Costume Makeup - Finishing the Werewolf

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Hi, I am Roger Bennett Riggle, I am a professional licensed makeup artist, and this is our model, Vanessa Strickland, although at this point you would hardly know it. We have put on all the colors and the detail in her face. The one thing that I do want to add, and it's a nice little trick for when youre playing someone whos sick, someone whos drunk, someone whos frightening, scary, zombie, is that you can take just a little touch of red, or it could be a red pencil, and a brush. Look up, and you can paint a red line underneath the eye to give it kind of a sickly and scary look. Close. If I want to, I can add a little red along the upper part of the eye just to give it a little bit more of a scare look. So, the red kind of gives a little bit more scary, bloody feeling. Take a powder brush, one with a long bristles on it, and actually dig like this, dig like, dig, dig, dig, dig, dig, is the technique, and you want to dig. This lifts that extra powder off of your makeup, and this digging technique prevents you from messing up your design. You can see where the color is coming right back through, and were in very good shape with the Neutral Set Powder, that has no color, that is setting our bright and dark colors. The last thing were going to do is add a wig. I think wigs transform a total face more than anything else, and especially when youre doing animals, it helps to hide the real, natural ears, and it also gives a fur-like quality to a beast in this case, or if you are doing an animal that has fur. Again, I ask the client to put up their forefingers, like little antlers. If you ever have questions about a wig, the tag is always in the back, thats how you know how to put on a wig. They will hook their fingers in there, and while theyre holding that I will pull the cap of the wig back to the back of the head, and to release their fingers. I never like too much hair in the face, so you want -- I always pull the wig back to the hairline. Then from that point on you can just wear the wig, you can tease it, you can style it, you can hair spray it, you can form ears in it, if you want, with some gel, and some hair spray. You can do anything you want with it. But in this case I actually think that it's better just kind of wild. You can see where now Vanessa -- if you want to go back and look at the beginning of the film, actually is just totally, totally transformed. It is a total transformation. Thats what I look for at Halloween is that you actually go out and nobody recognizes you, you become another character and nobody knows who you are, and thats the fun of Halloween, and in this case of being a Werewolf type animal at Halloween.

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