Making the Beast!!

This piece was made using the hair weft from a brown fringe wig bought from Fun Fancy Dress in Poole, Parkstone. The hair was taken off and applied to the shaped chicken wire frame using a glue gun. (The hot melt glue gun and hot melt glue sticks, both purchased at The Range)

Beauty and the Beast moodboards

Today I worked on putting together some Beauty and the Beast moodboards, I want to create a surreal feel to the shoot. I'd like beauty to be sultry and I'm toying with the idea of putting a rose in the wig made of hair, (to represent the part in Madame de Villeneuves tale where beauty asks for a rose, after all this is the whole reason she even meets the Beast anyway!) As for the beast wig I'd like to create a piece that is not too theatrical like the image above, in the bottom right, as i feel this would be cliche and not very surreal in the cold sense I'm aiming for. I absolutely love Nagi Noda's hair hats particularly the image in the bottom left this would be perfect but unfortunately it's already been done! :-(

 I've also done some boards looking into the Baroque era, of which the Beauty and the Beast was written, looking at men's fashion and hairstyles of the time, and also Victorian hair looks as this is the cross theme for the Beast wig.

I also did some beauty sketchbook today exploring ways to make the wig different to the others I've thought about. I want to create a garden feel as I've chosen to illustrate the part of the story where Beauty crosses into the Beasts garden. I want to include a rose in the design as it's the one thing Beauty asks her father for and it's the sole reason she even ends up meeting the Beast. It is a symbol of love and great significance within the story.

BAROQUE hairstyles (1750-1760)

Today I research Baroque looks for my beauty and the beast collection here are some of my findings:

Cinderella Photoshoot

Today's photoshoot was of the Cinderella out at the festival/ball wig, I think I managed to get some good beauty shots and the wig looked good on camera, though I found it looked better from the side or back rather than the front, as you can see here, the wig looks like and older hair style on camera from the front whereas, the side is more bridal and elegant which is the look i wanted to achieve.
 

Wig artist: Maisie Webb
Makeup artist: Maisie Webb
Styling: Maisie Webb
Photography: Maisie Webb
Model: Chantelle Macey

FACE CHARTS

These are the face charts for the Beauty and the Beast practice make-up shoots, the designs for beauty are more classical with the red lip and naturally contoured skin. Beast's look follows the conventions of male make-up with the base, I have then added shading around the eyes and exaggerated the brows more than usual, a model with facial hair could also exaggerate the beastiness of this make-up look.

Step Sister number 2!!

These are the steps of ugly step sister 2, starting life as a blonde/brown afro wig from Amazon, the wig was brushed out, the same principle was applied for padding out the hair and the same felt making process used. whilst doing this it was found that Tesco own hairspray or Wella was most successful in sealing the hair together. purple jumbo hair was threaded in and backcombed and stretch over the side sections of hair. Blonde human hair was sewn into the back of this wig and curled using heated rollers for curls down the back of the models neck.

Making the Ugly Step Sisters!!

 These are my step-by-steps of ugly sister number 1, here I used a 80's crimped wig bought from Fun Fancy Dress in Poole, (here is an image of the wig from their online shop), to make this wig I backcombed the centre of the existing wig to form padding, I then made some hair felt, using jumbo braid hair from BuyHair, hairspray and a hair dryer for the heating element. I then cut and rolled the felt into tubes and sewed them on to the existing wig around the padding.

Georgian Hairstyles (1760-1780)

Today I looked into Georgian hairstyles/adaptations of Georgian looks, starting with Marie Antoinette and branching out!