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