Archive for the ‘ Make up ’ Category
On to the last weekend of Halloween make up at Josie O’Kain Costume Shop in Joliet, IL. I’m going to be splitting this up into 2 posts as we did a lot of stuff. I won’t be posting a lot of the make up that we did. Partially cause we had some repeat make up [ READ MORE ]
Last week we had a step by step on how to apply crepe hair. I’ve kinda of wanted to shoot some of the standard circus freaks for a while, and the bearded Lady is just such a fun idea even if I was shooting at midnight. Here are some of the bearded lady images we [ READ MORE ]
On Halloween you got to see one of these images. I held a poll on my DeviantArt page to help decide what I should shoot for the Halloween image. Zombie won the poll hands down, but playboy bunny got a fair amount of votes as well. I thought it would be fun to combine the [ READ MORE ]
The time has come for everyone to dress up and head out to terrorize their communities in search for the all important free candies. This year I took some time out and did a Halloween themed shoot. Which really doesn’t vary greatly from from my normal shoots. After running a poll on my DeviantArt acount [ READ MORE ]
The second weekend of doing halloween make up has come and gone and I have more images to share. First up is a repeat of one I’ve done a few times now. There is a very cool prosthetic that looks like you have no eyes. Basically there is a black mesh that covers the eyes and [ READ MORE ]
Today we will be learning how to apply crepe hair. I may have to explain a bit more that crepe hair is a fake hair used in make up applications to make facial hair, werewolves and any number of other characters. For our example, we will be making a beard. So to start off, here are [ READ MORE ]
A year ago I started shooting a series of photos of horror icons as female pin ups. It didn’t get too far as I was only able to get one done so far. It’s been constantly in the back of my mind, and often discussed. Although it took this long to do an other one. [ READ MORE ]
Every year I help out with a costume shop and I answer a lot of questions about how to apply the make up. And there are some things that might seem intimidating or that people don’t know that I try to answer and I thought I would share of some of what I know here. Sadly [ READ MORE ]
The Halloween season is already upon us and he have hit our first weekend of make up appointments at the costume shop. Thought I’d take a moment and share some of the work with you. First off we have a couple going for a dead bride & groom who are hosting a party. I worked on his [ READ MORE ]
I shot this over the winter and I haven’t gotten around to sharing it yet. I wanted to show the change of a werewolf. Also I was trying out a new prosthetic. I’m not as thrilled with it as I had hoped, but I can get a different make up piece and try again sometime. [ READ MORE ]