Halloween Make up 2009 – Round 3
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 jobs from previous weekends. I love when people keep coming back, but I don’t want to show you all the same images over again. We did a lot of make up on kids on Halloween morning, that I’m not going to share either. They looked great, but I don’t feel right posting images of the kids. There were also about 4 or 5 make up jobs that I simply forgot to take a photo of.
I’ll start off with the stuff we did on Friday. First we had a Frankenstein monster using one of the kits from Rubies. It took some work trying to get all the elements to come together for this, and still have a edge from the thick forehead appliance, but otherwise I think it came along pretty well.
Next we had a cyclops. It’s a nice latex application from Don Post. Don Post makes some nice and very creative items, but sometimes there tend to be some slight issues with the design that I’ll mention more of next time. The cyclops was a bit think so it was a little harder to hide the edges with a normal skin tone, but did the best we could on it.He did change into a costume before leaving, but I will say I’m always partial to modern day clothes with demons and monsters. Who says a cyclops can’t be a Cubs fan.
Next we have a repeat customer from last year which give Ellwyn a chance to show off her great skill with the air brush. This year our fairy wanted more of an autumn look and colors to go with her costume. I started of her base, and Ellwyn went to town on the details. The stencils for the leaves were made by the clients significant other. One of the thinks we do miss out on sometimes is that we often don’t get to see people in their complete costume as she is pictured in a dress she wore just to have the make up done in.
I’ll go ahead and jump to Saturday where I got to work on a customer that generally has come in every year for a long time. Every time I get to do something different. This time we just kept it simple with some horns that were blended in with blood as they burst through his skull.
That’s all for today. I’ll have some more images from Halloween next time.
Halloween Make Up – Round 2
Last time I showed some make up that I did over Halloween. Now to show off some great make up that Ellwyn and Tina did as well.
First off is a fairy make up that the client saw at the local Ren Faire. Ellwyn and Tina tag-teamed this and worked very hard and passionately on it. And she came out looking great. The stencil and airbrush on this really came out well.
Next is something Ellwyn really excels at. Years back around the time Titanic came out Ellwyn looked into making a frozen corpse make up with icicles and what researched what parts of the bodies decayed first and came up with a great look that a lot of people like. This client asked to look like the original image Ellwyn had did, and once again she did a great job.
One the employee’s of the store was going out that night and asked to be painted for her medusa costume. I believe Ellwyn and Tina did a tag team effort again with the airbrush.
