Practising Final Design Ideas

Practising My Ideas…

In my first face chart I showed my first ideas of using the print of lace around the face, which would indicate that she is very wealthy because in Elizabethans days lace was very expensive. I decided to experiment with this technique to make sure my ideas worked.

I started off by buying a packet of lace paper, which has an outer edge, which looked like wild roses. This shows a lace effect, which I will be printing through. To create this effect I used my supra colour pallet from Charles Fox. This was a good product to use to print because it was thick and created definite shapes when printing, also it didn’t make the paper too soggy so you could reuse the same paper to keep printing.

My fist attempt I just done with my normal makeup underneath to just see how the print came out.

This went really well and exactly how I wanted it too look, it shows a defiant outline of the lace effect, which is perfect because if it didn’t show the lace print my design wouldn’t make sense. I also liked out I carried it on round the face and then stopped towards the bottom I think it frames the face really nicely.

The main part of my design worked so well that I decided to add to this and add the rest of the design from my first face chart. I done this by using the supra colour in orange to set a pace on my eye lid to make it vibrant and stand out. I then added on top of that with the Charles Fox eye shadow pallet. Using the four colours at the bottom from the left. Yellows and oranges to create a analogous look. Using this colour theory helped me create a very soft by vibrant look on the eyelids.

Another part of my research and designs is to make the eyes stand out to show that when you look into her eyes you can see that she isn’t royalty but far from it. By using the orange this brings out blue because they are complementary colours which means because I have blue eyes it will bring out the colour which is one of my main points.

I then had black mascara on which I don’t think looked very Elizabethan but just didn’t stand out as much as I wanted to so I decided to change the eyelashes and eyebrows to white, which really framed the face and also made the design look more dramatic.

I then used the supra colours in red and covered the lips, I then put the orange in the middle of the lips where they meet which gave a really nice effect but I also wanted to add a bit more to the design so I decided to dab on some of the gold supra colour on top of the lips, which I also another colour which represents wealth.

 Supra colour- White, Orange, Red and Gold were used in this look.

Charles Fox Eye Shadows- From left to right the four Yellow and Orange colours.

 Over all I really enjoyed doing this look and really love the outcome to the lace idea. I think it looked extremely elegant and pretty. The only thing I think it is missing is the dramatic effect. Bess had quite a dramatic life, which I don’t think this design shows.

I have designed to keep with the lace effect but maybe experiment in different colours so make this design slightly more dramatic.