Saturday, November 17, 2012

The Sea Creature within you

For this project, you will need Elmer's glue (If you don't own liquid latex), black Halloween makeup cream, bright eye shadow colors, makeup brushes, large makeup wedges, fake blood, and a body- loofah.













 The next step is to add a layer of Elmer's glue across your face. After the glue dries, repeat adding a layers until you can peel it off. Almost appearing as if your own skin is peeling off.

When your done, you could add some make-up foundation to make the glue appear more as skin.
















Now you are ready to add the black cream makeup on the top half of your face. Once everything is covered, pull apart your loofa until you have a piece that you can wrap around the top half. 

Then grab your eye shadow colors of choice and start to place it on the texture of the loofa (make sure to press hard with the brush). For this project, I used a light green, blue, and gold eye shadow color. 



Remove the loofa piece and become amazed with the creature scales you have created. If some of the scales don't appear just add some more black cream on that area, grab a small piece of loofa, and repeat placing the eyes shadow colors on the texture. 

Don't become frustrated as this takes time. You can always trace the scales with a black eye pencil to make your eyebrows blend in with the makeup but that takes time and complete patience, which I don't have. Add some green eye shadow to your eyebrows instead. 

An item I did not have was fake blood. Add fake blood on the skin peeling off to add with the gruesome effect. 


And then your done!



** This look was inspired by Cristal Rodriguez, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzDt9Om6ZRU&feature=plcp**

*All photo's taken by the writer*