I spent my morning out letterboxing, so I didn’t get much done. When I got home from dinner with the Spousal Unit, I thought I’d practice my party makeup. I’m a ghost, natch.
Thing is, I am so very bad with makeup. Thus, practice. So, here I am with a layer of Manic Panic Goth White foundation. That wig cap was at my hairline a second ago.
Evened things out with Manic Panic Virgin White powder.
Blue highlights with Flashing Blue Mica Powder. I realize at this point that the light in the bathroom is crap, because this blue is a lot stronger. As in, I was feeling clownish and dialed it back with more white powder. Which didn’t help.
Note the absence of wig cap. It’s dangling from the back of my head somewhere. Again, the lighting doesn’t show my eye makeup well. I just posted this picture for my menacing expression. It was at this point I realized I had no mascara.
I look like a bad drag queen. Hi, I’m Earl, and I’d like to lipsync some Donna Summer for you.
Went to my closet, thinking crappier lighting might help. It did, a little. I have Nyx Earl Grey lipstick on, with a little of the mica powder over the top (yes, it’s food grade). I haven’t styled the wig yet, which is long and curly. My primary goal with styling is to keep the damned thing out of my eyes, so I may do bangs.
So, I hate this. Advice that doesn’t involve a bunch more product is welcome.
LATE NIGHT ADDENDUM: I’ve been up watching Youtube tutorials. I have ideas.
I’m not too sure how to do a ghost but I know how to do dead. Many moons ago I did a stint or two at a haunted house. The guy who taught us how to do our makeup was fantastic! He went on to have a career doing make up in movies.
He showed us to start with a light layer of moisturizer (helps get everything off later). Then we used a really good white makeup that professional clowns and mimes use. Then you use black, a lot of black, to shade. You use it to hollow out: your cheeks, the hollows of your temples, below your eyes, your nostrils, the tip of your nose, a line down either side of your nose, two lines below your chin down your neck (use it to outline your adams apple in the middle so it’s looks like neck bones) and then blend, blend, blend! Finish with some light face powder to set everything.
It was amazing how utterly decrepit it made us look!
That might be too zombie for you tho…
Check these images out:
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That looks fabulous, and is similar to some of the tutorials I’ve been looking at. I’ll try again later.
I LOVE this! Somehow you can always make me smile with your shenanigans and I needed it today 🙂