BeetleJuice Makeup

Halloween is coming up, and I decided my costume would be the main character of one of my favorite movie, Beetlejuice.  I started off my makeup by using a white foundation and putting it all over my face and neck, and then setting it with a translucent powder.  Beetlejuice has big, purple rings around his eyes, but I wanted to a girlier look, so I used purple eyeshadow to do a smokey eye.  For the mold on his face, I used liquid latex and ripped it to make the texture.  Then I used green face paint to color the mold and to contour my face and neck.  I teased my hair and added a little bit of green hairspray for color. I wore a black sweater, black and white striped leggings, and black boots to imitate his signature striped suit.  An optional step is to use black tooth enamel to make your teeth look like they are rotting like his are in the movie.

First Exposed Hand Attempt

This weekend I tried a sfx look using liquid latex, cotton balls, and cotton swabs. It worked to an extent.  I used the cotton swabs to make bones in the back of my hand, and then ripped up cotton balls into strips. Then I soaked the strips in liquid latex and used them to make fake skin around the back of my hand that I could rip up and make it look like there was a whole in the back of my hand.  The only thing that did not really work was the coloring.  The liquid latex dries an off-white color and if you put foundation right over it, it's not the same color as your real skin.  You need to put a darker color over the latex first, but I forgot to do that.  Also the bruising I did around the wound tuned out really fake looking,  but the inside of the wound worked.  Next week I think I'm going to try a look using simple everyday products like gelatin or everyday beauty makeup.

My 20Time Goals

I'm doing my project on special effects (sfx) makeup. My goal is to try at least 3 different techniques to do at least 3 different makeup looks, I want to do a look using gelatine, liquid latex, and one with just regular makeup.