Victorian contemporary hairstyles American horror story inspired

Victorian contemporary hairstyles/ American horror story inspired



List of products used

Thin curling tongs
Parting brush
hair brush
hair spray
hair band
hair clips


Step by Step

Curl the hair with a big curling tongs

brush it out

part the hair to one side

tease underneath the fringe

spray it and brush it over flipping it out to one side

Step by step

Put the hair in half and half ponytail
split the ponytail into 4 parts curl it and clip it around the ponytail evenly
curl the rest of the parting and pin it next to the ponytail until all of the hair is curled
for the front of the hair curl and pin it away

Ageing

List of products used 

Supra Colour Palette 

Kryolan Foundation palette 

Illamasqua skin base foundation 

Illamasqua transfluente powder

Step by step

1. Prep the face with moisturiser and primer

2. Apply a pale foundation 

3. with a cream product fill in the wrinkles and frown lines

4. apply a darker colour underneath the eyes to create a old/sick look

5. powder the face

6. fill in the eyebrows with a white colour 

Creating dark eyes and dark lip

Creating dark eyes and dark lip

After a consultation with the mode i found out that that she has dry skin therefore after cleansing and toning I used a rich moisturiser on her followed with a primer. I then started off with the eyes because since it was going to be darker there would be a lot of fall out. I primed the eyes powdering underneath it and started off with the lightest shade which was a gold then worked my way up to the crease with a dark brown. After mascara I filled in her eyebrows and then moved on to the rest of the face adding a foundation that was a few shades darker than her face to match her skin as she had fake tanned.  I contoured and finishes off with a deep dark red lip.

list of products used

M.A.C Prep and Prime

M.A.C Paint pot

Lush Moisturiser

Urban Decay Primer Potion

Loreal stick shadow in gold 

Urban Decay Naked Palette

Loreal Million Lash Mascarra

HD Brows

Russian Red Lipstick M.A.C

Illamasqua Contour and Highlight Palette

M.A.C pro long wear  concealer

Illamasqua translucent powder

Brushes

M.A.C 130

Zoeva eye definer brush

Zoeva Face Sculpt brush

Kryolan eyeshadow brush

Real Technique Lip Brush

Real Technique Powder Brush

Real Technique Stippling brush

Mascarra wand

Creating light scaring and using molds

Creating light scaring and using molds 

Wounds using gelatine & moulds
Flesh coloured gelatine

Step by step


1. To prepare the mould to put gelatine in use release spray- petrolise 2. Spray by open window because it's smelly or use Vaseline instead 3. Heat gelatine up and put in mould 4. Prosaide - what u stick on prosthetics with but have to take it of with right remover 5. Gelatine is melted away with witch hazel 6. Stick them on and colour in wit supra colour palette and scars "Useful for creating the same shape again and again use mould" "Has to be blended and look real"
7. Powder everything 8. Put it on use a cotton bud and when it goes clear stick on the gelatine press down then get rid of edges 9. Use witch hazel and rub it backwards and forwards and blend it and bleed it into the skin



Overall i am pleased with the outcome as it looks like a real cut. I found the application part the easiest. I also like the choice of red and the amount of wound filler I used as I didn't want it to be too intense. The top part of the wound looks better than the bottom as it looks blended in with the skin and real however the bottom part is not blended in well which makes it look fake. To improve next time I will spend more time on the blending to make sure it blends in more and also i would drag the colour down more to make the blood look splattered.

Creating Estelle Image

Creating Estelle image

I was very pleased with the informal assessment for Estelle mainly because I managed time really well, completing the hair in 1 hour and the make up in 45 minutes. In the practise I spotted a few mistakes which I listed down and tried to fix for the assessment which I think improved the whole look. 

The application of the make up for Estelle was much better than Miss Havishams and this was because I got to know my partners skin better which was dry therefore I chose a very rich moisturiser and a primer to suit her skin. This made the foundation sit on her skin very well with no dry parts. It also made the skin look very dewy and youthful rather than powdery and matte which would be better for older skin. I wanted strong highlighting to show the beauty which Pip fell in love with as highlighter is very beautiful and it brings out the cheekbones and also makes the skin look very dreamy and glowy. The ideal Victorian minimal make up was what I was aiming for therefore I kept it to the minimal. However having said that, I did apply lipstick and blusher which did not show on camera because I took a lighter hand with it. Knowing that the camera fades the make up I should have applied more of it as the pink blusher would have made her look even more youthful and it would make her look like she is blushing as she was when she admitted her love for Pip. I also think a coat of dark brown mascara would have made the look much better as it would make her eyes look more awake. 

I am happy with how the hair turned out as I wanted it to be very similar to Miss Havishams, as Estella is very loyal to her and follows everything she does. I wanted to create the same sort of look with the layout but more crisper with no fly away hairs. To improve the hair i would use each strand of hair equal to each other for example an inch or half an inch of hair to curl and pin which I started doing but forgot. I believe that this would make the look more neat and perfect for film. Also on the right side of the he'd the hair is a little messy which could be fixed by adding a little more mouse or 

gel.

Miss Havisham assessment and steps to maintain continuity

         Miss Havisham assessment and steps to maintain continuity 

HAIR

For the hair part of the look, I had pictures to help me visualise from the pervious practise. I also had a step by step written down. To make sure that in the continuity the hair worked out the same I made notes.
Overall i am pleased with how the hair turned out as it looks like a beautiful bridal hair, it also looks the same to my design. What I found difficult in creating this look was in every step I was doing I was thinking about continuity and how I would recreate it which made it very stressful. One thing that is going to make it very hard for me to re create this look are the baby hairs that are on the sides of her face and also the back of the head. Also a few pins are showing which means that when i recreate this look i have to make sure that the same amount of pins, in the same colour will be in the same place. To improve I would hide the pins better and also curl the hair with the exact same thickness as the rest as some of the curls are bigger and some are smaller which again will make it harder for me. However to help me i wrote down notes to help me such as how thick the parting is if it is above the ear or below, how many curls in each parting and also I will have photos to help me.

Make Up 

The make up part of the assessment was easier because in mind i knew it would be a little easier to recreate as from previous practise I had taken out any complicated bits such as bits of dry skin that would be hard to recreate. I am pleased with the outcome, as she looks battered. Being around Miss Havisham was uncomfortable for others as she was crazy therefore I am happy with the way the red eyeliner turned out. It makes you look at it and feel umcofortable. I also like the fact that underneath the eyes looks natural, the bags and the darkness looks like she hasn't slept not that it is exaggerated and drawn on. Another thing that i like is the shade of the foundation that i used. I mixed a bit of white and grey with M.A.C.'s face and body and it gave her skin a dull and illl look. However there are some steps that I could take to make the look better like making the under eyes even darker to make  her look even more battered. I would also use whit on the eyebrows and the hair to age her and also the wrinkles are faint so making them darker would pick up on the camera more. Overall I am pleased with how the look turned out. 

                                            Steps to maintain continuity for assessment

For the assessment to create the Miss Havisham looks I made plans to keep the continuity consistent.
First of all I took pictures of the looks and printed it out zoomed in to make sure I could see detail on the day of the assessment. Visuals will help me to see anything that needs to be changed. I then created a step by step guide again with pictures for anything technical such as creating dry skin or scars. I brought with me a sheet of all of the products used in order, which helped me to prevent wasting time and following a step by step guide. I also used a face chart to get an idea of the overall look. Whilst doing the look I wrote down notes of how big the strands of hair I used were and how high up the parting was wether it was above the ear or below it.

The steps I took are helpful however to improve I would make the face charts more detailed as they weren't very useful. I would also bring a step by step not just for the hair but also for the make up. Another thing that i would do to maintain continuity is take pictures of the eyes separate to the lips and cheek etc., to properly zoom in and have a look instead of leaning over to see details on the eyes.

Miss Havisham continuity

Miss Havisham continuity 

The continuity (on left) of the first look of Miss Havisham (on right) was extremely difficult main due to lack of notes that I had made, however because I had a lot of pictures in high quality it made it easier for me to copy from them, even though the continuity image is not the exact same as the actual image and would not be acceptable on film and tv i am still pleased as it was my first ever try of continuity. 

I had a list of all the make up that I had previously used which made it easy for me to find the products without wasting any time or using anything that was not used before. Prepping and priming the skin both times with the same products made the application of the products sit nicely making the base of the look pretty much the same. I was pleased with the similarities between the eyebrows as i changed the shape of my partners eyebrows therefore found it difficult to recreate twice, however they look similar. I am also happy with the hair as I chose a difficult hairstyle which was very messy, meaning that when I had to recreate it any strands that were hanging out before had to be out again. Although the hair does not look the exact same it is still similar and I learnt a lesson that just because it is easy to create once it does not make it easy to recreate it the second time. 

Evaluation

Overall I was happy with the turnout, however there are things that I could have done to improve. I wrote down which products I used however I did not write which product went on first and what part of the face was done first in steps which created a problem for the eyes. As I forgot to note that that I started of with the eyes let the colours dry and then powder and add on, I layered the products on top of each other which made the colour underneath the eyes change from the original colour I had created to a more of a yellow tone which looked even worse when i tried to fix it so I left it. From this I learnt that writing notes are crucial even if they seem really simple, they can be a lot of help. Another thing that looks completely different is the foundation. This is because my partner fake tanned before the continuity assessment which i did not realise until the end when i took a picture. As her skin was darker the second time the tone of the foundation had changed to a darker colour and as  I used a very sheer foundation it failed to cover the neck and the ears even though I did blend it down there. Next time before doing an assessment of continuity i will ask my partner not to fake tan or let me know if they do so therefore i can chose a different foundation to make sure they both match and on the day I will do another consultation sheet asking if they had fake tanned. 

From this assessment of continuity I learnt that the simplest notes can make the biggest difference, and that just because something is very easy to create it does not mean that it is easy to recreate, therefore practise is needed even on easy designs. Also I used the images that i took on the professional camera which was a big mistake as it makes the make up look less and changes the tones which is why I should have used the images that I took on my iPhone with flash to get a clear idea of how much make up i used which really shows on the dry skin on the lips as it did not look much i did not add much which made it look even less in the continuity image.

Left continuity image, right first image. 

Left continuity image, right first image

continuity image.