Professional Makeup Project
Emma Freeman
Flat Piece For Final Design
Here I have designed a flat piece to go on the neck/chest area. I wanted to create the illusion of the other personality coming out from the skin, I wanted to create the anger and frustration in the face, and also keeping it blended on the chest so the illusion of it being part of the body is amplified
I started by sculpting out the basic shapes, and then created the main features. I found this sculpt really difficult as I am usually used to working on larger scale pieces, however, I enjoyed creating something different that challenged me. I struggled to create the emotion I wanted, a slight movement of the eye changed the expression, so I experimented with the position and shape of the eyes.
As I always struggled with creating a blendable edges I made sure I worked on the clay to smooth it outwards until I could not feel the edge.
After forming the flashing, I poured equal parts of A and B for my negative mould and left to set. I cleaned the piece with alcohol, before practicing it in gelatin. I used flesh pigment to colour the piece but feel this took away the translucency, so I re-run the piece and added more gelatin that was not pigmented.
Here I have used my flat pieces at the Plymouth hair show, the hairdresser I was working for wanted a horror/possessed look, as her theme for the show was ‘twisted circus’. I showed her my sculpts I was working and she loved them, so we decided to incorporate them in with the makeup. I pre-coloured the gelatin pieces with illustrator to make them appear bruised coming from the skin, and coloured after application as well. The edges were very blendable, I blended them with witch hazel which worked really well. I also punched nails into the pieces to add a more horror feel to the look.
Practising Application
Running in silicone
For the silicone piece I weighed my gelatin, and added around 10-20% more for silicone. I added a drop of green food colouring as I find the pigment very orange toned. I thoroughly cleaned the piece with alcohol before pouring my silicone. I used 50% deadener as I wanted the piece to be soft to suit the chest/neck area as this area has a lot of movement
The piece looks much more realistic in silicone, and the edges are very thin perfect for blending.
The difference between my pre-coloured gelatin piece and the silicone, there is a noticeable difference in how the edges will blend. The silicone also looks much more skin-like
Below, I have re-run the piece with flock to help with the realism of the piece. The cap plastic has turned out too thin for this piece, so I have practised punching chest hairs as I wont be using this for application. This helps give the illusion the head is coming from the chest. I used my model's actual chest hair to make it look even more realistic, I felt if I used any other hair type I would get the wrong texture, length and curl of the hair which would look unrealtistic to match my model's chest
Practising application on model
Sample of my models chest hair and head hair
I applied the piece with prosade, and bleeded with alcohol. I was really pleased with the edges on this piece. As for colouring, I wanted to colour for the day I photograph all my pieces together as I want the colours to match.