Modern Elizabethan look

This image is an example of how the Elizabethan styling and makeup have influenced the current makeup of today. This is an image from Vogue, a top fashion magazine, which highlights just how influential the Elizabethan era is to the modern fashion industry. This look is going to be my modern Elizabethan inspiration along with The Rainbow Portrait and I am excited to incorporate different features from both images to create my final makeup look.

Vogue Italia September 2005
Model, Lily Cole
Photographer, Richard Burbridge
Makeup artist, Osvaldo Salvatierra
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This image screams Elizabethan to me, from styling to makeup and hair. Lily Cole's skin is very pale, almost white, and her eyebrows and eyelashes are very fair, almost blanked out; both these features were very popular amongst the Elizabethan women and are shown in my chosen portrait, The Rainbow Portrait. Eye shadow was not worn in the Elizabethan times, however a light pink/peach shade has been used on the eyes to tie in the cheek colour. I like how, instead of matching the lip and cheek colour, the makeup artist, Osvaldo Salvatierra, has decided to match the eye and cheek colour. I think this is a very clever, but subtle, way of modernising the Elizabethan look. The cheek colour looks very blotchy and uneven, almost making her look like she has scraped her face on something rough. This could be a representation of how the makeup applied to the skin was infact poisonous and caused skin irritations that would then be covered with more makeup, but how the painful skin would always remain, no matter how much the women tried to cover it. The lip colour is not the traditional red stain, but instead a glossy taupe/brown colour. I like how a statement lip has been used because it really modernises the look and gives it a fun edge. The colour isn't very bright or artificial looking, its still within the neutral palette, but it still stands out in the image. 

The heart shape of the headdress, with the point falling down the centre of the wear's forehead, was very popular with Elizabethan women with hats such as the attifet and Elizabeth has this shape in her headdress in The Rainbow Portrait. I like how this shape has been exaggerated to come all the way down the middle of the eyebrows. Elizabeth I wore a very extravagant headdress and statement earrings and both there elements are present in this Vogue image. Lily Cole's red, long, frizzy hair is a big statement in the image and is very similar to young Queen Elizabeth's hair, especially in her Coronation Portrait. The only major difference is the extreme volume, giving it a more editorial look. It is also interesting her the model's hand is in the image, as Elizabeth I was very fond of her hands and she often incorporated her hands into her portraits.