Makeup for Doctor Strange Villains
All of the Makeup, All of the Time
So if you
don't already have a lot of makeup lying around the house, here's the
sort of thing you should buy for your costume. It doesn't have to be
these exact brands. As long as it has a similar effect, it's fine.
I wear a
lot of makeup when I'm not in costume, since I have a lot of acne scarring. You won't necessarily want all these products, but you
should at least get foundation that matches your skin, and the
powder, since the latex is not going to look enough like skin without
it.
Here's what
I use for my acne scar coverups, not including eye makeup or blush,
since those aren't part of this costume:
So for the
costume, you'll need some sparkly purple eyeliner, some black
eyeliner, and some other eyeshadow (such as the magenta there) for
highlights inside the eye crack region. You'll need a couple shades
of gray eyeshadow for the outside burned-looking part of the mask.
You'll want to do the middle part of the eyes before gluing on the
mask, since it is seriously difficult to maneuver the eyeshadow
pencil inside of the eyeholes.
First, hold
up the mask to your face and use an eyeliner to trace the mask inside
the eyeholes. Then, making sure you go about 1/4 or 1/2 inch (0.5 to
1 cm) outside of the line you just drew, color in with the purple
eyeliner. Use the black eyeliner to color in your waterline. This
is the old-school kohl eyeliner here, nothing with sparkles, because
sparkles are very likely to be painful. Follow these instructions
for the waterline.
Once you
have all the purple eyeshadow gobbed on, close your eyes and powder
them with the setting powder so that your eyelid doesn't stick to
itself and pull the eyeshadow off. That's what that really big brush
in the picture at the top of the page is for--powder.
The magenta
eyeshadow just gets dabbed on in a couple of places, like the middle
of the top eyelid, and the spot underneath the bottom eyelashes about
3/4 of the way out. The point here is to make highlights and
lowlights so that your eyes don't just look like black holes inside
the mask.
And
speaking of highlights and lowlights, you're going to need to put
some makeup on the outside of the mask, so that your face still looks
like something even with no visible eyebrows. This depends somewhat on
your face shape. You'll put the dark gray around the eyeholes in a
ring, and put the lighter gray where the light normally falls on the
top of your cheeks, and where the light normally falls above your
eyebrows. If you color it all the same color, your face will look
kind of flat and boring.
The
chipped-off segments of the mask I colored in with black eyeliner,
and in the corners that it was really hard to get to, I used a black
pen. You can also make a couple of streaks down your face with the
gray eyeshadow to give it that weeping effect.
How to get
the makeup off:
The makeup remover works very well. If you just use some kind of hippie
foundation, you might be able to take it off with something simpler,
but if you put on as much makeup as I do, don't bring a knife to a
gunfight.
Neither of
these do anything for the Spirit Gum, this is just for the makeup
itself. There's no reason to try to take the makeup off of your
prosthetic, and it's probably better for the latex if you interact
with it as little as possible. Let it air out after you take it off,
and store it in the dark.
Part 1: http://allofthecostumes.blogspot.com/2018/06/part-1-making-latex-prosthetic.html
Part 2: http://allofthecostumes.blogspot.com/2018/06/part-2-making-latex-prosthetic.html
Part 3: http://allofthecostumes.blogspot.com/2018/06/part-3-making-latex-prosthetic.html
Part 1: http://allofthecostumes.blogspot.com/2018/06/part-1-making-latex-prosthetic.html
Part 2: http://allofthecostumes.blogspot.com/2018/06/part-2-making-latex-prosthetic.html
Part 3: http://allofthecostumes.blogspot.com/2018/06/part-3-making-latex-prosthetic.html
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