23 Things: First Makeup

Well well... so I had to make a make similar to those extreme artist, to begin with I needed inspiration of course so I started looking up for more of these makeups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVYUroZxkE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z-Zn00n6lA

These ones are actually very simple since it's just a based white makeup but with some accessories glued to them and the dress is the most prominent thing in those.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4F_7SjE7Gc

This one is slightly more complicated since it requires a better knowledge on colors along with the skin but the more interesting part is the nose piece he added.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6XkzXj4oq8

This one is very interesting since the concept is to alter the human proportions however since it's done entirely with colors it might be quite tricky to get a realistic effect.

From this I came to a quite simple conclusion, extreme fashion is about deforming the human shape so I tried to come up with the most....alien...but easy idea I could:

It's mostly inspired with Salvia's makeup.

Actually I had a few material that could be useful but I left them all in my homecountry cuz I wasn't expecting to have the chance to do these makeup/fx here because of my study.

I had liquid latex, scar wax, fake blood, while face paint and few other colors but I usually use Acrylic paint as a substitute if I don't have the required color.

Here's a few of my previous works:

I actually have the last one on the main page I just wanted to share the raw image

Eventually I had to explore cheap and quick methods. I tried as long as I can not to use power glue like they did in their make, so I used an alternative to liquid latex instead.....flour....an extremely cheap method.

While proceeding with the make I found how messy it was to work with flour compared to when I was using liquid latex

This is half way through the process:

The nose turned out quite nicely, as well as the head part as well, but the nose piece....well.... it was annoying... always falling down and the flour did help in holding the wire but it was certainly not perfect.

And this is the Final piece which I'm not proud of:

In most of the pics my hand is close to my face, tho is look nice it was mostly because the nose piece was falling off as you can see in the last pic xD

Furthermore the paint wasn't distributed nicely but that's an issue that I know I can resolve on the skin part, but the flour piece were just, so messy, when actually I was looking for a neat and soft surface, and as it dries off the texture was very harsh and the paint won't penetrate everywhere.

In the end I would say that the first tryout was a failure, but I think I'll do a second tryout with the super glue next since the result come out more neatly and I'll play will the facial features with paint itself rather than using flour to deform the face, it will be a challenge but I'd give it a try.