Trip to Portsmouth

Throughout last term we were given a few opportunities to volunteer to help at some events. In November there was a Victorian Christmas festival, myself and my friend Sammie both volunteered to help on the job. The whole day kind of gave us an insight as to what it would be like being a makeup artist and working on a set, after a 5am start we got the train to Portsmouth and made our way to the theatre. When we arrived we were given some facecharts to take inspiration from when doing the makeup on the actors which really helped, they ranged from Chimney sweepers, Prostitutes, Mary Poppins Characters and Oliver Characters, even having to do a black eye patch on Bill Syke’s dog. We were told that we were to makeup around 125 actors of lots of different age groups each with different roles in the production.

Thrown right into the task, we set up our makeup kits and got straight to work, the first look we did was a ‘suffragette’ look, for this we kept the makeup as simple as possible, having a light base and then just some blush on the cheeks and a little bit of gloss on the lips.

 

The next look we did was a prostitute, for this we applied a foundation to get full coverage, using the Kyrolan palette, then heavy pink blush on the cheeks also Kyrolan blush palette. Then a dark pink lip and a dark beauty mark on one of the cheeks. To finish off powdered using Illamasqua loose powder.

Lastly was a ‘chimney sweepers’ look, for this we couldn’t really go wrong; on the facechart it just had bits of ‘dirt’ all over the face and we were told that it didn’t need to be neat just to make it look at real as possible. For this we used a beauty blender and the Supra colour in black and just dapped it around the face, also using a bit of black eye shadow to powder it down.