My chosen Lady in Character choice is Bess of Hardwick. This was my first initial mindmap that I created. I started off with some key information about her and jotted it down.
I looked into and researched my character more and got some more information about her and created another mindmap and came up with some ideas about my design.
I made a mindmap describing some more key qualities of Bess and then wrote some makeup ideas of what I want to create for my design. The paragraph at the bottom explains more in detail about the type of makeup I want to create.
Bess' makeup
- thin, red lips
- light, thin eyebrows - if any
- high forehead
- centre parting in hair
- ginger/red hair
- lots of accessories - pearls/jewellery
- small eyes
- black clothing to show power
- shopaholic/materialistic - has to look powerful and perfect always
- prominent nose
My makeup ideas
- dark, prominent lips
- gold eyebrows - quite thick?
- curls at front of hair with bun at the back
- pearls as accessories - on face? pearl earrings?
- small eyes - use colour to make them pop
- gold contouring? for a more modern twist
- prominent nose - contour strongly
For my design, I want to keep to the Elizabethan style makeup but add a modern twist to it. I am thinking about adding gold eyebrows and maybe a bold, strong lip with strong colouring (maybe gold). As it's based on modern days and contouring is in nowadays, I might contour the nose too as Bess had quite a prominent nose. She was a very powerful and ambitious woman so I want to give the appearance of a strong woman. I would say she has more of a unique look compared to other women and likes to look different. She enjoys wearing black as it shows power so I think a dark lip would suit her character well. I also want her to look quite mysterious looking like you want to get to know her more.
I believe my character would have a very strong character and wouldn't be told from anyone what to do. She has been described by one of her former husbands as 'that sharp bitter shrew' which makes me think she would be very feisty. Also, the older she got the paler her face got which could show wealth. I want to incorporate pearls into my final idea as I want to keep some of my design as original Elizabethan style. Although Bess had no eyebrows, I think I would like to give it a more modern twist and maybe give her gold eyebrows. I feel because she loves power and wealth so much that gold eyebrows would suit her personality very well. Her hair is normally worn in a central parting and tied back, I'm not sure about this yet for my design as I think I want curls at the front of the hair and a bun at the back.
She had quite a reputation apparently but her charm and wealth both outweighed this. She could also be quite a gossiper and about apparently told gossip about Queen Elizabeth to Mary I. This shows that she would try and get to the top however way possible, she didn't care about friends, she just loved power. She was very ambitious and knew what she wanted and how to get it, she was very manipulative. If i was to compare her to a modern day woman, I would say she is sort of like Kim Kardashian. I would say this as Kim is known for always wanting to get her own way, being manipulative and not caring as long as she gets what she wants. Bess knows she was beautiful and she used her beauty to get what she wanted, Kim is also rich and vain which is exactly how I would imagine the modern day Bess to be like.
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