Partner Practiced My Design On Me

    From todays lesson me and my partner go together and sat and practiced both our looks on each other to prepare ourselves for our timed assessments and this is my design with the few different changes after my own trial. As you'll be able to see from my previous post I chose to change a few things from my original design, such as making the eyebrows and eyelashes white and even though those was the only main changes it has really bought it from a very modern editorial look to a more contemporary Elizabethan look.
    As for how my partner performed when creating my look, I was very happy with how she executed certain aspects of my look however the only thing I could change is how heavy she went with my base as I wanted it to look fresh and dewy. I was mostly worried on how she'd create the streaks down my face, neck and chest but after she done it I knew I had nothing to worry about as she really captured my vision for it.

Trial Of My Chosen Design

As I had chosen my final contemporary Elizabethan make-up look, I decided to execute the look on myself to see how my partner would recreate this on me during our times assessment. To start off I perfected my base with my usual foundation and concealer, then contoured and highlighted but added extra shine to the cheekbones to make the look even more contemporary. I then filled in my brows extra strong to follow with the strong brow trend going on at the moment, but decided against mascara to put an editorial feel to this look and I finished off my base with a bold red lip with was a classic in the Elizabethan era. Now for the main focus of the look, the white hand stripes going down the face and neck which represented the idea of an Elizabethan ruff. To create this I decided to mix Charles Fox Super and Aqua Colour and painted it on both my hands and dragged it down my face and neck and built up the colour to my desired intensity and streaky-ness.

    I'm very happy with how this turned out, however I feel like the overall design is quite plain, to change it up I was thinking of 'bleaching' my eyebrows and applying white mascara to my eyes to lean this look a bit more onto the Elizabethan side as at the moment like I said the look is a bit too contemporary and plain for my liking.

Elizabeth In Colours: Gold

    Gold is associated with Royalty and the Nobles, meaning only people of high status could wear or be associated with the colour gold and people who were allowed to wear gold during the Elizabethan era, as decreed by the English Sumptuary Laws were Duchesses, Marquises, and Countesses. The symbolic meaning of the colour was for divinity, majesty, and wealth which is another reason why wealthy people was associated with the colour gold, because they was the only people that could afford to own it or wear it. Fun fact about gold, is that it was often used for high Holy Days and festival days - the seasons of Christmas and easter.

Elizabeth In Colours: White

    The Pristine white colour was difficult and expensive to produce and therefore wornby the wealthy. Only those who could keep their clothes clean, meaning they had servants, would wear the pristine white colour. The symbolic meaning of the colour white was purity and virtue, which is why Queen Elizabeth was famously pictured in a white gown conveying a visual image of the 'Virgin Queen'. Like gold, white also has a Biblical meaning for holiness and is the Christian colour for all high Holy Days and festival days of the Church  Year, especially the seasons of Christmas and Easter. The colour white is also used for baptism, marriage, ordination, and dedications which links back to white being associated with purity and virtue. The people who were allowed to wear the colour white during the Elizabethan era, as decreed by the English Sumptuary Laws, were lower and upper classes.

Elizabeth In Colours: Red

    The colour and material used in Elizabethan clothing was extremely important. People who could wear the colour red was dictated by Elizabethan law, these were called the Sumptuary Laws. The colours of Elizabethan clothes, including the colour red, provided information about the status of the man or women wearing them. This was not just directed by the wealth of the person, it also reflected their social standing. The meaning of colours during the Elizabethan era represented many aspects of their life - the social, religious, biblical and Christian symbolism was reflected on the colour red.

    The symbolic meaning of the colour red was of fire and associated with power and importance. Red is also strongly associated with the 'Redcoats', used for the British army uniforms in the later English history. Another meaning of red, is meant to describe the clothing of valiant men, meaning that they're strong and courageous or determined.   

Face Chart #6

My final design I wanted to go for something dark and dramatic, linking in with my third design in the way of her character being more dark but in an obvious way instead of it being more subtle. I created a black smokey eye with the idea of the gold still on the eyes and cheek bones and a stronger contour compared to most of my designs. This design is one of the strongest designs in the sense of her eyes being dark, and her features being stronger compared to the other designs, however it is the most modern design I have done without much reference to the Elizabethan era.

Face Chart #5

This design I wanted to go back to the gold concept about Lettice craving fame and to be in Elizabeths shoes, so I used the same technique of creating the tear drops of gold from both eyes, mouth and incorporating it onto the cheeks so the face becomes an overall shade of gold. I like this design as I think it has a very editorial feel compared to a traditional Elizabethan make-up that we've researched before.