Sunday, 25 January 2015

Practical: Theatrical Ageing & Creping Of The Skin


  •  Ensure you moisturise the face - you want to be able to blend the products
  • Apply a base to the face, lips and neck (this should be a shade lighter than the model's skin)
  • Get your model to smile/frown and pull very 'silly' faces to enable you to be able to see where any lines and wrinkles appear on the forehead, around the eyes, nose, etc. Also hollow out the cheeks slightly
  • Mix a brown/grey colour using the supracolor palette 
  • Using a fine brush, apply this colour into all of the wrinkles and lines and remember to blend out (using your fingers works well to blend)
  • You may want to start with a lighter colour and then build up and apply darker colours on top to blend effectively
  • Highlight any desired areas on the face
  • Using a mascara wand, apply a grey colour (from the supracolor palette) into the eyebrows 
  • Finally, gently use a stippling sponge and a red colour (from supracolor) to create broken veins on the skin

Before Ageing
Left-hand side of the face has been aged

Tooth Enamel 
  • Dry the desired tooth with a tissue, and keep the mouth open
  • Use a babybud to apply the product to the teeth
  • Ensure the model keeps their mouth open until it is dry 

(This is not my work, just an example of the products)


Creping Of The Skin

  • Apply a barrier mouse to the area of the skin you are going to be working on
  • Stretch out the area of the skin as much as possible 
  • Using a sponge, stipple the Old Age Stipple to the stretched area of skin (so you don't get hard edges)
  • Using a hairdryer on cool (test this on your neck), dry this layer keeping the skin stretched
  • Squeeze and move the skin back into place to see how effective it looks 
  • When the layer is completely dry, add another layer
  • Repeat this process until the skin looks as desired 
  • You would then go over this with make-up ensuring that the skin colour matched the rest of the face and body



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