Starting Stage Make-Up II

And so the saga continues... Adriana's journey through STAGE MAKEUP II

Half of the class my assignment was being the Hair & Makeup manager for Seton Hill University's production of 'The Winter's Tale'. 

Starting out my position I needed to get a headshot of every cast member with no make up on, I do this because:

• For my binder for the show I must have there faces and have a blank face of the to write down what their make up and hair will be for each character in the show
• Also to have faces of which person is which M number and F number

After doing this I would get the blank faces of paper and write down there make up and hair on the paper and add it to the binder behind their picture.

After doing all this paperwork, I collaborated and helped out the Wardrobe manager, Jamie Corbett, and helped her get some things organized as well, figuring out when certain people leave the stage and where they do it. We did this so we know where quick make up and costume changes would be.


Now...... It's SHOW TIME!!!!

I had to make specific time sheets for every person to meet with me to get their hair and make up done, touched up, and approved!
Throughout the two weekend's of the show I did aging, greying, bruising, and glamour make up!

Nichole Castelle as Hermione (Hair for Statue)

Nichole Castelle as Hermione (Trial Scene Hair)

Nichole Castelle as Hermione (Statue Make Up)

Nichole Castelli as Hermione (Trial Scene Make Up)

Adam Sarp as the Shepard (16 years later - Hair and Make Up)

James Scharer as Camillo (16 years later - Hair and Make Up)

Bobby Tramontina as Leontes (16 years later - Hair and Make Up)

Finally the Final Project!!

Through all the hard work and preparation in class, I will be giving you the step by step of how I did my final project! For my final project I used three things to change my appearance...
1. Original latex appliance
2. Hidden eyebrows
3. Altered form

My final project I will be transforming myself into a fish, specifically Rainbow Fish!! (Pictured below)

Before I did anything with my face, I had to make fish like scales to put on my face, pictured below.

The process of making the scales perfect, was difficult to say the least. At first I was not putting enough latex on the clay model I made. (The clay model of the scales was made from using a button's edge and pressing it into the clay, stacking one by one near each scale)
Then when I thought I put enough latex on the clay, when peeling off the latex (BTW, that was by far the hardest part, only because sometimes it would rip or the latex would clump together) I wasn't powdering on enough translucent powder which made the latex clump together into a ball. (Pictured below)

 The picture below is the result of not putting enough powder on the latex. It is hard to see the scales look more 3D.

 The picture below is the process of peeling the latex off the clay, this was a perfect peel, I used a ton of translucent powder and it took a lot of time and patience to peel it off.

I made three different scales to put on my face for this project.

Now the final product..

First I started out by cleaning my face.
Then I started with the covering of my eyebrows.
In my last post you can see how I covered them and the steps it takes to do that.
Once my eyebrows were waxed down then I started applying the latex to my face.
I used the same steps as we did when we applied the mustache and eyebrows in the last post.
Once they were applied

Then I started painted my face completely blue and part way down my neck and the side of the neck.
Not only did I used blue on my face but I started contouring with a seaweed like green around the scales and on my mouth.

And the end product...............






IM A FISH

I'm Getting Hairier!!!!!!

For the whole week of class we started working on first covering our eyebrows, then slowly making our mustaches and thicker eyebrows.

First we used our water based type wax on our eyebrow, this was to keep all hair in place. Once it is dried we go to step two: 

I had to use my fairest base color foundation and put it all on my eyebrows and around it. I noticed I out the foundation to big around my eyebrows, but that's something I got to work on in time. The we took our highlight and only applied that to our eyebrow. After you use that process over and over again until you can't really see the eyebrow, you apply the translucent powder around the whole area. Final product of this step is pictured below: 

During this process we also were given paper drawings of eyebrows and a mustache, we placed our clear divider on there and traced the drawings with our latex. The bottom is the mustache, we just painted out latex over the divide in the middle.

After we let that dry for a day, the next day we picked our hair we would then twist together. Mine was orange and grey, after we picked them we would take small pieces of each clump of hair and pull them, in small clumps, apart. Blending them together, then we twist one end of the clump and repeat. 

After this, we go back to our eyebrows and mustache, I started with the mustache first. We take one clump of hair we made, you put a little bit of latex and paint it on one corner of the mustache. Then using any tool, you press down the piece of hair on the end of it and pull it so it sticks no the latex, I used the end of a paint brush. You repeat this the whole way around the mustache and eyebrows. When dried you repeat it until the whole mustache and eyebrows are covered.

First set of pulling

2nd set of pulling - finish product.

After all this is done, you add your basic corrective, foundation, contour, and add aging to your face. (Pictured below)

Obviously I need to get a better technique with hiding my eyebrows, currently going to work on this for my final product. The end of it all we detach the eyebrows and mustache from the page, we do this with a Q-tip and our Spirit Gum Remover. Then we add our Spirit Gum to the backs of them so they attach to our face. 

Remember to wipe the area you are putting the things on your face!!!!!

Sorry had to say it like this because I always forget :) 

But, my ending product of it all is...........

Leah Punched Me... But Really Though

So today's next lesson is on bruising and abrasions...

My example for abrasions

My example for bruising 

So we started out like we usually do, putting our corrective on (green and yellow correction, foundation, and contouring.)

Then we went on to using our yellow from our color wheel to outline the bruising around the eye....

Kind of hard to see..

Then we started blending the yellow all around the eye...

After this we accented green to indicate the middle of the bruising, purple to outline the outside of the bruising and taking the blood red and dabbing it in the inside of our inner eyelid and the inner corner of our eye. Unfortunately, I did not get to capture that process of coloring (I am constantly forgetting to take tons of pictures... IM TRYING MY BEST OKAY??)

But, anyway, after we were done bruising, we start doing the open cut/abrasions.

We used our liquid latex and made a diagonal line on the arch of our eyebrow and ended it below the eyebrow. 

After we had that dry, we used our dry and wet blood and make a line above and below the abrasion. Then we added stage blood by using the end of a brush dipping it in blood and slowly letting it drip down the eye. (Felt weird..)

Ending product.....

One thing I would change or do better is take more pictures of my process and maybe blended my eye lid make up more as well as making the the abrasion a little more realistic and less sloppy. 

Becoming Older.. Still Cute Doe!

Today we did the process of aging make-up.
I looked up a women between the ages of 60-70 years old. (Picture below)

We started the process off by concealing our face using our green & yellow concealers.
Green - for redness
Yellow - for bruises, discoloration
** I unfortunately missed class when we learned this, but good old Youtube taught me how to do that stuff, so I almost knew what I was doing!

Anyway, after concealing those mannyyyy flaws, I used the base color (foundation) from my Ben Nye kit. Then started contouring my face, also another product from the Ben Nye kit.
* Again, I wasn't here for the learning of contouring, never have done this before. But, thanks to the book we use for class it was not that hard to figure out.

  
I feel like I didn't blend the darkening of my face enough, honestly looks like I have dirt on my face but I guess it's suppose to look like that.

Next step was to draw the lines on our face, the aging lines.
The lines on your forehead when you raise your eyebrows, the crows feet beside your eyes, adding a ling across your eye lid, and the lines around your mouth when you smile.


We had to add highlighter above the horizontal lines and inside the vertical lines.


We also were told to use our black sponge & the blood red color and dab it on the tip of the nose and upper cheek bones.
Also added lines on our lips, giving an affect of crackling lips.



The ending product.........



Can't forget Leah!

Lies... One More Clown...

The OFFICIAL last day of clown make-up .....

But, we did something different in today's class. My partner Leah & I would do our last clown design, we both had Tramp faces left, BUT, we would take our designs and put the make-up on one another & also using each others make-up and brushes.

So, I put my design on Leah's face & Leah put hers on mine.

My Design!

This is the facial outline of my design, no problem with this, probably the easiest part of doing the clown make-up.

Again, the skin tone is soooooo hard for me to figure out. 

Not only that but I never seem to make enough paint for the face, which was another struggle of keeping the color the same throughout. But, I did start using the beauty blender to make it more even throughout her face. 

So the beard worked out well, still trying to figure out how to make the beard more "beardy", I tried using the beauty blender to make it more of a "hairy" illusion. But, obviously it didn't work.

As for the white eyes, I forgot to outline them before putting the skin tone on which messed it up a little.

We used the white paint for one eye, then tried using the creme white from the kit on the other eye. But, the creme didn't go on well at all. So we just used the white paint, which turned out streaky. So maybe another two coats would have changed that.

I changed the lip color to a lighter pink, just because I wanted the lips to be more accented not hidden.

The eyebrows could have been more sharper in the lines, I need to work on making straight lines and carefully filling it with color, but the color turned out to be perfect.

Other than that I'm glad we are moving on to other make-up's because I really hate clowns!

But here is a great picture of Leah and I together! :)