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Monday, March 2, 2015

Facepainting 101, as told by my Cousin

My cousin Nikki has been facepainting commercially for quite a while now, and she says there a 3 faces you need to know before you start:

-The Tiger
-The Princess Face
-The Butterfly Face

Seriously, if you know these 3, you are golden to start. Then you can just build your repertoire from there! Hence all the tigers I've been doing.

It's about practice and repetition if you want to be as fast and precise as you'll need to be. That's just what I hear.

-ACertainGemini

Tiger, Tiger

I have a newfound fascination with animals, and thus I have been painting a lot of them... but in particular Tigers. Tigers are so much fun! My boyfriend was nice enough to let me paint him as one, so here's the comparison.

Eh? Eh?

-ACertainGemini

Hawk Girl

I am in love with birds, and came up with a concept of a "Hawk Princess" with jewels embedded in her feathers that she's stolen from gardens and people. Here's my girl with her little Rupee tiara ;) Link will be looking for that!

Kind of intense, but in a good way.

-ACertainGemini

Que the Lovey Dovey

Valentine's Day has come and gone, but here is some of the makeup I did inspired by Singles Awareness Day/Prove-Your-Love-To-Me Day.

This look was done entirely with lipstick and black eyeliner for a contest. Nothing else. ;)

One of my Date Night looks that seemed appropriate. Piiiiink.

Lastly, a Cupid look from long ago.

-ACertainGemini <3

ZOMBAAAAE

I am definitely not a fan of the undead, but on a leap of faith, I attempted some zombie makeup. It didn't turn out all so bad. So here's the comic book zombie and realistic zombie, without prosthetics or much gore. I hate gore. So much.

-ACertainGemini

Illusionistic Makeup

The techniques we have been learning in my theater makeup class for the past several weeks have involved altering facial features dramatically. So here is the fruit of my labor for the past 3 weeks.