Creating Estella: Practice

MakeUp:

On the day of the practice I just tested if the Etude House BB cream will suit Anna Maria's skin tones as her skin is a bit darker and the BB cream makes her skin quite white. But I wanted to use BB cream because it still looks natural and I was worried that if I use proper foundation it doesn't look that natural anymore. Luckily the BB cream was fine on her skin. I didn't practiced anything else regarding the makeup on that day as I was running out of time.

Hair:

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That was the hair design I actually wanted to do but a lot went wrong during the practice.

I did a middle parting and created a section on each side which will be curled. At the back I had 2 main section. A really big one for the curling and a small one at the neck where the hair would be curled into ringlets. Front: I sectioned the main section on each side into 3 little section and curled the hair horizontally. Pin the curls down and let them cool down. At the back: at the back I just curled all of the hair which took forever and was the main thing which made me fail my practice. When I choose Anna Maria as my model I thought her very long her would be good to work with and it was for my Miss Havisham design but it was way more difficult for the Estella look. Especially because I wanted to do a late Victorian look which involves a lot of curling but I only had a certain amount of time during the assessment. I took me 2 hours to curl everything and finish my look but then I saw that it looked a bit funny. I think I placed the curls wrong at the back of the head and also placed the curls from the front section wrongly. This made my look rather wedding like looking than Victorian. But I talked to Lottie and she said that this can happen quickly when doing Victorian hair. The wedding hairstyles evolved from the Victorian hair so it can happen that they look a bit similar. But for myself the practice was a huge fail but it also showed me what I have to change and that I should have thought about how to handle so much long hair before designing.

It looks like she has a birds nest on her head T^T..But yes it is obvious that the end result images don't look like my hair design. Afterwards I decided to use a different model with shorter hair but I wasn't allowed to. So I sat down in the morning at the day of the assessment and went through my new designs with Lottie and she gave me some tips on how to handle the situation and how to work with that much hair. As you could see in my Estella hair design post I developed my hair design and decided to do a big bun first to get rid of a lot of hair and then place the curls on the bun to hide it. I also changed the way I placed the curls because when I did the practice I kind of rolled the curls into pin curls and then pinned them down. This time I placed them more loosely. I also looked up what I did wrong with the front section during practice