Entry #2 - Halloween Makeup Skills

Alright so I'm sure you all realized that Halloween has just passed. How was your holiday? Mine was filled with friends and makeup. Lots and lots of makeup. Not for me though. I did my friend Stephan's makeup to look like The Spine from Steam Powered Giraffe. For those of you who don't know who that is, here's a picture of the group. The Spine is the one on the far left.

The Spine is my favorite member of the group, so I eagerly agreed to make Stephan's face look like his. We went out to Arrowhead Mall to purchase the necessary makeup for this project and I let him borrow one of my collared shirts to wear for his costume.

I started with the forehead, eyebrows, and eyeliner. That was probably the most time consuming part of the process. He looked so strange with just his eyebrows and eyeliner done, huh? But look at how happy he looks! He was so ecstatic to be getting his makeup done like The Spine.

Keep in mind I had never put makeup on another person before. I'm also a perfectionist so it took me forever to get the lines just right.

I knew that getting the cheeks just right would be another difficult part. His facial structure is a lot different from that of The Spine's. So we had to make sure to bring out his already prominent cheekbones using the makeup.

As you can see in the picture to the right, The Spine's cheek makeup highlights his facial structure. - His makeup here is a newer version than the one above. This is what we went off of. - 

There is also some shading going on. I had no idea how I was going to pull this off. We had been watching a tutorial off of YouTube for a majority of the time and when it came time for the shading I lost the connection to my home Wi-Fi. I improvised and I'd say I did pretty well.

         

So how'd I do? I'd say I did pretty damn well. I know Stephan was pleased. It took me a little over three hours to accomplish this feat!

~The Final Spark, Rin