1950's Film Noir Make-Up

 Recently our class was given a task to create a scene that fit a genre in groups and one of the groups (that I wasn't in) was given the genre Film Noir. The task was concentrated on the cinematography of the scene but the group wanted to make it look as close to the genre as possible in order to use the footage for other things as well. Due to this, I signed up to do the hair and make-up for the Femme Fatale character, Miss Darlington. I took references form the internet shown to the left and went from there.

From my references it was clear that the make-up is based on a naturally beautiful look with Luscious red lips and dainty blush on the cheeks. I also noticed that in most of the pictures I found the eyebrows were dark and shaped. Since I couldn't actually shape the actresses eyebrows I just made sure they were dark and filled a thinner line with some darker colour.

I based the hair on the top picture though the actresses hair was a bit thinner than that woman's seems to be. I curled it with a straightener and then using a comb I brushed out the curls to give a more natural look. If a piece of hair was being particularly difficult I teased it a little before curling it again. I tried to keep most of her hair parted to one side of her shoulders leaving only a little bit trailing down her back and a slightly larger section than that shaped over the opposite shoulder.
I pinned her fringe parts up into the rest of her hair to keep her face clear and from there my only task was to apply touch up's to her lipstick and to clear sweat from the face of the male actor.

I enjoyed taking on this task and I am proud of the work I have done. I received good feedback from the director and hope to do more of this in the future.