Zombie!

Wasnt really sure what to do so just tried to make myself look really pale & skinny!

Skull

My final assessment on eilidh! I passed!

Skeleton!

Took me ages & i didnt even do her other arm! Hope i make the final one look better

Popart makeup!

I think this looks hard but is actually very easy to do!

Dress The Piries!

In our essential skills class we were asked to come up with an idea of halloween costumes for Donald, his wife & his son. My team won! We chose the Nightmare Before Christmas! Donald being Jack Skellington, his wife being Sally & his son Oscar being Zero the dog! We decided we would homemake the dog costume with a simple bedsheet!

My pre-assessment on Eilidh!

Skeleton makeup i tried on myself!

Witch makeup!

My first attempt at witch halloween makeup! Happy with the result!

Tron Theatre -

The Rhythm of life
Tall Tales
Tiny Tales
Word Play

http://www.tron.co.uk/whatson/

The Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh -

The Guid Sisters
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Cinderella
A Taste of Honey
Time and the Conways
Takin' over the Asylum
Pressure

http://www.lyceum.org.uk/whats-on

Citizens Theatre

Medea
Glasgow Girls
Sleeping Beauty
Takin' over the Asylum

http://citz.co.uk/whatson

Traverse Theatre

My shrinking life
A Dream on Midsummers night
Mortal Memories
The Incredible adventures of see thru Sam
The Artist man and the mother woman

http://www.traverse.co.uk/whats-on/

Theatre Royal Glasgow

Scottish Operas the magic flute
The Ladykillers
The Nutcracker
A Midsummer nights dream
The little nutcracker

http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/theatre-royal-glasgow/

Kings Theatre Glasgow

Singing in the rain
The Guid Sisters
Cinderella
The Circus of Horrors
I dreamed a dream

Companies who are at the cutting edge of SFX makeup

BGFX, Barrie Gower Makeup Effects - Barrie Gower has created special make-up FX for film and television for the past 16 years and is one of the leading artists in his field.
His recently formed company BGFX Ltd can provide a variety of effects from prosthetic make-ups to realistic likeness bodies and creatures.
Barrie has contributed to many feature films including the Harry Potter series and was a member of the Academy award winning makeup teams forThe Wolfman and most recently The Iron Lady and Snow White and the Huntsman.

His first job was at the BBC Visual Effects dept. on projects including 'Red Dwarf' and 'Silent Witness'. The following year, Barrie was employed on his first major film, Steven Spielberg's 'Saving Private Ryan'. He now supervises his own projects of all sizes and budgets whilst maintaining the highest quality of work.

http://www.bgfx.co.uk/

 

 

 

The History of Media Makeup

Except for professional male actors and models you would think that make-up has always been used by women, but throughout history, before the twentieth century, make-up was worn primarily by men.
Paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, George Washington and his contemporaries wore white powdered wigs with curls on the side and a pony tail in back, as well as white powder on their faces and red rouge on their cheeks and lips. European royalty including King Louis the fourteenth of France and King George the third of England set the fashion. After smallpox swept through Europe and left many people with pox marks, the French elite covered these scars by painting large, black beauty marks over them. Some even painted the symbols of hearts, clubs, spades and diamonds in red or black over the scars, as playing cards was the main social event in the evenings. This was considered extremely fashionable at the time as electricity had not yet been invented, so there was no television or radio to provide entertainment on long, dark evenings. This was the practice of the wealthy who had time on their hands to adorn themselves

It was discovered that with the powerful lights they used at that time, the actors looked washed out and drab. Therefore, make-up had to be created for male and female actors to even out the skin tone, add color, enhance features and create drama. And then like now the general public idolized movie stars and wanted to emulate them. This created a retail need for cosmetics and the beginning of what is today one of the largest earning sectors in market history. Women are continually fascinated by cosmetics and the promise they hold and can't seem to get enough of them.

Pale skin indicated people who worked inside in offices or factories whereas, a suntan showed you were wealthy enough to vacation and jet set for most of the year. Of course when it was discovered that excessive exposure to the sun caused premature aging and skin cancer, the dark tan look faded from popularity

The earliest known use of theatrical makeup was by the Greek actor Thespis, who, in an effort to stand out from the Greek chorus, painted a toxic covering of white lead and mercuric sulphide to create a white and red face paint. 

Before 1850, materials (some of them hazardous) used for stage make-up included burnt cork to blacken the face; artist's pigments such as carmine, vermilion and red lead for lips and cheeks; lampblack for mascara; India ink to create wrinkles and folds; and white lead, flour and powdered pearls to whiten the face. Butter was used to remove the make-up.