloody scab to the holes in the skin to fill it in. To finalise the look I used a loose powder and powdered the rest of the face to set the make-up.

On the day for the final look:



Make sure with the foundation I go all the way down the neck and possibly on the chest area and on the ears. Use a mascara wand and white supra colour to paint the lashes and brows white. The supra colour for the wrinkles comes out quite greasy and sometimes not the right shade of colour so instead of creating the wrinkles grease on grease I'm going to create them used powder product instead so its subtle.



Hair:

Products-

• Curling tongs 
• pin tail comb
• hair brush
• hair band
• blonde grips
• white and blue supra colour
• hair spray
• dry shampoo

I started with sectioning the hair into the areas I need each part to be. Creating a middle parting, then parting the fringe from he back of the head this section is down in line with the ear. I then took the back part of the hair and but it into a ponytail just to keep it away from the rest of the hair. I then grabbed my small curling tongs that I have previously plugged in and started curling the fringe into ringlets (each side of the head had 3 ringlets). I started started on the back where I took the hair out of the ponytail and started back combing the hair as I wanted the hair to be messy and matted at the back. I then put the hair in a mid-high pony tail and then grabbed a strand of hair from under the pony tail and plaited it as this would then be wrapped round the bun.


Once the plait was formed I twisted the bun around into a large flat bun and starting gripping it into place. Once the bun was all gripped into place I took the hanging plait and wrapped it around the bun covering most the grips on the outside. I then pulled a strand of hair from the middle of the bun and curled it to look messy and like it had fallen out. I then hair sprayed the style into place. I also started practicing ageing the hair, I started with used a mascara wand and supra colour and brushing it through the roots of the hair, I also used dry shampoo to dry out and matt the hair also the spray powders the hair to dull white colour.

On the assessment day-
On the hair I will have  purchased white coloured hair spray to ensure the hair is highlighted white. I will also have props for the hair, this will be flowers on top of the hair and an off white lace veil hanging from under the bun.

For the practice I tried to take as many photos as possible of the look because on the assessment day, I will be creating the whole look and the for continuity I will be re-creating the look again. So for this practice I took photos of everything I did, close ups to the burn, where the parting is in the hair and close ups to the face. This was to make sure I can definitely recreate the look.

Health and safety-

• Make sure you always keep on eye on hot equipment such as heated tongs and where they are placed 
• Keep hair tied back and minimum jewellery
• Do not run in the studio 
• Be aware of your surroundings (equipment cables)
• Keep bags and coats away tidy
• be careful with clothing when applying hair ageing and spray dry shampoo
• keep model covered to protect clothing