Wrath Like?

For my final look I decided to go for something quite a bit different than anything I had ever done before, create my own prosthetic. I used a very simple technique from A Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup by Japanese Makeup Artists where one takes apart cotton balls and combined with liquid latex molded it into the desired shape. While the way of making the prosthetic was from the book the look I created was not. In this look I was going for a bit of a human wrath kind of look where the skin had been sealed shut and then tore back open.

I began by coloring my lips and some of the area around them a combination of the colors red, black, and brown. After setting up where the inside of the prosthetic would be I started putting the cotton on my face by smearing a light layer of liquid latex just above my top lip and then placing the cotton on it, while the cotton was still drying I added more latex directly to the cotton so that I could mold the cotton to look how I wanted it to. Repeating this step all around my mouth and molding the cotton and latex together the whole time I was able to get the look that I wanted. Tip from the book, “While the latex is still wet you can still mold the cotton, make sure you’ve gotten it exactly how you want it to be before it dries, nothing can change it after it had dried completely (21 Japanese Makeup).” Wax was added to the edges to smooth them out and another layer of latex to make the coloring of the prosthetic easier. After coloring the outside of the prosthetic a color only slightly darker than my own and the inside of the prosthetic a dark red I added fake blood to finish off the effect.

What do you think? Does my face look monster like?

Works Sited

Japanese Makeup Artists. A Complete Guide to Special Effects Makeup. London: Titan, 2012. Print.