Monthly Archives: January 2013

It’s funny how life kinda throws things at you that then propel you into something you kinda wanted to take up, but didn’t have a huge need to. Without spoiling anything – I need to learn how to do a lot more makeup, a lot more things with it, and I need to learn it relatively quickly (okay, not really, but it’s more fun).
During my early teen years, I avoided makeup like the plague because I saw it very much as a mask. I didn’t start wearing it until I was 17 because at that point, psychologically, I felt the need to wear a mask, and I took comfort in it. Although my skill was limited to knowing where things go, and applying blush in a circular motion along the cheek bone whilst smiling, it was enough to use for “every day” wear (in reality, I rarely wear makeup due to my oily skin and feeling lazy). I have a basic knowledge of makeup and application, though doing anything too creative and I wind up with what happened a few posts down.
Fortunately, for filming, I didn’t need to do anything extensive – within the world of hendstrom makeup just needed to accentuate the natural features and not do anything fancy, which is well within my comfort and ability level.
With this episode, I want to be a little more ambitious with one of the new characters we’re introducing, and it’s important that this character looks a certain way.
Last year, I started putting together a rough makeup artist kit, because it’s handy to have better and not 5-year-old cosmetics for filming. I think at this point, I’ve probably spent around $120 on makeup and supplies. E.L.F. is my favorite ever. I discovered that Target carries them, and I’ve been stocking up there because I don’t feel bad about spending money on makeup when it’s good quality and inexpensive.

I’m building my kit as I go, buying things I think I’ll need for my specific project – I bought a box, and prior to that I inventoried all of the makeup that I own.

The majority of the makeup I own is eye focused. I have a full set of brushes (I think) very old lipstick (except for the three in the pen shaped tubes), and all the non-elf foundation is at least 4 years old. It all works still, except for the two really old mascara tubes in the foreground; those are clumpy.
I bought a case, because they had the pretty lace caboodle one at Walmart and sorted everything into it.

Today, the book I ordered “A complete guide to Special Effects Makeup” came in along with tattoo pens.

Which brings me to my final point(s). Upon reading and flipping through the book this afternoon I learned something that forever changed my researching. A phrase, a makeup that is commonly used is called greasepaint. And that, my dear friends, was the key to finding all the blogs and tutorials I was looking for this whole time. Upon further reading, I’ve concluded that I don’t need it in my makeup artist kit just yet, so instead I went to eyeslipsface.com and $27 later, I have (hopefully) all the tools I need to complete the new character’s look, plus some red lipstick (to replace the old, going one) and a plum liquid eyeliner just for me because it was like $3 and I couldn’t resist, it just called.

I have decided, that with the discovery of blogs and tutorials, and new makeup coming in, I’m going to attempt to learn how to apply it creatively, try different things, and hopefully get good enough at it so that the new character doesn’t suck. Whether or not I post the pictures on here every day, I don’t know – depends on how much I botch it up in the process, but it’ll probably at least be on instagram.