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! :) 

The Last of The Clowns..... I Couldn't be More Excited

Today in class we painted our faces with the last two clown faces, Tramp or Auguste. We got to choose which face we decided to do then from that we must do the design that was either we chose or another artist design.
I decided to do the Auguste face that was created by Leah Prestogeorge!

Leah Prestogeorge's Auguste design.
Colored by Me

Throughout the process, I thought this was going to be cake....wrong.

I started with the outlines of the exaggerated mouth, eye browns, and the cat-eye eyeline.

Then comes the hard part, making the color of the skin tone as well as applying it to my face evenly and keeping the color the same the whole way around my face. Throughout that process, I went through, almost, my whole white palette and got frustrated more than once. But in the end result it didn't look too bad.

The face looks pretty evenly colored in this picture but I can see some slight yellow coloring as well as some dark orange. I'll be honest the color isn't what I wanted I wanted a more peachy color, but this process of even getting an all around color was a struggle and took up most of my time.

I applied the paint with the same brush Sue provided, like in my last update, but used the blender to pat down and evenly distribute the color, it actually worked pretty well.

And now the end result... Drum roll please....

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As you can see I'm totally thrilled. LOL.

But anyway, the end result went pretty well, I noticed I'm still having trouble with covering my eyebrows, just something I need to work on.

Critiques from Sue: 

1. The white inside my mouth needs to be less streaky. So another coat of white would have probably made it a lot better.
2. My mouth wasn't as smiley as the design was. In the picture below, you can see I am smiling and that is how it should be looking when I have a straight face like the picture above.
   

My own critiques:

1. The outline of blue around y mouth could be better drawn, it looks a little lopsided.
2. My eye brows I drew on look uneven so next time be more precise.
3. The yellow on the cat-eye eyeliner could be more dramatic and out there, I feel like I can barely see it. 

Other than that, I am happy clown make-up is over and on to the next project!

The Final Product .... Wasn't Easy

So this is the final product of my white face clown design..... TADA!!!

 

My biggest struggle was the application of the white base color, I started with using the little tan beauty blender but I started to notice the white makeup looked very blotchy and not looking smooth all around. So I decided to just use the paint brush Sue provided us with and noticed the white paint went on smoother and less streaky. I had to apply two coats of white paint to get my face to look more evenly. I need to work on how to make my lips look larger, I think that was also a challenging part for me, only because the paint brush was acting up and I can admit I was rushing a good bit.

For Next Time:

 From my drawing to my face, I did forget to use the ombre blush design, so next time I would have to put the ombre blush on before I start drawing on freckles. 

I also noticed maybe I should white out my eyebrows more so the ombre colors are more defined, I also think that the colors on the eyebrows need more color so they stand out more. Sue also suggested that I blend the colors on my eyebrows a little better as well.

I want to use fake lashes next time to make my eyelashes more dramatic, my clown design was all about drama and color. So to make my eyes more BAM would make the face more dramatic. 

Black Outline Suggestions

As you can see I did not like doing this LOL!

But I did notice that I liked the outline of the eyebrows in black as well as accenting my eyes above and below them. I think it brings more dynamic in my face rather than looking just white with a lot of colors.

Also, you can see this is where I noticed that I forgot the blush and needed to do that before the freckle dots, I think I'm going to make the blush ombre more of an outline where the ends of my mouth are to indicate a rainbow smile!

BTW, the only reason I outlined almost every circle was because Sue was messing with me to do it :) gotta love her!

Bigger Clown Faces..... EKKKK

White Face Clown

Tramp/Hobo Clown Face

Auguste Clown Face
Designed by Leah Prestogeorge

Colored Clown Designs

Colored sketches of my Auguste clowns.

Colored sketches of my White Face clowns.

Colored sketches of my Tramp/Hobo clowns.

Clown Make-Up Sketches

Auguste Clown Sketches

Tramp/Hobo Clown Sketches

White Face Clown Sketches