Creating an ill looking eye

To give my base makeup idea for my Miss Havisham I wanted to give some more depth to my basic design idea. In my previous blog post I was using eye shadow to try and add depth to my base for Miss Havisham. However I found that it was very difficult to blend on top of the white Supracolour base.

As I want my Miss Havisham to look sick, it thought that I would experiment with some eye makeup but I wasn’t sure how to approach it.

In a lesson Lottie created this tired/sick eye on my model once I had applied my pale base that I want to keep for my final design.

Lotties ill looking eye makeup

Products needed to create this look:

• Supracolour pallet, the two shades of red
• MAC red lip pencie
• Vaseline
• Cotton buds
• A selection of brushes

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

1. Mix the two different shades of the reds from the Supracolour pallet and apply softly around the lash lines of the eyes. You want to create a very subtle effect; you can blend the colour out or away with a cotton bud.
2. Apply a very small amount of the MAC red lip pencil on the bottom water line of the eye. This will give the effect that the eye is sore.
3. Apply Vaseline to the eye area to give an effect of puffy eyes.

This is something that I would like to try out with the wig too see if this as an almost complete look would work well with my wig I have for the assessment.