Make up + Hair

 As I have been down with flu, stuck at home with a fever, I decided to play around with make up a little bit to get some ideas for the show. I took inspiration from 1930's movies and especially from Charlie Chaplin. In the black and white movies, everything was focused on creating contrast and so make up was usually very harsh and clean lines. I tried to do this on the eyebrows especially, but also tried out two different styles; a thinner more stylized one and a thicker and more natural looking. I added some contouring on my face with black eye shadow, but I felt like in the actually show we can use white makeup to make our faces look whiter and more pale to create even more of a contrast. Thhe mustache I put on by putting some black eyeliner on my finger and then smudging it on. I think it really worked, I like the painted-on-look and that it is a little bit messy. I think this could be used in the rest of the make up as well to create a style, but also not to create the illusion to the audience that it is real. I also lined my eyes, following Charlie Chaplin's style to bring out the eyes.




   I also looked into the hairstyles of 1930's. Women had a lot of finger curls that waved in front of the face. Side parting was huge on both women and men and I noticed that a lot of men also had some kind of a curl or wave for the hair framing their face. We could also try to create a more sleek military like look to some of the characters, for example the gangsters to represent their military style ranking and functioning as gangsters, but the curl could also represent the status they want people to see. The hair need to be something that is easily transferable from character to character, especially for those who are playing both men and women. Girls with long hair can put their hair on a low bun, since it is a women's hairstyle, but also can create a sort of an illusion of short hair.