Miss Havisham Designs

 These are my Miss Havisham designs, which are all at either different times of her life or represent different sides of her. I wrote down products if I knew exactly how to create the look, however the last one would be down to interpretation and experimentation.

This first face chart is Miss Havisham, post-heartbreak. She has been informed that she will not be getting married and her fiancé has absconded, and so her black mascara will be running down her face after crying hysterically and her eyelids and under her eyes will be relatively red. She still has a bit of rouge on her cheeks from when she was getting ready, however her lips are pale now from distress, and this would have the same effect on the skin. For this face chart I have thought about the real life effects of crying and heartbreak not the skin and the makeup, and so this would be appropriate for TV audiences because of its realism. None of the television or film renditions seem to include a long scene of Miss Havisham at the wedding, and so I thought that this would be a good way of conveying what she would look like as it has not been done before. However, I myself might find this look unchallenging and so would like to try something that I haven't necessarily done before.

This is the most viable Miss Havisham design for me. I have practiced ageing makeup and would like to put it into practice for my assessment, and so I created this face chart for Miss Havisham that is haggard and deteriorated. I intended to make her face pale by highlighting areas under the eyes and on the nose to be lighter than skin colour, as I didn't want to leave the face chart white as this would be unrealistic. I placed lines on the face, however these may need to be amended as I will be placing the lines on my partner where they actually are on their face, rather than where they are on the face chart. However the smile lines, under the chin and the cheekbones will remain the same. I wanted to darken all shadowy areas of the face and where ageing will occur. Namely the frown lines on the head, frown lines next to the eyebrows, eye bags, cheekbones, smile lines and chin, nose, and crows feet. Her lips will be chapped, and her eyes will be red because of constant crying and distress that she faces, for example when relatives come to visit. This look would again be appropriate for television as it is realistic and special effects makeup would enhance the realism of this look.

This is the exaggerated version of Miss Havisham.  I wanted to create a 'living dead' look, which includes a browny grey face and a skeletal facial structure. I shadowed the top of the forehead to signify malnutrition and the appearance of bones. Moreover, the cheekbones are accentuated and shadowed heavily underneath to convey the lack of flesh. I didn't include many age lines as I believe that some interpretations of Miss Havisham, such as the BBC one, use a young actress because it shows that it is only time that has changed the appearance of Miss Havisham; she is still young underneath but years of neglect have collected a dusty, dead layer on her. In this look, she has a corpse aesthetic but I'm not sure which media form this would be appropriate for. I think that theatre would be most appropriate for this look, as it is very exaggerated and may make more sense on stage rather than on television or in a movie as it is rather unrealistic. I haven't listed notes underneath as I am not sure which colours and products would be most useful to create this look as the whole face colour would be drastically changed.