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