Miss Havisham Make up Ideas

For my first Miss Havisham design, I wanted to create her looking very aged and unkempt. I wanted to create a lot of sallowness and sunkeness in the skin from years of bad diet and lack of sunlight. I thought bushy eyebrows would add a nice effect to this look, and I would create flakey, sore-looking lips. 

My second Miss Havisham design I wanted to try and incorporate age spots into the look. I would keep her face very pale, and add some lines and wrinkles in, adding age spots aroung her cheeks and forehead. I then did some research into age spots and found that they are mainly caused by too much exposure to sunlight. ( http://www.healthline.com/health/age-spots#Description ) This would not have worked with the character, as Miss Havisham never went outside, so I decided to leave this idea.

My final Miss Havisham design incorporates aged skin, and broken capillary veins or 'spider veins'. When researching this condition, I found that these can be caused by "a number of factors, such as malnutrition, disease and other  problems that traumatize the body and the immune system." 

http://www.thedermreview.com/broken-capillaries/

Viewed on 5/02/2014

I would also like to incorporate flakes of dry skin around the mouth, to furthur the idea of malnourishment and dehydration. I will add some redness around the eyes, nose and mouth, and using contouring techniques, I will contour the face to give it a sunken look.