Initial ideas for my 'Dorian Gray' hair and make-up

I began by making a moodboard to present initial ideas and visuals of my interpretation of the character Dorian Gray. I found an image of a painted version of Prince Charming from a Disney film (bottom right), which fitted my interpretation of Dorian Gray at the start of the novel well. Victorian fashions included longer hair on men, and as Gray is described as having 'crisp gold hair' (chpt. 2), this image suited - minus the low-cut shirt! The pictures along the top are examples of portraiture by various artists which all involve dark, distorted tones. I liked these because they remind me of how the portrait supposedly looks at the end of the novel, and I can see how they could be representative of the dark side of a person's soul rather than one's physical appearance. Thorns signify pain and suffering, and the black roses represent something that is beautiful turning sinister - the colour black connoting darkness and evil, while roses are symbolic of beauty and love. I chose to use a white-black gradient colour scheme in the title box, as white connotes innocence and blankness, and black implies evil; the gradient shows the same transformation in Gray's character. The colour white is a strong theme throughout the book as well; with quotes including 'white purity', sins being rectified so that they are 'white as snow', and Gray asking for 'as few white ones as possible' when ordering flowers - clearly showing he no longer cares for innocence.  

My initial idea for how I will portray Dorian Gray through hair and make-up was to split the face diagonally and show one half as the young, attractive Dorian, and the other as the old, ugly version which he turns into at the end of the book, showing his drastic transformation. 

A second idea would be to simply portray Dorian Gray as how he looks at the end of the novel, when he dies and take on the portrait's appearance. However, in the 2009 film, the portrait at the end looks too over-the-top for my liking: 

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This interpretation looks like the character is almost ancient, with decaying skin which looks burnt and rotten. However, for my interpretation, I would rather create signs of ageing, suffering and injury which were more likely to have occurred in the twenty-or-so years of sin, for example: wrinkled, greyed and dried skin, dark under-eyes, hollowed cheeks, a sagging neck, maybe bruising and small injuries, and any consequences of drugs, alcohol and possibly STDs Gray could have contracted at the time. This description from the book seems more accurate: 

'The cheeks would become hollow or flaccid. Yellow crow's feet would creep round the fading eyes and make them horrible. The hair would lose its brightness, the mouth would gape or droop, would be foolish or gross, as the mouths of old men are. There would be the wrinkled throat, the cold, blue-veined hands, the twisted body...' (chpt. 10)