The night before competition

Today has been a seriously hectic day!  It’s the AHT (see ‘links’) competitions tomorrow and I am part of the team event.  The theme this year is 'A Night at the Theatre’.  You would think that was a fairly easy title to follow but believe me we (we as in ‘the team’) have spent HOURS trying to think of a decent interpretation!

My day has been full of getting all the last minute things together.  Getting everything my model & I could possibly need in a box then checking and checking again that I haven’t missed anything.  I’ve even managed to add to the incredibly long list I already had! 

We’ve had our last run through of hair and make up against the time allocated and then a full dress rehearsal.  The whole team looked great and I can’t wait to see it on stage tomorrow!  The mood board that has to be presented alongside the models is the last thing to be completed.  I think we’re in at 8:30 tomorrow to put the finishing touches to it.

Anyway, I think we’ve come up with something pretty great and hopefully the judges will think so too!  I can’t say anything more than that as we’re all under strict instructions to keep our theme secret until the event!  Very under cover J


So watch this space for photos after the event!

Latex

No, no, no before you think it, its not that kind of latex.  Glad we've cleared that up! 
So anyway, this is another aging technique using liquid latex. The process involves (amongst other things) stretching the skin and layering liquid latex onto it.  When the skin is released the latex helps form creases from the stretched skin and these look very much like wrinkles.  The end look can be very realistic when teamed with the shading & highlighting technique.

say cheese you've just aged 10 years!

 

The Ageing Process

We all know what happens when we age right?  Wrinkles, lines, things start to drop and get saggy? You get the idea.  Well, the ageing process was next on my (never ending) list of tasks!
This was one of the hardest techniques to get my head around.  It took a lot of practise and many failed attempts but the good news is, once you've mastered it it forms the basis to all make up techniques - shading & highlighting.   All the lovely girls below are in their late teens to early 20's and have been transformed into theatrical, weathered looking 45, 65 & 85 year olds.

 

The Cat

So the next face paint I attempted was a cat.  You'd think that was straight forward but again, took a long time to get anything close to a cat.  The first time it came out looking like a cartoon cat but eventually I got it down to something that resembled a realistic feline!  See what you think...!




whats new pussycat?

 

Hello folks!

Hi

As you can see from the title, my name is Hillary and I am a make up artist...well nearly!
I'm two thirds of the way through a 2 year make up artistry course and thought it might be interesting to start blogging my way through the last third!  I can't believe I pondered over taking a 2 year course - I thought it was too long but the time has flown by and the amount I've learnt is incredible.  I think I need another 2 years tho.

This was my first project, face painting.  This took me AGES to do and looking back on it now, it looks so amateur......!





my first clown!