Fish Face

This was a latex appliance that I have been working on for the better part of the semester in my Stage Make-Up II class. This process is quite involved, you have to do a head cast, then sculpt on the finished head, then cast that with plaster, and then finally do a slosh mold with latex and paint! The actual appliance takes over my forehead, nose and cheeks (gills). I think one of the best parts of this design is that the seem of the forehead is actually about a finger's width above the scale and you can't really tell at all ^_^

For my next and final project in Stage Make-Up II I'm going to be doing a foam appliance based on Brian Froud.

Other exciting news, a photography major contacted me today about doing make-up for her final project. It's going to be a super awesome project and I'm very excited for it.

Make-up stuff I should have posted forever ago...

This was for my Stage Make-up 1 final. I was Captain Jack Sparrow! Though several people said I look like Ted Neeley in the top photo.

Yeah this is from December... I've been super busy! I did make-up for two short films done by Columbia College's Cinergy. The films are in post right now but I'll try to link to them once they are up here on this little place we call the internet.

Blood and Gore

I've been wounded. This was last week's make-up project... just in time for Halloween! I have a lovely bruise on my forehead and some nice scratches. Today in make-up I made a pretty decent beard but, it totally freaked me out and was really uncomfortable so I ripped it off before getting a picture.

Well it's official, Barack Obama is going to be the next President, I think that is pretty freaking awesome! I got a nice button that says "I WAS THERE" because I totally was. I went to Grant Park and watched the election results and then the speech right there with the rest of Chicago and it was amazing. I'm so excited for the next four years.

The 17th floor had it's first weekly Double Feature Night tonight. We watched Boogie Nights and The Graduate... the sad thing is that I hadn't seen either of those movies until tonight but, they were both excellent.

Upcoming projects; I've been thinking of how I'm going to fashion a gingerbread house for Lollishops, have to memorize a scene in jibberish by 10:30 tomorrow for acting (half way through that class then, only design courses for me!), need to decide on an animal for next week's make up design, and I'm going to be helping a friend with a video on Sunday.

I feel really vain... only have pictures of myself up here so far... that isn't any good. So for now here is Oswald showing his Obama pride.

Off with your Head!

I know, sexy right? This is how my make up design for the Queen of Hearts ended up turning out. We were given a time limit and then sent on our merry way.

All I have to say is that I hate eyebrow blocking!!! It's a process that involves smearing every hair with spirit gum, then smearing wax on that, then putting this fixative stuff on, then putting make up on top of that... it's tedious and very icky but, at least it looks super cool.

The nose is a similar process what with the smearing of spirit gum and then shoving putty on top of that but, it seems less icky because you aren't smearing the sticky stuff over hairs... Yep so this took me about an hour and 20 minutes.

I'm excited for next week, we are doing injury stuff for Halloween!