Miss Havisham - Laila

I took this opportunity to practise some ideas for my Miss Havisham look.  I wanted to try out a few ideas to incorporate for my final design.

Firstly I wanted to try out wrinkling skin.  I did this by using some PVA glue on Laila's forehead.  I layered it over making sure I let it dry in between each layer, then gently started rubbing away at it.  Some bit slowly started coming away, however I didn't get the look I was trying to achieve.

I then tried paling her down.  I did this by mixing a flesh coloured foundation with a white foundation and applied it onto the face.  I then took a blending brush and made sure it was blended right into the hairline, down the neck and onto the ears.  This is extremely important for photographs as the skin colour difference will be picked up on camera.

Poem

Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then 
I haven’t wished him dead. Prayed for it 
so hard I’ve dark green pebbles for eyes, 
ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with. 

Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days 
in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress 
yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe; 
the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this 

to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words. 
Some nights better, the lost body over me, 
my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear 
then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love’s 

hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting 
in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake. 
Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon. 
Don’t think it’s only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.


I love that fact that the opening line into this poem is an oxymoron. I feel it really opens the poem as you can already start analysing the character.

Spinster - this sums Miss Havisham up in one word as it is practically her title.  She was jilted at the alter by her husband to be.
 

Hair ideas for Miss Havisham

I would like to create a hairstyle for Miss Havisham which has an element of decaying as I feel her persona gives off that vibe.  I did some research on Pinterest of some messy decaying hairstyles and decided to go with something back combed. http://www.pinterest.com/laurenamyjeffer/decaying/

I decided to go for a hairstyle like this because I feel her hair would be messy especially after sleeping and having it styled for so long.  However I still wanted to keep an element of structure and style there to show that once it was a beautiful up do.

As we had been taught the French pleat I thought it was a great way to quickly put the hair up in a neat way.  This meant I had more time to focus on the make up and the rest of the hairstyle.

Here are a few pictures I have taken my inspiration from

I combined the idea of a messy quiff at the front with some spiral curls down the sides of the face along with a French pleat that I will 'decay'

Estella ideas

Estella

• Fringe

• Curls

• Girly like hairstyle

• Rolls

 

I want to create a young version of Estella as my model has quite a young face.  I feel soft curls will compliment my models features and give an innocent look. 

My model has blonde hair and although the photographs are going to be taken in black and white, I feel the tones of her hair will still come through.  She also has a fringe which I felt I could incorporate into my design because some young Victorian girls did have fringes.