Hair and Make-up

Make-up

Make-up during the 1940's/50's was both elegant and sophisticated. Women's make-up was kept to a minimum and skin tone was kept a natural ivory tone. Cheeks were softly contoured with pink blusher to highlight facial structure.  
Eyebrows were kept thin and natural following the original shape rather than being filled in and re-shaped. 
Bright lipstick was popular with women- most common being red. Due to the bright lipstick the rest of the makeup was kept fairly natural to emphasise the lips. 
Eyeshadow is kept to a minimum and the colour used is either nude or blue shades. 

hair

Hair in the 1940's was generally curly. The picture on the left shows Victory rolls hairstyle. The hair is parted in two sections and then backcombed. Then the section of hair is rolled towards the parting and pinned with bobby pins. 

Side partings were very popular too amongst women. rather than perfect rolls this hairstyle has brushed out curls to make it appear thick ad wavy. 

this hairstyle is combination of the two previous hairstyles- it is parted on the side but the front section is pinned up, the rest of the hair is curly. 

My Hair and Make up trials

 This is the protagonist in our music video. I tested both a hair and makeup technique to see whether it would look suitable for the music video. 
For this look i used concealer to even out skin tone colours then used a very lightly coloured foundation to create an ivory skin tone. I then used pink blusher to contour her cheeks and a bronzer to highlight her cheekbones. I filled in her eyebrows following the natural curve and extending them on the ends to emphasise the natural curve. Her eyeshadow is blue and i blended it with green to make her eyes appear bigger as the colours compliment her hazel eyes. I over-lined her lips slightly with bright red lipstick to make this the most eye-catching part of her makeup.
For my actors hair she will have loose curls and hair parted on the side with her fringe rolled upwards and pinned with a hair slide. 

For this look i curled my actresses hair and rolled up her fringe and hair sprayed it. Again i used red lipstick and minimal make-up.












Men 

Mens hair was generally combed and parted on the side and slicked back with brill cream. Their image was well groomed, shaven facial hair and tidy appearance. 

1940s media music video costumes

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I put together a mood board of possible outfits we could use for the female actress using Polyvore.

Task 5 chosen song

Hourglass

Our chosen song for our video is Hourglass. This is because it differs from other songs on the album, although sung by a male it has been portrayed through a female’s perspective. It has a slower tempo and begins with a soft acoustic start following through to an exhilarating bass line with piano melodies then returning to Van McCann singing with his guitar like the beginning of the song. Compared to other songs on the album ‘The Balcony’ and the lyrics have inexplicit more complex and deeper meaning. It reflects conventions of a love song based upon a relationship and therefore allows us to follow a narrative closely related to the lyrics. The name of the song ‘Hourglass’ symbolises the idea of an imbalance in a relationship and also suggests limited time and the idea that like two ships that pass in the night, they rarely see each other much like all the sand in an hourglass is rarely settled in one half.  This can be seen through the lyrics “ I’m craving your calls like a soldiers wife” and “I just want to catch up on all the lost times.” The concept of a soldiers wife is suggesting the idea that much like a soldier the musician is unable to be with his partner much of the time and seldom returns home, like a soldier due to that fact he travels and has a hectic schedule. From the female perspective she wants to catch up on the quality time they have missed out on.  The song has themes of unrequited, long distance and heartbreaking love, which are all dramatic and intense emotions which can be applied to a narrative as the song goes through the motions and the lyrics express the hopes for the relationship to blossom through the words “offer my hand I’ll take your name” indicating the woman wants to take her partners name in marriage because she envisions commitment through adulthood with her partner but there are significant factors that prevent the relationship from being pursued.

Although there is no clean version of the song available, I was able to use the music-editing programme ‘Audacity’ to remove inappropriate language so it can therefore be used in or music video.