Theater Make-up class ( photo heavy)

Warning this will have fake blood and things so if you have a weak stomach do not look .

  So for starters this is what I look like above.  Photo taken by my daughter when I did not know she was taking one no make up here.  She was having fun playing with her phone.  Mae means mom in Portuguese.

All these photos are from my phone so they may not be the best.  I lost my camera in a river over the summer and this is where I am phone photos.

Yes the images are just make-up

I have been taking classes in collage for a few months now.  Nothing like going back to collage when most of the students are almost the age of my children.   I have to say I was greeted better than I expected no one treats me like the old lady in the class.  In fact most people do not seem to believe me when I tell them my age ( mid 40's) most think I am in my early  to mid 30's.  I don't see that but thank you all the same.

Since I am working towards a BFA in Costume design in theater arts I have to take the basic classes for the major.  So  yes I am taking acting classes the hardest thing for me ever ranks up there with math and English.  But I do also get to take classes I love like Stage craft I love power tools and faux painting and I get to take classes like make up for theater.
I am not allowed to show how things are done or explain them since they are part of a class.  But I can show some of the end results.  You can see what my normal make-up looks like in the vampires bite photos.  As that is what I look like on a daily bases when I wear make-up that is which I do not always do.



The above photos are from my test the ones below are from practice day figuring it all out.

This is from the section called grossies and gories.  I am not actually in to gory makeup never have been but it is Halloween time and I think it came out OK.  One set of these is from practice day and one was my test.  Got perfect scores both days.

It was a sort of weird week a lot of us in the class where not really into gor when we started but by the end of the week even the ones with weak stomaches where going strong on this.   Our class ended up being the goriest class not sure what that says about all of us other than we like our work.

I think I want to add a better make-up bruise kit to my stash but it will have to wait till I have more money.  This is the one I want to get o.j. the future along with fake thick blood and things of that sort.
 

I also did old age make up in this class.  It was sort of funny as one day we where to do middle age make-up.  I pointed to myself and said ok all done since that is my age.  The class laughed.  So of course I had to do 60 year old make up and older.

For this type of thing make-up and laytex are used.  Can I just say removing laytex is a very weird experience as you can see.   Looks like something from mission impossible.

I was worried I would be allergic to it since I am to most adhesives.  But lucky for me I do not seem to be.

Now that I throughly grossed you out with the removal of the laytex.  I will show what it looked like before removal.

I feels as weird as it looks just so we all know.

I like that you can see that my original skin color is not the same as the make up here to show the  aged look the make up had.


So here is what I looked like after I applied old age make-up on.  Yes I was having fun trying to make my face wrinkle for the photos.

I do not have a ton of wrinkles on my face just on my forehead in general so this was sort of unreal for me.

 I am sure a lot of people do not see this as many wrinkles but for me it was a lot of them.  I actually highly recommend taking this type of class.  It is fun to see how it is done and learn to use the make up I will be taking another level of this.

This was test day.  Perfect score.

 So here we go with practice day. This is with a little bit of normal makeup not a good photo of me but you can see where I do have wrinkles and such

 The lady on the right of the photo is my teacher.  I am the person with all the bracelets.

 This was a partial face practice day so you don't see too much old makeup on me also I was only doing about a 60 year old where as the other was closer to 80.

 I also have done correctional make up.  Which I actually do not use.   This is what people do to contour and highlight good features and get rid of blemishes.  I actually do not mind the aging process I earned every wrinkle and white hair I have.  My grandmother died in her late 90's one of the most beautiful woman I know I loved looking at her wrinkles silly but it meant she had a long life and I loved her laugh lines and crows feet all from being a happy person I hope to  look half as good as her if I make it to 90.  Because I do not mind my age spots and such this was a harder class for me as I had to hide a blue vein under my eye and an try and correct the fact that one eye lid hangs a little lower than the other from an infection I had in my eye over 10 years ago that stretched the skin that never went back.  I did ok in my opionion perfect score but I will never use this type of makeup on me but maybe for a play.

I do have to do makeup for a play Trail of Dreams should be fun.

This is probably the most photos of myself I have ever posted on my blog it is just something I do not do.

I have to keep track of the things I do for this class as we have to make what is called a morgue of photos for the end of class which is a collection of all our work.

So life is crazy I am a wife and I have 18 credit hours in collage.    I am a mom of three teen girls which has its own deadlines and conflicts and I work 20 hours a week as a stitcher in a costume shop.   I have one child who has missed half the school year from being ill.   Life is full of trials and conflicts isn't it great to be a live and trying new things.  Photo to the left contrasts from this statement but I am enjoying this part of my life even if it is hard as all get out.

Daughter"s new blog and project after project

 Sorry for the poor quality of the photos in this post i am leaving them by way of my phone.

My middle daughter has decided she wants to do a blog.   She is a very talented teen who has just as many hobbies as I do.  This will be the place where she places her craft projects and things that are of interest to her.  The name of her blog is "little bits of this and thats".  She only has one post at the moment but I expect great things from her as she does kirigami, bead-work, amigurii, crochet, knitting, reworks dolls.... the list goes on and on should be fun to see what a teen who grew up with crafts all around her comes up with.  That is her on the left

 I knitted a sweater about two weeks ago it was my first attempt at doing a steek.  Actually i am very happy with how that part of the sweater came out.  I may go back and change the buttons on it though so that they are mother of pearl and not so scary bright.
This sweater is made mostly from wool o bought at thrift stores there are two colors the purple and green that I did buy at a normal store but they were on clearance so all total thew  sweater was probably less than 8 dollars out of pocket to make.

My family also like to celebrate talk like a pirate day so yes costumes are always in good form at our house.  We went to krispy kream donuts and got a free doz for each of u in costume.  Yep 4 doz donuts that did not even last 4 days.  The daughter with the pirate hat on and not a head scarf is the one that has started a blog.

I also did some more knitting these stockings are held up with a garter belt.  They are made from 100% wool and I am proud to say I have achieved another one of my goals in knitting to make a nice pair of winter stockings.  As you can see from the work in progress photo of the cream stockings these where made from the top down.  Which is real traditional.  I just like to be able to make socks till I run out of yarn which is harder to do with this technique.

 I actually have two more in the works.

One that is a rust color with metallic fibers and one that am just making to see if I could reverse a thigh down stocking into a toe up stocking.  That pair is made from self striping Paton's wool for socks.  that i bought on clearance the store only had two scans not the same dye lot so the socks are not a true match.  But I was fine with that as I was just trying to figure out if i could actually reverse the pattern.  So I did it from the toe up and let the yarns end where they would ( which was two rows different than one another) then added cream for the cuff.   Those should be done in the next day or two.

Of course school has started and the craziness of plays has started up again.  I am not doing as much costuming this year as last as most of the plays this year the students already own clothes that will work well for them.  We are doing " trail of dreams" "our town" and "A midsummer nights dream" this year.

I have started to teach myself how to do face-painting why well because no can never have too many skills.  My kids are pretty good sports in that when ever I want to practice one of them lets me use her as a canvas.  I hope to get better at it but not too bad for a few attempts.

At the beginning and end of this past summer we went and saw jousting tournament performed by the "knights of mayhem".  If you have never seen them and get a chance to you should it is fun.

I also had two real long tours I went on during the summer one to the east coast and one to the Midwest states one was with the 7th grade as a year end trip and one was with my children's concert choir.  Both were amazing trips with lots of historical site.  It was great seeing Washington DC, Jamestown, Mt Vernon , Maryland temple, National cathedral......the list of places it to long it was also great to see religious historical sites that are related to my church like Carthage jail, Navoo, liberty jail, winter quarters.... all in all a very busy rewarding summer

As always what is most important to me was my family and spending time with them.  They have grown so much not sure if my blog readers would even recognize them any more  pretty soon I may not be the tallest female in the family any more.  My oldest daughter has already lost that war with her sisters because one of her younger sister who has out grown her in height.

One of the projects my children and I worked on over the summer was making bracelets made out of beads that we made out of rose petals  it is amazing how light weight these bracelets are because of that.

Below are some photos from the end of last school year from plays Little women, A comedy of errors and Shakespeare week yes of course more costumes.

These last two photos are from the green room.  Photos from little woman the cast relaxing and getting last min instructions before taking the stage on opening night.  You can see them in the costumes I made last school year.