Estella

So I did my shoot for Estella!! I used my friend Kristie as she already matched Estella perfectly! With flawless skin, a youthful look and natural brown hair she was easy to work with. 
I found creating the character Estella quite simple, as she didnt wear much makeup. But as we were photographing our models we still had to apply makeup to make sure we had flawless skin. I was extremly lucky to have Kristie as my model.
With Estella i chose to do a teen/ young adult version, i began by applying a light base to match her skin tone. After applying the base foundation, we made sure we jumped infront of the camera we would be using to make sure it was exactly what i was looking for. Unfortunately the first time round i had matched the foundation to her skin tone too well, which usually would be a good thing however in the victorians they had rather pale skin. This was important to me also as this was the main part of her makeup. So after removing it and starting fresh i finally got it!! This meant i could move on to sculpting the face! Using Illamasqua Disobey blush i began to sculpt parts of Kristies face such as her cheek bones and above her eyelid, this made her face more defined. Then topping it off with a rouge pink blusher to add colour to her cheeks.

I was very excited to start with the hair, but nothing goes perfect all the time! it was more of a challenge, and although i had practised in the studio and at home i had never actually practised on Kristie and every bodys hair/ head shapes are different. which i realised at this point. However i had to power on, the problem i had was creating the barrell rolls across the top of her head at the front, i managed to do it fine but it did not look correct on Kristies head. With quick thinking on the spot i continued and pulled the rest of her hair back in to a tight bun at the back which had to plaits leading to it. At the front with the hair i had left over i created some curls and kept it in a centre parting but pulled more hair back.

























These are my final outcome images! i am proud of them but there is always room for improvement and i can see where it stands out in these images.