Theatre Makeup.

This is my first attempt at doing a normal theatre make up. In this make up you have to enhance everything to make sure it will stand out on stage and the stage lights won’t drown out the colour on the actor/actress’ face.

To achieve this look I had to use a foundation that was a shade darker. The medium I have used is a grease paint because it will stay on longer during a production. I have also used a darker colour to use to contour the face. Up close this looks stupid and awful however from far away the makeup stands out and is visible from the back seat of the theatre. To make the eyes pop and look bigger and brighter I have put white eyeliner on the water line and below that put a black line which I used water based face paints to do this. On the top lid I have done a line by the lash line but have not joined this to the line on the lower lash line otherwise the eyes would not achieve the wider look. Like black and white photographic make up everything has to be enhanced so that eye shadow on the eye socket was applied thicker and darker just not too dark.

My model had dark hair as it was but I have done the eyebrows black to once again enhance them.

The red lips was to just overall pull the make up together and give it its final look.

Overall, it looks a bit stupid but that’s just because it is a close up makeup. I would improve by maybe blending the makeup up into the hairline as there is a clear line where her hair line is and natural face colour to the makeup I have applied. Usually in a theatre show there would be a wig covering this.

I do like this attempt because it looks completely and from a far the I think I achieved the look I was going for.