Final Face Charts

This look was inspired by symbollic meanings of colours often presented in Elizabethan portraiture. Here, I chose purple and gold. These colours symbolised wealth and royalty. You can see the skin is very pale and the purple creates the effect of coldness. The gold coming down from the eyes is supposed to represent tears. I chose this royal sadness as a theme as I feel it represents Elizabeth I and her lonliness of being royal. The lips are strong and powerful, symbolic of her personality.

Here, I have played on the Elizabethan trend of pale skin with pink tones and mixing it with a bold black lip and silver rhinestones. The face is very simple, with the eyebrows effectively bleached out. A simple black line on the upper lid finished off with false lashes at the ends of the eyes on bottom and top. This look is very cold and stern, yet has a hint of femininity.

This look is my favourite out of them all and is a potential final look. I love the contrast in skin tones. The bright white base highlighting the face and creating a ghostly look, with the contrast of the deep warm tones where the face is dramatically contoured. I have used shades of gold and bronze to create this look. The metallic effect creates a sense of royalty. The deep red lip is a slight twist on the bright red lip of traditional Elizabethan makeup. The shape is very Elizabethan and creates a focus point of the face. The eyelashes are again just applied to the outer corners of the eyes for a contemporary twist.