Filming - Makeup

Filming Day One:

Character One

On day one we were filming the rotating bench scene. For this we needed Lauren to look gaunt and vacant. To create this look we used purple and yellow eyeshadow to create the bags under her eyes. We also added red eyeshadow close to the bottom waterline to give her eyes an irritated effect, as if she had rubbed them a lot. We added yellow, grey and a slight purple tone to her cheeks as it made them look hollow and empty as if she hadn't been taking care of herself. We used purple and yellow eyeshadow to create the bruise on her chin. Lastly we covered her lips in concealer to get them paler, we then covered over this with some purple in the edges of her mouth to make her seem void of all colour and life.

Filming Day Two:

Character One 

Character Two

For the second day of filming we used an hour at the beginning of the day to get the makeup done. In the morning we were filming all the happy flashbacks, therefore we needed to create a innocent look for both the girls. We used a thin coverage foundation, as we didn't want to take the youth from her face. We used an eyebrow pencil to lightly fill in her brows and added a golden eyeshadow to her eyelids with a small amount of highlighter added to her cheeks. Our aim was to enhance their natural features. We wanted them to appear to not be wearing a lot of makeup, therefore we stuck with a natural look. For Lauren Barlow, who was playing character one, we added a red lipstick as whilst it still looks innocent with the rest of her makeup, the colour red also connotes danger, this therefore foreshadows whats to come for her character.  

Later in the day we filmed the darker flashbacks. For this we needed to alter Lauren's makeup to a similar look like the one we created on the first day of filming. We used all the same techniques for her makeup from day one of filming. On top of that we took a wet cotton bud and smudged her mascara she had previously been wearing from her earlier makeup look down her cheeks to create the effect that she had been crying and rubbing them.

Character One