Constraints: Mental and Physical (With Face Chart)

When researching mental illness something that really caught my eye and, for me, captured the whole essence of mental illness was the person being constrained because it represents not only physical constraints but the constraints of the diseased mind. I thought this would be something really interesting to incorporate into a high fashion make-up shoot, and would also work well with the Music Video concept. These are some of the images that most inspired me on this concept:

Patient constraint on American Horror Story

Patient constraint to bed in padded room

Constraint of eyes and wrists in forest

Bodily constraints and the inability to see because of them

Constraints by other people, pulling hair with disbodied hands.

I took inspiration from these images to come up with my own face design, as seen below:

This design uses faded eyebrows to give the effect of character deformation (as discussed in the post before) and greenish/blue lips to show neglect of the body. High contouring and minimalist eyes will give the look a high fashion yet dishevelled feel. I have put constraints across the face, which I will incorporate into the hair (designs to follow) and these will be created using black ribbon.