Technical - Theatrical Ageing

Health & Safety:
Ensure you place an apron around the model to prevent any damage to their clothing.
wash your hands thoroughly with soap before touching the models skin.
Carry out a consultation with the client to highlight any allergies or contraindications.

Products Used:
Cleanser, Toner & Moisturiser
Cotton Pads
Cotton Buds
Supracolour Palette
Foundation Palette
Thin Brush
Translucent Powder
Disposable Mascara Wand
Makeup Sponge

Step by Step:
1. Use the cleanser, toner and moisturiser with the cotton pads and buds to remove any previous makeup or dirt off the skin and around the eyes to ensure the face is fresh and ready for the look.
2. Apply a basic base to the models face using the Kryolan foundation and concealer palette, matching the models natural skin tone.
3. Mix colours  from the supracolour palette to make a brown shade to contour the wrinkles into the face (mixing the green, yellow and red makes an appropriate brown shade).
4. Ask the model to make a number of exaggerated facial expressions that show the natural creases in their face (i.e. lines in the forehead, around the mouth, nose and eyes) and line these with the brown supracolour made using a thin brush)
5. Blend the lines marked out using either a brush or your fingers (remember the makeup is for theatre so even though they may look extravagant in normal light they will be on stage under lots of lighting and must be able to be seen by the audience).
6. Step 5 may be repeated to make the lines in the face more obvious.
7. Take a small amount of red supracolour and, using a sponge, lightly dab it on to areas of the face (such as the cheeks, tip of the nose and the tip of the chin) where veins break through age. Then using a brush or your fingers, blend this into the skin.
8. Finally use either the translucent powder or fixing spray to set the makeup.
*to complete the look use the hair ageing techniques to grey the eyebrows and/or the hair.

Evaluation:
I found this one of the harder technicals so far due to a few reasons. Firstly because I struggled with blending such bold colours into the skin, at some points I felt it looked like the face was just simply covered in patches of colours, but also because it was hard to picture how effective the look would be on stage as in the studio, close up it looked very unnatural and over the top but it would need to be for theatre. I have practised the look since but I think I need to gain some more practise in theatre makeup to understand and feel confident in how bold and obvious the makeup I am creating needs to be for theatre.