Group Research Post: Special FX Makeup

since the song we have chosen is called "Dreams" we figured that we could make this a very outlandish and whimsical so we are going to use bold and bright make up, using a lot of glitter. We are also going to use Special FX make-up to really make the dreamlike feel more prominent. We have been discussing possible ideas for make-up and costumes but we need to remember that we have a budget to stick to and we won't be able to have severely outrageous costumes like Lady GaGa as it is just not in our budget.

We looked online at make up and fx make up and found some possible inspiration...

The lobster hands from American Horror Story are a weird but simple way to capture the essence of a dream based world, this can be achieved by simply taping the fingers together, covering with scar wax and blending. Scar wax is a cheap product and should fit well within the budget.




Another image we found as inspiration looks rather gory on the actual photo but instead of using fake blood to fill the joker style Chelsea grin, we are going to use glitter to make it less Halloween and more whimsical. This can also be made with scar wax, or could be made with liquid latex and tissue which I already have.

This is the kind of eye make-up I imagined that the extras would have in the music video, something bright and glittery to add the dream like feel but nothing too crazy to distract from the main characters in the story whos make-up will be more intense and crazy.

My partner for this project Caity is the one who has the technical know how, so I would strongly recommended checking out her post

Since the song we are doing for our music video is "Dreams" we have decided to go down a outlandish and whimsical route, My partner for this project Caity Duggan has an intrest in special FX make-up and can do things such as scar's and lobster hand's and her friend Maddy McDonald is also very talented when it comes to make up so we can really capture the essence of a "dream". We have been discussing possible ideas for make-up and costume but we need to remember we have to stick to a budget so we cannot go fully off the wall like Lady gaga for example.

We talked about the lobster hands and decided that it would be a good piece of special FX make up as it looks so outlandish it would really help get that idea about a dream across. Caity already had learned to do this through special FX make up so there would be no issue of learning and she has the supplies to do it and since we are both fan's of post modernism we thought why not do it. We want our main female character to be diffrent so this would be her makeup.

We then agreed that if our main girl is going to have strange make up then our male main character needs to have something as well, we found the image of the Chelsea smile but instead of using fake blood we want to use glitter in the smile to make it have that post modern look.