Estella introduction

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Estella is Miss Havishams adopted daughter, raised by her from the age of three with the intention of making men fall in love with her and in return that she would break their hearts. This is why Miss Havisham had Pip sent over to play with Estella at the beginning, so that he would fall in love with her despite her being so spiteful and cruel to him. Estella was brought up to be unable to express normal and natural emotions and to be able to interact normally with people and in society, she comes across as cold and emotionless. Estella's upbringing with Miss Havisham meant she was very wealthy which is why she is always dressed so beautifully throughout all ages in all adaptations of the novel, however at the end we find out she is Magwitch's daughter we discover that at the very beginning of her life before Miss Havisham took her on she was born of even lower class than Pip which is ironic as at the beginning as a young girl she judged Pip for being poor. 
On Pips first visit to Satis House Miss Havisham asked him for his opinion of Estella, he answered with: ‘I think she is very proud, very pretty, very insulting.’

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As Estella grew up and moved away from Satis House she became more beautiful and even more stylish, I love the BBC's Great Expectations portrayal of Estella above, she is my favourite version so far. I think the clothes and hair are beautiful and down to the mannerisms and facial expressions you can feel the coldness of her heart and see the deep sadness within her. 
Miss Havisham described her at this point in her life as 'Prettier than ever; admired by all who see her'.

Estella was damaged by the rich twice in her life, first by Miss Havisham who made her unable to be loved and then by Drummle the horrible nobleman she chose to marry instead of Pip, who abused her and made her life a continued misery after leaving Satis House for a few years before he died. It is a lesson that money does not buy happiness and all along Estella would have been happier if she had allowed herself (or been allowed by Miss Havisham) to fall in love with Pip.

Although Estella treated Pip badly we still don't hate her, but feel sorry for her as this is the way she was brought up and manipulated into being. She couldn't even love Miss Havisham who adopted her and raised her as she had been taught not to love by Havisham herself. She hurts Pip over and over again but doesn't want to, she just can't help it, she warned him not to love her and to forget about her and told him she had no heart. At the end of the novel when Estella finally finds peace and tells Pip her true feelings this is her triumph, she finally learnt, trusted her own feelings and became her own woman and they have the happy ending they deserve. She said to Pip, “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.”

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Comparing continuity images

Unfortunately the lighting was very different in the second image and I had thought it looked better when I was checking it on the thumbnail screen on the camera while I was taking them. Due to the assessment being timed, as well as getting the hair and make-up done in the time required we also had to take our pictures quite quickly so everyone had a chance to use the camera. Because of the lighting in the second image the make-up has been quite washed out compared to the first image so the details aren't fully viewable. This is a shame because I was very proud of my continuity make-up, albeit being simple I was still very pleased with how it came out and especially the placement of the tear streaks and cracked, peeling lips. I think they looked realistic and not too overdone which I was worried I would get carried away and do. Despite counting the curls I made in the first assessment and repeating the same steps as before during the second they still didn't manage to look too similar and fell slightly differently by the face and didn't have the same shape. This was the part of the assessment I was mostly worried about and which I thought may be a problem, however believe that practise and experience will help avoid these problems for the future. Overall I enjoyed the challenge of this assessment and was really pleased with the make-up turn out, the lack of quality in the second photo is a shame but will make me pay closer attention to this in future assessments.

Miss Havisham - continuity part 2

Here are my photographs from my continuity part 2 assessment, I wasn't as pleased with this assessment as I would have liked to have been. I was happy with how the make-up came out as I felt like it was just as I had done it the first time but I think I was let down by the hair. The curls at the sides of the face aren't the same as how they looked in the first assessment, which I preferred and this is the part I was most worried about not coming out the same! In the first image I feel like the brightness off the photo doesn't show the make-up as clearly as I would like it too.

Miss Havisham - continuity part 1

These are my images from the first part of my continuity assessment, I took these on my mobile so I could print them out so I had loads of visual references to help me with the hard part of this brief - the continuity part 2! Following these are my professional images from the day. I was pleased with the outcome of this assessment and feel confident with the make-up in that I believe I will be able to recreate this again, however the hair I am quite concerned about as I found controlling how the curls looked very difficult. I made sure to count the flowers I added to the back of the head and took note of where each on was placed so I can get this detail correct again.

Final photographs:

Practising my design

Fenella's lesson: Two face - Half face Miss Havisham // Estella on Bekah. 
In Fenella's lesson in pairs we had to make up one side of the face as Miss Havisham (at our chosen point in her life) and one side as Estella. I did my Miss Havisham half as her the day after her wedding as a chance to experiment with techniques for my continuity assessment, and Estella's half as a basic Victorian beauty look. Here are my images:

For the Miss Havisham side I used a red blusher from our Kryolan palette to colour the water line of the eye to make it look like she was crying. It was a very bright red and looked unrealistic so this is when I realised I needed to play around with other pink and red colours in my kit to find a solution that made it look as if the model had been crying for days and the eyes look sore. After further experimentation I realised that using the rosy shade in the Derma Color palette I have (Shade name: D32) worked very well and created the effect I wanted.
With the Estella side I found that it looked too made us, everything needed to be slightly more natural (lips and eyeshadow) and the eyebrows a lot less obviously defined.

Make-up design practise
At first Maddy was supposed to be my partner for the Miss Havisham assessment so I began my make-up practise on her, but due to her not being able to attend the first continuity assessment I had to change to working with Chloe later on. In this lesson I began practising my final design idea on Maddy to see what went well and what could be improved with my design.

I was really pleased with how the tear streaks on the cheeks came out and thought the cotton bud technique was really effective. I decided that the mascara made the look too modern as Victorian people wouldn't have had mascara and make-up that appeared so heavy so I decided to resolve this buy removing mascara from my look completely. I liked how the D32 colour from Derma Color looked around the eyes as it made her appear very tired and sore around the eye area. I wasn't very pleased with the lips as they didn't look sore enough so I made note to apply more glue so there is more texture and so the lips can peel more and also add a number off different colours to the lips during my assessment so some areas can look more painful than others to make the effect more realistic.

Hair practise:
Here is my first attempt practising my hair style design for Miss Havisham. The only thing missing from this look is the flowers I am purchasing from Fabric Land to decorate the back of the style.

Now that I have practised both hair and make-up more than a couple of times I am confident that I can complete it within the time we are provided with, I am mostly worried about the hair as I have struggled to create curls exactly the same as the were before in each practise.

Miss Havisham final design

I decided to make my final design for my continuity assessments a Miss Havisham very soon after she had had her heart broken, I think she is going to be Miss Havisham a couple of days after her wedding day. This means her hair will still be relatively neat in a typical early Victorian hairstyle with ringlets beside the face and a plaited bun at the back adorned with some little flowers, just a bit messy from sleeping in it and not as perfect as it would have been on her wedding day. She will have quite a plain face as obvious make-up was still frowned upon during this time but from all the crying she will have lightly red patches around her eyes and tear streaks all down her cheeks. As a nervous habit she would have bitten her lips  so that they will look very sore and crusty.

Step-by-step make-up:

1. Cleanse, tone and moisturise the skin
2. Lightly fill in the eyebrows with a matte mid brown tone eyeshadow from a neutral matte Kryolan eyehadow palette
3. Using D32 from the Derma Color palette on a brush apply around the eyes and on the waterline to make them look sore and as if she has been crying a lot
4. Using the same eyeshadow shade using a light fluffy shadow brush add some of this into the crease of the eyelid so that it is barely noticeable
5. Apply a small amount of blusher to the center off the cheeks for a natural rosy effect.
6. Dampen cotton buds and wipe them down the face from beneath the eye and down the cheeks to make it look like the model has been crying
7. Using the kryolan lip palette, pick a pinky nude shade and apply to the lips just so they are slightly pinker than usual to make it look like the model has bitten lips
8. Take Duo Adhesive and using a cotton bud apply to the lips, make sure the model keeps their lips separated so that they don't stick together
9. Using tweezers pick at the glue on the lips so it looks like peeling skin 

Make-up:

• Neutral matte Kryolan eyeshadow palette
• Illamasqua/Kryolan blush palettes
• Derma Color palette
•  Kryolan lip palette
• Duo adhesive

Step-by-step hair:

1. Create a middle parting using a tail comb
2. On each side of the parting create a section that goes back to just behind the ear and use section clips to secure into place
3. Create a pony tail with all of the rest of the hair and plait all the way down the length of the ponytail and twist into a bun, securing with grips and pins
4. Using a small curling wand curl the hair at the sides of the face into ringlets going in the direction towards the face rather than away
5. Add artifical flowers to the bun and back of the head for decoration

Equipment:

• Tail comb
• Hair brush
• Wrap
• Section clips
• Grips and pins
• Small curling wand
• Artifical flowers
• Make-up brushes
• Cotton buds 
• Tweezers

 

Miss Havisham design - Her wedding day

To begin my design process I decided to look at Miss Havisham at four different stages in her life: Her wedding day, the day/a week after her wedding, years and years after where she is nearing the end of her life and finally her death. I thought that by creating very quick and simple design ideas based on each of these versions of Miss Havisham I could then pick one and develop it. This way I will have known I chose the right period in Miss Havishams life to portray through my character designs for my continuity assessments.

Wedding day (before the betrayal):

• Very neat and freshly styled early Victorian hair style with some flowers
• Barely any make-up due to obvious make-up being disapproved of by the Victorian people, we wouldn't want Miss Havisham to look like a prostitute on her wedding day! 

Equipment:

• Kryolan foundation palette
• Illamasqua powder blusher duo
• Illamasqua loose powder
• Kryolan neutral eyeshadow palette
• Kryolan lip palette
• Clear mascara
• Hair brush
• Tail comb
• Small curling wand
• Grips and pins
• Decorative flowers
• Brushes 

1. The base would be very natural, mixed with some moisturiser so that the coverage isn't too heavy. I would then powder this to set.
2. I would then use a tiny amount of Illamasqua Lover blush on a brush and tap it on the back of my hand to make sure there is barely any and apply to the center of the cheeks for a natural, healthy look.
3. Brush the eyebrows into place and very lightly define them using a light matte brown from the neutral eyeshadow palette.
4. Use the same colour as was used for the eyebrows and contour the crease of the eye very very lightly so its barely visible.
5. Apply clear mascara to the lashes.
6. Using a natural rosy colour from the lip palette, take a lip brush and apply a very minimal amount just so the lips look more pink but still as if there is nothing there. 

The hair would be  like this hair style I created in class but with flowers or decorations added.

Shortly after I began designing this idea I realised that it would be very minimal and quite boring due to the lack of make-up. As the Estella look is an opportunity to do a more 'pretty' look I decided that with Miss Havisham I wanted to portray more of the sad and dark side to her as this is the side we know of Miss Havisham. She isn't known for how she was before she was abandoned on her wedding day.