Claudia - Final Look & Evaluation

Tools/equipment needed:

• Foundation palette
• Translucent powder
• Illamasqua sculpting duo
• Illamasqua bronzing duo
• Illamasqua blusher duo
• Kryolan highlighter
• Kryolan supracolor palette
• Mascara
• Disposable mascara wands
• A puff
• Fake blood
• Fake dirt
• Bruise wheel
• Naked 2 eyeshadow palette
• Sleek eyeshadow palette
• Eyeliner
• Stipple sponge
• Cosmetic sponge
• Foundation brush
• Eyeshadow brushes
• Water bottle and water
• Pin tail comb
• Paddle brush

First of all, I created a fairly rough smokey eye- fading from cream through to gold and black with mascara and eyeliner in the water line . I then applied foundation all over the face.

I then asked the model to rub her eyes quite vigorously to mess up the eye make-up. I also used the bruise wheel, supracolor palette, stipple sponge and blood to create a cut/graze on the forehead. 

I used the supracolor palette and bruise wheel to create a large bruise on one side of the neck.

I then finished off the make-up by contouring the face, adding blusher, bronzer, highlighter, and touching up the eye make-up slightly. I then splattered fake mud and water all over the face. 

To finish the look, I then back-combed the hair to make it quite matted and messy and brushed it all back off the face. 

Final Images

I realise that this images is too dark and does not show the final look very clearly, but I actually quite like the effect that it gives because it suits the feel of The Walking Dead - it looks very dark and mysterious, and puts you on edge, like you definitely would be if you were trying to survive a zombie apocalypse; it is almost like she is lurking in the woods. 

These images specifically show the bruise on the neck, as it is not very visible from the front  

Evaluation

I was actually very satisfied with how my final Claudia character came out. I feel as though this is exactly how Claudia would have looked, should she have been going through a zombie apocalypse, and I think you are able to see the type of girl she used to be; e.g. looked after herself, cared about her appearance, was fairly modern, but was slightly unusual in some aspects, i.e her hair colour, but you can now see how she has had to adapt and change due to the new circumstances. 

The only thing that I would improve is that I would add more highlighter/water to the face, especially the chin and top lip, just to really enhance the fact that she is sweating. I would also maybe change the colour of the clothes that she is wearing (e.g. to a green or brown top) so that this would allow you to see some dirt on the clothing and it would not blend into the background of the studio as much.

Overall, I think the make-up was smudged and ruined perfectly (if that's even possible!), and I think the wounds actually turned out really well - they are quite realistic and are not too large, and therefore do not take up all of the face or distract too much attention away from the rest of the face. I think she suits the setting and feel of The Walking Dead and could easily be a real character in the TV series, so I was thoroughly satisfied with how my Claudia character turned out.