American what?

American horror story, an original anthology series created by Ryan Murphy. This series features self-contained story lines in plenty of haunted locations. The Series I am Focusing on is Asylum.
In Briarcliff Mental Institute, Massachusetts the story's follows a number of mental patients and their own individual story's, most being bizarre or supernatural.

From Possessed nuns to Alien invasions I am 100% sure I can fit my characters in with ease!

Story line and ideas.

My idea for this project.

The Mr and Mrs comfort pictures gave me an idea of a twisted beauty and beast.

Claudia is a young Girl Trapped in a Asylum due to her personality disorder. Claudia has created an alter-ego/personality Quentin. She becomes Quentin when she feels angry , upset or vulnerable. Quentin often appears with an alien like face. This is because Claudia feels like an alien and like nobody understands her. He also sometimes appears with a mutilated mouth. This is because Claudia wishes he would shut up half the time as his thoughts are usually harmful or depressing. The audience will often see Claudia and 'Quentin' have arguments in the cell (Whiles Claudia looks into a mirror). Sometimes it would seem like a marital squabble or something a lot more scary and abusive. Claudia will appear on a 'Good day' (whatever that is in an asylum), Quentin appears on bad days (depressed, self harming , suicidal Claudia) Though you occasionally see them together when one personality attempts to break through.

The Scene you first meet Claudia and Quentin.

*The Camera explores the asylum looking into each cell at each patient. The audience will see patients either child like and playful, Crazy and possessed or rocking in the corner.
The camera pauses at Claudia's room. You see a young, dirty haggard girl looking into the mirror. You see her lips move but hear no sound. As the camera comes closer you can hear Claudia arguing with her reflection.

Claudia: ' Leave me alone they told me you are not real!'

You hear a voice reply but you can't see the reflection at this angle.

Strange Deep Voice: 'Just imagine, everyone of these fools hanging from the ceiling up there. So beautiful'

The camera is still slowly zooming in then you catch a glimpse of something. An alien like face stares back at Claudia

What do i need to do next?
I  need to watch ahs asylum again and focus more on costumes and i will need to look at videos of real patients with personality disorder to research there mannerisms and traits.

First Research- Claudia and Quentin.

When I first read the brief i wanted to go all out. I wanted to use my imagination at best as I think I've played it pretty safe recently. I started by searching youtube for prosthetic tutorials just to get some general ideas.
I wanted to create a fantasy character

These are some of the videos i came across

next I looked at some images 

I liked the idea of the skull on the face but if i was to do this it would be less glamourous 

I really like this image and may take some attributes for my design  

I like the idea of sewn up lips for Quentin as he is controlled by Claudia 

Another image i may take attributes from 

Mr and Mrs Comfort

Source: The new yorker.


 Richard Avedon

Mr and Mrs comfort.

For the New Yorker 

1995

We were shown these images in contextual studies and i could not help but think of these two as Claudia and Quentin. I love the colour scheme of these pictures and some of the bizarre poses! 

I cant help but wonder of the story behind these pictures. 

Here are some of my favourite images! 

i imagine

Quentin bowing down to his 'owner'

I imagine the image above to be Claudia yearning to get out of her apartment but her fear is defeating her! 

When I see this picture I imagine Claudia is claiming her possession. 

Julien Macdonald 'Grunge deluxe' Recreation

In our first make up lesson for the second half of our project we was asked to choose an image out of those provided and recreate the exact look. I had no trouble choosing the grunge deluxe by julien macdonald as the 90s grunge era is my absolute fave!

                                                        

Some info on this look 

• inspired by Marilyn Manson 
• This look was about creating a flawless base , contour and highlight
• eyes black/grey , shadow was blended from the lash line to the brows for a boyish look
• The disheveled hair suggested a night of partying casually pulled back into a french twist ponytail, leaving shards of hair hanging across the face. 

This is my version of the look.

Make-up 
To achieve this look I started by creating a flawless base, applying the models Mac foundation making sure I blended well. 

I used the sleek eyebrow palette to fill in her brows then messing them up slightly with a mascara wand.

To do the eyes i used my sleek au natural eye-shadow in black and applied like I would liner, I then took a cotton bud and some Vaseline and began bringing the eye-shadow up creating the shiny blended look seen in the photos.  

Hair 

To create the hair i simply seperated the fringe from the back section and took the back section into a french twist, I then wetted my hand slightly and began scrunch the models fringe to create movement. 

Great expectations project evaluation

In the first half of this project we were asked to create a look for Miss Havisham which we would be able to create again. When I first started my research I began to realize that the Victorians wore little make-up and I began to worry that I wouldn't be able to make my look stand out. As I furthered my research I had ideas come to me easily? What I was worried about the most was recreating the look the exact same, especially the hair. I realized that the Victorians had so many different hairstyles so I had a lot of variety. I started with hair first and had to take into consideration that my partner who I would be doing my look on had a short full fringe, I realized there wasn't much I could do with her fringe so I went with a curly fringe that was popular in the mid-18^th century. When It came to make-up I wanted her to look old and haggard so I went with a pale base, red sore eyes and a grey contour. When it came to the first half of the assessment I wasn't that nervous and felt like I did quite well, I even finished quite early! The second half of the assessment is what worried me as I needed to make the look exactly the same. In the end it went quite well and I could only see slight differences. Overall the project went very well all though I was quite worried at the start. 

Estella design

Design one 

This is Estella when she was beaten by her husband. I created the whole look using the Kryolan Eyeshadow palette provided in our kits.

Design Two 

This is how i imagined her in the spring, Light contouring , spring yellow eyes and pink blush, 

Design three 

This is Estella on her wedding day.

The Victorians did not use a lot of make-up so i kept the look minimal

with light contouring, blush and one colour of eyeshadow.