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Elvira Condomine Character Traits

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Character Analysis: Elvira Condomine is a presence that is difficult to ignore in Noël Cowards “Blithe Spirit”. Elvira is described as being entirely gray (page 25). This grayness is supposed to extend to her hair, skin, nails, and clothing. However, since I am not allowed to do ‘ghost makeup’ on my face, I will achieve the idea of this “ghostliness” by using the lightest foundation color in the Ben Nye kit, ______________, and apply it all over the face and neck. I will also achieve the idea of Elvira being a ghost by playing with sunken in cheeks. On my face, I think that the light foundation will work well to help create the “ghost-like illusion”, however when I go to create the sunk in cheeks, I will need to be careful that I leave …show more content…

On my face in particular, I am not worried about completing a winged eyeliner because there is space around my eyes to comfortably draw a wing, however I am a bit apprehensive about doing the bow hunter’s lip because of the way my lips are shaped. The final traits of Elvira’s that I wanted to try and bring into this makeup look is her youth (page 45) and how carefree she can be when she’s not regarding Ruth. Elvira’s carefree personality shows throughout the entirety of the script, but perhaps the moment that shows this trait the best is when she goes on to describe playing a game of backgammon with Genghis Khan (page 30). For both I plan on achieving this by adding a slight color to the apples of the cheek to bring even more life into an otherwise dark and dead face. On my own face, as it is easy to find the apples of my cheeks, I think this shouldn’t be too terribly difficult to achieve. Procedure: Base: For the base of this makeup look, I have decided to apply the color ________ because as it is the lightest color in the makeup kit, it will give a ghost-like illusion to the face. I’ve chosen to do this because Elvira is described as being ethereal in appearance, and I wanted to stay away from making her entirely gray as is described on page twenty-five of the script. Next, I will be applying translucent powder to my face to set this base color, as to keep in tune with some of the makeup done

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