Estella Quote Inspiration

Part of this project will see me creating an Estella make up and hair look. Before I created my design I wanted to look at and find different descriptions of her so I could capture her look and character the best. For this look I will be creating it in the style of the Victorian era, which means I will have to draw on the knowledge of the era that I have already gained through previous research. I have decided to focus on the beginning of the book when Estella is her youngest, in this part of the book Estella is described as being, 'beautiful and self-possessed'. Throughout the book Estella's beauty is a large theme therefore my design will have her looking fresh, young and pretty. When Miss Havisham asks Pip what he thinks of Estella he says, "I think she is very pretty". This also makes me want to create a design that is attractive. In the Victorian era the make up was very minimal and it was almost frowned upon to wear it, and furthermore in this part of the book Estella is very young so she would not wear very much make up. These quotes helped me and made me think about as well as giving me inspiration for the make up and hair designs that I wanted to create. I am looking forward to this assessment as it will be nice to create a look purely to be beautiful.

Gothic Style Photography

I decided that I would go out and try to capture some of my own images that I think resemble gothic settings and styles. I started off by looking at spooky natural settings, I wanted to capture water and dark tree scenery. Forests feature regularly in gothic literature, as the dark, tall, claustrophobic and daunting feeling that can be captured from them is very atmospheric. I also featured water as the effects that can be captured on it when put into black and white is very beautiful. I like the way that the images turned out, I think although they are quite gothic and scary looking, they are also very attractive pictures. I think that the black and white helps to produce a contrast between the dark and light areas making neutral settings more dramatic. 

The First Miss Havisham Timed Assessment

This week I carried out my first timed assessment where I created my version of Charles Dickens' character Miss Havisham. I was pleased with the overall look of my interpretation and thought that the assessment went well. I managed to finish with a good amount of time remaining so it was not  stressful. I think this was due to my good amount of practise beforehand so I was confident with the look before I started. I was pleased with the way that the veil turned out and was pleased with what it added to the look and I believe it made it more realistic. I was also pleased with the overall look of the skin, I think that the colour was pale but not overly pale and this was the look that I was trying to achieve. I also think that the style of the hair looked good, but I wish that it had more volume, I also wish that the overall colour of the white was stronger as I feel that it looked a bit patchy. I would like to fix this in the next assessment but am keen to make it exactly the same as the last one, so will try to keep the effect the same. I was pleased with the way that the under eye area looked, I think that it made my model look tired, however I think that the effect and the way I wanted it to look had been more successful in some of the practises, but of course I will keep it the same for the next assessment. I was a little disappointed with the way that the lips turned out on the camera. I think that they turned out well behind the camera but on the final images they did not look as dry or as sore as I hoped. I was pleased with the eyebrows and thought that the shape as well as the colour was good. During this timed assessment I made sure that I prepared myself for the continuity assessment by taking step by step images of each element so that I knew exactly how they should be recreated, as well as making notes of anything that I thought would be useful, for example the number of curls I created across the head. Overall this was a successful assessment and, although I think it will be challenging, I am looking forward to trying to recreate the look again.

Staining My Veil

Before my timed assessment I bought a white sheet of laced fabric to be turned into a veil. I didn't want to leave it white as one of the main features in the book is the decay and age of Miss Havisham's clothes and the room around her. Dickens writes during Pip's first encounter with Miss Havisham, 'I saw that everything within my view which ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.' I therefore decided that I would try to make the veil look faded and yellow by soaking it in tea. I used 12 tea bags and soaked them for 15 minutes in a bucket of boiling water. I then removed the tea bags and added the veil into the water. I let the veil soak for and hour, after this hour I washed it in the washing machine to help spin it dry and dull some of the colour down. I think this turned out well as it definitely made the veil more realistic and in keeping with the descriptions in the novel. 

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The Finished Veil

Miss Havisham Character Analysis And How To Make Her Screen Ready

Miss Havisham is a crazed and vengeful women who was jilted at the alter and now lives in a rotten, dark house, and lives in the misery of her broken heart. Miss Havisham is introduced in the book after her request for Pip, a young boy living in a forge with his sister and brother in law, Joe, a blacksmith, to come to her house and play. She has always had an air of mystery to Pip's family who never see her, so her appearance to both the family and reader is fascinating. The first time Pip meets her she is described in great depth and detail and from these descriptions she seems to be an alarming and eccentric women. When Pip first encounters Miss Havisham he describes in great detail her overall appearance, 'She was dressed in rich materials - satins, and lace, and silks all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long veil dependant from her hair, and she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table.' He goes on to say, 'She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on - the other was on the table near her hand - her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some of the lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets'. When thinking about her portrayals on screen I think this element of her character has been over exaggerated and misinterpreted, as in the films I have researched, especially the 1946 Great Expectations film, she is characterised as far older. I do think they have accurately captured the aged objects in the room, especially her 'withered bridal dress'.  I think the BBC TV series of her character, is an accurate portrayl. In terms of her personality on screen I think that they captured her vengeful and cruel character, but also the sad side to her especially her encounter with Estella later on in the film where she is angry at Miss Havisham for teaching her to not love. Gillian Anderson, who played Miss Havisham, suffered some criticism surrounding the child like voice she gave Miss Havisham, I however imagine her to have a weak voice, as written in the book she was 'not physically strong'.

In terms of fleshing Miss Havisham out, I think she would have pale skin as she never goes outside, but unlike other portrayals where it is dry looking, I think it should be smooth and shiny as she is described as looking like a 'waxwork.' I think that her lips should be pale and dry and Pip says he has 'never' seen her eat or drink. I think dark looking eyes should also be incorporated in terms of fleshing Miss Havisham out and Pip describes her as having 'dark eyes that moved and looked at me'. I think that the age and amount of wrinkles given depends on the stage of the film that is being portrayed. I think this also is relevant for the hair as she is described as having 'grey hair' and 'white hair'. In the films her hair is neater and more styled at the beginning, but gets gradually more bedraggled. I think in terms of audience if you create a more haunting and scary version of Miss Havisham you will attract an older audience, but if however you go for a more soft approach I think younger people, even children, could enjoy the story and the complexities of her character.

Practising My Miss Havisham Look 3

I decided to practise my look for a third time so I could make sure I was fully prepared for the assessment. This was good as I could make slight changes and make my design even clearer in my mind and have the knowledge of knowing exactly what I was doing. I like how the look turned out and thought that the hair turned out better than previous practises because I altered the size of pieces of hair that I styled which made the hair look more frizzy and messy, and more as I had envisaged. I also liked how the make up turned out especially after the previous disappointment of the colour under the eyes and I liked the way it look as I made it look more brown. 

Practising My Miss Havisham Look 2

I decided to practise my make up design along with my hair design to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing in my assessment as well as how long it would take me. I was pleased how the look turned out in the practise, however I thought that the under eye looked too dark and almost looked like a black eye. I will remember to make the colour more on the brown side during the assessment. I liked the hair and thought that I achieved what I wanted, however I wanted it to look more frizzy and messy, I believe this could be achieved by making the sections of hair that I styled smaller. For the assessment I will remember to make it look more brown rather than dark and blue. I have two hours for the assessment and I carried out the look in an hour and a half. This means I have a small amount of spare time if anything goes wrong as well as a good amount of time for images to be taken. 

Miss Havisham Practise 2

Miss Havisham Practise 2 

Practising My Miss Havisham Look 1

This week I began to practise my Miss Havisham make up design on my model. This was my first time practising my make up look so throughout the process I was able to make changes to suit the design. I began by applying a light base to the skin, I did not want it to be very pale, as I am concentrating on the earlier scenes in the book where she was not at her palest. I was careful to blend the colour down the neck and onto the ears in order to make the look seamless. After applying the base I created a darker shade, using my supra colour palette, to create dark under eye bags. I also applied the same colours onto the eyelids as during Pip's first encounter with her he describes her as having, 'dark eyes'. After standing back and looking in the mirror at my model I realised that the look could have been darker. I therefore added a grey colour on to the lids which I had not previously intended to do, but I think it helped to look slightly darker but not too much.  I however did not go too far with the darkness as I didn't want to make my model look completely hideous. I also added a small amount of black supra colour on the lashes as I wanted to darken the lashes but not make them any longer. I liked the effect that this gave, however there was a trouble with transferring onto the lid and below the eye whenever my model looked up or blinked, so for the timed assessment I will use mascara but will be careful to not create any length.

After the application of the base I applied duo lash glue to the lips so that I could create a dry lip effect. I liked how this effect turned out as I had previously struggled with it. I added a pink effect onto most of the lip area but added a deeper red colour into the areas that looked the most dry and this successfully added to the effect of making it look more raw. Once I stood back and looked at the lips I realised that they looked too pink and more like a lipstick, I therefore added a concealer to the outer edges of the lips to make them look less healthy. For the timed assessment I must remember to be careful about the amount of pink I apply to the lips. I also added more red onto the darker areas to make it a bit more intense.

I decided to add a dark colour into the contours of the face and focussed under the cheeks to make them look more hollow. I was careful to buff the edges away but keep the hollows dark. I didn't want to bring the colour too far onto the cheeks as I didn't want to give the cheeks any colour. As true to my design I did not apply any blusher as I was not trying to make my model look fresh. Once I took a picture of my design I decided that the face looked too clean and  a bit too pretty and, although I did not want to make my model look too unclean, I thought I needed to add more to put across the lack of care that Miss Havisham had for herself. I therefore added some darker patches onto the skin to make it look more distressed.

When designing the brows I wanted to keep them dark and thin, but slightly unruly as I didn't want to keep my model looking too groomed. However I decided that they looked too neat and straight and also dark for a Miss Havisham style look. I therefore decided to extend the brow further down towards the eye, and then ran a small amount of white supra colour through the brows on a mascara wand. For the timed assessment I will need to make sure that the colour of the brows matches that of the hair.

I am pleased the overall look that I have created so far. I will be however practising again so I can completely finalise the look and in my mind be perfectly clear with what I am creating. I am worried about the continuity side of the assessment so I will be taking pictures step by step of any make up that I carry out during the first assessment and I will also be making notes of anything that I feel is important for the continuity side of it. I may also bring in pots with me so any colours that I mix together, that I may not recreate accurately again, I can make in a larger quantity and store it for the second part of the assessment.

The Original Look

The Look After Changes 

The Look After Changes

Miss Havisham Hair Inspiration

When creating my hair design for Miss Havisham I wanted to get into the mind set of how she may be feeling as well as looking at the descriptions that Dickens gives of her. I am focusing on the beginning of the book, where I believe she would still retain some of her wedding day appearance, and as the book goes on her hair would become longer and more unkempt. Dickens writes, 'she had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on- the other was on the table near her hand- her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not on' This desription has inspired me to create a look, that in some ways is sleek and finished but in other ways undone. I also liked the description of the interior of the house and especially picked up on the reference to cobwebs, 'An épergne or centre-piece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable' I thought the cobwebs could be represented well through the use of frizzy curls throughout the hair. I found this picture from the Topshop Unique Catwalk Spring Summer 2011, and thought that the frizzing effect did almost represent a large mass of cobwebs. In the victorian era it was also popular to have a smooth style on the top of the head along with a centre parting. I want to try to combine this look along with the frizzed hair and ringlets. I found the image below of frizzed hair with a smooth parting and think that it is style that I will keep in mind when creating my final look.

http://www.hairromance.com/2012/02/backstage-secrets-from-nyfw-hairstylists.html

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/topshop-unique-spring-2011

I would like to use ringlets in my design as they were a very common look created in the Victorian era. In many of the victorian portraits ringlets feature. I like ringlets as they can create a smooth and finished look on the hair. I also believe that ringlets are a very beautiful style, the beauty, under the pain, that Miss Havisham still has at this time is something that I want to try to capture. Therefore I am interested in this style. Creating ringlets in the lessons that we had was also enjoyable.

https://www.pinterest.com/secretvictorian/victorian-hairstyles/

https://www.pinterest.com/auntjennysgirl/old-paintings-etc/

How Is The Grotesque Depicted In Great Expectations

The grotesque does not have one definitive definition but when I think of the grotesque I imagine something ugly and repulsive, however this is not always the case. There can be two ways of defining the grotesque. It can be something in between real and non real, or something in between funny and frightening. The use of funny has to be used with a pinch of salt as people have different ideas of what is 'funny'. The grotesque can however sometimes be the more conventional understanding of it, for example being ugly and almost comical.

When reading the book 'Great Expectations' I was unaware of this definition, so looking back on the book now and trying to find grotesque depictions has been quite interesting. When considering the more conventional idea of the grotesque I think the description of  Pip's Uncle Pumblechook is comical in the choice of words that Dickens uses, for example, 'a large hard breathing middle-aged slow man, with a mouth like a fish, dull staring eyes, and sandy hair standing upright on his head, so that he looked as if he had just been choked'. This description to me is humorous because it is so descriptive, exaggerated and almost repulsive.

In terms of the frightening element of the grotesque, to me the most frightening part of 'Great Expectations' is Pip's first encounter with the convict Magwitch. The encounter is very sudden, with the convict grabbing Pip and shouting, 'Hold your noise!' and with the convict even threatening Pip's life claiming he will cut Pip's throat. There is very little to suggest this encounter will take place as there is a large contrast between the relative calm nature of the story leading up to it. I also find the convict's wish to eat Pip's cheeks terrifying. The idea of cannibalism has frightened me for a long time, since discovering the films of Hannibal Lecter.

Another frightening scene in the book is where Miss Havisham sets herself alight, 'I saw a great light spring up. In the same moment I saw her running at me, shrieking, with a whirl of fire blazing all about her, and soaring at least as many feet about her head as she was high.' This is a frightening description and to me the use of the word, 'shrieking' is terrifying as you get a sense of her pain. It is also frightening that she got to such a dark place in her life that she chose to do this to herself.

Another element of the grotesque is the meeting of life and death and the blend of the two. To me Miss Havisham is almost ghostly with Pip referring her to being 'corpse-like' and like a 'skeleton'. As well as being a blend of life and death these descriptions are almost frightening.

http://www.literary-articles.com/2010/02/charles-dickens-use-of-humour-in-great.html

http://www.sooperarticles.com/art-entertainment-articles/grotesque-great-expectations-pips-early-encounters-magwitch-652194.html

https://literature-classics.knoji.com/charles-dickenss-greatest-comic-and-grotesque-characters/

Miss Havisham Make Up Designs

Make Up Design 1:

In this design I decided to keep the face pale, as the idea of Miss Havisham never seeing the light is a large feature throughout the book. I decided to use heavy contouring under the cheeks to make her look more frail and weak. I wanted to keep the eyes clear of any make up as in the Victorian era make up was minimal and almost frowned upon. I decided to use dark colours in the under eye area as she is described as having 'dark eyes' and, in my interpretation of her, I don't imagine her to be sleeping much because of her torment. The eyebrows in this design are white as Miss Havisham had white hair. I think this makes it look more realistic and in keeping with the descriptions given in the book. I also decided to use dry skin on the cheeks to resemble the lack of care she has given herself as well as the fact that she is described as never having been seen eating or drinking. I decided to keep the lips pink as I wanted to try to keep her looking slightly youthful as well as beautiful as I am keen to show her at her youngest point in the book. I decided not to use this design for the assessment as I will be carrying it out twice, and am worried for the continuity part of the assessment and that I will not be able to repeat it with enough accuracy.

Make Up Design 2:

In this design I decided to make Miss Havisham look slightly dirty. In the book she is not described as being dirty, but I wanted to try to capture the mistreatment of herself. Like in the previous design I wanted to keep the eyes clear of any make up as in keeping with the traditional Victorian style, but wanted to make the under eye dark, because to me this is an important feature of any of my Miss Havisham designs. I kept the eyebrows thin because sometimes under stress hair can be lost. I experimented with the lip colour as well as in this design because I wanted to capture the beauty still left in Miss Havishams character and, to me, a red lips is a classic mark of beauty. I decided not to use this look as I thought that the red lip was too heavy as well as not being in keeping with the Victorian look. Although this look would have been slightly more different to a traditional Miss Havisham look I thought that it might be better for a modern version. 

Make Up Design 3, Final Design:

In this design I kept the skin pale, as like in the first design I wanted to reflect the fact that she rarely sees the sun. I wanted to keep the cheeks quite hollow as to reflect her weakness and perhaps malnourishment, I also added the same colour in patches on the skin as I believe that she may be unhealthy due to a lack of food and drink. I decided to make the brows slightly thicker to add to the look of youth but made them white to match the colour of the hair. I decided to make the under eye as well as the as the eye lids dark to reflect the description of 'dark eyes' and my own interpretation of her having a little amount of sleep. I created the effect of dry skin on the lips, to show her dehydration as well as lack of care of herself. I decided that I would use this look in my timed assessment as I think that it best represents my imagined idea of Miss Havisham. In the second design I was worried that I would not able to recreate the dry skin but I believe in this design it will be easier to recreate as it is over a smaller area. The rest of the design is quite simple so I think that it will be more easy to recreate in the continuity assessment.

Miss Havisham Make Up Inspiration

As well as possibly incorporating sores into my design I am keen to incorporate dry and chapped lips as in the book, it is highlighted that Miss Havisham rarely eats or drinks. I enjoyed the lesson where I learnt about how to apply this effect and was interested to look at dry lips in real life, so I was able to make them look as realistic as possible. In many of the images I found it was the bottom lip which appeared to look the most dehydrated. I found the image below online and, as strange as it sounds, liked the look of the dry lips, and wanted to try to recreate this type of effect in my design. The exercise of looking up the dry lips was useful as I now have a better understanding of the look of severely chapped lips.

http://www.sodahead.com/fun/whats-worse-dry-skin-or-chapped-lips/question-4514535/

I was keen to incorporate dark under eyes in my design as Miss Havisham is described as having 'dark hollow eyes.' I am keen to make it look as realistic as possible so started to look at and research dark circles around eyes. I was also keen to see if this look had ever been used on catwalk. Dark eyes have been created many times in terms of a dark smokey eye with sometimes it being bought down low, but never with the desired effect of making the models looking tired. I did however come across this image of model Cara Delevigne on the runway for Burberry, where she is wearing very minimal make up. This minimalist approach means that some of her dark eyes are clear to see. Surprisingly I liked this look as it  is very fresh. I also like the browny purply colour under the eyes as, even though it is not stereotypically beautiful, I think that somehow it is.  This is the type of look that I am trying to create for Miss Havisham, tired and down trodden but still beautiful.

http://primped.ninemsn.com.au/makeup/new-season-makeup-collections-from-burberry-nars-and-bobbi-brown

Miss Havisham Make Up Inspiration

When planning my Miss Havisham make up look I began to research normal everyday women of the Victorian era to get a sense of what life was like for them, as well as focusing on passages from the book 'Great Expectations' and the description of the appearance of Miss Havisham. While searching for the 'average' women I found this image online of a Victorian housewife, Anne Girling, who claimed to be a prophet and in the era was very radical. She claimed that Jesus visited her on Christmas Day in 1864 and told her to give up sex. She also claims that a flaming dove visited her and told her that she was a female version of Christ. She gained some followers for her claims but eventually was run out of Suffolk. I have found this image inspirational because I am interested in making a younger Miss Havisham, as during Pip's first encounter with her he describes her as being a 'wax work', but still with some signs of age. In this image it is obvious that she is an older women but she does not have any lines or wrinkles on her face, there is just a clever use of shading. I especially like the dark areas around the eyes, and believe that this is something that I will incorporate into my design, as well as the shading around the mouth which gives the illusion of age lines, coming down from the nose to the lip.

http://listverse.com/2014/08/11/10-wildly-eccentric-characters-from-victorian-england/

I found the image below from a newspaper article which talks about the treatment of women in the Victorian era and how they were sent to asylums if they suffered from stress, post natal depression or anxiety. To me this seems very extreme treatment of women and highlighted to me the difference between then and the help and support which would be carried out today, and also how lucky women are now in this society. The article features women who were deemed insane for a range of reasons such as child birth, infidelity and overwork.  The article also contained many interesting images of women from the asylums. They were interesting images as they contained a lot of pain in them, especially through the facial expression. This was very inspirational as I could draw a parallel with the pain that Miss Havisham would have felt. It left me wondering if she too would have been deemed insane. The image below shows a woman who has what looks to be sores, or cuts on her face. Although I am trying to make a younger version of Miss Havisham I still want to show her mistreatment of herself, and am considering using sores in my design. This image also helped me to realise that the cuts that Miss Havisham gave herself were not only factual but occurred in everyday, 'real people's' lives.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-2141741/Sent-asylum-The-Victorian-women-locked-suffering-stress-post-natal-depression-anxiety.html

The Miss Havisham That I Am Creating

When thinking about the design that I wanted to create, I decided that I needed to focus on a single moment in the book so that I was able to create a realistic but new make up look on the many times recreated scene. I have decided to focus on the first encounter that Pip has with Miss Havisham in Satis House. I think that this is an interesting scene to recreate as Dickens gives a large amount detail about her character and look, and when reading it for the first time it was easy to imagine what Miss Havisham looked like which therefore made it more interesting to create a look that I think represented her character the best. 'She was dressed in rich materials-satins, and lace, and silks- all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had bridal flowers in her hair, but her hair was white. Some bridal jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands, and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table.' 'But, I saw that everything within my view that ought to be white, had been white long ago, and had lost its lustre, and was faded and yellow. I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. I saw that the dress had been put upon the rounded figure of a young women, and that the figure upon which it now hung loose, had shrunk to skin and bone'. Although I was keen not to get swayed by depictions already created, I decided that it was important to research films and television shows and focus on previous depictions and how they represented her specifically in this scene.  From what I have seen I feel her character is always represented as far older than what Dickens envisaged. I am therefore trying to capture the youth and in some ways the beauty that she still had at this point in her life. Dickens describes her as a 'waxwork' which to me brings to mind smooth, taught skin rather than more mature wrinkled skin. I will be keeping it with the traditional Victorian style of minimal make up and am going to make her look realistic to her description of having, 'sunken' and, 'dark eyes', as I am not going to try to make her into a 'beauty queen'.  I will also be focusing on the paleness of her skin, as she never sees the sun and as written in the book asks Pip, 'You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?' I however do not intend to make it extremely pale as I feel that is a popular look that has been done many times. I am looking forward to exploring my representation of Miss Havisham's character and carrying out the design in the final timed assessment.

Creating Emotions With Make Up

This week I was experimenting with make up trying to create different emotions. I had in mind Estella's character from the Charles Dickens' book 'Great Expectations' while creating this. I wanted to try to capture the two sides of her character in one look. I wanted to try to show her anger towards Miss Havisham, seen later in the book, for teaching her how to be spiteful and not how to love but also her sweeter softer side and her beauty, which features highly throughout the book.

When creating the harsher side of her character I wanted to create a strong and defined straight brow. I think this style instantly adds an element of anger to the face. I also wanted to make it a strong look to put across her strength of character throughout the book and the power that she holds over Pip. I also wanted to try to keep it slightly contemporary as it was just experimental. I wanted to try to create something that I could imagine being seen walking down the catwalk. I wanted to use the colour black as to me it instantly brings anger and dark thoughts to my mind. I created the strong contour below the cheek bone to show her harsher side. I decided to make it grey as I thought that, along with the black eyebrows and lips, it would be fussy. I wanted to create the black lips as I think that black lips can be very beautiful, even though I was trying to capture her harsher side, and throughout she is still beautiful. Overall I like how this experimentation turned out, however it was difficult to keep the brow neat once completed and it was easily smudged. If I was trying to create this look again I would may have to use a setting spray or sealing gel.

The Harsher Side

When creating the softer side of Estella I wanted to use lots of gold as these bring to mind warm feelings, as well as looking very beautiful. I kept the brows soft as I only wanted them to frame the face and not became a main feature, I believe if they become too dark they can take over a look and make it look too harsh. I kept the skin quite warm and gave it a healthy glow. The lips were kept pink as it is a recognised colour of femininity as well as looking pretty. I think this is a pretty look, but question how experimental it was, I feel that the make up is a look that has been repeated and carried out many times. I think if I was to do it again I would try to keep the softer side as contemporary as the harsher side. This could be done by trying to make it less about how pretty it looks on the face but more about the colours used and placement of the products.

The Softer Side

Both Sides Together

Creating Late Victorian Hair

Equipment Used:

Pin Tail Comb
Hair Elastics
Kirby Grips
Paddle Brush
Curling Iron
Dry Shampoo

Comb the hair and divide it into a centre parting.

Split the hair into two sections at the front, dividing down towards the hair. Clip these sections of hair up and out of the way.

Get the hair at the back and divide it into an upper and lower section, creating a horseshoe shape parting between both sections.

Gather the top section and tie it up into a ponytail.

Divide the ponytail into three sections and curl each section into ringlets.

Gather the curled sections and pin them onto the top of the head, making them into little twists but with the end of the curl showing, this will act as a structure for the rest of the look.

With the lower section of the hair, divide it into small sections and create ringlets with a curling iron. Keep the handle of the curling iron tilted to the floor when creating the sections.

Once the back section is curled, finger comb them through to make the curls look looser. Pull the curls upward and pin them, using kirby grips, into the structure made previously with the curled ponytail. You can leave some of the ringlets looser once pinned so that they create a cascade effect down the back of the head.

With the front sections of hair, divide each side into two sections agin. Split it into a top and side section. With the top section wrap the hair around the barrel with the front of the barrel facing towards the face. Lay the curl on the top of the head, this will create a wave effect once combed out. Repeat this two more times, so on either side of the head you have three curls lying flat on top.

With the section of hair at the side of the head, split it into two and curl the hair away from the face with the handle of the curler facing the floor.

Take these two curls at the side and comb them through, then pull them up into the ringlets on the top of the head, making sure the sides are smooth.

With the top three curls take the bottom roll closest to the ear and pull it back more loosely into the curls, gather the two remaining curls and add them into the ringlets, creating a wave effect at the top.

I am creating these looks as they may be ultimately be used in my final Miss Havisham look, therefore I decided to add some dry shampoo to try and make the hair look grey. This is however optional.

The Hair With The Dry Shampoo In

 I enjoyed making this hairstyle as there were lots of elements and processes involved which made it interesting. I am considering using this hairstyle for either Estella or Miss Havisham, I am currently more swayed for doing it for my Estella design, as to me it may be too over done for the character of Miss Havisham. If I do create this for Estella I may consider adding accessories such as a ribbon to add an extra area of interest as well as a more feminine touch.

I found some images online of Victorian women wearing this type of look. They do however look slightly more different as I imagine their hair would have been longer than the hair that my practise doll has.

http://www.beauty-and-the-bath.com/beautiful-victorian-hairstyles.html

http://women-of-confederation.ca/category/victorian-hairstyles/

Practising Early Victorian Hair

I decided that I would practise the early victorian hair which we learnt a couple of weeks ago. This was  a  good exercise as it helped me get more familiar with the techniques and helps me to consider styles that I may use in my timed assessment.

Films With Mid To Late Victorian Hair

After I researched films with early Victorian hair, I decided to research films with late Victorian hair also. I decided to do this to see how the hair was portrayed and how accurate they look when compared to the research I have carried out.

I decided to look at the film 'Love In The Time Of Cholera', a 2007 film set in 1890. While researching a film to study, I struggled to find one where I thought the hair was a good representation of the Victorian era. Many of the films also had very few images to study. When I came across the film 'Love In The Time Of Cholera' I instantly liked the hair and it was accurate with the research that I had carried out. In the late 1800's the hair was beginning to become looser and more elaborate. In the late 1800's the famous Gibson Girl look was very popular, where curly hair was piled loosely on the top of the head. In the top and bottom image below I believe the hair to be in the style of the Gibson Girl. From the images I have seen of the original Gibson Girl, I believe the style to be very accurate. Some of the hairstyles seen throughout the film to me seem to be too early for the time period. However I imagine this to be my error through a lack of knowledge rather than a production mistake as a lot of work is put into making films and television shows to ensure they are historically accurate. I really like the hair in the first image, I think that it looks effortless but very beautiful.

The Original Gibson Girl
http://stuffnobodycaresabout.com/2013/05/23/beauties-of-the-past-annabelle-whitford/

https://andrewsidea.wordpress.com/2009/03/12/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/

http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/download/10010677/

http://www.imagozone.com/filme/Love-in-the-Time-of-Cholera/Love-in-the-Time-of-Cholera-209?size=full

http://www.cinemagia.ro/filme/love-in-the-time-of-cholera-dragostea-in-vremea-holerei-19548/imagini/24331/