Presentation Of Ideas For Estella's Hair

During Seema's lesson we were to present our Hair Estella ideas to the class as if it was for a film production company i really enjoyed presenting my ideas and i found it gave me a better understanding myself of were and how my design has developed. My two key words for my estella deign inspired from the beginning are Interwinding ( to show Estella's psychological confusion about her upbringing and the way she has been taught to hurt men)  & Innocents.

The class feedback was that there needed to be a larger sense of the hair interwinding to create the effect i wanted i like the idea of the hair looking very detailed to show this element. The rest of the feedback was very positive and everyone seemed to like my design particularly the structure and combination of the bows.

Another point that was picked up was getting the texture of the extension hair used at the back for the barrel curls witch are very shiny due to the synthetic nature of the hair to match the real hair of my model i have thought about this and as the front will be wet finger waved and hair sprayed the texture will be shiny 

I feel confident about the creation of my deisgn and feel the structure in black and white will look very effective. 

The Hair Chart below shows my deign i will be using a clip in pony tail at the back to create the barrel curls from and strip clip in extensions at the bottom at the back to create the long curled loose hair at the back. The models hair will be used for the finger wave and pin curls at the side. 

I have chosen a side parting as my model has hair lost so i will use the hair from the opposite right hand side to cover the left securing by using my bow accessories. 

Hair Practise & Development

I Practised my design idea on my friend as she has the perfect thickness and length of hair i would ideally use it was easier to practise with the hair experimenting on the shapes without thinks about extensions. I really liked the curling effect witch reminded me of roses i didn't create the finger wave at the front as my model didn't want wet hair but i pulled the hair tight to the head and decided that to blend the two sections ( the front and the back) together i will pin curl the exsess hair so it connects to the back style creating a similar effect as the back, but flat to the head to blend with the flatness of the finger wave. 

I am please with this outcome although i will need to practise this style with the extensions and further my model as a patch on the right hand side of her head at the front were she previously had allopecia so the hair is very fine and short, i will need to find a way to work around this by either taking hair from the opposite side and sweep it over or possibly using extensions. I will also need to add the bows through out the style. 

Estella Hair Practical

During this lesson we had to create the back of our Estella designs as i was still unsure of the creation of my design and how to put together all my ideas i sat down with seema and found a structure that i liked and could use my ideas on developing it to create my visualisation of Estella to intertwine hair, ribbon, bows and add a rag like element.

I liked the decretive style of this structure in the top left (image below), the folds reminded me of the formation of bows and create a very tight style something i imagined when thinking about the characterisation of Estella.

Above i began creating a structure i liked i loved the role technique rolling out of the pony tails although i would like to create a larger more intricate structure as my models hair is similar length to the dolls head i will used extension's clipped into the pony tail so i have more hair to work with i also wanted the roles to come around to the sides of the head rather than staying all in the centre line as i feel this is very similar to the formation of my miss Havisham design also i found turning some of the roles onto there sides added more depth something i need to focus on when creating a design for black and white photography.

Finger Wave: 

Step 1: wet down the hair throughly and apply hair hair smoother to stop the hair tangling as you work.brush through with pin tail comb- make sure you have clips ready.

Step 2: brush hair back then place you middle finger to clamp down the hair, brush the hair in the opposite direction (forward) and clamp down with your front finger. repeat this over again until the amount of hair you want is waved once you've used both fingers replace with clips.

Step 3: leave to fully dry and remove clips- hair spray.

I liked this finger wave technique with my design and will experiment using it at the front i could further add a bow at the end to hid the extra hair although i feel for it to work together i will need to build up the back roles to create a bouffant type structure so the hair frames the face rather than looking like two separate structures. I like the idea of the hair being flat to the head at the front as its simple and more a style Estella should be wearing while the back symbolises her need to act more grown up than she is with a complicated up do. 

Estella Makeup

When i began researching little girls in the victorian times i found an image witch inspired me when i imagine estella she is a very beautiful little girl who is damaged through her harsh upbringing with Miss Havisham and is unaware of her lower class routes. I love the freckles within this image i feel it brings an innocence to her face that natural bare face beauty but the symbol of the freckles in victorian times was seen as a symbol of your lower class routings that you were working outside in the fields. I think this would be an interesting element to bring into my design of Estella as it's a symbol of her routings but an elaborate hair style would show the high class nature she was brought up with.

I feel that the freckles would look very effective in Black and White also. I want to keep the rest of the makeup very natural a slight contour to add a depth and a little mascara but nothing too noticeable as the images are in black and white you can afford to be a little more intense with the colours to show on camera rather than a colour image you would have to keep it very subtle. 

I created some face charts of my inspirational images from my Pinterest using very natural colours: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/477733472944448720/

Each face chart shows all products used and although they both look very similar the colourings of the pinks used within each differ. 

I then decided i wanted to see how the colours looked onto the skin as in paper they show up a lot brighter i preferred the colours on the skin for my second face chart as they were a lot more natural although you could still see them they didn't look fake onto the skin unlike the top face chart. Furthermore within black and white the colours looked very subtle. 

I wanted to further practise with freckles and this is the outcome below. I thought in black and white the freckles looked very realistic and natural and added a sweetness to the image the rest of the makeup came out well into black and white and looks very natural and pretty witch was the look i was aiming for i added a pink pale eye shadow obviously onto the centre of the lip, nose and inside eye i feel this adds depth and a plumpness so i will add this into my final Estella design. 

Burns In Motion

I was experimenting with the burn i had created in the lesson and when taking off the tissue it began to create a really effective result that could be used in film you can see how little effects like this our created in movies and on set. 

Estella

When i initial began thinking of estella i immediately imagined her to be young in her teens the main characterisation that i wanted to express in my interpritation of her was her venerability within the hard outer front she wants to portray to how she really feels about her upbringing i feel she is very psychologicaly confused and i wanted to show this through my design.   

Furthermore To me she tries to act very mature but i want to portray the fact that she's still young and innocent.

I initially began thinking about the hair creation as i feel i can be more experimental within the hair than the makeup as i am portraying the young estella i wanted to keep her face fresh and natural. 

I began thinking about the hair styles at the time and while reserching my inital visual imagery on Pinterest: http://gb.pinterest.com/milliejohns/estella/ 

I became stuck on the imagery of rags a technique they used to curl there hair in the Victorians and the effect and symbolic effect rags/bows have to me this represents the inoccent vulnerability instant imagery in my head of little girls with bows in there hair this represent estella's softer side. 

When looking at how i could portray her sense of wanting to grow up and be mature i though of structure to me little girls are often seen with loose flowing soft shiny hair, estella could create these elaborate up do's to create a sense of respect and higher authority in her adult run world within satis house and i feel as a character this is often seen when she is around Pip. Below is an image i found while doing some initial research although i image was not victorian i thought this was the perfect example within hair and makeup of a young pretty girl acting mature. 

While talking to seema in my lesson i began to visualise how i would pull together and create all the elements that i wanted to incorporate within the hair design adding the below elements to a victorian hair style/structure;

Structure; Large, detailed, of the face and neck?- acting mature and better than everyone else to hid what she really feels. 

Texture; intricate, depth, detailed and interwinding- represent her psychological confusion within Miss Havisham's view on men and how she has been brought up.

Accessories; Bows/rags- young & innocence   

Seema's feedback form:

Areas of achievement

Miss Haversham, a bold attempt and successfully executed

Issues to Consider

1.     Intricate, innocent inside, bold 2.     Tight intertwined detail, bows and rags, structured hair 3.    Find a Victorian hairstyle that you feel fits ‘bold structured’ (pinterest) 4.     Add no.2 to no.3

Any other comments

Remember to keep it Victorian Apply bows to create structure/ detail 1.     Email me your experiments

Burns Practical

Products:

·      Gelatine- used in fashion and prosthetics can either buy gelatine or melt down jelly crystals or buy the Gel Glyk from Screen Face either do a blue colour, red and flesh – you can mix any texture into gelatine i.e. glitter ALTHOUGH can’t heat up metal in the microwave!!!!  

Step 1: heat up the Gelatine in the microwave- NO METAL IN THE MICROWAVE!

Think about were and when the burn was done- colours often around the edge if there is a fire- burn come from within the skin so blend out the colours well- Burns are always Shiny!

Step 2:Using thin layer of ripped tissue place into the area glue over using colodian let this layer dry and build up to create texture- hair dry to speed up the process. You can use T pins used for wigs to pick up bits of the tissue to create rips in the skin and texture in depth.

Step 3: apply colour over the top patting on as not to pull of the tissue applied. Apply gelatine checking before hand that its not to hot onto the skin- Clear and red to look like blood- can further add puss or fake blood to add more elements into the burn.

I loved this practical and really got into building the colours using the gelatine and my supra colour pallet!