FINAL DESIGN FACE CHARTS

Before deciding on a final design I came up with three different makeup ideas using Face charts. All of them were designed with elements from historical and contemporary Elizabethan makeup and they were all based around my character Lettice Knoylls.

FACE CHART 1 

For my first face chart I looked back at my research and came up with a makeup that included everything I wanted, dewy skin, gold accents, adornments to the face and dark lips. It was influenced a lot by runway makeup as I wanted to keep it minimal but striking.
I used illamasqua skin base mixed to give a pale complexion but not white. I also used a satin primer to make the skin look more dewy and contemporary. I used glamour tan to contour as it has slight grey tones to it which I think will work really well rather than a really bronzy contour which would take away the Elizabethan look. I also used a pink blush from illamasqua to fit in with the historical look.
The gold on the eyes was a mixture between liquid metals from illamasqua and the kryolan aqua colour to create the highlights in the eyes and cupids bow.
I want the eyebrows to be still visible but with white aqua colour through them. I think this works really well for fashion and I was really inspired by runway pictures.
The dark lips symbolise the bad side of Lettice Knoylls, I wanted to make her look darker and different to other Elizabethan characters. I made the lips fade outwards leaving the lips not fully filled to create a smaller lip which was a feature all women wanted in the Elizabethan era.
Although I have drawn pearls along the crease line I dont know exactly where I want to put them on the eye which is why I need to experiment and see where looks best.

FACE CHART 2 

In my second face chart I still wanted to use the concepts of dewy skin, gold accents, dark lips, adornments etc. But I wanted to change where the pearls were placed and look at different ways to place the colours on the face.
I had an idea of creating a dark contour,contemporary look, into a heart shape on the face which would give that Elizabethan historic look. I used a more bronze colour to create the shape and also used blush on the cheeks upwards rather than a round shape on the cheeks. I then used the pearls around the heart contour of the head meaning it make the heart shape more prominent and also look really feminine and pretty.
I wanted the eyebrows to be completely blocked out and the gold to be more extreme from the first look. I made the gold smudge from the inner corners up to the eyebrows and slightly across the lid. I really like how this looks as the eyes look simple but then have that striking gold.
I then used the same lip colour from my mac palette to create the dark red lips but filled in the whole lips this time making them really neat and a nice feature to the face.

FACE CHART 3 

I wanted my third and final face chart to be completely different to the others to show a range of different makeup I could possibly do.
I wanted the face to be completely pale using Illamasqua white skin base and the contour to be really strong using Glamour Tan.
The most prominent feature to the face is the black, I wanted to create a heart shape using black paint. The black made the person look almost evil and dark, but then the soft makeup counteracted and looked innocent. This is the feeling I get from my character Lettice, was she a nice or nasty person? This makeup was to show an element of a bad side and good side.
I made the lips a brighter red colour as I wanted the face to look very normal and historical Elizabethan.
After I had finished this design I liked the concept behind it but didn't like the actual look as it reminded me too much of a Disney villain. I also think the black might look too harsh on the camera and wouldn't give the right look I wanted.