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:


No, just leave it; it looks fine! I'm not gonna lie, even with the fancy eye solvent, I still had purple sparkly liner stuck in between my eyelashes for a couple of days. But this'll get it mostly off. This eye makeup remover will take off waterproof mascara and all sorts of things. Shake it up so the components combine, wet a cotton pad and go at it. Don't double dip, just get a new pad. You don't want to put eye germs into your remover. The remover is also good for getting all the eyeliner off your fingers when you put the makeup on.

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

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