Encore

Hello again! Apologies if the font is off, I'm sending this from my phone, and I don't know how to fix it. Thank you, to everyone who's been reading my posts! Here's the link to my presentation:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nHTglLdtLDEkMNEKmZQrIr1qnYb42KWIx1Ip0qrEQ9g/edit?usp=docslist_api

Thanks again!

And an anticlimactic ending

If I had realized this was the last required post, I would have made sure I had something to show off, I really don't have much to say this week. I didn't do much at my internship this week, and I didn't get the chance to do anything with makeup either. I might post something next week if I get anything together as a finisher, but any makeup I make after that will just need to be seen in my presentation.

Things are going smoothly at the theater, as far as I can tell. 9 to 5 has started, Glenngary is ongoing, and though there are a few details still being ironed out, we've moved back to cleaning up around the theater now that the pre-show preparations have ended.

As for my makeup, here's a few things I'd love to get done, if I have the time and a model to work with:

1. The second part of the cyberpunk concept, or more
I have an idea for a face piece, which might also include a neck part if I'm working on someone other than myself. It will be based on the same concept as the arm piece, and if I get the chance to work on a cleaner concept for that, I might do that too.

2. A full-body zombie idea
I mentioned this last week, but it's dependent on my friend's time. It would definitely include nails and some kind of face piece, but might also include something like the spine effect from before or, if I can figure out how to make it, something on her stomach. I have a few ideas- whether I'll be able to test them is the problem.

If I had the time and the people, it might also be cool to do some kind of multiple person accident scene, but time's run out a lot faster than I expected, so that's likely not happening.

Thanks to everyone who's followed my blog until now!

Whatever Happened to 4/8/16?

Hello all! I return to this blog a year older than I was the last time I posted- that's how it works, right? I ought to have had this up on my birthday, so apologies, but if I had posted it then, I wouldn't have had pictures to go with it. Now, I do.

First, though, to the theater. Things have been fine, if busy. This past week was tech week, leading up to Friday's opening night for 9 to 5. That meant a lot of last minute painting and props and very little actual watching runs, unfortunately. Hopefully, the run went well- I'll have to find out on Monday.

Back to makeup! I've done two things this week. One is a concept for my cyberpunk idea, which I tested out this evening and which was more planning than actual final product. I didn't do much to match the colour of the wax to my skin tone, so it's a little obvious it's an applied piece, but like I said, it's more a proof of concept than anything. If I have time to revisit that particular idea, I'll make it more neatly.

Here it is, below:
                              

I have other plans for a face piece, and also possibly more, if I can get my model's time again.

Because it was so rough, I didn't do a step-by-step, but the whole thing is pretty basic: gray paint with blue sparkles to make it look metallic, with a border done in wax. The wax was also enough to hold the wires in place, so I didn't really need any adhesive for this.

As for the other piece, I had a friend over for the weekend, so of course I had to do her nails.


(Thanks again to Skye!)
I did take more step-by-step pictures for this one, but there were very few steps. First, I had to cut fake nails to the size and shape of my model's, then cut any breaks or cracks I wanted to have. That, I took no pictures of, but in a few other, closer pictures, where I cut is more visible. I coloured the area around the actual nails red, with dark red at the place where skin meets nail, then glued them down with eyelash glue on the fake nails and gel blood over her nails- it's thick and sticky, so it actually worked quite well, for the short time she had them on, and it had a bonus effect later on, which I'll show.
Here's just the nails, without the zombie colour to her skin.
  
I also added some black around the edges of the nails and the cracks before I put them on her, to make them look dirty, and added a mix of red, yellow, and purple to give them the right colour and make them more opaque.
Here's a few more with the zombie colour I added to her skin (a mix of green and purple):
  

And without the nails:
 

All in all, this week was pretty productive, in terms of makeup concepts. I've also been told that if I wanted to make the above friend fully into a zombie, I could- if I have the time to, that will either be on my blog or in my presentation!
Thanks for reading, and sorry this is so late: I had some problems getting the pictures to the right place this week.

This Reminds Me of a Title (The I won't pretend it's 4/1/16 edition)

Hello again! Sorry, no pictures again this week. Things happened, and I didn't get a chance to. I'll definitely have some up for next week, because I need to add more to what I have up. I have one idea, in particular, that I would have tried today if I hadn't wound up with paint on my hands where makeup would have gone because of the painting at the theater today.

Desert Stages is headed into another show, 9 to 5, and that means another tech week. This Monday to Thursday will be runs to get the last of the bugs out of the show so it can open on Friday. We spent today painting the set for community day, and I got to help set up the lights for the show before that.

I don't have much new to say on makeup, since I didn't get a chance to work on it much. I still hope to figure something out for my kind of cyberpunk idea, though I don't know how well I can work the materials I have into something like that, and I have a couple of other ideas, one for how to make a tendon for certain effects and the other for a zombie nail effect.

Sorry this is so short. I'll try to get a few things up during the week to make up for it. Thanks for reading!