Designing Contemporary Elizabethan Make up looks for Assessment and Inspiration Design 1

As our assessment is coming up we have to start gathering inspiration from previous artist and post we've done to start thinking of make up designs for our partner. The brief is to create a make up design with a step to step guide of how to create the look and what products to use, this can include photos, diagrams and drawings. We then have to swap designs with our partner and on my assessment day I have to create my partners design on her and she will have to create my design on me. Recently I started looking through recent artist, posts and studios session iv'e done that have been based around the Elizabethan theme to start creating make up design. I started looking on line at different Elizabethan make ups and inspiration for my contemporary Elizabethan make up. After bringing different elements of make up together I came up with my first design.

Design One-

For the base foundation I wanted to keep the Elizabethan feel to the skin, so I stayed with using a very light foundation on the skin. Not white like the tradition Elizabethan make up but very light, creamy and flawless. To set the make up would be using a white loose powder. I wanted this make up to be a mix of colours so very light and very dark. For the lips I lined it with a black and blended into the middle with a dark purple. I chose purple because I think purple is classed as a royal colour and the colour was used a lot during the Elizabethan period. The lips would be lined very neat and very bold against the pale skin. On the cheeks I wanted to coordinate the lips and the cheeks, so just under cheekbones will be a dark purple, blended out soft, but structuring the cheeks. As the main focus was the deep lips and cheeks I wanted to keep the eyes and brows very subtle. For the lashes I wanted them to be long, separated and pure white, this would reflect from the skin tone. The lids would just had a basic white powder over them just to keep it plain and subtle, the brows I want them flat and combed up. For this I would use soap to get them nice and flat and pushed up and they would dry in place and then go out with a white paint and colour over the brows and then powder it to set them. 

Inspiration 

In this contemporary elizabethan makeup I really like the light skin against the dark lips idea, when I wanted a dark colour  thought black, however after watching Elizabeth 1 1998 film and taming of the shrew 2005, purple came appealed as a royal colour. http://www.pinterest.com/kirstymacmakeup/elizabethan-makeup/

This photo gave me a lot of inspiration for the eye make up, I liked how subtle and natural the eyes looks and how it came all the way up to the brows. This photo contains a lot of neutral colours however the texture and clothing correspond very well together. 

After seeing this flawless photograph, I certainly loved the idea of the deep colour against the white upper half of the face. The elements of white around the eyes but a very dark lip gives a very contemporary Elizabethan feel. http://imgarcade.com/1/elizabethan-makeup/

In this photo you can see the striking lips, brows and contour. I found my inspiration to do a dark contour on pale skin from this photos, I really like the contrast between the colours on the skin and just defines the face more. http://www.pinterest.com/aislingo13/elizabethan-makeup/

In this photo I noticed the use of purple and the link between the colour and the gold which makes it look very royal. If you closely you can see the eyelashes in this photo is white, I think it gives it a very unique look and gives a contemporary Elizabethan feel to the lashes as it makes them look like there not there. In the Elizabethan era it was common to not have any lashes or brows. This photo inspired me with the white lashes look. http://www.pinterest.com/aislingo13/elizabethan-makeup/

For the brows in a recent make up session we painted the eyelashes white and blocked the eyebrows out using glue or soap, I really like the way the soap brows turn t out and you can move them around more and they stay in place. We then created a traditional look where we painted over the brows in white and I really like how they looked.