Get the latest Flash player.
Summary: Q-tips are essential for your prosthetic small area touch-ups. Learn the basics of prosthetic makeup as our expert shows you how to create a witch face.
Views: 244 | Tags: makeup, techniques, theater, acting, halloween, ups, characters, costumes, tv, movies, witches, touch, witch, molds, prosthetic, wicked, touch-ups, touchups
Eva Marie Denst Eva Marie Denst burst onto the world of makeup artistry in the early 1990s. Her dream of becoming a makeup artist began as a child, where she spent countless ... read more
We're doing the prosthetic makeup on Amelia. We've turned her from a cute girl into a witch with a nose and a chin. These little disposable Q-tips are really, really good for getting underneath here into these small areas. You can use tweezers or your fingers, just lift up, put a little of the adhesive down. Now, if you're doing that for a film and there's going to be a lot of tight up shots, you want to be so perfect in your application. For theater, you don't have to be so perfect. That distance on the stage is going to give us a lot of play. So you're going to go through the whole piece. Double checking, double checking, looking at your seams, re-gluing and re-gluing until you have the piece down perfectly.