Working Towards my Final Design

I started my design process by focusing on a simple look that showed off the veins coming from the hairline down towards the eye and down the cheek. The Elizabethan ideal of beauty was a porcelain skin and veins were seen as a sign of beauty because the skin was almost translucent.

However I decided against this idea when I had my meeting with my tutor Kat to talk about my designs as she told me that a lot of the other students were also looking at showing the veins in their makeup.

This design was heavily focused on the colour gold as to me this is the colour of royalty. Although I decided against this look I do realise that I want to incorporate some gold into my final design to hint at that theme of royalty that Elizabeth is iconic for. 

This is the design that brought my closest to my final design. Its a heavily contoured face with a heart shaped lip. 

Although this is the face chart that me and my partner decided to go for it still underwent some changes which I feel were very beneficial to the look, The look was kept monochromatic so the eyeliner was changed to burgundy just like the contour. We decided that the dark colour on the nose didn't suit my face shape and didn't have any correlation to the rest of the faces contour and so we scrapped that. The beauty mark was removed as it made the look uneven and the brows were made burgundy to balance the look. As I knew I wanted to keep gold somewhere in the look to hint at royalty we topped the lashes with gold. This little detail was picked up on camera and just gave the look something extra.

After our first practise of this look Layna took this picture on her phone. This made it clear that the contour needed to be stronger and the base paler to really have the contrast show up on flash photography. I still wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the brows and this was making me doubt the design. However after deciding that a burgundy brow would look best we tried it out and it really pulled the look together. I was a lot more confident of my design now going into the final assessment.