Professor Slughorn

Today I made Professor Slughorn using the book's description. In the books, Slughorn is bald and has a walrus-like mustache. I honestly don't know what the heck this is, but for whatever reason the whole creative team on the Half-Blood Prince film was okay with it. Shrug.

http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Horace_Slughorn

What I learned from this experience: 1. latex bald caps are the worst. 2. Not sure if I used too much yellow in the bald cap, or if the "skin color" of the baldcap was harder to cover up than originally thought. Either way, never buy that type of bald cap again.

Thanks for modeling for me, Professor Slughorn.

-MD

Bellatrix Lestrange

Before

I hate doing beauty makeup, so I decided to force myself to do a beauty makeup for the practice. If I had to do beauty, though, I wanted to make it worth my while, so I decided to go with Bellatrix before she was sent to Azkaban and was described in Order of the Phoenix as being rather beautiful even though she's a horrible person. I drew inspiration from the show "Once Upon a Time" and their many, many villainous beauty makeups--in particular, the Evil Queen from Snow White.

After Part 1: Hogwarts 7th year student

7th year Bellatrix

Then we decided to see what she looked like after her 13.5 years in Azkaban.

After Part 2: Post-Azkaban Bellatrix

Bellatrix is one of many ingenious characters that Rowling's brilliant mind spawned, and also one of my personal least favorite characters in the series. I mean, she's incredible as a villain and I love her for her villainy, but I despise her in relation to all the other characters because she's so insane, so malicious, and such a sociopath. She's brilliant, but scary.

It was an interesting experience, bringing her to life this afternoon and thinking about her life before and after Azkaban. I love her, but I hate her.

Pink-Clad Evil

Styling Wig/Before Pic

After

Professor Dolores Jane Umbridge. The most evil fictional character to ever be written.

Thanks for modeling for me!

-MD

Have You Seen This Wizard?

Post Azkaban Sirius Black

Before

Pre-Wig--those pigtails, though.

After

Fabulous

This makeup was a lot of fun to do.

The description in Prisoner of Azkaban of Sirius Black in the Shrieking Shack describes him as being basically a walking skeleton with gnarly elbow-length hair and waxy skin. Rowling didn't mention anything about facial hair, but I imagine after 12 years in Azkaban he'd have some sort of facial hair to go with that awesome hairdo. I decided to make a patchy beard because stress takes a toll on facial hair growing abilities.

The beard was made using crepe hair and Spirit Gum--a tedious process that I don't recommend but it's good stuff to know. Just use a lace beard, they're so much simpler.

I looked up pictures of anorexic men and Holocaust survivors after liberation as reference for the skull-like appearance described in the book.

It was a lot of fun working with the model who volunteered for the role; he was perfect as Sirius Black. Thanks for volunteering!

-MD

Cedric Diggory Triwizard Champion (GRAPHIC)

After

3rd degree burn

Look at that shine

First off I would like to say that I know Cedric is supposed to be brunette. I didn't want to dye my model's hair with more permanent hair dye since I couldn't find brown spray-in dye and we didn't have a male wig at the school that would work. I'm sorry, internet. I tried.

Besides that, here's the rough outline of what I did:

1. Paled out his face since Cedric was probably in some level of shock after facing the dragon, and added some green tones to his face.

2. Added scratches to his face and hands.

3. Third degree burn. I love making burns (fake ones, of course).

Thanks for modeling for me, JD!

-MD

Fleur Delacour after the Lake Challenge

My next Triwizard champion was Fleur Delacour after the lake challenge. 

The challenge was to rescue a loved one from the lake on Hogwarts grounds. Previous to this challenge, the only creature we knew who lived in the lake was the giant squid, but it turns out he has a lot of lake mates such as mermaids (which look nothing like Disney's mermaids), and these water demons called Grindylows.

Basically Grindylows are ugly little things that live in seaweed and have long fingers that they like to attack humans with, however their fingers happen to be incredibly brittle so while their grip is very strong, it can easily be broken (at least, that's what Rowling tells me in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and a passage from Prisoner of Azkaban--when Harry and Lupin are having tea in Lupin's office).

Unfortunately for Fleur, the Grindylows got the best of her and she was unable to retrieve her sister from the bottom of the lake.

Before

After

 

Grindylow scratches

For this makeup I did a basic female corrective to fix any skin "imperfections" (color, acne, etc.), then added mascara and wet the tar out of it so that it would leak down my model's face. Unfortunately, my mascara is running low so I had to improvise and use black cream makeup to get it to run.

I added Grindylow scratches on her arms and legs, and wet her hair.

If my model was going on stage or on camera for an extended period of time, I would have used coconut oil in her hair so that we wouldn't have to keep wetting her hair and so that she wouldn't drip all over the stage/set. Since I was only doing the makeup and immediately taking a picture of it, I just wet my model's hair so that she wouldn't have to walk around with copious amounts of coconut oil in her hair all day, and then have to struggle with washing it all out later.

The next makeup you'll see is the last Triwizard champion I intend on doing, and you already know this champion will be coming from the dragon challenge. Stay tuned for that.

Thanks for stopping by.

MD

Harry Potter After the Maze and Graveyard

For advanced makeup, we get to come up with our own projects, so I've decided to bring some of the Harry Potter characters to life over the course of the semester.

The first character up: Harry Potter, of course.

But not just Harry Potter on an average school day because that would be too easy and kind of boring. Naa, Harry Potter after the maze Triwizard challenge and the graveyard scene when he comes back with Cedric after seeing the Dark Lord rise again! Yeah!

Those of you who haven't read the books (a. I pity you, and b. you really should read the books because they're just so much better than the movies, especially from 3 on), in the maze challenge, Harry encounters a giant spider which bites his leg and limits his mobility. He has a lot of weird stuff happen to him in that maze; I'll let you read it because Rowling does it so much better than any poor explanation I could muster.

Before

After

Full Body

Rope burns

In the graveyard, Harry is tied up . . .

"Blood of the enemy, forcibly taken." (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

and then a certain terrible person (whom shall remain nameless so that you can go and enjoy the books more) comes out and helps resurrect the Dark Lord using Harry's blood.

Spider bite from the maze.

Spider bite, I mentioned earlier.

Homemade fake blood for days!

I only had a teeny bit of fake blood in my kit, so I looked up some homemade recipes. You can find all sorts of fake blood recipes online (the world wide web is a wonderful place, you guys. You can literally learn any and everything now if you know where to go--cough cough Youtube).

Keep coming back here to see what other characters happen to jump out of Rowling's incredible books. 

Spoilers: a certain prisoner of Azkaban and a certain terrible, horrible, awful human being in pink are coming this way.

Mock Disaster Fall 2015 (Graphic)

All 4 of the models in full makeup. I was only responsible for the model on the far right.

This was the most intense mock disaster I have ever participated in. The local hospital asked our department if we would help do the makeup for their doctors' and nurses' trauma training, and gave us a huge packet with detailed outlines of the 4 victims they wanted. It listed in great detail all that was wrong with them and what the injuries looked like.

I was stoked! Disaster Day is my favorite day.

We each chose one 'victim' to work on and design and had a week or 2 to do all the research and plan out what we were going to do. I chose a car accident victim who hit a telephone pole so hard that it broke her seat-belt and she flew out the windshield about 20 feet (almost 7 meters). Her injuries consisted of bruising from the seat-belt, contused kidneys, a collapsed lung, broken nose, shock, cracked and broken ribs, dislocated hip, and then of course the secondary wounds like cuts and scrapes and glass in the wounds.

I did as much reading as I could before hand and tried to find pictures of all of these things, but it's extremely difficult to find actual pictures of wounded humans on the web, so after I had exhausted my other resources, I called my paramedic friend who told me what all of these wounds and inuries would look like and what colors they'd be (I really just wanted to get the coloring right since that was our biggest tool for recreating internal injuries, which most of my victim's injuries consisted of). I could not recreate a couple of the injuries listed in the packet in the time we were given, if at all, because they're internal injuries you can't recreate with makeup (I'd go into greater detail, but it's pretty graphic. Suffice it to know that organs were out of place), so I really had to rely on getting the coloring right so that the doctors would pick up on these injuries.

On the day of, we were given 3 hours to do all of the makeup and have the actors ready to go down to the hospital. I went to town and had so much fun participating in this mock disaster. To date, it has been my favorite mock disaster that I've participated in.

All in good fun.

When we had finished, the models were picked up and driven to the hospital where they spent the next 4 hours basically pretending to die.

We didn't know who our models were going to be, but I was super happy when my model came in because she's actually a good friend of mine. After the event, she told me that a lot of the doctors and medical personal thought that her injuries were real because the coloring and details looked incredibly realistic. Many of my friends on Facebook are in the medical profession, and when I posted these there they were able to look at the pictures and list almost everything that was wrong with her. It was one of the proudest moments of my life. I just really like Disaster Day.

-MD