Looking at Movies: Cinderella - Makeup, Hair and Fashion

Cinderella was directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Chris Weitz. The styling in this 2015 version of Cinderella was kept very true to the original cartoon, with the beautiful blue ball gown and glass slippers. Cinderella has two very different looks; she starts off looking very scruffy and dirty and then at the ball she looks stunning, with her hair and makeup perfectly done and in a sparkling gown.

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Throughout a lot of the film, Cinderella is a slave to her evil step mother. She has very minimal makeup on. It looks like she is very a light layer of foundation, with some rosy pink blush. Her eyebrows look very lightly filled in and it looks like she is wearing a pink lip stain to give her lips colour, but without looking too defined. In one scene, after Cinderella has been sleeping by the fire, she has black coal smudged all over her face, making her look very dirty and scruffy. I think that during some of the other scenes, Cinderella looks too perfected and so I think that some dirt should have been added round her hands or a bit on her face, just to give her that worn out look.

When Cinderella is working as a slave, her hair is quite frizzy looking and messy and she either has her hair in a middle parting with a messy low ponytail or she has her hair kept off her face with a dirty looking piece of cloth wrapped round the front of her hair and then either down or in a loose bun.

Cinderella is always seen in the same pale blue dress and brown apron whilst she is working for her evil step mother. The dress has a square neck line with frill detailing, and a structured waist line to give her a flattering hourglass silhouette. It gets dirty throughout the film to show she has been working hard and hasn't got time to be constantly cleaning it.

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When Cinderella's fairy god mother transforms her into a princess, she wows the ball goers with her beauty. Her makeup is still kept very natural looking, with a light layer of foundation and a rosy pink blush. She might have a very light, natural contour under her cheekbones to give her face more definition. Her eyebrows look slightly darker to balance out the darker eyes. In the screenshot I took of the film below, it looks like she is wearing a shimmery medium brown shade all over her lid and then a slightly darker matte shade through the crease to blend it out; it looks like the same brown through the crease has been very lightly brushed along the lower lash line too. She isn't wearing obvious fake eyelashes, but she may have been wearing natural looking individual eyelashes to give her natural eyelashes some volume. She is wearing a red lipstick on her lips, however it looks like three has been dabbed on because there are no harsh lines round her lips, making them look softer and more natural.

My own screenshot from the film.

Cinderella's hair has been put in a middle parting and perfectly curled into loose ringlets. It looks like both sides has been curled away from the face and pinned back, just above her ears, to take the front hair off her face. It looks like the hair has been plaited over the top of her head to give her air some volume and body. Some jewels have been dotted all round her hair to make it look very glittery and girly. To continue the sparkly effect, so glitter has been brushed all over her chest to give her a pretty glowing look. She wears her hair differently from the original cartoon, I think to add a more unique and modern twist.

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Cinderella's ball gown was kept very true to the original dress in the cartoon version, with the puffy sleeves, nipped in waist and big voluminous skirt; however she didn't wear the signature long blur gloves. It looks like she is wearing a corset as her waist look tiny and very defined and her waist is emphasised more with the puffy sleeves and neck line and the huge padded skirt. The off the shoulder neck line added a sophisticated touch, decorated with butterflies and flowers. I like that the skirt was almost shiny because it looked so beautiful in the lighting. The glass slippers were breath taking! They were carved in so many different directions that they were always glistening and sparkling and they were topped off with a gold butterfly on each foot.