Stage Makeup ...Contd

By Super

Monday, May 21, 2012, 16:39

Deformed Skin/Burns
Begin by tilting the head back slightly and then apply 3-D Gel to the desired area. Pour the gel from the bottle, allowing it to run down the face. Use a brush to thin the gel out. 3-D Gel is safe to put in the eyebrows and eyelashes.

Open Wounds & Cuts
Apply a patch of 3-D Gel to the skin and blend out the edges. Keep the patch level to prevent the gel from running outside the edges. Cut through the middle and pull back flaps. Use dots of liquid gel to tack back the flaps and hold them in place.

Apply makeup to match the surrounding skin, and then use Colorset Powder to set the makeup. You can color the skin inside the wound with burgundy makeup or lip pencils to give the look of deeper muscle tissue. Finally, put a thick layer of 3-D Gel Blood in the wound and let it splatter up or run over the pulled back skin and onto the surrounding skin. Apply the 3-D Gel Blood last, as you want it to set up shiny and wet looking.

Character make up
When you're making an actor into another person you must alter his appearance so it fits the new character. If the character is mean, kind, fat, thin or ugly you must change the actors own features to match this. To be able to do this a lot of different methods can be used such as wigs, false teeth and facial prosthetics.

When you're doing a highlight and shadow makeup you are really just using the actors own features to alter his looks by showing and hiding things that are already there. Depending on what kind of stage you are working on the makeup can differ quite a bit. If you're working on a small stage you have to put on makeup which is very subtle but for a big stage it can look really grotesque in person but great on stage.

Character makeup can also sometimes be classical makeup's like the Peking opera masks or Japanese kabuki makeup.