Mrs laderman final look

Mrs Laderman 

For my Mrs Laderman design, I wanted to include the use of Femme Fetale, burlesque and the 1950s style into my character in order for it to relate to my chosen TV series, the American horror story season four the freak show.

 In order to create my look, I firstly started with the makeup, applying an alabaster foundation from my Kryolan pallet to my models face and neck , matching my models skin tone. Once the product was applied evenly to the face I then blended the product out into the hair line using my buffer brush . I then applied a loose Illamaqua powder to the face in order o set the make up base.
 
Next I started to apply colour to the face, applying a dark pink from my kryolan eye shadow pallet to the cheekbones which I extended up towards the temples, I also applied the same colour to underneath the eyes. In order to separate the colour from underneath the eyes and he cheekbones, I applied a light powder from my glamour glow pallet, called bush mauve to act as a highlighter and to separate the colours, I also applied the blush mauve to the lighter areas of the face.
 
I then started to apply colour to the eyes, I firstly started by applying shallot, a dark purple from my kryolan eye shadow pallet to the eye sockets, I the brought out the eyes by applying the white from the kryolan eye shadow pallet to the eyelid and underneath the brow line . I then used a black  from my supracolour pallet and my fine liner brush to create two eye liner flicks on each eye.
 

To complete my eye application, I drew two even flicks above and below the eye to resemble a clown and the circus, in order to create this I used a fine liner brush and my black supracolour the main thing to take into consideration was making sure the lines on either eye were even, I also felt the two lines looked a little plain therefore I decided several flicks coming of the lines in order to add more design.
 
Finally to complete my makeup design, I applied a black mac lip colour mixture with minimal amount of red an a mac shine mixing medium to the lips, I applied the product to the lips using a fine makeup brush.
 
Once I had complete the makeup I then designed the hair, the main aim was to create curls set into a centre parting to resemble the 1950s hairstyle which was my chosen horror series was set , I also wanted the curls to appear imperfect in order to convey an element of the character being insane.
 
In order to create this hairstyle I firstly used a pin tail comb to create a side parting, then I started to curl the back of the hair using the technique learnt in my technical lesson, using the brick work technique , which was to curl the hair under, release the curlers and to secure in place using several hair pins and then releasing and applying hairspray to the curls once the whole head had been set into curls. Due to the hair being curled on top of the crown the brick work technique was used in order to make sure the hair was curled evenly. Once the back of the hair was curled I then started to curled the sides of the hair , curling the hair towards the face. My model had a fringe therefore I curled this section last . Once all the hair was curled in then back combed the fringe slightly off the face, and pinned the sides of the hair back using hair pins in order to create a 1950s, burlesque hair style.
 
I asked my model to wear a corset and a black statement necklace, the corset I felt would work well with my chosen TV series which relates to a circus, I also felt the black corset would convey burlesque which was another element I researched and included in my work . After researching into femme Fetale, jewellery was a main element included in the character styling, I wanted to however put a twist on things and include black jewellery in my work in order to convey dark and mystery as well as evil.
 
I was Generally quite happy with the outcome of my Mrs Laderman look, this was my second attempt at creating my final design, after looking into my mistakes I decided to make some minor changes such as the design around the eyes the lip application and the skin base colour. I felt this was a good decision and was a better outcome than my first attempt. I also felt I blended the eye application and the colour on the cheekbones better.
 
The things I found difficult was making sure the lines above and below the eyes were even, I used my mirror in order to make sure the lines looked even on either side. I feel I could have also applied more colour to the cheekbones in order for it to appear more prominent on camera, although it looked quite bright off camera I feel I should have layered the colour up a little more for it to be seen.
 
Once I finished my final Mrs Laderman character, I took several photographs in the studio with a black backdrop, I also altered the shutter shade on the canon camera in order for some of the images to appear darker and others lighter. I took many facial shots side shots and profile shots in order to show off the best qualities of my final design.