As I had mentioned earlier, I had embarked on my journey to expand my horizons learning more about makeup and special effects. I have had interest in working on film sets and believed that learning how to do special effects would enhance me professionally. During the beauty portion we were taught that the hardest makeup was "Clean Beauty", that is where one appears flawless without looking as if they are wearing makeup. This area really helped me as I learned in depth about color theory whiched increased my ability to cancel out color undertones in the skin that can show up when a person is put in front of a high definition camera. After each session we were placed in front of the camera to be examined to see if we achieved that flawless look.
The beauty part of the program as I came to realised was the building block for my special effects program. In beauty we had to learn how to take out color and in special effects you had to learn how to put in color to make it realistic. These two certainly went hand in hand.
For instance we were taught how to make a bald cap from scratch and to apply and color to blend perfectly with the skin. Check out these pics.
My victim for the day was Mirla she came from Aruba for the program . The day before we were busy making our bald caps from scratch getting prepped for the the application. We had to fit the cap and glue it in place and feather the ends so that it would blend seamlessly into the skin.
This is the application of the base color which we use as the foundation color before we match her skin tone with the foundation. This is where putting in color comes in to get the bald cap to look realistic.
more after the jump..
The use of bald caps can add or change the dimension of a character and it is a great way of adding a bit of diversity to your cast. Thanks Mir!!
Very interesting, where were you learning this?
ReplyDeleteI went to Joe Blasco Orlando Makeup school.
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