I was in desperate need of some faces and look who came to the rescue!! Lucky me got some homework done and now I'm more than halfway there to my certification. :)
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Oh was this a fun time! Karla and her husband were going to a Murder Mystery Dinner at a local restaurant and wanted to go all out. So I was very excited to help her achieve a subtle 80s look. Her only request was to look 17 again...I said I'd try but you can be the judge on that! Here's where we started out with a fresh face and no product in her hair. I pinned her hair back and prep her skin and went ahead and did the foundation with an airbrush. After that we did a bit of contouring with a powder palette and did some fun purple eye shadow. She opted to do her own eyeliner and mascara. Her hair was a fun, curly and larger than life ;) I hope she had as much fun as I did! and here's the photos from beginning to end of this fun afternoon! I had the privilege to put an airbrush foundation on a wonderful lady today. Not much to say for this one besides thank you to Rena for letting me get some practice in!
I've been guilty of putting this project on the back burner, and that is because I was getting started with my Airbrush Makeup Workshop and I was devoting a rather large chunk of my time to that. Luckily for me this past weekend my son decided to take a few hour nap which left me some open time! For this half of the head I was torn on how I was going to do it. Option A was to do it the same way I did the front and just use a plastic shower cap to cover my hair and option B was to but some balloons and hope I could measure it out to be about the same size and shape as my head. I opted for option B mostly because that way I could see what I was doing. So after a quick trip to the store for a bag of balloons (only $.97!!!) I measured my head just above my eye brows all the way around and then blew up a balloon and put it in the first half of my mold and fiddled with adding and taking air out until I got my desired size. 3 balloons later I was ready to start. I put a napkin in the face of my mold to try and prevent the balloon from popping as well as taping the end of the balloon down so that it didn't run away from me. This time around I did not pre-cut my plaster strips but dry laid them over and cut to needed lengths. I laid large pieces criss-cross and put at least an inch of overlap to the face half. Make sure you leave a big enough opening at the bottom of the neck so that you can get your hand in there later. Once the plaster is dry enough to make a knocking sound when you gently tap it, pop the balloon and empty the napkin. This is the last stage before molding so make sure you let this sit for a long time until it is COMPLETELY dry, I recommend at least a full 24 hours if not longer. The next step will be the pouring of the mold!!! Stay tuned!
I tend to practice on my face...a lot. Which tends to result in my skin getting irritated from me wiping off lots of makeup and from trying to make other miscellaneous things such as scabs and other flesh wounds. That's when the idea came to me that I needed something better. Now I love using live models, don't get me wrong, but it's not always convenient to track someone down or it's a time problem ( I tend to get inspired in the middle of the night :P). So I decided to make a bust with a finish that would allow me to make it over a million times over and that would let me make a prosthetic at my leisure. So far it's going very well, this first step was about making the first half of the mold. I made this simply with plaster mesh strips that you can pick up from a craft store pretty cheap. I just put a thick coating of petroleum jelly on my eye lashes and brows and a thin layer on the rest of the skin that I would be applying plaster to (this allows the casting to be pulled off your face once it's dry). I did started with the nose making sure to leave openings for the nostrils so that I could breathe and then went around my head making sure to overlap the layers. I strongly recommend cutting up a bunch of different size strips before you start to make it easier. i did this by myself but it would probably be easier having another person laying the strips for you. The next step will be to measure my head and neck and make the back portion of the mold, which will then be filled with plaster and the stand and finally sanded down and finished. I'll keep posting on the process as I complete stages!
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