Correction of the Face: Part II

Normal, everyday face, washed and moisturized.

Green stick applied to red blemishes, yellow stick applied to dark circles and marks, and April's face applied to this blog.

Base added. 

Side profile and April's face.

Shadow and highlight have been added and powdered.

Rouge and lipstick have also been added.

Smile has been added.

Same steps; whole face.

Correction of the Face, Part I

Moving out of clown land and into our Ben Nye makeup boxes, the first thing the class worked on was mixing the colours in our kits and determining base, highlight, and shadow as well as bruises and colours in general using a pyramid scheme (don't worry, not the annoying money grubbing kind).

Colour mixing foundation chart for base

Colour mixing foundation chart for colours

Colour mixing foundation chart for bruises

Next we took a good look at our faces and the "imperfections" that we were going to correct.  The most important step, after a good wash and moisturize, is to apply yellow stick on dark spots on the face and dark circles under the eyes.  A green stick should be applied to any red spots and blemishes.

Now the base can be applied and all over the face until the yellow and green sticks have disappeared along with the blemishes.  Once the base is even, shadow should be applied to any recesses of the face (cheek bones, chin, jaw line, sides of nose, inner corner of eye, under brow bone, temple, under lips) with thin lines and highlight lines should be applied above or beside the shadow lines, depending on where you're shadowing.  Blend everything and remember, the goal is to emphasize the good stuff!

A makeup recipe face half filled with lines in the correct colours denoting where yellow and green sticks go, the colour of the base, and where shadow and highlights go for my face.

And here is half of my face done with corrective:

The right side of the face (left as you look at it) has the corrective on it and has covered my bed blotchiness as well as the circles under my eyes and the dark acne scars under my lips.

Profile shows the contouring of my jawline and cheek bones.

The same concept can be applied with street makeup.  The yellow and green sticks are fantastic "cheat codes" for your face that you can find in many forms and with many cosmetic providers.

Whiteface 4.0 - Tramp on a Friend's Face

Our last adventure with clown makeup in class was applying one of our designs to another person's face.  I was applying my sunburnt tramp and being applied on my face was a gorgeous shooting star whiteface design by Lauren Albring.  Here are our processes:

This is my design penciled on Lauren's face.  Her brown pencil was almost black, so I used her lip liner instead, for fear of the pencil showing through or staining.

Final product of the sunburnt tramp.  Also, a friendly whiteface is photobombing.

The shooting star design on my face.

The beautiful final product.

Anthropomorphic Evolution

Recently I witnessed a talented stage movement class transform themselves into animals complete with personalities and talents.  I was impressed by the distinct differences in each person, even if two people were accessing characteristics of the same animal.  Their interspecies interactions were impressive and some, comedic.
Most enjoyable was when they "evolved" and developed speech and talents.  A elephant who was a detective part time and a body painter other times had the audience appreciating her artistry, while the shy springbok that told animal jokes had the other animals laughing.
I was very impressed with the commitment of each actor and I would gladly watch them again and again.  Their characters were all very inspirational and made it easy for me to visualize makeup designs for each and everyone of them.