As part of a college assignment, I decided to recreate the Red Queen make-up from Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland.
The first stage was to block out the eyebrows, which I did using the soap method. I'm quite against the other two popular methods. Derma wax is too sticky and difficult to work with, and the final look it creates isn't smooth enough. Pritt stick. Seriously? Any professional make-up artist worth their salt would not produce a glue stick from their kit and rub it on a model's face.
Usually I would then cover the eyebrows with a peach coloured concealer, but as I was painting the face white, I just used a white based concealer. I then used a creme white paint to cover the entire face, and Illamasqua loose white powder to set and matte the base.
I blended a blue and a white creme make-up to create the right colour for the eyes, drawing a rough eyebrow on first to give myself guidelines to work from. I used a light blue eyeshadow to set the blue on the eyes. I re-drew the eyebrows, again, using a creme make-up. I find that the creme based make-ups provide the best block colour. I used a great deal of mascara, but ideally, would be using a thin set of eyelashes on the top and a thicker set on the bottom. I applied a small beauty spot under the left eye using a black eyeliner pencil.
The lips were already blocked out with white foundation and powder, so I then drew on a rough heart shape with red lip pencil. This shape came quite far over the natural cupid's bow, and the bottom point about 1cm below the natural lip line. I blocked in the heart with a dark red lipstick.
As you can see in the photo, I haven't dressed the model, or applied a wig. This was just a practice run of the make-up. Hopefully, I'll be able to create the full look soon!
