Claudia: make up and hair Nr.4

Design Four:

The background to this design is that Claudia is actually already dead. She drowned herself in the bath tab. But because she was so full of hatred and rage she became a vengeful spirit and was actually able to properly manifest again so that for example Miss Laderman can still see her and has no idea what happened. 

I did some research on how the body changes after a person died of drowning and it is said that after the person died and the heart stopped beating the blood starts settling down, which is also called 'Livor Mortis' Where the blood has settled down the areas turn dark blue or purple.

"This starts happening immediately and is visible with a couple of hours. At this point skin is bluish and blotchy. After five or six hours the blotches have joined up but the skin still goes white when pressed. After ten to twelve hours the blue colour remains even when pressed.

The lividity doesn't show where the body is in contact with something. This a body lying on its back will show lividity in the small of its back, its neck etc but not is parts of the body directly touching the ground. This a very useful when determining if a body has been moved after death.

The discolouration looks like a bruise, but experts can easily tell them apart.

With some poisons the discoloration is different. Carbon Monoxide, for example, turns the skin cherry pink." (source)

I decided to draw several thin veins all over her face. The veins were dark blue to lighter blue and dark green to lighter green. I didn't want them to stand out too much and wanted them to look more transparent.

The Makeup:

First apply a very pale base. After drowning the face would be very pale. Then powder well to set the base. I then moved to the eyes. I don't really know how to describe it but I wanted the eyes to look, well not really bruised but I wanted some shadows and discolourations around the eyes.I started using a light green and brown and then build up the colours adding some darker brown tones and red tones. Then there were only the veins left. I started drawing the veins first with the light green and blue and then would afterwards go in again with the dark blue and green to highlight them a bit. I did veins around the mouth area, the eyes and on other random places. When doing the whole design I would suggest to also draw veins on the neck coming up. I didn't do that much with lips because I didn't want to overdo it  so I just left them pale.

The Hairstyle:

Because she drowned I want her hair to be partly wet and otherwise just open and loosely hanging down.