Injuries
Products you can use:
Wax- Plasto or Cine wax
Moulding Wax- can be used for wounds but also to fill in
piercings.
Latex
Tuplast- old scaring
Collodion- non flexible
Barrier cream- use under collodian to protect skin
Bruise Palettes- Ben nye palette
Wound filler- gives the effect of fibrous flesh to the
inside of fake cuts
Fake blood
Sealer- used to cover wax
Old age stipple- creases to look like thin wrinkled skin
more than latex
Fake pus
Duo eyelash glue- use to look like dry skin
Spatulas- good to apply products with and to mould products
Vaseline- used for black eyes or rashes to make them look
swollen
Sprayed water or clear gel can be used to look like sweat.
Coloured hairspray mixed with water can look like mud/dirt.
Tear stick- when applied to the skin under the eyes it makes
the eyes water. Alternatively you can use eye drops but use ones in separate
capsules so you can use the separate capsules on different people.
Ellisons Fullers Earth can be mixed with water to create
dirt.
Scrapped soap can be used to create dandruff.
Brill cream can be used to create greasy hair.
Dry shampoo can be used to make the hair look old.
Charles Fox and Screenface are popular suppliers of theatre
make-up products. There is also a shop called Pam (Precious About Make-up) in
West London which is a store run by professional make-up artists.
Method:
When you are doing injuries look at real life injury
photographs as references so that your work is realistic. Think about how old
the injury is, where on the body it is, what caused the injury and the position
of the injured person. For example if the person is going to be lying on the
floor don’t apply fake blood when they are sighting upright in a make-up chair,
apply it when they are on set in position.
Make sure you look at the make-up through the camera to
check it looks ok because some make-up looks different in real life to how it
looks through a camera.
Also think about the consequences that an injury could have
for example sometimes when people get punched in the nose it causes black eyes
as well.
Wounds should not have defined edges so make sure you blend
products well using your finger tips for stippling or using brushes.
There are different ways to create wounds. You can use latex
on top of modelling wax, modelling wax then sealer or spirit gum and then wax
depending on the look you want to create or what you find works the best.
Use a hairdryer on a cool setting to help products dry
faster.
Complete any fake wounds and cuts before applying a beauty
make-up around them so that any hard edges can be blended using make-up. Also
the skin needs to be clean before applying special effects make-up, you can put
foundation over special effects make-up to create your desired look.
Bruises usually look better when they are done on top of beauty
make-up as otherwise the beauty make-up may smudge the bruise make-up.
Cuts
Wax is used in theatre a lot for cuts as it’s faster to
apply and easier to remove than other products.
However it falls off more
easily so usually for film and television latex is used over wax because it
lasts longer and often looks more realistic.
Use a spatula to mould some wax on the back of your hand to
soften it then apply it to your clients clean skin. Use some cleanser or
moisturiser when moulding the wax onto their skin so that it doesn’t stick to
the spatula and so it’s easier to work with.
When moulding a cut or scar make sure some height is kept in
the middle as scars are usually raised and on cuts you need to have an area to
put the fake blood in.
Use the side of the spatula to create a cut in the wax.
Shake the latex well and then pour a small amount into a
bowl and use a sponge or cotton bud to apply it over the wax.
Make sure all the edges are well blended, you can use your
fingers to do this.
Then go over the cut mark again with the side of the
spatula.
Use a hairdryer on a cool setting to help it dry and then
apply more of the latex. Repeat this until your cut or scar looks how you want
it to.
Then put some wound filler on the back of your hand and
apply it into the cut using something small such as a pin or very fine brush.
Then if you want to you can apply fake blood, which is
shinny and helps make the cut look 3D.
Always use at least two shades of fake
blood to make it look realistic. Use a pipette to decant the fake blood.
Use fake pus if you want the cut to look infected.
Use powder over the top if you want the wound to look older.
Blisters
Apply Tu plast straight to the skin in a line to look like a
scar or in a blob to look like a blister.
Dry it with a hairdryer, then put pus or fake blood in the
middle of it if you want it to look infected or more like a boil.
Split Lip
Use sealer or barrier cream to protect the skin. Rub the
barrier cream into the skin. Sealer can be applied straight from the pot with
the brush provided as it has so much alcohol inside it would kill any bacteria.
A separate brush only needs to be used if they have a serve skin condition but
then you probably wouldn’t be applying products to their skin anyway.
Use collodian to create the split lip, blend it into the
skin using a spatula and then hold the skin in place so that it looks like a
split lip until the collodian has dried.
You can use a hairdryer to completely dry it, make sure the
model doesn’t move their mouth until it is completely dry.
Dirty Hands
Ask your model to bend their wrist and part their fingers so
that you can get the products into the creases of the skin.
Moisturise the skin.
Spray coloured hairspray onto the hands such as D41 Kryolan
hairspray in dark brown, you can also use a bit of black hairspray.
Spray water onto the hand and rub the hairspray into the
skin and under the nails.
More moisturiser can also be used to help blend in the
hairspray.
Rash
Use Aquacolor mixed with water or Supracolor mixed with isopropyl
alcohol - Supracolor is not water soluble.
Use a large foundation brush or painting brush to splatter
the colour onto the skin.
If you are using the isopropyl alcohol make sure the model
doesn’t breath in its’ fumes.
You can use red to look like a rash or brown to look like freckles.
Pale Skin, pale paller
Alabaster shades are usually pale but you can use any
make-up paler and cooler in tone than the models natural skin.
Alternatively use your normal grease based foundation and
mix in some white Supracolor and a bit of yellow Supracolor or some Illamasqua white skin base.
Dry/Burnt Skin
Complete a pale base.
Use Duo eyelash glue over the outer edges of the lips and on
patches of the cheeks and forehead.
Leave to dry or dry with a hairdryer on a cool setting,
making sure the eyes are closed.
Before it’s completely dry you can mould it slightly and rub
it with your fingers to create more texture.
You can go over it with pink and red Supracolor to make the
skin look sore.
Black eyes
Apply a normal base.
Use the Supracolor palette and apply with a small brush or
cotton buds and blend with your finger.
Yellow, red, black and purple are good colours to use to
create a realistic black eye but you can use the other colours if needed.
Powder over the top if you want the bruising to look old.
Use red eye drops if you want the eye area to look blood
shot.
These are some films and television programmes that have used similar techniques:
http://images.popmatters.com/news_art/d/dvd-inthe-flesh-500.jpg
In The Flesh, pale paller, bruising, scars
http://images4.alphacoders.com/493/49394.jpg
Dexter, blood splatter
Hemlock Grove, wounds, blood and prosthetics
Hemlock Gove, pale paller
Hannibal, blood, dirty skin, pale paller
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