Evaluation

Overall I really enjoyed the 'What the Dickens' project and found it to be useful in developing my hair and makeup skills. The technical lessons were great and I really enjoyed being taught by Lottie as I feel her teaching style and humour helped me to learn at ease in a comfortable environment.

I was really pleased with how my Estella look turned out. I was really happy with the hair, particularly as it is not my strong point, but it just goes to show that practice really does make perfect! The only thing I would have changed if I were to redo my look would be the hair colour of my model, as the novel clearly states that Estella had brown hair. However saying that, I really liked the effect it had on Lorna's ombre red hair, even if it isn't historically accurate. I was really happy with the styling as I managed to pull it together without spending any money yet I still found it to look effective.

My Miss Havisham look I was not so happy with. Due to running out of time I decided to use my friend Becka as a model and used a wig on her for ease. However as the wig was synthetic it didn't photograph very well particularly under flash. I wasn't that happy with the makeup either; bruising, ageing and prosthetic work is definitely not my strong point as my main focus is on beauty and fashion so I found I struggled to make my design look realistic and appropriate for TV. Saying that, I did enjoy the experience and the skills I learned will help me in the future I'm sure. If I were to shoot this again I would choose a more suited model, practice bruising and ageing more beforehand and use real hair!

Final Miss Havisham images

Final Estella images

Styling for Miss Havisham

The Styling for Miss Havisham would appear to be quite simple, a lavish Victorian wedding dress.

These style of wedding dresses would be perfect for Miss Havisham. Although it is important to remember that use to wearing this dress for many years it would have yellowed and started to fall apart. Also the fit of the dress would have done due to not eating properly. 

This is a good image to show the yellowing of the dress although I imagine it to be damaged and frayed a lot more. 

Styling for Estella

The clothing for the characters is just as important as the hair and makeup. 

The dresses here are typical of something that Estella would have worn. Off the shoulder and highly embellished.

Because I wanted my Estella to be very sultry, I will also incorporate black lace into the outfit. 

Lace will instantly add more sex appeal to Estella, which after all is what Miss Havisham wants out of Estella.

Hair tests

As hair is not my strong point, I did a hair test for my characters on a mannequin head to ensure the styles I created for my final images would turn out how I envisioned. 

Estella

For my Estella hair style I wanted a bun at the back of the head and tight curls around the front.

I was really pleased with how the hair turned out as this was my first attempt at creating such a style

Miss Havisham

To trial how I could do Miss Havisham's hair, I created the same style and then de-constructed it. 

As you can see I pulled out a lot of the curls, I then backcombed the top section and pinned it back, creating a very messy bouffant-eqse style

Miss Havisham face charts

Miss Havisham  

Face chart #1

 

With this design I toyed with how extreme I could take her transformation. Here she looks almost dead and skeletal. Although I like this design I reminded myself that the look is for a TV production and this design would be suited to the theatre. 

Face chart #2 

 

Although more subtle, I still kept some of the hollowness in the cheeks and the darkness under the eyes. I added bloody bitten lips as they would most likely be chapped from a lack of water. I also imagine her to bite her lips as a nervous habit.