Oh Estella you heart breaker. The character of Estella was really interesting to create because of her back story; she's mysterious in many ways, who is she really? why is did Miss Havisham adopt her? Who are her parents? Not only does Pip's love for her make him decide to be a gentleman but there stories were always intertwined due to her father being no other then Magwitch; Estella's biological father.
Estella is beautiful though hard she has become Miss Havisham's minion, a man hating creation. Estella was a failed plan though for Miss Havisham as in the end its Pip and Estella who finally have their happy ending.
Victorian women had strong ideals for what beauty could be conveyed as, delicate pale beauty's who looked like they could faint at any moment from being so weak and innocent another beauty was that modelled upon Queen Victoria one who was strong and statuesque. Estella of course was attractive she was made to break hearts. My plan for Estella was incorporated with both of these ideals of beauty, strong on the outside and to others but still with a large amount of insecurity within herself. She is like a oyster shell that needs to be cracked to reveal the pearl inside.
The makeup for Estella was delicate and 'pretty' the colours I used were done to suit Kyomi's richer skin tone, a light orange and brown mix on the lids that works because its only a couple shades darker then her actual colouring, the face has been contoured but also highlighted to created a dewy look for my model. Lips are simply patted onto with a pinky rose colour that just adds more colouring to the naturally lip colouring.
In editing I've lighted the image to make the hair clearer, the hair itself is part wig with the frontal section being Kyomi's natural hair. The wig was curled then attached to the smoothed back part of the head. In fitting with Victorian fashions the hair is curled then clipped to form a structure at the back with slick back sides and a loose backing. I was actually quite happy with the results and felt it went a lot better then my Miss Havisham hair. I do need practice with extremely curly hair though. The assessment itself was informal though I do have doubts it was, even if it was actually informal we need to learn (the class) to get into the routine of being professional even in practice sessions. i.e. capes, hair up, setting out, skills.
the locket photo above I though was a little fun, I wonder if Miss Havisham or Pip would be wearing it though?
Evaluation
The entire two weeks of assessments was rather stressful though exciting at the same time, I had always focused more on my practices of Miss Havisham over Estella due to Miss Havisham being more of a focus in the project. The look of Estella was fun to do because it meant we could look from making a haggard women into the ideals of Victorian beauty and our own take of the character. Me and my model worked really well being comfortable with each other and being about to talk and plan about what we were thinking whether it was facial charts before the actual assessment days or what to wear. I'm going to be annoying and say I felt my practice version of Estella I was a lot happier with I used a couple of different products which looked better but were FORGOTTEN (I know) on the actual day of Estella. The most annoying mistake in the world but I put my hands up and accept it; just one of those things that I will learn from and not do again. Even with my Miss Havisham makeup I didn't want the looks to be unconvincing, applying a tonne of makeup onto Ky would of not looked realistic at all. This was the women that Pip basically fell in love with straight away she would be natural and a classic looking beauty. Foundation was applied just to create a even base layer within the colouring of my model as she tented to have yellow tonnes on her face in some places. Overall I'm actually really happy with my take on Estella; Kyomi looks natural and pretty just like I wanted her too. The hair part of the assessment actually went okay, by that stage I was used to applying the wig so didn't panic too much, I tried to mask the side of Kyomi's head in which is short due to being shaved which I think worked as parting the hair in the middle I just used her long fringe to blend much like I did with the wig. I've used the image above because it shows the makeup well and shows the hair a little it wasn't until I was actually analysing the images at home I realised the hair back photo was far to dark to be acceptable.
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