Your make-up should be applied in a clean, well lit area. Give yourself plenty of room, and arrange your materials neatly in front of you. If you are doing the make-up on yourself, make sure you have an amply sized, well lit mirror. Wear old clothes-- making up can get messy! Make-up should always be applied to clean skin, so wash your hands and face and you are ready to begin. Time Needed: The face as shown on the front panel will require 30 - 45 Minutes to complete.
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Using a latex sponge wedge, wipe across the surface of the light olive foundation to load the sponge with the creme based makeup. Once properly loaded, the sponge is used to apply the foundation to the entire face, or to any part of the face that will not be receiving an application of modelling wax..
Note: If you are putting make-up on someone else, always approach the eye area gently and with warning. Never just stab away with your sponge, brush, or other implement. Have your subject close his eyes when coloring the upper lid and below the brows. Have him open his eyes and look up when you are coloring the areas just below the eye, including the lower eyelid.
Coat the skin evenly but with as thin a coat as possible to even the skin tones of the face. Realise that this is your foundation, your bottom coat, upon which you will build and add nasty looking bruises, scrapes, cuts, blisters, contusions, warts, puss filled pockets....... Once the overall foundation is applied, use your fingertip to apply the outer circling of the black eye using the dark purple creme makeup, as shown. You'll find that by tapping and moving your finger along the outer ring, the bruise will take initial shape nicely. |
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Using your brush or fingertip, it is now time to paint in your maroon creme makeup. Apply the maroon inside the outer ring as indicated in the picture. Use a bit more deep purple to create a deeper darker pocket near the corner of the eye as well.
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Using your stipple sponge, stipple (an up and down patting motion) some of the yellow creme foundation into the eye bruise as shown. This gives the jaundiced look to the bruise. |
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Apply spirit gum, with the brush in the cap, to the three areas where you will be creating facial problems with your modeling wax. Once the spirit gum is painted on, dig some modeling wax out of the container with your finger or with the assistance of a popsicle stick. Tap the spirit gum on the forehead with your fingertip until it is very tacky. At that point, press a blob of modeling wax down into the gummed area and spread across the forehead so that you have a 1 inch high band, 3 inches wide and about 1/4 inch thick at its thickest points. Repeat this modeling wax application procedure for the broken nose wax and for the festering canker sore wax. Shape the wax with your popsicle stick or with a special sculpting tool if you have one as shown here. Keep some handy wipes nearby so you can easily clean your fingers off as you go. Modeling wax will make your fingers sticky. |
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Once your modelling wax has taken its appropriate shape, use your powder puff, loaded with some face powder to powder over the waxed areas to prepare those areas for makeup application.
Note: If you have some liquid latex or wax sealer, you can paint or stipple a thin coat of the latex or several coats of the wax sealer over the wax to give it a durable skin prior to applying makeup. |
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Using a Latex Sponge wedge, apply yellow creme foundation around the various areas of the face as shown. It is not your intent to colour everything yellow, only to lay down a jaundiced cast to much of the face. |
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Lightly apply the dark purple as shadowing in the nasal folds, alongside the broken nose, in the under bag of the left eye, a bit on the low spot(s) of the forehead, on the temples and in the hollows of the cheek below the cheekbone. Blend these areas so the coloration is not stark. |
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Use fingertip or latex sponge to apply the maroon creme make-up to the forehead waxed area and to the lowe lip wax area as shown. |
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If you're overall trauma creme makeup is blended and looks as you wish, it is now time to powder. Load powder onto powder puff by sprinkling a small pile of powder onto the middle of the puff, folding the puff and rubbing the puff's sides together until the powder is substantially loaded into the velour of the puff. Powder the creme based makeup with a gentle but rapid patting motion working deliberately across the face, one section at a time. Reload the puff frequently to avoid excessive "offsetting" of the make-up onto your puff. When the face is fully "set" you will be able to touch the make-up and none will come off onto your finger. |
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Using you sculpting tool or popsicle stick, score a gash in the forehead wax. In a similar fashion but with a considerably shorter stroke, create a hole on the canker sore wax on the lip. |
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Using the paintbrush, paint the dark purple deep into the wounds and paint the maroon closer to the wound opening. This two tone effect will accentuate the depth of the wounds, even after the application of the blood. |
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Take a pencil, or other lightweight object of impalement, and break it to roughly 2.5 inches of length. Carefully insert it into the wax deep enough so that it holds even when you move about. Using your stage blood, which has its own handy brushcap for application, apply blood as shown or as desired. (Remember, stage blood stains most fabrics so either be careful or wear clothes you don't care about.) |
The make-up portion of your face is most easily removed with makeup remover (not included in kit) or cold cream. The spirit gummed areas of the face are best removed with spirit gum remover (not included in this kit). Once all make-up is carefully removed, gently wash with soap and water.
