Space Rock : Having a go at blending/making colours

So it's been a while since I've done any makeup apart from on band members, so I thought I'd have a go at creating some colours and seeing how blending needs to work. This was a test of blending a paler face into normal skin tones, creating purples and fading colours using brushes instead of sponges. Based on an image found on Pinterest. Apologies for the changes in light/angles, I had a room invasion (ahh housemates 💓) about half way through and had been using a lamp on its side to blast enough light out for me to work in.

1. No makeup (for comparison).

2. Base layer of Snazaroo thin white foundation, blended into neck/normal skin tone.

3. Snazaroo blending to nose in yellow. One side rubbed some white off, the other didn't 😝 *sigh*

4. Dark Grey 'garage doors' just past eyebrow end but mimicking same angles.

5. Harder to see here but I added paler grey paint underneath the eye and to the edge of the eyebrows and to the inner corners of my eye.

6. After adding the crazy black eyebrow bits that remind me of antlers or beetle antennae. The hardest part here is trying to mimic the symmetry. I can see now the right 'brow' does not end with enough of a curved flick. As well as lining the eye and adding a false 'crease'. 

7. Creating purple tones from pink and mid blue, I swapped a pink for a red to continue. A bit too lilac/pastel to be fair but I was happy with the blend, I can see its placement makes a big difference to the result though (I like the right-hand one better). Close up to show fade is slightly filtered to show how it really appeared (my iPad had no flash function) but it makes my hair look weird..

8. Minor disaster- I smudged black to the top and had to wipe it off!  Added in some purplish mix to the sides and to the lips. By this time, the gossip was in full swing and being distracted I've not done a very good job in mirroring the shape on each side, was quite a nice easy squidgy line ending with a sharpe point, but not entirely unforgiving. I like the flow of the line to create a higher cheekbone effect.

9. Judging by my reference image I thought it would look quite 'spacey' but in adding the lilac wig and in wearing a black vest it ended up looking very 'rock opera'! Not really what I was going for to be honest..

10. With my own hair looks slightly better but it's all a bit Japanese Noh Theatre. I'd added in a little bit of gold glitter to balance the yellow nose too. And a filter for the final image of course!

All-in-all it was nice to be back on the facepaint train but this was a bit of a half-arsed effort and it shows! As an experiment in colour fading/changing it was interesting to see what I could/struggled to make. Seems easy enough with brushes, the detail comes through at the point it changes though. Not my best but it's been a while and worth a shot. 

Lessons Learned: a big fat squiggly line always looks best brought to a thin point. Use your skull contour to flatter your face shape. Symmetrical painting is hard!