Monday, 2 March 2015

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

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