Miss Havisham Facial Charts

The original facial chart I did for my Miss Havisham ideas, this was before we had been partnered up and was simply just a initial testing for how I could create Miss Havisham's character within my own creative mind. I looked at the story of Miss Havisham and how she was deprived from her 20 years of solitude. Dark circles under her eyes from sleepless nights. I also filled in the brows to be rather unkept as of course they would of been, even for woman of that age I wanted to create quite a dramatic look. The lips are dark and dry, of course though she wouldn't be wearing purple lipstick so this was something that wasn't realistic.

This design for me was all about creating the look of a deprived face, I wanted to create a sleep deprived and a gaunt Miss Havisham. Not only would she be lacking a lot of necessities within her body but she would also be dirty and ill. The look is dramatic and on a scale of looks that could be believable but maybe it was too much. In the end I decided after creating a third face chart that no this would not be the design I'd create for Ky.

The third and final face design, the camera hasn't picked up the detailing the best but I decided to use this design due to wanting to create a actual believable Miss Havisham. Ky's skin tonne is slightly deeper and caramel but with more yellow tonnes in. I wanted there to be a almost Make-up? what makeup look. Eyebrows would be natural but brushed. The face would be shaded to create a slight gaunt deprived look. The underneath eye colouring was important because I wanted to increase the yellow in Ky's skin, the look of a women who had become unhinged and hadn't sleep properly in a while. The foundation base would be slightly lighter then her natural skin but just to pale it down slightly to reflect the fact Miss Havisham's character hasn't been outside for twenty years since being glitched on her wedding day. I wanted to also create extremely dry lips so a mixture of eyelash glue and pale shadows would be patted upon the lips. I also looked at the idea of gluing hair to her face like many older women getting stray hairs I thought this would be fun and also look really cool.

The Hair Design 

The hair design needed to be planned out quite a lot in my head and within notes, having Kyomi as my partner I had always wanted to use her wig to add length to the design. Having naturally very curly hair though this was something I'd never yet styled being a complete hair stylist newbee since going to Solent to do my course. I wanted the hair to be in a bun; yes it was simple and it wouldn't be perfect but that was what I wanted. Just think Miss Havisham hasn't washed her hair and slept on it for twenty years. It would look more like a birds nest then anything. In fitting with the Victorian theme though I tried to get the design in fitting with the brief. Having a long side fringe I decided that should be curled and parted in the middle this was also better as Ky has a shaved segment within the front of hair. For props I brought a long veil from eBay which I would tea/coffee stain and rip in places and put two little rose buds after the fringe sectioning this was also a good idea to help blend the wig into the front section of hair more believably.