Mad Hatter!

So for movie character day I chose the mad hatter. Figured it be a good choice and enough of a challenge. Not so much. I didn't have everything I needed for it such as white fake eyelashes, plus I forgot my colored hairspray. Secondly I think the costume and the crazy contacts contributed a lot to the look, all of which I did not have. Lastly the pink on the cheeks and nose is used to change the shape of his face, I'm not so great at changing the shape of my face. So the result was I wasn't too happy with the result.
Here are my before and afters, lastly inspiration shot.

Anime Eyes!

Sigh... This look was a lot harder than I expected it to be. I started over several times trying to make it work. Basically what I did was draw larger eyes around my eyes in a way that fit my regular eyes, but that was difficult. Then I put white around my real eyes to make it look like the whites of my eyes extended farther. After that I added eyelashes which was surprisingly very difficult to make realistic. Lastly I put shadow on my eyes to look like I was wearing makeup.
I think what I learned from this was that I need to not draw the eyelashes because the made things look very unrealistic, and I feel it would have looked better without.
Here is my before, then my first attempt, and lastly the final result.

Green Fairy

I have been looking at doing a poisin ivy/fairy makeup. I'm considering it for the free day in costume and makeup, so having bought the materials I decided to practice on my niece. Here is the inspiration shot, and the after.

Unfortunately the green didn't photograph too well, and also you can't see the green on the side of her face. I think the eyes and the sparkly dots turned out the best. Anyway what I did was I put foundation on her, then I used green eyeshadow on her forehead, cheeks, and jawbone. Then I put the two colors on her eyes using eyeshadow and water. I put on the eyeliner and put gold eyeshadow on the nose. Lasting using children's red, blue, and green glitter glue I made the dots. Then the mascara and lipstick.
I think what I learned was that for the overall green on the skin I should have used water as well, like I did with the eyes. Also next time the very last thing I will do is the dots, cause putting on the mascara I messed up the dots above her right eyebrow. Lastly I would add more contouring. Looking back at the picture I see a lot more was used than just the green on the forehead, cheeks, and jawbone, and the gold on the nose.
I really think it helps to practice putting makeup on my nieces, because it is so completely different from putting it on myself, and it's quite a challenge to position my hand so that I don't mess up parts of makeup on the rest of the face. Though I wish I'd had more time because I was planning on fixing her hair and using colored hairspray in it.

Adolescent Zombie

In costume and makeup we did zombies again! This time I didn't do quite as well, because I would get to a good point, try to add more and it would then not look as good as it had before. My scratches for example I used the nose and scar wax and put makeup over it, and it looked good. Then I added latex around the edges hoping to make it look like a deeper gouge but it made it too wide. So on something smaller like scratches one or the other is best with latex and scar wax. Then for my sores I used latex, on this I used latex to lightly and needed more. Lastly the fake blood. The fake blood completely messed up my sores, covering most of the yellow I put on to make it look infected. It didn't treat my scratches too badly, but it still covered up some of my definition and I think a very tiny amount of blood would have served me better. One good thing is I remembered to put up my hair so it didn't get stuck in my makeup and then mess it up.
Here is my second zombie. I call it an adolescent zombie because the sores are the zombie affliction of acne.

This Is Halloween

Halloween was a crazy day for me. I really needed to study for history, but I knew if I didn't give myself a break after hell week I was going to burn out. For me that most likely means a full out, sobbing, panic attack. Desiring to forego the delights of a panic attack I hung out at a friends house and watched Beetlejuice. Then when my friend drove me home we got to have a long, relaxing conversation about all that had been going on of late. All of this helped rid me of stress and I managed to not have a panic attack at all this week. Yay! To give a downer note I ate a lot of candy and pizza, which is all very bad for me.
Before going to watch the movie I helped my niece with her jester makeup. First is my inspiration picture, second is my attempt. Sadly the fake eyelashes were too heavy for my niece and so had to be trimmed down so she could open her eyes.

Tuesday Calories: 1,511 Carbs: 212 Fat: 47 Protein: 68
Wednesday Calories: 1,695 Carbs: 248 Fat: 46 Protein: 68

Argh! Zombies Invade TLU Campus!

Today was Zombie day in my makeup class. All you could see around you were horrifying, disgusting corpses. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!! Funnily enough doing the wounds was the easiest part, the challenge was figuring out what to do with the parts of me that weren't bloody scabs and wounds. I also learned that I need to wear my hair up when applying makeup or my hair gets stuck in the wax and latex, messing everything up when I try to take it out. I also think I figured out how to do bruises though my bruising got covered up by the massive gash on my neck. Next Friday since we are doing zombies again I want to try and go full body if I'm allowed to.
Here are my before and after-

Lysistrata

For last Friday's Costume and Makeup class we had to watch one show of Lysistrata. This was a bit difficult for me because I was in the show. So instead of watching I participated. The 2:30 showing was a tough crowd, they generally are. However, it is more noticeable when you are performing a comedy and laughter is on the low scale. Disregarding the audience the actor's did a good job and continued to do a good job despite the lack of enthusiasm from the audience.
As far as the costume and makeup go for the show when we started dress rehearsals it was the first time the show felt like it was really going somewhere and that we were ready for this. People in the costume and makeup class helped with the drag queens makeup and they did a really good job, you can tell how the class helped them. Also you can tell the difference between peoples makeup who have been in the costume and makeup class, and some who haven't. A lot of those people are still good at makeup, its just with a few of them you can tell how the class would help them out with some little things.
All that being said I think we need a hair class, because very few of the girls can do anything with their hair, including me.
Anyway here is a picture of my makeup. My lipstick is a bit smeared because that is how I had it for the last scene of the play.

Second Drag Day

Upon attempting drag a second time I learned that instead of focusing on making myself into a certain man, I just need to focus on hardening the softness of my face. Otherwise the attempt isn't as good as it could be.
I wish I could say I was entirely happy with the results, I can say though that I learned a valuable lesson. Before I can make myself look like someone else I have to learn more about changing my own face and how different things affect its look.
Here are my photos:

Drag?

Ok to add to our experience in contouring our faces we changed gender. Here is my man photo. I can honestly say this was the most challenging thing for me yet. What I learned was that I need to put blue around my eyes to make them less girly and figure out how to get rid of the apples of my cheeks.

Costume & Makeup

 Here are the before and after shots for the last two weeks. We learned how to make are faces thinner with shadows and highlights. Also how to make ourselves look old and how you have to kind of go over the top in theatre so that the audience can actually see it.
Wooh, bye bye

Lips and Nose

In costume and makeup today we worked on changing our lips and nose. It was a lot of fun, I learner how to make my lips smaller and larger and how to make the betty boop lips. I also learned how to make my nose more slender and how to give myself a Miss Piggy nose. It was cool.
Here are the before and the afters.

Hahaha I love these pictures... all the silliness!

Natural Makeup for Head-shot

Yesterday in my Costume and Makeup class my professor went over one of the best ways to do makeup for a headshot. This is the result, which I rather like. My professor said that it diva'd me up, and everyone else said it made me look my age instead of the five years younger I normally look. Sadly my face is in shadow so I will post another picture when we do the head-shots. In that picture my hair won't have a strand sticking up from wearing a head band, and I will be wearing a prettier shirt.
Anyway, what I learned in Costume and Makeup yesterday was that I could accentuate my cheek bones (making my face appear less round) by taking a brown shadow and drawing a line where the hollow in my cheek is.