Star Wars: Episode I Phantom Menace was released May 1999 and was the forth Star Wars film to be made, of the six. It was written and produced by George Lucas. Queen Amidala is the leader of the human population on the planet Naboo. Throughout the film she is shown to be a bold and courageous leader, but at times she also shows the vulnerability of a young 16 year old girl forced into a position of power that perhaps she would rather not have.
Queen Amidala has two dramatically different looks in the film. When she is in her royal attire, she wears very extravagant outfits with extreme white makeup and avant-garde hair designs; however when she is disguised as one of her servants, she is a lot more natural and young looking with a very plain uniform.
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Makeup
Queen Amidala's makeup is very extreme and abstract looking. She has an even layer of white paint all over her face, it looks very thin, as if it could be her own skin. Just below her lower lash line has been kept bare which I think makes the look softer and gives her eyes more definition. There is no contouring or blush, the face is kept very bare and flat looking. Her eyebrows look like they have been lightly filled in, or maybe just brushed through and cleared of white product. She looks like she is wearing a very light coat of black mascara on her top and bottom eyelashes. She has got a small red dot on both apples of her cheeks. Her top lip has been sharply lined and filled in with red and then there is a red strip going down the middle of her bottom lip, with the rest of her lips kept white. Her makeup is kept the same, with just slight changed in colouring, whilst she is Queen; it is her hair and outfits that change dramatically.
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Queen Amidala's hair is, for me, the stand out feature of all her looks. All the hair styles she wears are so unique and extravagant, with different shapes and accessories and colours. I love how every hair style ties in perfectly with her outfit, with the same colours and textures. There are so many hair looks, but I have picked my two favourites to look into. It looks like her hair has been put up into a high ponytail at the back; however I think extensions would have been added to give her the length and thickness to create the bubble shaped ponytail. I think the two side structures would be made up of padding to give them that horn like shape; I then covered in hair the same colour as her natural hair. After all the fake hair was shaped, I think the gold accessories would have been added and the red and gold pendants would have been attached to the padding. I think that the gold headpiece, with the gold chains, would act as a foundation for the big pastiche of moulded hair.
Another of my favourite hair looks from Queen Amidala would be Look 2, below. I don't think any of her real hair would have been used in this hairstyle, I think her hair would have been tied back and then the whole head piece would have been put on top.
I love all the very rich tones in both these hair styles because it shows she has power and high status.
Style
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| Look 1 https://nickholdstock.files.wordpress.com /2010/11/queen-amidala-754048.jpeg |
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| Look 2 http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/12/19/242B68A90 0000578-2881088-image-a-28_1419020325517.jpg |
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| Look 2 https://fredainhistoryclass.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ star-wars-episode-i-the-phantom-menace-18.jpg |
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Resources:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120915/
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