Thursday, 29 January 2015

Ageing Makeup


Products and Tools needed:
- Sponges
- Stipple sponge
- Kryolan pallet (red, green, blue, yellow, and white)
- Old brushes
- Mascara wand
- Kryolan tooth enamel
- A wig (optional)

Simple 'how to' guide:

1. Start by creating a brown colour mixing red, green and blue together. Create a brown that is two shades darker than the model's skin tone.

2. Using a small round brush, apply the brown product onto the skin in areas where the model would have wrinkles. Ask your model to pull absurd faces so that they are visible to you (e.g. big smile, raising eyebrows, scrunching up their eyes)

3. Once you have covered all these areas, you can then 'highlight' these wrinkle areas using an off white colour (white and a tiny amount of yellow mixed together). Apply the white above and below each 'wrinkle' you have created.

4. Either using your fingers or a brush, blend these colours into the skin but make sure you do not rub too much of the product off otherwise it won't be very visible (and this is for theatre!).

5. Apply a small amount of off white onto the lips too, because people's lips as they get older lose colouration.

6. Once you are happy with the product application and blending, you are almost there. You can move onto discolouring the model's eyebrows and eyelashes using the white with a mascara wand.

7. If you would like your model to look as though they drink a lot of alcohol, then you can use a stipple sponge and stipple on a very small amount of a dark red onto the cheeks, nose, and chin (which I have done so in my image).

Creeping of the Skin

Products and Tools Needed:
- Liquid latex
- Plastic bowl
- Sponge
- Hairdryer
- Powder
- Powder brush

Simple 'how to' Guide:
1. First, pour a small amount of liquid latex into a bowl. Using a sponge, dip it into the latex and apply to the hand in a feathering way so that the edges are not hard once dried. Make sure the hand is stretched if possible when applying it.

2.Then, check the temperature of the hairdryer and face it towards the latex for it to dry.

3. Once dry, you will repeat the application of latex until you have a few layers.

4. Once you have the amount of layers desired, you can then powder well. You will then end up with the result of my work as above.