Estella: Step by Step

Make-Up

Equipment:

-Foundation palette

-White skin base

-Buffing brush

-Spatulas

-Small fluffy brush (concealer)

-Fluffy brush

-Loose translucent powder

-Blush brush

-Blush palette

-Lip colour palette

-Small angled brush

-Eye shadow primer

-Medium fluffy brush

-Light brown eye shadow

-Small fluffy brush (eye shadow)

-Disposable mascara wand

Step by step:

1. I applied a mixture of the white skin base and foundation colours Alabaster, FS38 and G177, to make her skin look slightly more pale than it was naturally. I did this with a Real Techniques buffing brush to buff it into the skin, down to the neck and on her chest.

2. I took some foundation under her eyes with a small fluffy brush to cover any dark circles. 

3. Using a big fluffy brush, I applied some loose translucent powder all over her face and down her neck. 

4. I applied some light pink blush to her cheeks with a blush brush, focusing on the apples.

5. I mixed lip shades LC002 and LC142 to make a natural light pink colour and I applied it to the lips with a small angled brush.

6. I put some eyeshadow primer on her eyelids and bended it in with my fingers. 

7. I powdered over the primer with a fluffy brush and some translucent powder. 

8. I then added a small amount of light brown eyeshadow with a small fluffy brush into the crease and on the lid to give her eyes some definition. 

9. I brushed through the eyebrows with a clean disposable mascara wand. 

Final Make-up look.

Hair

Equipment:

-Tail comb

-Hair clips

-Hair elastics

-Hair pins

-Curling wand

-Blur fabric roses

Step by step:

1. Draw a line with the tail comb from the front of the ear to the front of the other ear and this is your front section. 

2. Put in a middle parting using your tail comb in the front section and then clip the two front sections out of the way for now, using hair clips.

3. Take another section, about an inch in depth, following the straight line of the front section, put a middle parting in it and then clip both sections up. 

4. Take a section in a semi-cirlcle shape from behind the front sections and put it in a ponytail with an elastic. This sections starts from about 3 inches up on each side.

5. Split the ponytail into four and loop each section under to make a bun shape, securing them with hair pins.

6. Curl the rest of the hair in small sections to make very defined curls. 

7. The big section of curled hair needs to be split into four, roughly equal, sections, so keep this in mind when you are taking each section.

8. Take the first section, split it roughly in half and twist both sides upwards from the root.
9. Secure both sides together and to the head, just under the bun with hair pins, making sure the sides are even.

10. Take another section below this, twist both halves and pin them in the middle of the head with hair pins. Make sure that this section seamlessly joins with the section above and that all the body is running down the centre of the back of the head and that the sides are flat.
11. Repeat these steps with the section below.

12. With the bottom section, do the same steps, but only pin up the sides of the section and leave the middle part hanging down to give the look some length.

13. Pin the middle section of curls up, but position them lower down so that it adds some length to the look.
13. Curl the small section behind the front sections with your curling wand.

14. Twist each of these curls back into the bun to hide the obvious bun shape. 

15. Curl the two front sections with your curling wand, making sure to curl them in small sections. Curl some of them forwards and some back to give add more texture.

16. Split the two halves into three sections and twist each section backwards towards the bun. On each side the curls need to be twisting away from the centre.

17. Secure these twists into the bun with some hair pins, making sure that some of the end curls are still loose.

  

 

18. I secured some blue fabric roses onto some hair pins with some thread and pinned them along the front of the hair, where the twists had been pinned into the bun.

Final Look

I am really pleased with how the whole look turned out. I kept the makeup look very natural and historically accurate, and I am really happy with how it came out. I am happy with how evenly the base and concealer was applied and how natural the blush looks and how it is just focused on the apples of the cheeks. I blended the foundation all over the model's chest and neck and shoulders so that she was all one colour, however I can still see that her chest is the slightest bit darker than her face. I think this was because she was naturally a lot more tanned on her chest and so I would have needed to use a lighter foundation than I used on the face over the top to counteract this. However I think most people are slightly more tanned on their chest anyway so I don't see this as a big problem. I noticed that a couple of her spots were showing at the back which I would have liked to cover; I will remember this for my future shoots. I really like the lip colour here as I think it looks like she might not be wearing anything, which is the look the victorian women mostly went for. 

I am really happy with the hair and how the different tones and highlights in her hair made the hair look more textured. The bun at the top was a different colour to the rest of the curls so I made sure it is neatly done as it would stand out. I really like how the hair is twisted at the front into the bun as it adds more textured and a pretty detail to the look, however I think I could have manipulated the hair slightly so that not as much of her scalp was showing at the sides as I think it looks unflattering and messy. I think the blue flowers in her hair look really pretty and girly and I think they stand out just enough because of the difference in colour. I had hoped that the curls at the back would have been longer because the victorian women didn't cut there hair so it would have been a lot longer, but I loosened the curled at the back slightly more than in my practises so that the hair appeared longer.