Final Design Breakdown

Make-up Design

Product List:

Illamasqua Matte Primer

Kryolan Ultra Foundation

Kryolan Concealer Palette

Illamasqua Translucent powder

Kryolan Liquid Latex

Kryolan Cinewax

Kryolan Supracolor (red)

Rimmel Mascara

Kryolan Glamour Glow Palette

Latex Prosthetic Piece (Forehead)

Dental Prosthetic Piece (Fangs)

Design

In my design, I have decided to go for a natural but pale skin tone as I feel that this is more suited film as it gives a more natural and realistic finish to the overall complexion. I found using a white greasepaint made my previous design look theatrical and too bold for a HD camera and would have looked almost comical. 

I have chosen a matte primer as my model has a combination skin type and any shine would be obvious on a HD camera and also give away that presence of make-up on the skin. I will be using darker shades of foundation to contour with over powder as this is much lighter in consistency and therefore more natural in appearance. The absence of base make-up is important to my character as not only is she set in the Victorian era, where make-up was taboo, she was also a vampire, a mythical creature, therefore make-up application in her animalistic-like state would not be something on her agenda.

I wanted design for the scene where she is seen as a Vampire and feeding, therefore I added red tones to the lips and around the eyes to give a subtle hint of life and colour to her face as she would be in health prime as a Vampire as a feed, while also mainitaining a ghostly complexion. 

In the book, when she is first seen as her vampire self, it is something that is instantly recognisable and distinctively different from her human self. I felt that by adding something that looks like it is between a human and an animal to the face would really help to define her in her vampire form. Therefore, I chose my forehead/brow prosthetic. This gives her a fierce and angry expression which therefore makes her scary to look at. The distinctive lines and depth ensure that it is too unusual to be human. 

I lastly finished my look with a pair of fangs. I chose this style of fangs as I felt it that these are the types of fangs that would produce the puncture marks in the neck that is described in the book. Fangs that are on the canine teeth would be too far apart to and large to create it.

To add depth to my prosthetic, I used dark foundation tones. I wanted the prosthetic to match the rest of the face and not look out of place, therefore I used these same tones to contour with, to add the same type of depth and colouring to make the look continuous.

I also used a light amount of black mascara on the eyelashes to bring my look together as I felt that the overall appearance was too pasty and undistinctive without extra definition to the eye area and also meant that there was too much focus on the depth of the prosthetic, therefore I felt this was needed.

The reason I chose a prosthetic piece over creating a similar effect with Cinewax or a similar product is that I felt that this was most suitable for continuity as it can be remade over and over the same every time using a mold with the same outcome every time.

Hair

For my hair design, I decided to go with a neat plaited bun design which was inspired by the plates I had gathered from Richard Corson's 'Fashions in Hair' book from 1870 to 1900 which I have discussed on this page and is the era in which my book is set. I felt that the front section of the hair would provide a feminine touch as my character is described as pretty and feminine. I also found that with this, it would give me the ability to further camouflage the edges of my prosthetic due to it's placement which would increase the overall effectiveness of my design. Due to it's distinctive appearance but simple required techniques, I felt that this hairstyle would be doable when recreating it for continuity.