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.