Roger Bennett Riggle: My name is Roger Bennett Riggle and today we are doing a
vampire transformation. At this stage, we put on the foundation
color and if you remember we have chosen a very light, almost
lack of blood color for his skin tone. Before I put on the
foundation, I always like to put on a rather heavy moisturizing
lotion. Since we have already put on the witch hazel astringent
which has really closed up most of the small pores. Now in the
larger pores, maybe they did not close, I am really filling them in
with moisturizing lotion instead of pigment and makeup again.
And also when he goes to clean up, when your model goes to clean
up, it makes the makeup easier to come off because you have this
moisturizing lotion underneath it. The third good thing about using
moisturizing lotion is that it helps make creamy the foundation that
you are putting on the face. Now we take a non-latex sponge and I
am going to swizzle it heavily into the makeup. Remember this
color is called Ferrous coded P41. And you can see that I am going
to get a nice, creamy application with the makeup on to the skin
and I can go right over the lips because we are going to paint their
lips a different color.
So you really want your vampire look to have this kind of not dead
looking skin, but lack of blood flow that is why he needs to go out
and get blood because he does not have enough hemoglobin. So
look up to the ceiling for me, you can use the point of your non-
latex sponge to get right underneath the eyes that is why they are
cut like this. Okay and we want to go on down the neck and the
ears, notice how red the ear is. That is much too healthier look for
a vampire so we have to make it lack of blood flow. So you will
also just put your hand underneath the ear and press against the ear
and get that foundation on.
You also want to make sure you get the whole hairline and you
move on down the neck. When you are really changing someone’s
skin tone drastically, as we are in this case, you want to lay on the
makeup because you need the opaque quality of the makeup to
make the transformation happen for you. And you can see with the
prosthetics that I am really just pressing the makeup on to them
because I don't want to rub them and maybe accidentally pull them
off. Good. Notice his eyelid too, I am going to put just a little bit
on that and if you will close your eye, be careful around the eye,
make sure their eye is closed.
Make sure you tell them what you are doing so that they do not
flinch and if they are wearing contacts, you want to know that
ahead of time as well. Okay, once you've finished applying the
color on the face then you want to go back with your sponge and
pat it or this is the technique that we call stippling, much like the
same technique in painting when you want to stipple it all and give
it some texture. This helps to smooth the makeup out and it gets rid
of any creases that are happening and it brings the skin texture
back through, so that it does not look fake.
We want it to look as real as you can get it to look and now I will
repeat the exact same process on Joshua’s left side of his face.
Now we have finished lying on the foundation color and you can
already see where it is exposing his profile and his bone structure
and we have a really, really good look for this and I think it is a
better choice than white. Next, we will move into applying the
shadows to the vampire transformation face.
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