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Professional Halloween Makeup

October 23, 2012
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Our speaker for October was very appropriate for the time of year.  Jordan, from Kryolan,  a professional makeup company, came as our guest speaker, and showed us a great demonstration of how to create bruising, cuts and scars.  One of the esthiology students volunteered to be the guinea pig, and I’m not sure she knew exactly what she was getting into, especially when he turned her into a zombie with cuts and bruises all over her face. It looked amazing.


Within minutes, he had sponged on a few different colors of purple and reds, to create a fresh-looking realistic bruise.  On another area, he used more greens, yellows, and grays to simulate an older, fading bruise.  I was surprised how easily he created the look, with a controlled chaos manner of application.
Next he used an acetone based liquid that was applied directly on the skin in overlapping layers, to create a recessed scar that was accurately gruesome.  Then using mortician wax, he rolled out 3 laceration pieces to be place on her cheeks and blended into her natural skin with flaps of the wax raised above the skin.  Using cream based colors, he added reds pinks and purples to highlight the cut in places to make it look realistic.  Fake blood was applied to the middle of the cut, and splashed around the area to really finish the look.
And to finish the look off, he used dark reds, purples and grays to highlight the skull structure to create a hollowed, sunken-in skin look.  All of this was set with translucent powder including the bruising, the cut and the zombie make up.  When he was finished, he had successfully created a bona fide walking monster!
Happy Halloween!

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