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).