Bruising, Cuts, Grazes and Scars

Another skill we learn in our technical lessons was bruising, cuts, grazes and scars. I also decided to so some research into the stages of bruising as they would all show different colours. You develop a bruise, when some type of trauma causes bleeding near the surface of your body without breaking the skin.

These are the 5 stages of bruising:

Red Bruises

When you first get a bruise, especially one near the surface of your skin it usually appears red. The colour comes from fresh blood leaking into your tissues. Fresh blood is bright red because it contains both iron and oxygen.

Blue Bruises

Within a few hours, blood that has leaked from your injured blood vessels loses the oxygen it was carrying. As this occurs, the blood becomes darker and your bruise begins to look more bluish or purple.

Purple Bruises

Typically, over one to three days the bruise becomes more intensely purple and may even appear black. This occurs as red blood cells break down and iron is released into the injured area.

Green Bruises

You’ll know your bruise is beginning to go away when you notice it turning green. You’re likely to first notice the transition from purple to green at the edges or centre of a bruise. The green colour is due to the presence of a haemoglobin breakdown product called biliverdin.

Yellow Bruises

Lastly, your green bruise will eventually turn yellow as it enters the final stage of healing. The yellow colour is from the final breakdown product of haemoglobin in your skin, a chemical called bilirubin. The yellow fades as your body clears away the last of the debris from the bleed, leaving you with bruise-free skin.

To complete a bruise, cut, graze or scar you will need the following:

-Kryolan SupraColours/Bruise Wheel

-Wax

-Liquid Latex

-Foundation Palette

-Hairdryer

-Wound Filler

-Fake Blood

-Stipple Sponge

-Collodium

-TuPlast

In lesson I then attempted a cut. Below are the steps of how I completed it:

1.       Get some wax apply to the skin making sure it’s warm (skin) and smooth over the skin making sure to blend out the edges to appear more realistic.

2.       Keep adding wax until you have built up a good amount and enough to create a deep wound

3.       Then using a palette knife make a slit down the middle or wherever you would like your cut to be

4.       After the making the cut apply liquid latex of sealer to the wound, and dry with a hair dryer, making sure that it’s on the cool setting.

5.       Then apply the latex to the edges and blend, making sure to work quickly as it dry’s fast

6.       Using the sharp end of the palette knife pick away some of the latex to make it more like a cut and have a grazed affect.

7.       You can then use the supra colours to add colour around the edges, using a sponge apply and blend

8.       Wound filler can be used in the cut and you can apply where you see it needs it, you can also add fake blood for a fresher wound look.

9.        Keep adding colour and texture using a stipple sponge to achieve a realistic looking cut.

To create a scar:

1.       Make sure the area you are going to use is clean

2.       Apply Tu-plast to area of skin

3.       Using the hair dryer dry the skin making sure that you are using the cool setting

4.       If you want any roughness you could use the sharp end of a palette knife or a pin

5.       Use any makeup products to get the look you want and apply fixer spray