Estella Final Facechart

I chose this as my final facechart because I wanted to keep the makeup look as simple as possible, but I also wanted it to have a romantic feel to it. During the time that Great Expections was filmed they wouldn't of worn a lot of makeup, therefore I wanted to keep it true to the character.

Estella Facechart

Estella Facechart

Above is a practice design for my Estella assessment, I chose not to use this as my final design because I felt that during my assessment I needed to take more time on the hair, therefore wanted to keep the makeup look more simple.

Looking into Estella

 It is obvious that in Great Expectations Estella is a modern Victorian girl, throughout the film we see her style change and become more romantic as she ages. Partially her hair, towards the end of the film the curls in her hair become looser and she has a slightly off middle parting.

While looking into Estella I decided that I wanted to keep her makeup simple and make her hair more complicated, there was an option to create a look of Estella with bruises but I decided against this as I felt I wanted to make sure that I was able to create my look in the time given and to a high standard. 

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Estella

In great expectations we get to know Estella as very beautiful, but cold hearted. Raised by Miss Havisham she is used to extract revenge on society and men, she brought up to torment and break men’s hearts. When she meets Pip he easily falls in love with her, like we expect many men do even though she is so cold. In the novel she is seen as cold, cynical and manipulative all these things been taught to her by Miss Havisham. Miss Havisham destroys Estella’s ability to show and express any kind of emotion apart from hate, therefore she can’t see that Pip is a better husband choice than Drummle who treats her awfully and makes her even more miserable. It is said that Dickens used Estella’s character to show that social class cannot depict on one’s happiness.

Throughout the novel we get slight glimpses of kindness in Estella’s part,  for example when she tells Pip that he should stay and way never come back because she realised and knows that she is brought and been raised to break his heart. She often tells Pip that she has no heart and towards the end Estella pushes Miss Havisham away but blames her because she has been brought up to not care and have no heart.

The beginning of the novel in set in the early/mid Victorian era therefore we see Estella with hairstyles that represent this, having a centre parting and hair up in a bun style. As the film goes on we see her style get more romantic, the curls she has in her hair become looser and her parting is slightly off centre. She wears fashionable dresses of the time and makeup minimal. 

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https://www.pinterest.com/chopchophair/estella-great-expectations/

Comparing my 2 Final Designs

These are my 2 final looks for the Miss Havisham continuity assessment. I think that the makeup in these are alike and the aging lines are all in the same places, and it went better than I thought it would go. The areas where I think I could improve on is the hair, for example; the picture on the left has more dry shampoo (used to make the hair grey) on it than the right. Also on the right hand picture under the eyes it is slightly darker, making her look more worn and tired. Overall I think I did a good job with the continuity part of this assessment. 

Miss Havisham Assessment Part 2

Overall I am happy about how my assessment went as I tried the best I could do. I am more content with the continuity of the makeup as I feel they are the more consistent looks. This surprised me as I thought I would find doing the makeup the hardest to be the same. Doing this for our assessment was really interesting as I am looking to go into the fashion industry therefore probable won’t get to do things like this very often. Through the research I did I understand the importance of continuity and how it can affect the whole production.