Adventures in Stage Makeup Class! PART 1: Old Age

Hello again!

I promise I'll get the hang of posting on here regularly, but for now, oh well!

So in the world of theatre it's best for you to be a jack of all trades. And in prep for that, the theatre department here makes everyone take a little bit of everything. One of the favorites being a stage makeup class. We learn how to do lots of cool things with make up, and one of the coolest is doing old age effects. So today, I'll be telling you how I turned myself into an old lady!

To be clear, this isn't a how to post. I will though tell you a little about the process of how we did it and show some pictures.

So after our professor talked about how we'd do it, she told us all to pick a person from a play and make a makeup map for them for class the next day.

A makeup map is a map of your face that you use to plan on how to go about doing your makeup. I would post a pic, but I couldn't find any good ones online and I've had to hand in my old ones for my assignments.

The next day we all started on making ourselves old. Now in order to make wrinkles (the key look of looking old), you have to use light and dark colors. The dark colors on the bottom for shadow effects, and the light colors for the highlights. It sounds weird but it actually does give you the wrinkle look.

This is a picture of how I look normally --->


Side note: This pic was taken while I was helping a friend with one of her movie projects. It was super fun and they let me have a head set! Much excrement.






And this is me after the magic of makeup

                                                   Scary huh?

 As you can see, the only colors used were a dark brown a and pale white color.

It's really weird when you think that even though this is a character, that this could be what you look like in 50ish years.

But I think I'm like a fine wine, I get better with age.

FUN FACT! When I showed my mom these pictures, she gasped. Then promptly said "I thought you said you were supposed to look old! Not like a monster!"

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Thanks Mom. 

Thanks.

So that was me turning into an old lady. I'll make sure to post about more fun adventures in makeup and theatre!

XOXO

Hope