Miss Havisham: Continuity Assessment

Equipment:

Make-up
-Foundation palette
-Contour palette
-Supra colour palette
-Loose translucent powder
-Duo lash glue
-Liquid latex
-White skin base
-Cape
-Flour and water
-Make-up wipes
-Bowl x2
-Buffing brush
-Contour brush
-Stippling brush
-Powder brush
-Spatular
-Hair clips
-Paint brush
-Small flat brush x2
-Small angled brush
-Disposable mascara wand

Hair
-Dry shampoo
-Hair pins
-Hair elastics
-Wig
-Wig cap
-Hair grips

Styling
-Wedding dress
-Necklace
-Veil

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 bussing brush to buff it into the skin, taking it down to the neck. 
2. To achieve the dark circles, I took some purple from the supra colour palette on a small angled brush on her eyelids and on the inner half of her eye bags. I blended the colour in with my finger.
3. I then made a brown colour and mixed it in with some green and added it to the inner corner and a tiny bit in the middle of the eye bag with the same small angled brush. I blended the colour in with my finger.
4. I added a tiny bit of yellow on the outer half of the eye bags and on the inner corner with my finger.

5. I then added some red supra colour along her lash line with a small flat brush.

6. I powdered all around the eyes to make it look more skin-like and matte.

7. I then powdered the rest of the face and neck with a powder brush and translucent powder. 

8. I mixed some flour and water together in a bowl to a thin consistency. 

9. Using a spatula, I smoothed the mixture onto the areas where I wanted dry skin. I made sure that I blended out the edges to make it look more seamless and natural. 

10. I applied some liquid latex with a paint brush to the area I wanted the wart to be and then I added a very small amount of scrunched up tissue on top and secured the tissue by dabbing more liquid latex on top. Through out the makeup look, I kept going back to the wart and adding more latex to give it the height and texture I wanted.

11. I dabbed some red supra colour onto the lips and just outside the lip line to give a sore effect.

12. I then added some flour mixture on top, making sure that the edges were very smooth and blended.

13. Using my contour brush, I took some of the grey toned bronzer in my contour palette and contoured under the cheek bones, on the temples and under the chin. 

14. To emphasise the contour I went over it with some grey eyeshadow and the same brush.

15. I mixed some yellow and white supra colour together to make an off white colour. I then brushed this through the eyebrows with a disposable mascara wand. 

  

16. Using a stippling brush, I lightly dabbed some red supra colour on top of some of the dry patches around the face. 

17. Using a small flat brush, I added some red supra colour around the nostrils to make them looks sore. 

18. I added some duo lash glue to two patches on the bottom lip and let them dry. 

19. After the glue was dry I picked at some side of the glue, until I had made a cut effect, with one side lifted up.

20. Using a small flat brush, I put some red supra colour underneath the flaps to make them look like they were bleeding.

21. I next took the cape off and used the same mixture of white skin base and foundations to buff into the chest and any areas I thought would be shown in the final image. I used a buffing brush to do this.

22. I then used a big powder brush and some translucent powder to powder all over the chest, neck and shoulders.

23. I contoured the model's collar bones with some grey eye shadow and the contour brush.

24. I dabbed some red supra colour onto the two patches that I wanted there to be dry skin. I did this with my fingers.

25. I then added some flour mixture over the top with a spatular, making sure that the edges were blended. 

26. I used a small flat brush to add some red supra colour on the skin around the wart to make it look sore.

27. Then I added some purple/brown on the edges of the wart to add some dimension and to make it a realistic colour. 

28. I put on the wig cap to prep the hair for the wig. I made sure that all the hairs round the edges were tucked away. 

(Tip: Use some hair pins to secure the wig cap to the hair and make sure it is as close to the natural hair line as possible. Also make sure to keep the ears outside the wig cap.)

29. I then lined the wig up at the front of the head, asked my model to hold the front of the wig, and then pulled it to the back to cover the whole head. 

(Tip: Use some hair grips to secure the wig to the hair and wig cap by looping the grip under.)

30. Make sure the wig is in a rough centre parting and section off the two side sections and bring them forwards.

31. Take the rest of the hair up into a mid/high ponytail.

32. Plait the ponytail loosely and then twist it up into a bun. 

33. Pull some of the hairs out to give it a more messy look.

34. Use white supra colour on a disposable mascara wand to colour any hair that is showing around her neck.

35. Position the veil around the head and under the bun.

Final Images

The skin colour is very pale and slightly pink toned in both and the contour on the chest is almost identical.  I am happy with the eyebrow colouring and shape; they look slightly darker in the continuity image, but I think this is because the lighting was darker. I am happy with the colour intensity and colour positioning around the eyes as I think it looks very similar to the previous look, however I think the red colour underneath the eyes was more intensified in the original image. I am really happy with how similar the dry skin looks and how the amount of red in the dry skin matches almost perfectly! I used the same wart in both these images as I knew if would be difficult to make another wart that was exactly the same; however because I added more liquid latex underneath the wart, it looks like it is slightly bigger and more elevated in the continuity image. I also think I coloured it slightly darker in the continuity image, but again that may be due to the darker lighting. I am so happy with the placement of the cuts in the lip as I think they are very similar to the original; however the cuts don't look like they stand out as much because the lips are slightly darker. To resolve this I should have either added more red to the cuts, or preferably made the lips slightly paler to match the original colouring. Unfortunately you are unable to see the rash on the side of her neck on the continuity images because of the lighting, but you are able to see that the colouring and positing is very similar for the rash on the chest in both. To make it perfect, I would have brought the rash slightly further down and to the left to match up perfectly with the original.

I noticed that the necklace was slightly wonky in the original image so I tried to replicate that in my continuity image; however I think I over did it slightly, as the necklace looks a lot more crooked in the second image. I am so happy with how the dress came out in both images because I think it looks almost identical in both images!

I think the fringe looks almost identical, especially the hair coming down to the left, as all the hair is going in the same direction and even the body of the hair on the left looks the same, with all the flicks and curls in the right places. I think that the parting looks slightly tidier in the original image, with the hair pushed slightly further apart and with less flyways. The right side of the fringe looks like it has been pulled further forwards in the continuity image because the hair is coming further down the face; however the placement of the hair, other than that, looks very similar. I think the hair running down the right side look almost identical, however the hair on the left looks longer in the continuity image and the flicks aren't quite going in the same direction. The flowers on the head look very similar in both sets of images, with all the flowers going in the same direction and with them placed on the same part of the head. 

I think the images of the hair from the back look like they could have been taken on the same day, but just with different lighting. The flowers and leaves are all placed almost exactly like in the original image; however the leaf on the right looks like it was pulled down slightly more in the original. The hair in the bun looks like it was placed in the same place, looking at the outline of it; however, because of the lighting, the hair placement looks more exaggerated in the continuity image. The rip in the veil is in almost exactly the same place and the necklace at the back was positioned, what looks like. perfectly. I did the zip up to the same place as in the original photo, just to finish the continuity look off. 

The fringe and long hair, from the side view images, look almost exactly the same, with all the curls and flicks and the length of the hair looking the same. The flowers, from the side view, look like they are in different positions; however the overall look of the flower crown looks roughly the same. The buns look like they are positioned at the same height, with the flower crown going underneath. The veil looks slightly fuller in the continuity image as there is less negative space between the veil and neck; however this could be easily resolved if this look were to be used in a film or TV set.