Anne Vavasour: continued

Final Design: Practice 

This is my final design and as explained in my prevoius blog I decided it was the best design out of them all for these reasons stated in the other blog:

'I think its the best design overall that represents my character and her traits. I took the element from my first design of the widows peak as I really thought this made the look, look Elizabethan but at the same time makes it very contemporary with the blurred out gold highlighting the widows peak. I thought would keep the colours quite simple by using only red, gold, black and white which I think makes the look stand out more, especially because the red stands out on top of the white making the whole look appear very bold which is what I wanted to aim for as I believe my character was a very confident women. I used red as a main feature colour on the face as 'Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love'  and as it states its the colour of passion and love I believe this relates to the characters story and makes this seductive trait very clear as its so bold on the face. I wanted the eyes to be a important feature to the face so I made the eyes into a cat-eye shape which is a very modern look but I believe its a very sexy look which I think my character would have been in our modern day. Overall, I think this look speak the best for my character and her traits by having the elements of; red meaning love and lust, white showing her innocence, pink cheeks showing her motherhood and youth, the widows peak to show her intelligence, the gold to represent her relationship with Queen Elizabeth 1st and finally hints of black to represent her dark side in relationships.'        

Products:
- Foundation (healthy serum)
- white illamasqua skin base foundation
- white and black (supercolour)
-red (eyeshadow pallet)
- foundation brush
- disposable wand
-gold (MUA pallet)
- Blush pallet
- angled brush
- blush brush (rounded)
-Primer

Practice: 

This was the first practice that my partner did on me for my look and overall for the first attempt of my design I believe she performed it quite well. I decided to adapt my look slightly by adding in these black pearls around the outer of the widows peak. I decided to put these black pearls in because firstly as Queen Elizabeth would wear pearl as they represent purity and virginity which I know my character is not as she has been married twice, married whilst being married and had two illegitimate children, therefore the pearl being black as black being the opposite of white. When repeating the look there were a couple more things that I wanted to change for example when lining the lips with black supercolour I found that the product smudge and moved around a lot not staying in its place therefore I have decided to use black lip liner instead so the product will stay in place. Secondly, I want to add a thicker base colour to the lids of the eyes first before place the eye-shadow on as then the product will have something to stick onto as I found the eye-shadow on its own is not as thick as I would have liked it to be. I think that my parnter overall has perfromed the look well but maybe needs to add more product to the base to make the overall look bold as thats what I aimed for it to look like as a final design.

Added Products:
-black pearl sticker 

   

By Amelia Richmond-Knight