'Elizabeth - The Golden Age'

'Elizabeth - The Golden Age'

In this film Elizabeth's make up was transforming all the way through, at the beginning her make up was very soft, her hair was long sometimes wavy and sometimes completely straight. At the beginning of the film where Elizabeth is shown for the first time her make up was soft, slightly pale skin, neutral lip color and slightly blushing cheeks. From the very beginning Elizabeth looked like a queen her pale skin was a sign that she is not poor and does not have to work outside like other slaves preventing them from keeping their pale complexion. In the crowing scene of the film, Elizabeth's make up is still not very much over the top compared to what she looked like later on, she had very pale skin with make up on top which contained vinegar and white lead which also at the same time destroyed her skin causing numerous skin diseases, bleached out eye brows, her eye lashes looked very light also and lips with cheeks were slightly emphasized all these aspects were signs of beauty at that time.
The next scene that was also one of the most important parts of the films was attempted murder, they tried to kill the Queen. In this scene she is wearing long red dress with with some white material and also a lot of gold detail such as her jewelry and her crown. I really like the composition of red and gold these two colors to me seems like they show power and strength and that is exactly  what Queen Elizabeth was powerful, iconic, strong woman no one could take her down. Her make up was pale with slightly more red lipstick and cheeks which went well with the outfit, this make up look brought out more of her features such as lips and cheek bones, her hair was cut off very short and curly which gave her more older, mature appearance I personally did not like it. In the dinner scene her appearance changes starting from the outfit and ending with the make up, she was wearing pitch black dress, her eye brows seemed to be a lot more defined and there was slight contour showing, this make up look portrayed her as having more harsh features this look went well with a black dress, she looked very mysterious and unpredictable.
In the final scene of the film, the Queen steps in to walk towards her thrown her skin was very much pale like she was wearing a mask this was because her face was destroyed by the make up she was using, she still wanted to look perfect so she was forced to wear even more of the dangerous powder, her lips appeared like it was a mixture between red and orange to match her hair color, her eyes was slightly emphasized with a kohl but the eye lashes remained very white as well as her eye brows. Her curly hair had some golden jewelry details to it which looked very flattering for such hair color, gold and red - powerful, wealthy and strong and that is how Queen Elizabeth was portrayed in this film, which I think is very accurate to what she was like in her era.
The title of  'The Golden Age' goes perfectly with this film, as I mentioned before there was a lot of gold detail used to show Elizabeth's beauty, however golden age also means how great her era was it was truly 'golden' as the title suggests, starting with her make up and the outfit and ending with her era.