'New Elizabethan' a modern take on a century old look.
My partner on the project is Anna this weekend out of class she came to my dorm room and we practiced her makeup look and vice versa on another day. Anna on her work is the designer but I am the makeup artist so a lot of pressure is on me so obviously a few practice runs makes sense.
Anyway of course if something needs to be changed in the design within the facial chart or the actual process wasn't working we would know.
Here is a scan of the facial chart Anna created, the actual original is a lot clearer with a pinker cheek from the blush. The look is quite heavy which makes it contemporary straight away, the includiton of the eyebrows makes this look perfect for its inspiration with colours such as cerise lips and the white eyelashes.
Annas helped me out a lot adding a list of all the products she's used especially in a project details like that are vital in expressing a design, what if she mixed the colour onto the lips and forgot the processes. The lips themselves are a mix of colours.
So here's the start, notice the base isn't whitened out like the classically Elizabethan beauty looks. this Kryolan alabaster shade suited Anna's skin tonne perfectly pale but with a ounce of colour.
Anna has a good clear complexion so blending and applying the foundation is a easy task; of course cleanse and tone before incase any old makeup is still on the face.
Next another Elizabethan reference is created in the blusher on the cheeks, the pink that gives Anna a rosy complexion. A light contouring is also applied using powdering; whilst doing the practical I did say maybe Anna wanted to look into a grease on grease approach with the concealer to contour as for me personally I find a better final look with that way of contouring
After all the skin base was finished it was time to move onto the eyes; quite clearly Anna has decided to not use the process of blocking out her brows, I personally think this is the right choice for the design as it makes the makeup more contemporary rather then just an Elizabethan look.
I love the eyelashes; easily done with the Kryolan Supra Color in white and a disposable mascara wand (bulk buy on ebay). We were discussing the eyeliner and Anna said she had originally wanted links to add to the contemporary look but hadn't found a good liquid eyeliner so this was just a eye pencil. I recommend a product by lime crime so we'll test that out if she gets it; though I quite like the eyes they are simple yet who in our day and age walks up the high street with white mascara one? Anna has long eyelashes so would need to curl before any application was taking place.
The last process we I tested out on Anna's face was a lip design she wanted which basically was a ombre of two colours one outlining her lips in a red whilst having a lighter pale pink lip. The look is quite heavy and harsh on the rest of her face after blotting the lips looked much better but still heavy. Another thing that we will be practicing.
So here is the final image of the practice. The lighting in my room is terrible so flash has to be on. For me the design I think I worked to Anna's vision onto herself quite well; in the actual practical things might be different as the design could change. From this practical we looked at changing a few things to suit not only Anna more but to make the design more contemporary such as heavier contouring and lighter lip ombre. After we had finished working we spoke about the design and what had shone in the practice today and what Anna was thinking about developing more by changing the process or the colour of the look.
I think Anna's design is great for the brief the skin looks very natural with the pink cheek like they would have in Elizabethan beauty but the difference in using her actual skin tone and the inclusion of a brow and eyeliner makes the look modern and fashionable.
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