A base experiment for Miss Havisham

To continue experimenting with different base makeup that I could develop for my Miss Havisham I began to think about using a pale foundation.

My interpretation of Miss Havisham is that she would be very ill looking, very pale with shades of grey and green to her skin. Firstly I wanted to work on a base makeup for my Miss Havisham, I will then develop my idea further.

My synthetic wig for
my Miss Havisham

Because of the poor condition of my partner’s hair for the assessment I thought it would be best to purchase a wig for the assessment. I found on eBay a long grey synthetic wig. When working on my makeup design I will need to take into consideration the colour of the wig. For the assessment I will powder down the wig so that it won’t look as shiny, this will also give an effect of dirty hair.

Below is a product list and a step by step of how I created this first attempt of my Miss Havisham.

Products needed to create this look:

• Supra colour pallet (grease paints)
• Selection of brushes
• Dermacolour concealer pallet

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Below is a step by step of how to create this basic makeup look:

1. Ensure your model has a moisturised face as this will make the grease paint makeup a lot easier to blend on the face.
2. Mix the white Supracolour with a small amount of D10 and D15 from the derma colour concealer pallet. You only want to create a white colour with a hint of grey/brown.
3. Apply this all over the face apart from right up to the lash line of the bottom of the eye. You want to keep the natural redness of the eyes.

The left side of this picture is this makeup look. On the right of this picture I began to use a brown from the supracolour pallet to try and add more structure around the eyes. However I found that the colours weren’t really working together. After I chose to start again on the other side of the face without using the brown Supracolour.

Practicing with pale bases for my Miss Havisham

I wanted to place the wig on my model to see what the colour of the skin looked like in comparison to the wig. I was happy with how the two colours work together.

For my Miss Havisham I want to develop the very pale/grey looking skin tone as i think it will work well with my wig that I have for the assessment.

A closer image of the tones, working together.