"A women, through painting and dying her face, showeth herself to be more than whorish. For she hath corrupted and defaced the workmanship of god on her."
Philip Stubbes 1585
This unit will
introduce students to the historical and contemporary practice of make-up
design using construction techniques, which will be examined within a social
and cultural context. Through an employability-focused approach, students
will be also introduced to the diverse roles of the make-up and hair
artist/designer in industry ranging from producing period looks for film to
creating themed characters for music promos, advertising and fashion
editorials. The unit, with particular emphasis on the timed assessment, will
encourage students to develop key transferable skills in communication,
collaboration and negotiation.
My current understanding of the Elizabethans is
that in the time period the women used to want to be very pale and washed out
which is completely different from makeup to this day. Also a lot of the women
had very fair eyebrows to the extreme that they were barely noticeable which
just denotes that things have changed greatly since then.
After watching the Elizabeth film by Shekhar Kapur 1998 it is evident that makeup used to
be quite simple and natural.The skin looked very fair and smooth which made
Elizabeth look radiant which is something that became apparent whilst
watching the Elizabeth film however near to the end of the film Elizabeth
changed her appearance and made herself into what was seen as the true Queen
Elizabeth as she painted her skin almost white and started wearing wigs that
were darker than her own hair.
The Elizabethans is a very intriguing topic as its something most people will have known about but not very much and will just have seen the most iconic images of her and not the story.Which connotes that her image is predominantly the most important part of her as she wants to be seen as a strong and independent women which is represented through her hair and particularly her makeup as it gets more dramatic as the film goes on with her red cheeks and lips.
"The Queen, as a learned single women in her thirties, would in no sense have appeared to her female subjects as a role model. Many Englishwomen of her age in the 1570's, when Elizabeth was between thirty-seven and forty-seven, would have been grandmothers." "For westerners of the twentieth century this would make her a Lolita, far too young to be viewed as marriageable. But for Elizabethans, fourteen was an ideal age to be married." This shows that in Elizabethan times things were very extreme and just shows how times have changed as fourteen is seen as too young to get married. An editor called Susan Doran expresses " I then go to discuss issues related to the question of her image, as projected by herself and her subjects. Because space is short, I have chosen to assume rather than demonstrate that Elizabeth retained the prerogatives of royal power and that her views and actions were essential to the policy-making process." in the book 'The Elizabethan World' edited by Susan Doran and Norman Jones. This suggests that her image was very important to her as it needed to be retained to ensure people took her serious.
When starting the course I wanted to try to educate myself on Elizabeth and that Era as we would be designing make up and hair designs to swap with our partners. This documentary was very informative and helped me learn more about it putting me in the write mindset to start thinking about what type of makeup looks I could create.
References;
- TheBEICNet (2011) ‘I am married to England.’ Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xN_89uynqw (Accessed: 9 December 2015).
- Wilson, A. N. (2012) The Elizabethans. London: Arrow Books. (Wilson, 2012, pp. 122 - 123)
- Doran, S. and Jones, N. (eds.) (2013) The Elizabethan World. 1st edn. London: Routledge. (Doran and Jones, 2013, pp. 36-37)
- DocumentaryHouse (2013) Biography: Elizabeth the virgin queen - mind blowing documentaries. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgYrCB7Rtzk (Accessed: 10 December 2015).
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