Post #13 February Summary - March Goals

Straight from my January Summary:

Stuff I am hoping to finish in February:

1. Sew my first dress (will also be in the February sewing blog)
2. An alien makeup inspired by a deep sea creature

3. Chapter 2 of Gurnett and Bhattacharjee

4. Submit my first first-author paper

5. Have my thesis proposal mostly done.
6. Finish the C210k Trainer

I did complete my first dress as you have seen in post #11.

Also, I did attempt to create an alien inspired by an angler fish, post #12, albeit nearly a week late.

I have been slacking on the plasma textbook. I only completed up to the section I posted on earlier this months: post #10.

I have not submitted my paper yet...

I still have no real thought on my thesis proposal...

Technically, I have not finished the C210k Trainer, instead I have started the marathon trainer by Zen Labs. I am not doing this because I aspire to run a marathon, I am running off the adage "Go big or go home," pun intended. I ran outside during the beautiful weather we had last week, and failed miserably, so instead of trying to continue with the free version of C210k, I would just do the one time payment of the marathon trainer and be good to go until I can run on my own for any distance. So who knows, six months from now, maybe I will be capable of running 26.2 miles. (Don't worry if you laughed, I am laughing, and anyone who knows me would laugh. I am not a marathon runner, I like pizza entirely too much. Though if I do make it, this whole section will be fun to read, and make a great part of my Success Story.)

So 2 out of 6 goals completed... eh. Here's to a successful March:

Stuff I am hoping to finish in March:

1. Sew a vest, some beach apparel, and my Tea Party dress

2. An angel/devil makeup inspired by a good/bad personality trait

3. Chapter 2 of Gurnett and Bhattacharjee

4. Submit my first first-author paper

5. Have my thesis proposal done.

6. Finish weeks 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Marathon Trainer

Post #12 FaceOff Spotlight Challenge 1 (Hobby No. 2)

Alien Makeup inspired by a Deep Sea Creature

Yes, I know this post is late, but the weather was so beautiful President's Day weekend that I ended up getting sun burnt, and liquid latex on sunburn is not a good idea. So I am a week late.

It's really faint because it was a sketch.

Materials: Cotton balls, Liquid Latex, fake nails, cc cosmetics cream paint.

So it looked less alien and more rock monster... the color pallet was probably my biggest mistake. I was able to work on my patience issue I discovered during my sewing adventures. I felt comfortable with how I handled the cotton ball and latex appliance but I think I will try using a mold to build on for the next one. It is stressful to build an on-face appliance.

 

After pulling off [most of] the latex

Looking forward
April: Angel/Devil based on Good/Bad personality traits
May: Monster High in real life - Operetta
June: Snow Queen inspired by a snow flake
July: Jekyll & Hyde

Post #8 I'm no Ve Neill, SFX makeup (Hobby No. 2)

Blog 1.3 - Suzanne's FaceOff projects

One of my New Year's Resolutions was to complete at least one makeup look a month, but turns out I made this a weekly adventure. This will be a three part blog, with lots of picture, and a decent amount of words.
#1 Old age make up. (01/07)
#2 Mudblood cut from Harry Potter (01/14)
#3 Adventures in Contouring - is it really worth the effort? (01/21)

Stage Makeup: Mehron's old age makeup. 

Why an old age makeup? 

1) My sister got me a kit from Mehron for old age makeup.

2) It will give me a chance to work on contouring. 

3) It's a fairly basic makeup that I should master.

So on Christmas I decided that an old age makeup would be my makeup look for January. I bought a wig (that I am hoping to reuse for a cosplay I might do just for fun in the month of February), and I have started a Pinterest board to give me some inspiration. I also rewatched a video from one of my favorite YouTube makeup artists (MadeYewLook). She is amazing!

Without further ado, the before and after, plus some of the funny faces I made to get my wrinkles:

Before: 27 (almost 28)

After: older than 27

So I feel like I look like Alan Rickman in this one

After doing this I realized I have less wrinkles on my forehead than other people, the wrinkles there are called 'worry lines'. I guess I don't worry as much as others. Hakuna Matata.

Also, this Mehron kit is definitely more suited to create a STAGE old age makeup. It gets the point across from a distance, but up close it doesn't look very realistic. I think I will try again with a different color to enhance my wrinkles. 

Special Effects makeup: Playing with scar wax.

My sister got me more scar wax and a spatula for Christmas too. Here is a good way for me to practice my fake cut making. Below is my homage to JK Rowling's Hermione.

Materials: Graftobian scar wax, Graftobian stage blood, Nars foundation, Ben Nye bruise wheel, vaseline, setting powder, red cream paint, spirit gum.

Beauty makeup: Smashbox Light Effects pallet (aka adventures in contouring)

About 2 months ago I thought I would play with contouring, to see if it was worth the effort. Contouring refers to the makeup technique that alters the appearance of your face (skinnier nose, more defined cheek bones, slimmer face, etc.) just using makeup. There are people in the world that do this on a daily basis. I truly believe that it is too much makeup on my face for daily wear.
Sure I don't leave the house without makeup on, but this is too much for me but, I suppose, I can see how someone would want to put their best face forward.
Below are the before and after... I'll stick to MY everyday.

A word to the wise: this much makeup on one's face has had some not so cool side effects. My makeup free face looks more 18 than 28. The contour and highlight makeups made me break out!!!

Left: No contouring, Right: Contouring

FaceOff on SyFy starts tonight at 9pm, you all should tune in!!