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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 66: Makeup Using a Wax Nose, Forehead, or Chin in The Design [Assignment]

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Makeup on a DVC student with a wax nose resembling a twig on a tree fairy.
DVC Student tree nymph seen from front
DVC student tree nymph right side of nose.

As I said at the beginning, the chief difficulty of working with nose wax it is likes to stick to your fingers more than to your face.

SOME GREAT TIPS I have learned to help fix this since I made my videos back in 2005-2007:

  • Put a layer of spirit gum on your nose (and let it get tacky) before you start with the wax.
  • When the gum gets tacky, stick a cotton ball on your nose, press it in, then pull it away leaving a little fluff to help the wax “grab” your nose. Then promptly stick on your roll or ball of wax.
  • As described in the video, clean your fingers EVERY TIME you touch the wax.  BUT you can improve this instruction by putting face powder on your hands after you clean  just like you put flour on your hands for making biscuits!
DVC Student as a Red Devil with wax horns
DVC Student in a wax nose as a flower Fairy
DVC student with wax nose and wax scar mouth

What to do for points:

  1. Apply a Wax Nose, Forehead, or Chin, and incorporate it into the complete makeup design of your face (or your model’s face) based on your rendering.
  2. If in the classroom, go out to the hallway with your rendering and have your instructor costume you from the neck up and take your photos for you.
  3. If at home, costume yourself from the neck up and photograph your makeup. Take at lot of clear photos from many angles.
  4. As a reminder, the How to video for taking makeup photos points out that you want your nose (or horns or whatever) to get photographed in profile against a contrasting colored surface.  It is OK to have a friend take your photos, but if they do, MAKE THEM WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW!!!
  5. Upload the best 4 as jpgs or pngs below for credit. 
  6. If you don’t remember the video, or you are having a household member take photos, have them watch this:
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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 65: Color Rendering for Makeup using a Wax Nose or Forehead or Chin as part of the Makeup Design [Assignment]

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Vampire makeup and rendering by DVC Student
DVC Student as Creepy Clown with wax nose & rendering
DVC Student as a Flower Fairy with wax nose
  • Definition: Makeup rendering- drawing of a makeup design one intends to execute

Draw a color makeup rendering on one of your personalized face outline sheets, a generic outline sheet, or freehand, or with computer software of your planned Makeup using a Wax Nose or Forehead or Chin as part of the Makeup Design and bring it to class.  

DVC Student with Wax forehead horns & rendering

It is OK to alter or even abandon your design if you find there are problems once you try it on your face, but still do a rendering. It is OK to alter or even abandon your design if you find there are problems once you try it on your face, but still do a rendering. 

DVC student with a twig nose of wax

Have Tara photograph your rendering (preferably one shot alone, and one shown alongside your finished face makeup as seen above)  or do it yourself if working from home and submit it through the link below . Remember afterwards to also to save any research you did as well as this rendering assignment into your Makeup Morgue/Portfolio project so you build up your morgue gradually and easily over the course of the semester.  

DVC Student as a Snow Queen with wax nose

How to get points:

Post your pictures of your rendering here.

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 64: Watch Wax Nose/Forehead/etc. Makeup Video(s)! 

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

  • Nose & Scar Wax to create a nose and warts
  • Cobblers Wax to create the look of damaged teeth
  • Unnatural “skin” colors (green, blue, purple makeup and yellow glitter)  to create the look of a fantasy character of a wacky witch.

You feel it isn’t easy being Green?

Happily, I have found a number of other videos of different sorts of theatrical makeup for different types of performance and different types of faces, all of which incorporate nose wax! Scroll down to see if you find any you think you’d like to watch!

No videos in your skin color?  Alas, not all forms of systemic racism have an easy fix, (or exist because of intent).  I spent many hours this semester, searching for some nose wax videos that were more varied, indeed I have been searching for these biannually for many years.  If you ever run into a video you think might be useful for me to add to this video page (or other video pages) for this class, please send the URL of the video so I can add it.  Foreign Language videos are good too.  Lots of our students are ESL learners, so these videos can help them, and, of course 80% of the info in a makeup video transcends language anyhow.

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 63: Activities: Wax Nose and Makeup

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

 

DVC Student as a Woodland Fairy
DVC Student made up as a vampire with 3D forehead and teeth
DVC Student as a Woodland Fairy with wax nose

This week is sometimes a difficult one because nose wax likes to stick to your fingers more than to your face!

  • You will watch some videos with makeup designs that include important 3D features of wax .
  • You will sketch a color rendering on one of your face outline sheets for your Character Rendering incorporating at least one major 3d facial feature sculpted with wax. (NOT BRUISE/CUT/BURNS)
  • You will apply Nose & Scar Wax to your face to sculpt your feature(s)
  • You will apply makeup to your face to make your Character Makeup complete.
  • You will have Tara Photograph you in the hall way with your rendering, or if you do your makeup at home…
    • You will scrounge in your house to “costume” your character a bit.
    • You will do a short photo shoot to get fabulous photos of your makeup & rendering.
  • You will upload the photos to the makeup and rendering assignment pages.
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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 62: Week 7 Schedule

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Makeup student with a pointy pink wax nose and green fairy makeup

•Insert Date Here:  

Group 1: Bring in evidence of research on cuts, bruises and injuries or FX Makeup. Do freeform Cuts & Bruises Makeup, using at least 3 techniques (no rendering required). Group 2: Watch Cuts & Bruises Videos.

•HOMEWORK: DO A COLOR RENDERING OF YOUR MAKEUP DESIGN INCORPORATING A WAX NOSE, FOREHEAD, OR CHIN.

•Insert Date Here: Group 1: Watch Wax nose video. Group 2: Bring in evidence of research on cuts, bruises and injuries or FX Makeup. Do freeform Cuts & Bruises Makeup, using at least 3 techniques, (no rendering required).

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 61: Learning Objectives: Wax Nose Week

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

This Week’s Learning Objectives:Outcomes we will use to get there:
Learn to build and incorporate 3D features within a complete character makeup.Design a makeup incorporating one or more major 3D features.Sculpt the feature(s) out of wax.Apply makeup to the face and wax features making a realization of the design.
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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 60: Congratulations on making it to the end of Week 6!

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

By this time you know what you did.  So I will spare both of us a recitation of it all, and just give you your eyeball delighting visual reward:

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 59: Veg Out and Watch Some Videos on Post Mortem Makeup!

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

And always remember, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR FACE!

Repeat Your Mantra: "There is NOTHING Wrong With My Face!"
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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 58: Cuts and Bruises Makeup [Assignment]

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

Apply at least 3  different types of Injury Makeup (Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Bullet Holes, Peeling Skin, burst pustules from disease, post-mortem decay, etc.) to your face and/or body or your model’s face and have Tara or the TA’s photograph it and upload for grading, or if at home, photograph it yourself. (Zombie decay makeup is ok.)

A group of DVC makeup student friends pose together in a comic horror pose with FX injury makeup.

If you  have dark skin, do not freak out that this type of makeup does not show up for photos on your skin as easily as it does on pale people.  Push the contrast as much as you can, especially with your highlight colors like yellow or orange, or consider going full zombie undead with bits of skin peeling up in pale peach/pink shades like something from Walking Dead or Lovecraft Country. 

Regardless of skin tint, try to also get some sort of fun, scary, silly or other “character” photo of the makeup to share on your social media.   Take LOTS of photos from many angles and post at least one overall picture, plus at least one clear close-up shot of each individual injury to the link below. If you have a friend or family member do your photos get them to go in close up so you record the details.

DVC makeup class student posed with cuts, bruises and bite marks applied to neck.

If you have problems getting the wax off, use thread (or even better dental floss) to “slice” it away from your skin.  Then take a moist washcloth and zap it in the microwave to hot-massage the wax bits off!

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STAGE MAKEUP CLASS PAGES 57: Research on Cuts, Bruises and Other Injuries [Assignment]

[This page is part of a mirror of my Canvas learning system pages I created for my Drama 112 Intro Stage Makeup class at DVC.  If you want to use this content for another Canvas class shell you can find it in Canvas Commons by searching for “Tara Maginnis” and you can download all or part of this directly into your shell with all the extra cool formatting of colored divider lines, right side embedded Giphy animations, etc. already put in, if you are working with a different system, it is ok to copy and paste from here, and then customize the pages as you need  for your classes].

  DVC Student in severe injury makeup

Research online or in books for other makeup methods for creating bruises, cuts, burns, scars, etc. (Or you can search for images of real injuries to replicate) This is your opportunity to learn about more techniques than those covered in the official class video.  The internet is filled with TONS of great how to pages and videos on this topic so you can learn more. Gather together some of your source material and do a “Print Screen” capture of the web page(s) or video(s) you intend to use for inspiration. (You can do this on a PC by holding down the “Windows” key to the left of the space bar and hitting the “prt sc” key next to the “delete”.)  Upload the captures through the image upload link below.  Paste the URLs of any sites you find that were not on the previous page into the URL upload so I can add the link for future students!

Makeup student who has examples of 7 different types of injury makeup sampled on her face.

Want a free downloadable booklet on Trauma Makeup with 4 chapters from 4 Theatrical makeup books from Routledge (the folks who publish many of the best theatre tech books) ?  Go sign up for their mailing list and you can download it https://www.routledge.com/go/download-your-guide-to-trauma-makeup-for-theatre-and-filmLinks to an external site.