Early Victorian Hair

The early Victorian hair designs have some aspects that make them look different from the late Victorian. This designs are covering the ears with a plait or curls and the back hair is usually gathered in a bun.The parting is always in the middle.
   Tools:

• Brush
• Tail comb
• Hair clips
• Hair pins
• Hair band 
• Hot curling Iron  

 How to:

• Start with the middle parting of the hair till the top of the head and separate the section that goes right behind the ears. Clop it with hair clips.
• The hair that remained on the back- gather it in a ponytail (it will ease your work)
• Make a braid with that ponytail and put it in a bun.
• With the front sections of the hair, take the hot curling iron and curl them in vertical way. 
• Keep them tight till they cool down (for a perfect Victorian hair style)

   

 

Instead of curls you can also make a braid on eash side and pin them in the bun for example. They must be arangen in the way that goes over the years or even below.

Cuts, scratches and dry skin

Product:sci

• Collodium
• Stipple sponge
• Cotton bhairdryeratex
• Fake liquid blood
• Supracolor palette
• Coagulated blood gel
• Plastici

How to: cuts(+scratches)

1. Take some Plastici and warm it a bit in your hands giving to it the shape you need
2. Put it on the surface you need/want and mold it into the skin with a spatula
3. Have a t-sue and some cleanser with you because it will ease the work because it can pick up and also pick itself up. Especially the cleanser make the spatula to slide easily through it.
4. Blend the edges in very well
5. Cut it in the middle with a spatula and as it is sticky, put some cleanser on the both sides of the spatula.
6. With a pin lift up some edges.
7. Add cealer or latex (in this case latex, because the cealer make it shiny) on the top of it with a sponge or a cotton bud. Make sure the edges go out
8. With a cool hairdryer, dry the latex. Wait till it goes clear.
9. With a sponge or a cotton bud put some supercolor on it(red,blue yellow,etc). Nothing is just one colour! Using some cleanser or moisturizer you can blend it in better. It must not have edges.(you can also use foundation for the edges)
10. Put some coagulated blood (gel) in the middle of the cut to give texture. Leave out some edges. Remember to take pictures: what doesn't look good to the eyes can be good to the camera.
11. Put some fake blood on it with a cotton bud
12. Using a ripple sponge,put it in the blood and make scratches( think about their direction)

How to:scratches

1. Using the Tuplast- Apply it on the hand or the surface you need

2.Dry it with cool hairdryer

3. You can color it or highlIght

4. You can use a pin to create its roughness

How to make an old scratch with colodium:

1. Put some barrier foam on the area you are going to work on
2. Apply the collodium on that surface
3. Using a spatula , make a fold 
4. Dry it with cool hair dryer 
5. Apply another layer of collodium and dry it again with cool hairdryer
6. Colour over the top if you want

 Dry skin:

Products:

• Duo glue
• Foundation
• Red colour (Supracolor)

            How to create:

• Apply the Duo glue on the surface of the skin you want to create the dry skin 
• Let it dry
• Scratch it a bit if you want to create the idea of falling skin
• Apply foundation over it
• Colour it with red where you created the holes/ the falling skin.

Ageing the skin with Latex

Products:

• Barrier foam/cream
• Old age stipple(latex base)
• Sponge
• Hair dryer

How to:

1. Begin with applying the barrier foam on the surface you need (it will protect the skin)
2. Pull the skin very tight and using the sponge apply the stipple on that surface
3. Use the hair dryer to dry that layer( with cool air).

You can put layer after layer but before applying a new layer, make sure that the layer before is completely dry. You can also colour it with grease paste if you want to change it's colour after.

Ageing the skin

    Before starting to work on a specific character(creating it's look), you need to think of several aspects first:

• What age are the actors in the script?
• What period of time are they located in the script?
• What social-economic background are they from?

Products:

• Foundation
• White Supracolor(Kryolan)
• Brown Supracolor(red+yellow+black) (Kryolan)
• Makee-up brushes
• Spatula and palette
• Mascara wands
• Stipple sponges

How to:

1. Apply the foundation on the whole surface of the face, including the lips (The foundation must be paler than the natural skin colour)
2. Blend it well into the skin
3. Ask the model to wrinkle their face, in order to make noticeable the natural wrinkles
4. Using a small brush(angled brush)paint into the wrinkles' lines with brown colour
5. Using the fingers, blend a bit the lines to make them look more natural
6. With a bigger brush (Foundation brush) you can go around the eyes, under the cheek bones, under the chin and on the nose sides, as doing the contouring. It will make the look to be more intense.
7. With a stipple sponge and red Supracolor, tap onto the nose and cheek bones, to create a kind of skind detereoration
8. Ushing a mascara wand and white supracolor, go through the eyebrows