Agnes' Mother's Makeup For Day Two of Filming

Firstly, I applied a concealer a few shades lighter than Charlotte's natural skin tone in her t-zone area; this was in order to pale out her face and create a base for the white pressed powder which I applied after. Both products gave the illusion of a washed-out face, insinuating Charlotte was ill- an obvious goal when attempting to make her appearance live up to the expectations of what a severe drug addict would look like.

Secondly, I used a dark brown powder to contour her face. I applied this to her cheekbones, jaw line, the sides of her nose and her temples to give the illusion of a slimmer face in order to make her look frail and malnourished, again, living up to the stereotype of what the audience would expect a severe drug addict to look like. The contouring also accentuated some of Charlotte's sharp features (such as her cheekbones) creating a fearful appearance which would inflict terror on the audience as this presents her as an antagonist. I took my inspiration for this idea from the contouring used on the actress Angelina Jolie in the recent production of Disney's 'Maleficent'.

I took the brown powder down underneath her eyes to give the illusion of some under eye circles which made her appear tired after her character was supposed to have spent the previous night in a prison cell as a result of being arrested for the murder of her daughter; all adding to the verisimilitude.

To make it appear that Charlotte had been crying due to being distraught over being arrested, I smudged mascara around her eye area. I also smudged red lipstick across her face, all to give her a bedraggled and unkempt appearance to suggest something sinister about her character. Also, both colours used in this process (black and red) are colours regularly used in successful films like 'Sin City' ,where the actress in the clip is dressed in a red dress to foreshadow the fact she is going to die, in order to connote death and danger, relating to the villainous persona of this character and highlighting her as one of the antagonists.