Elizabethan Make-up Practice

Elizabethan makeup is often recognized by the white face, rosy cheeks/lips and lack of eyebrows. In my first attempt to recreate an Elizabethan look there were a number of things that didn’t go very well and needed practice in preparation for the final assessment.

Firstly the blusher white base did not cover the ears or the neck, which I will need to remember to do in future practices and the assessment as well as getting the white base right under the eyes so there is not a large gap of natural skin tone. Also I need to work on getting the blusher symmetrical in future practices, this is an important factor when carrying out the make up look. However my biggest struggle was blocking out the eyebrows. After applying glue and combing them through, when I applied the white base to the eye brows it became tacky and lumpy as well as being able to see the natural colour of the eyebrows through the base. Therefore this is something I will need to work on, I think in future I will need to apply more glue to the eyebrows and focus on coming the hair up and pushing it down. I also found afterwards that if you apply powder to the eyebrows before the white base it reduces the tacky texture of the glue.