Welcome!

Welcome to the Kayleigh Kirkup Makeup blog!
The purpose of this blog will be to document the entire process and journey of creating and producing a prosthetic piece.

Special thanks....

A special thank you to Harley Rainey for being such a wonderful model.

Check out his modelling site;

http://www.harleyrainey.co.uk/

The Demonic Nightmare is unveiled....

 

 

 

 

Application...

Below you will see a step by step I prepared on how to apply the piece.

Step by Step of applying the demonic nightmare prosthetic.

Step one: Tell the model to place the contact lenses in there eyes, if they want the make up artist can place them in.

Step two: Clean models face with a small amount of toner.

Step three: Using a cotton bud and some pros-aid apply the prosthetic piece working from the centre outwards. Apply the pros-aid over where the nose is in the prosthetic piece and also across the centre of the forehead are. Repeat this process on the places on the models face this will anchor the piece to the face. Place the piece on the face whilst the glue is still wet this give you the chance to move it into place. Once the pros-aid drys it will not move about.

Step four: Work your way outwards repeating the same process as above, for example after the centre of the face, apply pros-aid to the upper lip area followed by the chin leaving the edge. As said before continue to repeat the process working your way out.

Step five: Once all is secure, start sticking the edges down take your time, you could use a clean cotton bud and roll it over the edges in an outwards motion. Do this with all edges including the eyes.

Step six: Powder the eye lids, to ensure they don't get stuck open. This step is important for that reason.

Step seven: Check the prosthetic piece is secure, ask the model to make some facial expressions such as; frowning etc.

 

Here are some images of the applied piece from different angles.

 

 

 

Practise take two....

The solution is here. After my concerns on using a alcohol activated palate I decided to practise the demonic creature look using grease paints. This time around the look took an hour, making grease paints the best option to use on the day of application, along with the fact I've used this product multiple times meaning I more confident with it unlike the alcohol activated palate. Below are some more images of the piece. The aim is for the overall look is to make the model look gaunt and hollowed out.

 

 

 

 

Practise makes perfect....

 

Practise makes perfect. Unfortunately I couldn't practise on the actual model due to distance and schedule, but a compromise was made by simply painting the piece on the cast of the models face. With an alcohol activated palate used a flicking technique where I used a paint brush to flick speckles on the prosthetic piece, slowly building them up to create a fleshy tone. The colours I used were mainly skin coloured but I also used red, yellow and blue. The process overall took an hour or two to complete which concerns me with the time limit we have been given to complete the demonic look on the day (two hours). A quicker technique that I am confident with will be needed.

 

Stay tuned for the solution.

Preparing the prosthetic for application; base layer...

As a safety precaution I decided to apply a test patch of the pax paint to the prosthetic piece to ensure it was the correct shade when dry. It was so I will move swiftly on to how the paint will be applied to the rest of the piece.

 

The pax paint was applied using a latex sponge using a dabbing motion, evenly distributing all over the piece.

 

The end result looks like the image above. For storage I simply powdered the piece down using translucent powder, to stop the piece from sticking to anything, remember pax paint is an adhesive.