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

Halloween 2015

This past Halloween, several of my friends asked me to do their makeup for them for the big day.

One of them wanted to be a zombie, so I bought some Tinsley-Transfers of some old wounds since I was doing back-to-back makeups that day, and combined them with latex and toilet paper to create a rotting flesh effect.

Tease the hair, add some color and some dried up fake blood and you're good to go. One zombie coming right at ya!

My favorite part about this is she went grocery shopping like this before the party she was going to, and managed to get a lot of stares.

Another friend wanted to be the "giant muscley guy" from "Attack on Titan" (which I still have yet to see, but have little desire to do so).

It turned out to be a pretty simple body paint job and I enjoyed working with him to make this happen. I was just glad he didn't want to be the Titan without skin that wonders around town.

The most difficult bit about this makeup, though, was definitely drawing the teeth on and getting them straight on both sides.

He's wearing pants, I promise.

-MD

The Joker

A friend of a friend asked me to make him into the Joker from Batman this past Halloween. There are a lot of variations on The Joker (Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, Cesar Romero, and Mark Hamill to name a few). Of course these days when people refer to The Joker, they are often talking about Heath Ledger's Joker.

So I practiced the makeup on myself before going over the next day to do the actual makeup.

When I arrived, he was wearing the trademark Mark Hamill Joker suit, so I had to change everything. Luckily, I grew up watching Batman the Animated Series and would consider it in my top five favorite shows growing up, so I wasn't terribly upset about this misunderstanding.

We pulled up pictures on the laptop for the sake of consistency and I went at it, resulting in this. We used blue and yellow temporary hair dye that he had purchased and attempted to make green since the store was out of green when he bought them.

This kid can do a crazy good Mark Hamill Joker impression and if you ever meet him, definitely ask him to talk like the Joker for you cause it's insane (no pun intended).

Despite the misunderstanding, it was fun to make The Joker come to life for the day.

-MD

DADpool Halloween

          

My husband wanted to be "Dad-pool" for Halloween this year, so I did his makeup for work. It couldn't be too gory since he was wearing it at work, so I just did a couple of burns and a black eye, mostly.

-MD

Male Corrective 367

Before

After

Assignment: Male corrective.

Basically, make the guy look as handsome and manly as possible without doing a beauty makeup on him.

I had my work cut out for me.

Gibson Wig

367 assignment to style a wig with a Gibson hairstyle. Here is the process. The wig ended up being too small for my head, but the assignment was more focused on styling the wig than making sure it was going to work on our own heads.

Marriage of Figaro's Wigs

Rosina's Wig

Susanna's Wig

Marcellina's Wig

Just some of the many, many wigs I had to style for BYU's Marriage of Figaro.